Re HP 8150 - for more modest printer needs (not as fast but smaller
than a microwave oven) the HP 2100TN is bullet-proof - I have had one
networked for 50 users/20 terminals in a Primary School for 6+ years,
serviced once (staple jammed inside), and have purchased 2 more at
auction, $30
Now that I have had my 15 intel-based MacBook Pro for a month or so,
I can comment on its speed relative to the old 17 G4 Powerbook 1.25
Ghz I had. Both machines had/have 2Gb RAM.
Overall, I find the new machine to be slower. My usual apps are
Eudora, Word and Excel, and I often work with
On 21/06/2006, at 10:04 AM, Rob Phillips wrote:
Do other people have similar experiences? Is this because Word and
Excel aren't intel native? Or is it because they're M$ products?
You just answered your own question. The problem at the moment is
that the speed gains from the new chip are
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:04 +0800, Rob Phillips wrote:
Now that I have had my 15 intel-based MacBook Pro for a month or so,
I can comment on its speed relative to the old 17 G4 Powerbook 1.25
Ghz I had. Both machines had/have 2Gb RAM.
Overall, I find the new machine to be slower. My usual
Hi Rod,
any old app will need to use Rosetta to emulate the old processor.
This will cause a significant slow down in speed.
I have been using Pages 3.0 as my word processor of choice and am
quite pleased with its performance until I used Pages 2 on a G4 iBook
and realised how quick my
Hi Bob,
I'll let you in on our little secret, we buy them at auction for
about $200 - $400, most have hardly been run in, we check the duty
cycle before purchase. No one wants to purchase them because they are
the size of a washing machine. I have had the previous model for 5
years and
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