My buddy! My pal! My friend! Whatcha doing with your old system? :-) --Ben
Gruss Gott wrote: > This thing totally kicks arse! E.g., it wakes from sleep in under a > second usually, has a lit keyboard that adjusts to ambient lighting, > and ... > > I'm running Parallels with Vista Ultimate - it runs both OSs at once! > The windows task bar on the bottom and the mac on the top. You could > add XP, Linux, whatever and run them all at the same time. They run > seamlessly together - it's amazing. I've used Virtual PC in the past > and it sucked, but this is nothing like it: it's actually 2 OSs > running independently. It's super cool. > > So you're thinking performance would suck; but it doesn't! I've ran > multiple apps like office, browsers, etc on both OSs with no problem > whatsoever. That being said I don't run things like Photoshop so I > dunno how that would be although I've heard it's ok, but who knows. > > I've got the 2.1ghz dual core CPU and 2gb of mem. I can go up to 3gb > and will when the 2gb modules come out (didn't see any out there, but > maybe I missed them). No problems thus far though. Maybe I'll try > the Vista jump drive trick ... just thought of that ... but it's all > academic because I'm ok so far. Don't know how they do it, but it > works ... > > Anyway the laptop is super awesome. > > The downsides I've seen so far: battery life is not as good as my > beloved iBook 13"; but that doesn't surprise me with the larger > screen, bluetooth etc. I'd estimate 4-5 hours at full power which is > how I run it. I'll try it with DVDs this fall when I got to Europe. > I've got the airplane power adapter so hopefully my flight will have > power and I won't have to worry. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230020 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
