Yes, I think apple has discontinued the regular macbook, so now it's either the macbook air or the macbook pro. I also have the last generation of the white macbook. The macbook air is great for portability, but it lacks a couple features I would want, a dvd drive and an ethernet port. On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:03 PM, David Taylor wrote:
> It's nice to see somebody being generally positive on here! With regard to > your questions, I can only say that my ordinary Macbook, the nice White one > that you can't get any more because it apparently isn't good enough, runs > just fine. There's the odd task that takes longer or makes it run hot that > didn't used to, particularly opening and closing lots of apps, but I'll take > the sandboxing any day as the performance loss is very minimal on my old > fashioned thing! > > Take care > Dave > > On 26 Jul 2011, at 18:22, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > >> Okay. Subject line says it all. >> >> 1. The sluggishness was immediately obvious upon installation; but, after >> the passing of an hour or so, that went away; indexing I suppose. >> >> 2. Mail. >> >> a. I love the new view with the way the conversations work. >> b. Would like a reminder how to download any attachments I may happen to >> receive directly from e-mail. >> >> c. The signatures part doesn't crash anymore. About damn time they fixed >> that one. >> >> 3. Safari. >> >> a. I don't mind most of the changes. The item chooser certainly acts >> differently; however, VO+f seems to work even faster than the item chooser >> once did and in Lion, Found things that it did not find under SL. >> >> b. What sucks is that now, I cannot seem to select text from web pages >> anymore. They broke shift+down arrow even after interacting with text; and, >> select all does not work. A work around would be appreciated. >> c. Made some changes to how VO reacts when loading a web page because I >> never get the sound anymore once a page is loaded. So, all sounds now muted >> and things sounds once did are now spoken or silent. >> >> 3. I'm very happy to say that, after preliminary examination, RX seems to >> behave well under Lion and no issues with noise reduction and the like. All >> processing dialogs appear to work well. >> >> 4. Have not yet tried amadeus Pro; but, I'm quite sure that it works well; >> and, if it did not, also quite sure that there would be multiple >> conversations here about it. >> >> 5. Boy, does my Mac ever run hot now. It never did under SL. My fan goes >> Quite hard if I just do stuff like checking my e-mail and even now, as I >> type this message to y'all, I can hear it in the background. This only >> happened if I was doing something like noise reduction under SL. That would >> be the only thing that would push my GPU hard enough to make that happen. >> >> 6. Because I did the install of Lion overtop of LS, all my settings did in >> fact get preserved; but, had to change the lines in Mail preview under the >> view tab to Zero. Mail goes busy when first opened, but, only if there are >> very many messages yet to be gone through. >> >> Well, that's it so far. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >> >> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! >> >> Skype name: >> barefootedray >> >> Facebook: >> facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
