You can also run one of the fast hard drives in them if I remember rightly.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:15 PM Subject: Re: new laptop 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 > >
