New spec Core 2 Duo MacBooks are out
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The new MBP C2D owners report much lower operating temps. Also this is Rev B Apple hardware for those that know what that meansEvilEvilEvilEvilEvil wrote:only the processor has changed. i wonder if you can still fry an egg on one
I'm close to deciding on the black macbook at this stage (still want a small MBP though).
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I have a lot of love for Apple, their products are truly inspired but it really pisses me off when they release a revised version of their product within a few months of the original being released, especially when it deals with known issues such as overheating.
I think all of us with the original MBPs should be entitled to hand them back under a product recall policy and get the 'new' ones that don't have any of the 'original' problems. I wouldn't mind beta-testing for Apple if it didn't cost ME nearly £2K to do it!
I think all of us with the original MBPs should be entitled to hand them back under a product recall policy and get the 'new' ones that don't have any of the 'original' problems. I wouldn't mind beta-testing for Apple if it didn't cost ME nearly £2K to do it!
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hardshell wrote:I have a lot of love for Apple, their products are truly inspired but it really pisses me off when they release a revised version of their product within a few months of the original being released, especially when it deals with known issues such as overheating.
I think all of us with the original MBPs should be entitled to hand them back under a product recall policy and get the 'new' ones that don't have any of the 'original' problems. I wouldn't mind beta-testing for Apple if it didn't cost ME nearly £2K to do it!
You are an Apple user. You should be used to this sort of thing by now.
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The way I see it is like going to a Porsche dealer and picking up the latest Boxster, only to find out that a few months later the same car is being sold for the same price with a better sound-system, kick ass alloys and can go a bit faster while doing a few extra miles per gallon. You would feel slightly cheated, no?You are an Apple user. You should be used to this sort of thing by now.
I guess I have it easier than Windows users though. I would be gutted if I thought I'd bought a Porsche, but next time I got into the car it had turned into a Lada!
Car analogies never hold in computing though. Computers can double in performance over the course of a year (PC or mac). Cars _never_ do that.hardshell wrote:The way I see it is like going to a Porsche dealer and picking up the latest Boxster, only to find out that a few months later the same car is being sold for the same price with a better sound-system, kick ass alloys and can go a bit faster while doing a few extra miles per gallon. You would feel slightly cheated, no?You are an Apple user. You should be used to this sort of thing by now.
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hardshell wrote:I guess I have it easier than Windows users though. I would be gutted if I thought I'd bought a Porsche, but next time I got into the car it had turned into a Lada!
LOL. Actually, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that a Windows computer is like a Fiat? In the garage every weekend. A friend of mine once told me that Fiat stands for 'Fix it again, Tony'.
Anyway, those new MacBooks are sweet and I'm grabbing one ASAP. Anybody want to buy a 17" iMac Core Duo (original model) 1.83ghz with 1 gig of RAM? Sweet machine, but I want portability!
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Still it's a tough call
MacBook Pro or MacBook - something about that 13" screen turns me off...don't know what it is
I was looking at a refurb'd MacBook Pro duo core (1) still...the performance would still be second to none and it's a good $900 cheaper than what it was retail
a lot of options and it's great!!!
MacBook Pro or MacBook - something about that 13" screen turns me off...don't know what it is
I was looking at a refurb'd MacBook Pro duo core (1) still...the performance would still be second to none and it's a good $900 cheaper than what it was retail
a lot of options and it's great!!!
Funnily enough it's the large screen that stops me from getting an MBPAdonis wrote:Still it's a tough call
MacBook Pro or MacBook - something about that 13" screen turns me off...don't know what it is
I'd go for the lower end MBP C2D (larger cache (2 vs 4MB), higher clocked video, pre-n wireless, all the bugs sorted out), it's a bargain. Not many people need that extra .17GHz and extra 128MB of vid memory.I was looking at a refurb'd MacBook Pro duo core (1) still...the performance would still be second to none and it's a good $900 cheaper than what it was retail
I like small laptops otherwise I'd have the above.