Hi Jon, I'm very sorry to hear this. I think peole should really listen to your advice. I was not as willing to risk my 2000 euro investment so I've only been using OS X and have been trying to turn it into a usable Unix (I'm hoping to take the chance to learn some *BSD commands). If their X implementation was just slightly better quality (and supported compositing) it wouldn't matter so much but its kind of jerky. Its not a bad OS (certainly compared to windows) but when i switch to Linux every once in a while I really feel what I've been missing.
If Apple gives you another 2,2 instead of Nvidia you might want to consider just selling it unopened (should be able to get almost cost) and just get yourself another laptop. Its a terrible shame cause these machines look great and have a lot of other nice features including the ability to use OS X if needed but I'm certainly not going to be an OS X user the rest of my life. cheers, Sheer On 6/23/07, Jon Grosshart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys. Some quick info on latest expierences with my 2,2 ati. > > I was getting insanely long delays until refit would come up (10 to 15 > seconds). Installing the latest OSX 10.4.10 update fixed it somehow. > Sweet... > > I just recompiled/updated to Gnome-2.18.2 and the module agpgart is making > video on fglrx extremely choppy. Well, it makes everything choppy even tho > glxgears report fast speeds with direct rendering enabled. This didn't > happen 2 days ago when using gnome 2.16.3.. Not sure what's up with that. > Keeping agpgart from loading and just using fglrx resolves the issue but no > direct rendering now. > > Due to heat, my lappy finally burned itself out. Whatever is responsible for > charging the battery burned itself out anyway. The red light on my adapter > is always on and the battery just isn't getting a charge (in OSX or Linux). > Some of you may remember that I posted awhile back about the circut board > underneath the battery 'browning' along with heat 'stains' on the underneath > of my battery. Looks like it finally gave up the ghost. > > If any of you are complacent about heat and have been ignoring reports here > about it, don't... I knew it was getting TOO hot from daily usage/compiling > but didn't really care and now it's toast. Literally. Either take steps to > keep heat down or you will more than likely be sending it back in. This is > my second time due to hardware failure. The first was a wrongly placed > keyboard and crappy superdrive. Now the new one has burned itself out along > with the superdrive never working very well. > > I know it's been touched on before, but for any of you considering on buying > a new MBP, READ, READ, READ... Don't impulse buy because I, and others, have > had nothing but problems with these things... Make sure your fully aware of > existing problems else your going to be kicking yourself in the ass like > myself, sheer and others. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
