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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Note: I don't think their is one PC vendor that refers to their portable PCs as laptops. I think they all use the term notebook. I assume, laptop would imply that they are suitable to be used in one's lap. D…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Their are two fans. Check out the iFixit website for some close ups. I believe they even mention that Apple has been using fans with many more fans blades than in other notebooks to allow for more airflow at …
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Pretty impressive, the logic board of the MacBook is minimal and crowded. It seems there was no place for FireWire anyway. Nobody has mentioned the fan. Is it noisy? How are the processor and the chipset cooled?
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Regardless, going from 4 to 8 will result in more power being used, as well as more heat. Well, I've just checked on the Micron inc. website: they offer 2 as well as 4 GB SODIMM PC-1033. The 2 GB module suc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross As has been mentioned, the lines on the sockets mat not be there. Apple could have limited this for the reason of power. 8 Gb will get hotter than 4 GB, and shorten the battery run time. This might be true…
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Quote: Originally Posted by merdhead The stuff about the memory is totally information free. Yes we know that they say that Apple say 4GB max for both MB and MBP. The question is does the hardware support it? I would think there is no OS limitati…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pt123 So why not remove Ethernet? For a very simple reason : because not everybody is WiFi-equipped these days. The building of the U I'm teaching at (that's why I've got an educational rebate) has no WiFi. So I hav…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pt123 I don't think it's a guess anymore. Apple has removed Firewire from their just released computer. The Macbook was their top selling computer. Firewire was their technology. Firewire has been dumped by Apple. W…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alonso Perez Now that you raise this, it does sound bogus to me. Probably a manufacturing ramp issue. They might be saving a lot of money by staging rather than going whole hog from the get go. Or maybe they have a lot…
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I wonder if these "optical drive" and "display" issues can really be real? Optical drive issue? What could be wrong with 17" that is okay with 15" and 13"? Unless Apple wanted to offer BlueRay drives, and they backed off due to some unexpected be…
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Quote: Interesting. You can probably start a new thread with this if you can add USB performance results under Windows too. How are you going to install and use NetBSD? Through VMware maybe? I have meanwhile edited my post and added some cons…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PB I don't really know what to say. I have tried USB keys on MBs and on PC laptops. Guess what... under Windows they transfer data like 2-3 times faster than under Leopard. Because of that I thought that the MB had USB…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea As noted above, Seagate claims that Apple improved their USB2 transfer rates in Leopard which is why their Maxtor HDD with FW400/USB2 was even up in the speed tests. Now the drive itself isn't a speedster but ma…
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Well, I was quite right after all. The 2.4 MHz MacBook is charged € 1,250 tax excluded (1,500 € with sales tax). That means a 1.28 exchange rate, which is pretty close the 1.35 actual rate. Besides, I can get the educational discount, so it's gonna …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H How did you get those characters? Did you use the character palette? You do know that you can type an acute accent by pressing option-e followed by the letter you want accented? (e.g. pressing option-e then i …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lictor Errr... Apple does its own conversion, and it's not really in favor of Europe... Until recently, it was a plain 1$ = 1€. Lately, the difference was so huge that Apple finally decided to differentiate... But it's…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bigmc6000 That may be true in the EU but it's not true in GB. I've had a long discussion with a Brit about this and we found that our british counterparts make about half of what an American makes for the same job and…
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? 1 is today $1.38. But, you're right, it was « worse » this summer. Since then the dollar has recovered a bit. Nevertheless, I expect a european pricing with figures divided by 1.2 or something. The Asian supplies should be cheaper... but I'm pr…
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You guys are too much dollar-centric. There exist other currencies, especially euro and yen. The dollar exchange rate is so low that it is impossible for Apple not to rise theirs prices. Converted into euros, a € 1000 MacBook (that translates to aro…