New Workmule
Decided to throw in the towel with the iBook (after a HD change and several reboots) and gone for the new Alu Macbook. Did the whole printer and iPod rebate as well as the education discount. Managed to push the cost down to around £800 in the end for a baseline Alu model with maxed out 4gb RAM. It would have been 1050 with the RAM bump so not too bad. The Macbook is unbelievable.
I know it's silly to compare it with my experience with the iBook but everything just blaze through! Even when I threw some of the more demanding stuff at it, it hardly flinched! Got VMWare Fusion, running Google Sketchup while doing some thermal exchange anlysis on XP plus doing loooooads of other stuff like Office, iTune, BT, FF back in OS X and there was virtually no lag. Was a good call to choose the new Alu Macbook with its new graphics card because a friend has complained about white Macbook's inability to handle 3D geometry. Since I will be doing plenty of that this year then I think it would be wise to invest in something which can perform when the need arises.
The HD heat issue has been resolved completely and you can hardly feel a thing! Went in Second Life to try out the graphic card and it was only then, under max graphic settings, the Macbook got a bit flush in the face (could also feel a little heat building up). Going to try and DL CoD4 now and really give the MB a good work out!
The battery is unbelievable! Worked for 2hrs off the hook and it was still on 50% before I decided to burn a CD which drained the battery down to 15%. No idea how to the glossy screen is going to behave in bright light but it is really really bright! If you are on low ambient light in a dark room and you max out the brightness quickly, your retinas will sting before you could adjust to the brightness properly, it likes staring right into a fluorescent light as you come out of a dark room! The ambient light sensor is pretty annoying at times when the light source is behind you and you end up casting a shadow on it so the sensor will mistaken that for a change of environment and adjust the brightness. You can be leaning over to grab a drink and the brightness will go up and down which kind of irritates. The one-piece alu case is solid, no flexing, no creaking, just solid!
Got to know a lot more about the UNIX core because of the project I am working on and its insane! There are actually loooads of codex built into it as standard! I am using Python to code a dataflow management program and you can literally get into its shell from the terminal. And I am more than impress with Fusion! The degree of control is just sweet! Its kind of annoying having to run XP because of one small add-on but its nice to know it will be in the "naughty" corner where I can control its network usage whenever I want.
I know it's silly to compare it with my experience with the iBook but everything just blaze through! Even when I threw some of the more demanding stuff at it, it hardly flinched! Got VMWare Fusion, running Google Sketchup while doing some thermal exchange anlysis on XP plus doing loooooads of other stuff like Office, iTune, BT, FF back in OS X and there was virtually no lag. Was a good call to choose the new Alu Macbook with its new graphics card because a friend has complained about white Macbook's inability to handle 3D geometry. Since I will be doing plenty of that this year then I think it would be wise to invest in something which can perform when the need arises.
The HD heat issue has been resolved completely and you can hardly feel a thing! Went in Second Life to try out the graphic card and it was only then, under max graphic settings, the Macbook got a bit flush in the face (could also feel a little heat building up). Going to try and DL CoD4 now and really give the MB a good work out!
The battery is unbelievable! Worked for 2hrs off the hook and it was still on 50% before I decided to burn a CD which drained the battery down to 15%. No idea how to the glossy screen is going to behave in bright light but it is really really bright! If you are on low ambient light in a dark room and you max out the brightness quickly, your retinas will sting before you could adjust to the brightness properly, it likes staring right into a fluorescent light as you come out of a dark room! The ambient light sensor is pretty annoying at times when the light source is behind you and you end up casting a shadow on it so the sensor will mistaken that for a change of environment and adjust the brightness. You can be leaning over to grab a drink and the brightness will go up and down which kind of irritates. The one-piece alu case is solid, no flexing, no creaking, just solid!
Got to know a lot more about the UNIX core because of the project I am working on and its insane! There are actually loooads of codex built into it as standard! I am using Python to code a dataflow management program and you can literally get into its shell from the terminal. And I am more than impress with Fusion! The degree of control is just sweet! Its kind of annoying having to run XP because of one small add-on but its nice to know it will be in the "naughty" corner where I can control its network usage whenever I want.
Labels: Apple, ibook G4, Macbook, VMware Fusion
posted by Twisted @ 01:52:00
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