MacBook!

Jul 27, 2006 02:12

I have a new MacBook. Put in a 160GB drive. 2GB RAM should arrive next week.

Noticeably snappier than my old 12" Powerbook. Great screen.

At some point, it will have Windows and probably Linux installed under virtualization as well, but I'm waiting to hear what Apple has to say at WWDC, and for VMWare's solution (which will hopefully be cheaper ( Read more... )

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txgreengoddess July 27 2006, 14:21:09 UTC
Congratulations! I have been lusting after them for some time. Sooo, did you stick with the white or go for teh black one?

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Once you go black... gisborne July 28 2006, 19:01:39 UTC
It's normally the farthest thing from my mind to choose something more expensive on the basis of style (but you knew that...).

But on this occasion, I felt that when visiting a client, an iPod-white laptop just didn't look as professional. Presentation counts in such situations.

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Re: Once you go black... txgreengoddess July 28 2006, 21:49:51 UTC
Yeah, the $150 they want for the black is just silly. However, in terms of presentation, it is seriously *slick*

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2GB RAM gisborne July 28 2006, 19:04:05 UTC
I just put in 2GB of RAM.

Wow. Turns out all the waiting around I did while using my old PowerBook was waiting for swap. Switching programs is always instantaneous now.

BTW, I use menumeters (highly recommended if you have a Mac), which provides a continuous display of memory usage. On my old PB, even when it was swapping like crazy, it would have 100 or so MB of memory free, at least according to menumeters.

Anyone know why?

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