so what is in plac of the command and option keys? ----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf" <[email protected]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:56 PM Subject: Re: new macbook question
Hi, I recently upgraded from a macbook pro 2.4 ghz to a new macbook pro 2.4 ghz. Don't worry, you are reading that right. I upgraded from 2 mb l2 cache to 6, 2 gb of ram to 4, 160 gb hd to 250, and some other nice improvements. The sound, which I thought couldn't get any better, actually did get better some how. The monitor is thinner. The keybord is just a bit nicer, although I wish they would put in right hand command and option keys and restore the built in number pad. They directly immaged my 160 gb drive onto the new 250 gb drive, leaving all my settings and such in tact. I lothe and abhour itunes, but I can tell you that performance of VMware Fusion has improved significantly, no, astronomicly,, on the new system. I never have gotten around to tweaking it for performance and I could really bog down my old macbook pro if I left the windows VM running when I wasn't using it. Now it just goes off into it's corner. Of course now I'm in the habit of shutting it down and that's not such a bad thing, but if I do forget I can count on having no sluggishness getting my email the morning after. My primary gripes with it asside from the loss of the number pad are, they moved the dvd drive from the front to the side, and they moved all the connectivity to the other side panel. The reason they did this is so that people could put in a second hard drive, but I think that is re-damn-diculous. If you can't get by with 250 or 320 gb storage on your notebook then get yourself a NAS, smiles. Overall though I'm really really happy with it. And then when you considder that they go up to 2.53 and 2.8 ghz on the processer, it just makes it even sweeter. The 2.53 ghz macbook pro costs what I paid for my old 2.4 back in February, so I am pretty jellus now, smiles. Best, erik burggraaf Certified Technician Assistive Computing LTD Support and training Sales department: 888-828-2445 Support and Training: 888-255-5194 Email: [email protected] Website coming soon On 13-Dec-08, at 7:57 AM, jeffrey greene wrote: > Hi guys, well my wife who couldn't stand mac osx a year ago has > highjacked my macbook pro. She says she now loves it. I'm thinking > about buying one of the new aluminum macbooks but was wondering how > fast they are? With my one-year old macbook pro 2.2ghz itunes seems > to really hesitate so I was wondering if the new macbooks do this > also? Any feedback from new (aluminum) macbook owners would be > appreciated. > Thanks, Jeff > > -- > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit > www.serotek.com > to learn more about accessibility anywhere. >
