NEW MACBOOK!!!!

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by squirrel

heh...we bought a cheezy new Dell laptop with XP earlier this year for $400....

But I'll sell you a Mac Plus for $1999 if you're serious

Seriously, do you have anything better to do with your time than to come into a thread about the new notebooks and you just troll it?

Go away. Shoo shoo.

I'm disappointed in the removal of FW 400, I have two external drives, one 400 and one 800 and unless I can get a FW 800 hub w/ 400 ports in it then I can't see myself buying one for awhile.

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

Seriously, do you have anything better to do with your time than to come into a thread about the new notebooks and you just troll it?

Go away. Shoo shoo.

I'm disappointed in the removal of FW 400, I have two external drives, one 400 and one 800 and unless I can get a FW 800 hub w/ 400 ports in it then I can't see myself buying one for awhile.

The Pro's still have FW.....

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Kyle

The Pro's still have FW.....

As I said, FW 800. Not 400.

I have two FW drives. One 400 and one 800. I need to have a 800 hub that has 400 ports on it.

[mrbob1000]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

In another year or two when it comes time to replace my laptop, the new 13" MacBook just shot to the top of my short list of potential computers (sorry Lenovo).

You can either use the two finger method, or you can configure a set area of the trackpad to act as a "right click area", meaning that anytime you click in that area it acts as a right click.

So normal means needing to reinstall every eight to twelve months to keep running good?

If that's the case then OSX certainly isn't normal since I've only had to reinstall it once in five years. ;-)

Guys and girls... no more of this fighting.

dual boot mac os and windows. or in my case, triple boot vista, linux, and osx.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

Seriously, do you have anything better to do with your time than to come into a thread about the new notebooks and you just troll it?

Go away. Shoo shoo.

I made more positive comments about the new Macbook than you did.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by squirrel

I made more positive comments about the new Macbook than you did.

Before or after saying the OS is useless, only people who buy it have lots of money and are not engineers, etc, etc. Name one positive comment you made.

You have 3 posts, all trolling and negative. I offer constructive criticism based on my use of computers, including my Mac and PC. If you don't have anything good to say don't post in the thread.

[MrForbes]

Seriously?

Originally Posted by squirrel

They are looking really nice these days, and since they run normal CPUs you can put a normal operating system on them if you desire....

Is "normal" the same as "useless"? Or did you just say that because I equate "normal" with being able to use two programs that are kind of necessary for FIRST, and you think that that makes OSX useless? I sure don't think OSX is useless, and I was pointing out that you can run these programs on the very nice Macbook hardware, even if they won't run natively in OSX.

Originally Posted by squirrel

It's a work of art, for sure!

btw, thanks for the link to the video

The video is great, and the computer looks like a really nice machine. I personally don't think it's worth spending $2k on it just to avoid Vista, because I have found less expensive ways to avoid using Vista. And I am happy to offer some of these alternatives to others.

[ComradeNikolai]

Originally Posted by squirrel

[...] I have found less expensive ways to avoid using Vista. And I am happy to offer some of these alternatives to others.

My parents bought a few licenses of XP before they stopped selling them (I don't know if they have yet, actually, but I know they said they were going to) so I can install it on my notebook for college (along with Ubuntu, of course). This license did not cost $2000.

[Qbranch]

*laughs*

Is apple actually serious about the price tag on this thing?

No blu-ray? At ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS...

>For a hundred dollars less, you can get a Sony Vaio notebook with a blu-ray player, faster performance, Windows XP or Vista (for those of you who'll cry XP on me), Double size harddrive, twice the memory...

>Now, that's a computer that's glitzy like a mac, but if you're like me and don't care what it looks like on the outside... Dell runs $775 for a computer thats still superior in most components (i.e. memory, processor)...

I'm just confused who's going to buy this... don't get me wrong macs are cool... but heating my house this winter is cool too. And when it comes down to it, I'd rather been computing on a cheap laptop in a warm house than have a fancy laptop and be freezing my butt off.

-q

[ComradeNikolai]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

[...] but heating my house this winter is cool too.
-q

Ha, I find that ironic.

Oh, and you don't have to freeze if you get a fancier laptop; just make sure it generates a LOT of heat so that it becomes your heating (for yourself) in the winter!

[Michael Hill]

I prefer my tablet I paid half as much for with 3x the features ;-)

I mean...how do you beat a 12.1" tablet, 3 GB of RAM, decent video card, 200GB HDD and a decent enough processor (Athlon X2 2.1 GHz Ultra), especially for just taking notes?

[Schnabel]

I love my new Macbook! However, I love the graphics of the new one. I was going to wait to get this model, but I'm glad I went with the blackbook because I do a lot with a firewire 400 port in video editing. It is rumored that you could possibly use a special adapter along with the ethernet port to create a firewire port, however I don't think they put that capability in there. The trackpad is amazing, for a track pad. I'm guessing it will be a lot like using an iPhone/iPod Touch. Now my only concern is how to fit the new graphic's chip into my blackbook.

EDIT: BTW, my major concern about my macbook and now all apple products is the display port. It is a big pain to have to remember to carry an adapter with you when you take your laptop for a presentation. Plus I've heard that they don't last that long.

[Kyle]

I'm writing this from my new MacBook Pro and I LOVE it! the track pad is amazing and the speed is crazy compared to what I had before.

[Schnabel]

I must say, I have gained a higher appreciation for Apple's designers when I saw the disassembly pictures on iFixit.com. Everything in both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro is put into it neatly, and is easily accessible with the removal of only one cover. This reminds me of the Power Mac G5 and the Mac Pro and how everything inside is so nicely organized with loose cables tucked nicely away. I am truly amazed!! If I had the money, I would buy two Pro's, one for use, and one to tear apart and look at.

MacBook Tear Down:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/First-Look/Mac/MacBook-Unibody

MacBook Pro Tear Down:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/First-Lo...ok-Pro-Unibody

[bobwrit]

I'm looking at the designs and I have to say that there certainly more anesteticly pleasing(esp. for the Air). Apple's designers get yet another good design.