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Ordered Mac Book yesterday
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Good luck, they are great machines... I have 2Gig ram, and it works awsome... I'm a switcher, so loaded windows in parallels. blazing fast, open a 100Mb Powerpoint file in 3 seconds or so (compare to 10 min under Rosetta)... For everything else, I have ran windows maybe five times in the last month, and not ever to actually use a program, but often for show... hehe...
P.S. 100Mb not 100Gb as earlier, edited out...
P.S. 100Mb not 100Gb as earlier, edited out...
My stock blackbook (for ease of order and swapping out in case of trubs) arrived yesterday. Took 6 days from ordering it for it to arrive. I'm in the uk.
I'm impressed.
I'm impressed.
I ordered a Macbook with the Ram upgraded to 2 gigs on the 14th of November. Still waiting - ETA is the 6th December apparently. 
Especially annoying as on the sale page today it says 'our most popular configurations ship within 24 hrs' and it has the 2 gig upgraded version listed.
Especially annoying as on the sale page today it says 'our most popular configurations ship within 24 hrs' and it has the 2 gig upgraded version listed. 
i know that its not supposed to work or supported, but the reason why i upped the ram to 2 gig is because I am going to use Final Cut Pro with the machine.
I sense that maybe an internal 7200 rpm HD upgrade is the next move. For now I plan to import video footage into an external 400 gig USB 2 drive.
I am also planning to get a proper Video editing machine, the Mac Pro , probably after Mac World where I like to see the pricing on those new quad cores.
And yes, I am a switcher, I cannont stand Premiere Pro 2.0 on my Dell Windows Machine Anymore !
I sense that maybe an internal 7200 rpm HD upgrade is the next move. For now I plan to import video footage into an external 400 gig USB 2 drive.
I am also planning to get a proper Video editing machine, the Mac Pro , probably after Mac World where I like to see the pricing on those new quad cores.
And yes, I am a switcher, I cannont stand Premiere Pro 2.0 on my Dell Windows Machine Anymore !
100gb file in 3 seconds??? that's impressive!!
Indeed...
Wish my desktop could do that, POS windoze
Actually, if you can wait, i rather wait till santa rosa comes in. It is going to be very interesting predicament for apple.
1) Do I wanna continue to get switchers or on the fence users? If so, no more on board GPU. Especially with Windows VISTA
2) But, if i do no 1 above, I am going to cannibalized the sales of MacBook Pro
3) If i continue with onboard GPU, no fancy-smancy Vista translucent stuff for the dual win-os x users.
So, whats the move Apple ?? It was so much easier with single OS with the PowerBook aint it ?
Unfortunately, I needed a MACBOOK NOW ! also, i dont see myself going back to Windows anyways. , BTW, firefox on my HELL latitude just crashed on me a few mins ago !
1) Do I wanna continue to get switchers or on the fence users? If so, no more on board GPU. Especially with Windows VISTA
2) But, if i do no 1 above, I am going to cannibalized the sales of MacBook Pro
3) If i continue with onboard GPU, no fancy-smancy Vista translucent stuff for the dual win-os x users.
So, whats the move Apple ?? It was so much easier with single OS with the PowerBook aint it ?
Unfortunately, I needed a MACBOOK NOW ! also, i dont see myself going back to Windows anyways.
, BTW, firefox on my HELL latitude just crashed on me a few mins ago ! I bought mine on Wednesday
A ordered a white stock 2.0. But paid via bank transfer. I hope will show up ASAP.
Still says "under review" (wird überprüft, in german). I hope will be here on the week of the 10th.
I'm not planning to run any winblows soft on it, ever. I wanted a non winblows-from-factory machine.
A ordered a white stock 2.0. But paid via bank transfer. I hope will show up ASAP.
Still says "under review" (wird überprüft, in german). I hope will be here on the week of the 10th.
I'm not planning to run any winblows soft on it, ever. I wanted a non winblows-from-factory machine.
I also recently ordered a MacBook 2.0 C2D in stock configuration and I'm anxiously awaiting delivery! Now I just need to order a 6 pin to 6 pin FW cable so I can transfer the files from my iBook...I'm a week behind on odering the cable.
Apple must be selling these things faster than they can make them judging from the shipping dates.
Now I just need to order a 6 pin to 6 pin FW cable so I can transfer the files from my iBook...I'm a week behind on odering the cable. Apple must be selling these things faster than they can make them judging from the shipping dates.
just got my white macbook c2d yesterday. it got delayed in customs ,then a e-mail to apple and it seems they really pushed it through. next morning it was at my door step.
amazing.
you will notice the screen is incredable. 1000x better than ibook or powerbook.
mine had 1 dead pixel in it. no-biggie.
amazing.
you will notice the screen is incredable. 1000x better than ibook or powerbook.
mine had 1 dead pixel in it. no-biggie.
These two points are completely incorrect. I've already installed Vista on my C2D Macbook via Boot Camp. All the Vista eye candy (translucent windows, Flip 3D, etc) all work fine. The GMA 950 already meets the Vista Premium minimum requirements.
There are definitely reasons to wait for Santa Rosa-based laptops, but the ability to run Vista isn't one of them.
The last time i heard from the company's IT dept, to run ALL Vista eye candy MS recommends the minimum of 256 mb GPU RAM. And we know that in the real world it means that we need at least 512MB.
You should ask them to educate themselves on Vista & Aero requirements: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx Look under the Windows Premium section. Also, if they care to look at the footnote #2, it notes that for a shared memory GPU (GMA950, in our case), 1GB system RAM will work. I've already tried all the Vista eye candy, and it works well, but if you have something specific you want to ask about, I'll be glad to try it.
My reply isn't meant to be harsh, but a lot of switchers/noobs come to these boards (including myself, a few months ago), and we should try to avoid spreading misinformation based on hearsay. These seems especially true when discussing Vista concerns.
I'm not looking forward to have a "Hasta la vista, vista" on my mac
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256MB+ just to flip a couple of "windows" and add a bit of transparency ?!. That people at moco$oft should start to optimise the code a bit. Sorry I will not pay for that. They can rip someone else. I did not see those effects in action, but I would be not that suprpised if everyone turn them off, after a couple of days.
btw: I can run a couple of OpenGL applications side-by-side on linux, I don't see that the new winblows brings something we did not see before (Java Glass anyone ?)
Rant:
256MB+ just to flip a couple of "windows" and add a bit of transparency ?!. That people at moco$oft should start to optimise the code a bit. Sorry I will not pay for that. They can rip someone else. I did not see those effects in action, but I would be not that suprpised if everyone turn them off, after a couple of days.
btw: I can run a couple of OpenGL applications side-by-side on linux, I don't see that the new winblows brings something we did not see before
(Java Glass anyone ?)I'm in the UK.
I ordered mine on 15th November, it was shipped on 16th November, arrived on 27th. Not impressed.
I ordered mine on 15th November, it was shipped on 16th November, arrived on 27th. Not impressed.
Please tell us why you're not impressed. Was it just the amount of time it took to arrive? I'm thinking about ordering one.
Put it this way: I have ordered much larger packages that were worth much less than a MacBook and they were delivered within 24 hours. If I spend £1700 on two new computers I expect them to be with me in a reasonable amount of time, preferably within 72 hours.
If I had known it was going to take 12 days I would have considered driving to the nearest Apple Store, or at least hunting down our MacBooks wherever they were stuck in the UK.