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What do you think of the new MacBook and MacBook pro?
I think they are great and beat all other laptops and the price of a MacBook is quite cheap.

What do you think of the new MacBook and MacBook pro?
I think they are great and beat all other laptops and their prices are cheap.
Mac Book Pro is a great laptop, if you have the cash. It is light and feature rich. The regular Mac Book is a little lacking for its price, and has integrated graphics.

You can check them our with the following links
MacBook: http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html
MacBook Pro: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

It's a real peice of work, and I'm gonna get one...once I take care of my concert tickets, Anime Boston, gas money, setting aside money for college, PS3 (very important)...THEN I'll get a MacBook.

It's a real peice of work, and I'm gonna get one...once I take care of my concert tickets, Anime Boston, gas money, setting aside money for college, PS3 (very important)...THEN I'll get a MacBook.
I might get a Pro and tri-boot it.:D

Mac Book Pro is a great laptop, if you have the cash. It is light and feature rich. The regular Mac Book is a little lacking for its price, and has integrated graphics.
Well said

If I was going to spend 2500 on the one with the features I need I would rather drop that cash on a desktop ... thats about my range and I just put in my new RAID5

(Btw posi I LOVE it :) )

I might get a Pro and tri-boot it.:D
I have done that on my work one ... Its intresting

You know what is even funnier :) I managed to infect windows already :) Thats what happens when you forget to switch over os's and plug it into the infected Vlan

You can check them our with the following links
MacBook: http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html
MacBook Pro: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
Already had the first gen

(btw dont EVER by anything first gen ... thank god it is a work computer) My batt already died and had to be sent back, and the fucker is hot as hell (bout 66 C)

I got one in the generation they over applied thermal paste

I have done that on my work one ... Its intresting

You know what is even funnier :) I managed to infect windows already :) Thats what happens when you forget to switch over os's and plug it into the infected Vlan
Sweet. :p IIRC, Norton managed to find a virus on my old Win ME compy, before it was connected to the internet.
Well said

If I was going to spend 2500 on the one with the features I need I would rather drop that cash on a desktop ... thats about my range and I just put in my new RAID5

(Btw posi I LOVE it :) )
If I have the money to get a lappy for Uni, I would get a Mac Book. New RAM for my desktop would prolly come first, but it is second from top of the line, so it would be pointless to upgrade, get something new. Plus I could piss off some of my friends who are fanatical Windows fanboys.:)

(You and your RAID5 should talk to my info-tech teacher. Folders on the school server sometimes mysteriously disapear.)

Already had the first gen

(btw dont EVER by anything first gen ... thank god it is a work computer) My batt already died and had to be sent back, and the fucker is hot as hell (bout 66 C)

I got one in the generation they over applied thermal paste
WTF is with Apple and thermal paste. Someone needs to throw PSUs at them until they learn that a little goes a long way.

Even with the "other" option, that seems like a pretty biased poll.

WTF is with Apple and thermal paste. Someone needs to throw PSUs at them until they learn that a little goes a long way.
Yeah was a bitch and a half ... did it and work ... did not relize they used a size 6 torqs on some of the screws, got intresting.

Yeah was a bitch and a half ... did it and work ... did not relize they used a size 6 torqs on some of the screws, got intresting.
LOL

But this has been a major problem since at least the G3's. Shirley you would think they would know by now.

Sweet. :p IIRC, Norton managed to find a virus on my old Win ME compy, before it was connected to the internet.

If I have the money to get a lappy for Uni, I would get a Mac Book. New RAM for my desktop would prolly come first, but it is second from top of the line, so it would be pointless to upgrade, get something new. Plus I could piss off some of my friends who are fanatical Windows fanboys.:)

(You and your RAID5 should talk to my info-tech teacher. Folders on the school server sometimes mysteriously disapear.)
Yeah its beutifull

3 new samsung spinpoint p's 250 gb

http://geek.upwardthrust.us/pictures/dualraid.jpg

LOL

But this has been a major problem since at least the G3's. Shirley you would think they would know by now.
You would think so ... I dropped my temp by 10 C at least using a SMALL amount of ArticSilver5

(btw dont EVER by anything first gen ... thank god it is a work computer)

Oh my GOD, I know D:! My mum got the first generation iMac (the iPod-looking one), and there were endless problems with the power source. Finally, they sent her a new one last week, a later generation, and it's working great. The only first-gen we have that hasn't screwed up is my sister's iMac, which is the pod one. All of our Macs are awesome... once other people test to see what the bugs are going to be :X.

