Hi,
The new laptops seem pretty nice, apart from the issue of missing off
the Firewire port. Like Jacob, I recently got a MacBook, and I am
glad that I have the Firewire port. However, that seems to be much
more of an issue for existing Mac users than for new users, since we
(or at least I) have existing peripherals that use the Firewire
connection, such as hard drives. And if you have an older Mac, the
Firewire connector makes it easy to migrate file data machine to
machine or boot off an external device. For new users, the lack of a
Firewire port could be an issue if you want to connect a video camera
which only has a Firewire connector and not USB.
On the plus side for the new MacBook laptops, they seem to run cooler,
and they can take up to 6 MB of memory (where the current MacBooks max
out at 4 MB). It's likely that these will be more extensible for
movie playing and video games (or virtual reality software like Second
Life). Alternatively, getting one of the older models will give you
quite good performance for most operations at a lower price.
Just my thoughts.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Slau wrote:
Just a little word about processor speed versus performance.
According to Apple, although, for example, the new MacBook Pro's
processor speed is less than the previous model, they claim it's 40
percent faster, whatever that means. For years, many people have
said that clock speed is not a reliable means of determining the
actual processing power of the computer. Thus, supposedly, a Mac
with a lower clock speed could apparently out-perform a Windows
machine with a higher clock speed. I don't know whether that's
actually true or not. Please don't start a long thread about which
computer is faster. I'm only stating the possibility that it might
be worth looking into this claim by Apple, that's all.
Cheers
