Yeah the only part that really sucks is the fact that to jump from
2.53Ghz to 2.8Ghz is another $300. I'd bet the difference in speed is
negligible. I'm still toying with the idea of a Macbook and I was
going to have one in hand, but opted to wait a little longer. I think
I'll wait till after the New Year and see if I can get one of those
sweet financing deals Best Buy offers. I love those, I don't have to
shell out all the money up front so I can keep my cash and let it make
cash while I pay for my purchase, no cost to me. :)
On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:56 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
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
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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
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