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Topic: New MacBook released (Read 7415 times)
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Trippy
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 http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.htmlFor all you Mac fanatics out there. $1099 gets you: 13.3-inch widescreen display 1280 x 800 resolution 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo 512MB memory (2x256MB SODIMMs) 60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive2 Combo drive (DVD-ROM, CD-RW) Graphics is Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, though -- not a very gamer-friendly chip. |
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stray
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has an iMac.
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I might get one of these (the $1300 one), but I'm really looking forward to their new desktops (if/when).
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Trippy
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Heh, Apple is charging a $150 premium to get the black case. Apparently black plastic is in short supply, or something.
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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schild
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Wha? When did you start working for Apple?
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Trippy
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Merged.
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dusematic
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Diablo 3's Number One Fan
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It's a ruse, he is the mole!
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Trippy
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Well the new MacBook has only been out for two days but the complaints are already rolling in including complaints about the whining and "mooing" (problems shared with the MacBook Pro), the reflection prone glossy screen, and most seriously reports of crashing from overheating (MB Pro are prone to heating up to uncomfortable levels as well though those just got a stealth firmware upgrade to run the fan more). |
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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I like that the case is more rugged than a thin skin of aluminum and that its slightly smaller, but the graphics processor is a bit Sad Mac. I'd like to replace my TiBook at some point, but I'd like a small notebook that runs OS X, and ideally a mainstream graphics processor. Looks like its going to be a 15" dentmaster unless there's some notebook yet to come.
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The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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Oban
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I have had mine for about a week now. The Apple Store I bought it from had a black unit for demonstrations, I am not really in to the whole matte black thing so I bought a plain white. It does get rather warm, hotter than the iBook G4 it replaces that is for sure. I am now using a hardcover book to keep this *book off of my lap (suggest using Coupland's new book JPod as its fluff-and-filler to content ratio is the highest I have ever come across in a hardcover). No freezes or glitches as of yet. First thing I did was install WindowsXP, and then the forced Visio/Project/WorldOfWarcraft trifecta. Yet again, all run without a hitch. Nice to only have to lug one laptop around as opposed to my old system of one laptop for *work* (cough) and one for everything else. As for the complaints, I am sure they have nothing to do with http://isnoop.net/blog/2006/05/20/macsaber-turn-your-mac-into-a-jedi-weapon induced battles. This is why we can't allow people to have nice things. |
Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Ok, macsaber is kinda cool. I like announcing my presence in a room by unsheathing my 'lightsaber', and then having the 'saber off' sound when I leave. I think my coworkers might be plotting my imminent demise.
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Oban
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Why the fuck would you put a motion sensor on a goddamn laptop?
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Trippy
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Why the fuck would you put a motion sensor on a goddamn laptop?
To give the hard drive a chance to park its heads before it hits the ground. |
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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So that when the laptop is RMA'd, the manufacturer can deny free replacement or repairs on the grounds that the user has been recorded as having abused it. That, and the NSA requested that Apple collects the data for them.
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The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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Signe
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Muse.
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That's very cool. When I smack my computer it just stares at me. Well, you know that... you're the one who gets to fix it when I smack it too hard. (aren't you relieved we never had children?) It would be even cooler if it said "ouch!" everytime you smacked it!
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Morfiend
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As some of you know, I have a PC at home and I work on macs. My boss recently got the 17inch MacBook Pro, and had me do all the usual software install stuff. Let me give you guys some quick advice DO NOT INSTALL PHOTOSHOP IF YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE THE SECURITY UPDATE!
I did this with out knowing, and the machine locked, and refused to boot. I had to boot in safemode, and remove Adobe VersionCue. Then boot up again from the install disk, repair the harddrive, reboot normally, resinastall photoshop with out versioncue, then reboot again from the install disk, repair the harddrive again, then start up the computer normally. Huge pain in the ass.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Ouch! Is that for all mactels, all versions of PS? I'm installing LE on a mactel today!  |
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dusematic
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As some of you know, I have a PC at home and I work on macs. My boss recently got the 17inch MacBook Pro, and had me do all the usual software install stuff. Let me give you guys some quick advice DO NOT INSTALL PHOTOSHOP IF YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE THE SECURITY UPDATE!
I did this with out knowing, and the machine locked, and refused to boot. I had to boot in safemode, and remove Adobe VersionCue. Then boot up again from the install disk, repair the harddrive, reboot normally, resinastall photoshop with out versioncue, then reboot again from the install disk, repair the harddrive again, then start up the computer normally. Huge pain in the ass.
Good thing there are people like you for people like me to pay you to do that for me. |
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