Hi,
I need to buy a new notebook and it seems that macs are the best out there even if you want to use linux or windows. At least this is my opinion.
Right now I’m between the 15-inch: 2.66GHz and the more expensive one 15-inch: 2.8GHz.
The differences I see are better processor and more RAM for the video card.
Also I am not sure if I should get it with a solid state drive or regular one. 128G should be enough and maybe I’ll get an external drive if I need more space.
Please let me know your opinion.
PS: This is my first mac. I have an iMac at work and after 2 years on an iMac there is no chance I’m gonna use Windows.
If I were in the market for a new laptop right now I’d be jumping all over the 2.53GHz 13" MBP. My favorite Mac ever was my old 12" TiBook - super portable. The 15" MBP I have right now felt SO bulky in comparison when I first got it.
I’d recommend the 13" version and spend the other $200 or so on a decent external monitor if you don’t have one already. Dell has quite a few >20" widescreens for under $200 right now. Hook the MBP up to it when you’re at your desk and you won’t care about the extra 2" on the MBP’s native screen.
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I rarely leave home, so "on the road" doesn’t really apply unless I want to do some reading. I’m seriously considering a macbook air and a big monitor to hook it up to on my desk. VirtualBox sounds good; all I would use it for is checking site design on IE... well, unless I get myself this little beauty
http://www.bernina8series.com/content-n23-sE.html
Quote from: mrhaw at Jun 09, 2009, 10:24 PM
Be cool: http://benheck.com/04-05-2009/commodore-64-original-hardware-laptop
I guess no photoshop’ing... :Þ
BTW http://techreport.com/articles.x/17023/1
Many years ago, in another lifetime, I had to program the C64 in BASIC. It nearly drove me nuts. In hot weather, you actually had to put an ice-pack on it to keep it working.
Lol! Then erase-rewind cassette tapes?
Quote from: mrhaw at Jun 10, 2009, 12:48 AM
Lol! Then erase-rewind cassette tapes?
By the time I got there, I think they had an external 360k floppy disk but it was so long ago I can’t remember for sure.
I do remember that when I learned to program in C on the Apple II, it had 48K of memory and a 360k floppy disk drive and I had to swap disks three times to compile and execute "hello world." One disk for the editor, one for the compiler and one for the linker -- about 5 minutes from editing to program crash (and no error messages).
(This is probably Sottwell’s cue to reminisce about programming a PDP in binary code by flipping physical switches.)
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No, that was about the time my father refused to let me fiddle with that sort of thing; it wasn’t going to be of any use, and it wasn’t for girls anyway.