Oh my GOD, I know D:! My mum got the first generation iMac (the iPod-looking one), and there were endless problems with the power source. Finally, they sent her a new one last week, a later generation, and it's working great. The only first-gen we have that hasn't screwed up is my sister's iMac, which is the pod one. All of our Macs are awesome... once other people test to see what the bugs are going to be :X.
Yeah not digging on mac in that department ... I usualy wait for other people to test hardware first lol

Yeah its beutifull

3 new samsung spinpoint p's 250 gb

http://geek.upwardthrust.us/pictures/dualraid.jpg
:eek: SUSE! The new 10.1 totally f'ed my Ubuntu in the A. Anyways hear about Debian's new apt? It now supports incremental updates.

100Gb full already? You really need to take it easy on the porn.:D

:eek: SUSE! The new 10.1 totally f'ed my Ubuntu in the A. Anyways hear about Debian's new apt? It now supports incremental updates.

100Gb full already? You really need to take it easy on the porn.:D
Lol yeah ... though I am suffling iso backups right now so it will reduce some cause of duplicates

I also have another 2 160 gb hdds in the machine
Bringing my total up to 820 gb on this machine

Other: It's a piece of shit, just like all of it's predecessors. Over priced, over hyped, and over heated.

If Jobs didn't come back from Next, Apple would've gone the way of Commodore long ago.

Other: It's a piece of shit, just like all of it's predecessors. Over priced, over hyped, and over heated.

If Jobs didn't come back from Next, Apple would've gone the way of Commodore long ago.
I dont know they are a bit steep ... but so are dell XPS's

My work ones do just fine ... and when I replaced the thermalpaste she runs just fine

I dont know I would not spend the money personaly but they aint all that bad

My only issue is the P2 slot, in that there isn't one.

On my Powerbook G4 I have a slot that I can slide a P2 card in which hasn't meant anything (in fact, I think mine is dented beyond use...), but now Panasonic has come out with a 'pro-sumer' camera that records true HD, but only onto P2 cards because the miniDV tapes can't handle true 100mps HD (instead 25mps HDV...or so I've gleaned from the reviews and such). So now I can have an HD camera but need to be able to dump the footage to my PowerBook every 20 to 40 minutes, which is handy because it has a slot for it. But not on the MacBook Pro, which has the goods to handle non-linear HD video editing. So even if I get a MacBook Pro (and I'm gonna) I have to keep this thing around as a mule (providing I haven't f'd up my P2 slot) to download footage. Unless I can also get a drive that I can hook the camera up to directly, but those are like a grand.

Of course the camera is $8 grand...so...

I don't have good luck with laptops..

I seem to be coping well enough without it.

I have a two year-old iBook G4 for work (and home... we kinda get them to do what we please), and am looking at getting a MacBook with my PFD cash this fall. I'm sick of carrying the work one back and forth, back and forth, back and forth... and it can't be good for it. I've already busted one power cord.

From what I've read, they're all-around good machines, but people recommend upgrading RAM from the "factory issue." Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not a "heavy user," but have been known to go a little overboard on photography and music collecting.

I have a two year-old iBook G4 for work (and home... we kinda get them to do what we please), and am looking at getting a MacBook with my PFD cash this fall. I'm sick of carrying the work one back and forth, back and forth, back and forth... and it can't be good for it. I've already busted one power cord.

From what I've read, they're all-around good machines, but people recommend upgrading RAM from the "factory issue." Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not a "heavy user," but have been known to go a little overboard on photography and music collecting.
You should deffinantly upgrade the RAM. Mac OS X is what's called a "resource whore," which basically means that most of your RAM will be filled with stuff relating to the OS instead of apps. IIRC, OS X likes about 480MB of RAM for itself. As it comes stock with 512MB, it tends to do alot of paging (which is horribly slow since RAM is significantly faster than a Hard Drive). Grabbing a GB of RAM will let OS X bloat to a comfortable level, and leave plenty of RAM for you applications.

I like the look of the mac Book Pro. I currently run an imac G5 desktop which is a gorgeous machine.

I like the look of the mac Book Pro. I currently run an imac G5 desktop which is a gorgeous machine.
For some reason, I wouldn't want to trust such an expensive machine to such a dinky stand. But hell, I barely trust the stand for my LCD moniter.