Ordered mine. Had to order direct from Apple to get the education
discount, while I still qualify for it (about 10-20%, depending on
product). Went the extra and bought a 2gig Pro 'cos it's cuter. My
present iBook is a 14"+ screen and I really didn't feel like going
backwards. Battery life worried me so I bought an extra one (it's
rated at only 4.5 hours compared to 6 hours for the smaller machines).
Then I thort, hell, I'm going to have to replace my desktop machine
next year anyway (G4 dual 533MHz) so I sprung for a 20" display as
well - my cousin uses his Powerbook as a desktop machine and I love
his Flat Apple. That saves me money next year. And space. And costs a
little time plugging and unplugging. Shame they don't have these cute
little docks they used to have for the early laptops.
The whole lot cost less than my 5D. Even after the cashback.
Waiting, waiting....
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 30/05/2006, at 2:06 AM, swisspace wrote:
> I know of at least one list member ;-) who is interested in the
> macbook
> (1Gb RAM), so here is my first day opinion.
>
> Having read Walts postings on his new windows machine and as I work
> as a
> system administrator OSX is lovely to move to new hardware, reinstall
> osx to get rid of all the excess baggage approx 45 mins - copy all
> applications across from old mac approx 1 hours, so two hours after
> machine arrived it is up and running like the old one - anyway
> enough on
> that.
>
> I am finding it about the same performance as my modded g4 (sonnet
> dual
> 1.8Ghz 2gig memory but 100Mhz bus), which is really fast enough, it
> was just too noisy for me. The macbook is pretty quiet, the fans
> started
> and are quite loud when converting a batch of oly raw files to jpgs
> using iview.
>
> The macbook converted the images about 5 percent faster (the images
> are
> on an external firewire drive compared to the g4) both taking about
> 2secs per image. The Macbook feels snappier to use in general,
> photoshop
> started up slightly slower than on the g4 but gimp started slightly
> faster.
>
> I am hoping I gain some battery life for the slower CPU speed of the
> 2Ghz macbook, which should be a little faster.
>
> CONCLUSION - If my G4 wasn't so noisy I would be quite happy to
> keep it
> - its performance was enough for me, the macbook with similar
> performance is much quieter and of course smaller, so now to
> auction the
> sonnet etc. It isn't a full comparison just a first impression. Now I
> have all I need computer, scanner and camera and lens wise - for the
> time being ;-)
>
>
> Om content, we took Cai on his first holiday this weekend to wengen
> along with the E1 and om and 21mm. Here is a sample shot from the
> E1, I
> will post more when the om shots are developed, more in gallery.
>
> http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/photos/72143953-M.jpg
>
> IanW
>
>
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