I Just Got My Macbook 30 Min. Ago... peep this.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:57 am

ok i just received my Lt 30 min ago via ups..It's a 2.0 blackbook I haven't opened up the box yet! i'm a little uncomfortable....

here's my first qualm.... my macbook only has 512 megs of ram and a 60gig harddrive.
besides the fact that that's what I could afford... what do you think about that, how dis-satisfied would you be with your macbook in that regard.
I'm used to 2gigs ram and i've got 5 hard drives- 1 500gig and 4 350gig drives this is all connected to my desktop, but my desktop is an old amd 3500

my second qualm; I don't know what to expect...I admit that I got the macbook to mainly run windows xp on, but I'm going to run some nice free apps that i've found for macs and also i'm probably going to run metasynth

but!!!....out of the box how happy can i expect to be about it?, is it just going to fly even with the low ram and harddrive, is it easy to replace the hard drive myself I was thinking about picking one up from frys electronics, anybody have a recommendation for which one to get?
maybe some ram recommendations too if you gott'em

Winterpark · Post by **Winterpark** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:59 am

gee man... if you're that uncomfortable, you could just send it back, or install more RAM, or send it to my house, so i can open it.

capta1nA · Post by **capta1nA** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:01 am

my powerbook is ok with only 512mb ram. i reeaelly wish i had more, but everything is usually fine

suburbanbather · Post by **suburbanbather** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:03 am

Leave the harddrive alone. Use external drives to expand disk space. You can always upgrade your ram later when you get the money for it. It will run Live with only 512megs of ram. I'm not shure how much its going to hinder performance though.

When I got my Powerbook I also got 2gigs of ram to install the same day. So I don't have a clue what 512 is like.

capta1nA · Post by **capta1nA** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:17 am

just realized, the macbooks have shared video memory, so you will actually have less than the 512mb available for other stuff. youll be fine for now, just upgrade later.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:31 am

macsales.com for ram

there is no such thing as too much ram

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:33 am

why do you say leave the hard drive alone, i'm familiar with installing drives and peripherals on desktops, but if that's not what you meant sub, what did'ja mean..
i plan on using one of my external drives with it but when i'm out an about i like to be as light as possible.

i hope you cats know where i'm comin from..
it's my first mac since a 600mhz ibook way back tha fuck when..

so when turn it on is a bunch of unecessary shit gonna piss me off?
do i need to do some tweakin?
is the isight camera good enough to record some lo-fi quality vids?
and is it easy to edit them on the videoware... i've never done it.

sans soleil · Post by **sans soleil** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:07 am

so...are you just sitting there looking at the box asking yourself these questions NOW ?!

i don't get it: you couldn't be bothered to find out the answers to your questions before you bought the thing, and now that you have it, you still can't be bothered to just turn the thing on and figure it out for yourself ?

ok then...yes. it will totally piss you off. nothing will work. in fact, your other computer will stop working too.you should probably send your macbook to am while it's still in the box and before it causes your other computer to start malfunctioning because you've plugged it in wrong (haven't you read all the mac threads about this ?...it's true).

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:22 am

take a Long deep breath Sans and when you get back i'll still be hear interested in hearing your opinion of the macbook btw, nice meeting you.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:27 am

still lookin for O's on that isight shit.

So if I want the cleanest most transparent simplest way to access files through both xp/osx I should.....?

and thanks bra

kineticUk · Post by **kineticUk** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:49 am

You're just savouring the moment aren't you stale bread...

I am not saying theres anything wrong with that btw.
Open it up, go on...plug it in and play around, its an apple they should be piss easy to figure out.

mechcon · Post by **mechcon** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:02 am

stale bread wrote:why do you say leave the hard drive alone, i'm familiar with installing drives and peripherals on desktops, but if that's not what you meant sub, what did'ja mean..
i plan on using one of my external drives with it but when i'm out an about i like to be as light as possible.

i hope you cats know where i'm comin from..
it's my first mac since a 600mhz ibook way back tha fuck when..

macbooks have self-upgradeable hard disk drives (check the apple support site on how to remove ram and hard disks in macbooks)

as for your questions....

so when turn it on is a bunch of unecessary shit gonna piss me off?

only wireless and bluetooth

do i need to do some tweakin?

osx? no

is the isight camera good enough to record some lo-fi quality vids?

640x480 good enough?

and is it easy to edit them on the videoware... i've never done it.

give iMovie a shot, but i haven't had any experience with the webcam (maybe on my new macbook pro next year or year after.. woah... deja vu.....)

anyways hope you enjoy it!

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:13 am

kineticUk wrote:You're just savouring the moment aren't you stale bread...
I am not saying theres anything wrong with that btw.
Open it up, go on...plug it in and play around, its an apple they should be piss easy to figure out.

ha

yeah man you know what i'm sayin, mf's need to calm down.
i'm very comfortable with xp, no matter what happens with it i can fix it no problems, but when ever I look at osx i'm like wtf is this

... will have to get used to it I guess.

A-d-a-m-jay!,, or someone who can channel adams brain whats the haps with the file access between the two OS's.... I want to be able to use some mac only audio editors real quick like to do some sample editing work and then switch over to the xp side and get down with my Live shit.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:15 am

oh yeah, how do ya'll feel about the onboard sound?

genshi · Post by **genshi** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:38 am

stale bread wrote:oh yeah, how do ya'll feel about the onboard sound?

god, just try the damn thing already!!! did you have to have your hand held through-out your entire life?