Hi, I'm rather drawn to the new ultralite notebooks, Toshiba have a
new one (not available in Australia yet) with Core 2 Duo. This seems
to be a trend that Apple are avoiding, so if choosing between a
Macbook and a MacBook Pro, one of my criteria would be the weight.
Unfortunately, there's not a lot of difference between them (2.36 and
2.54kgs). The Macs do have the advantage of a small and light power
block, but I gather other manufacturers are getting wise to this as
well, at least with regard to the weight.
Weight really becomes an issue when your job is very mobile, or when
travelling. At the same time, you don't really want to compromise on
specs.
The other issue is that 2 gig of RAM is not really enough for
processing video, even the ordinary DV tapes that I use. Well, you
can process the video, but need to have another computer to work on
whilst its processing. As Daniel was saying at the meeting, the 2gig
sticks which you can put into the MacBook Pro, along with 1gig to
make 3gig in total, are extremely expensive at this stage.
Perhaps the power of the new MacBook Pros is such that I could encode
video, watch TV, and do other work at the same time, even with 2gig
of RAM. Does anyone have experience of doing this?
cheers, Susan.
On 09/11/2006, at 7:37 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
Which poses a question,.
On the surface it makes these new models very attractive with the
Core2 Duo
now in the MacBook.
I would have thought they would have waited a little while to sell
some more
MacBook Pro's before putting C2D into the MacBook.
I would think, and this is where the question comes in, that from a
"consumer" point of view doesn't it make it hard for them to work
out what
they are getting for their extra $1000 (roughly)?
Yes, I know the MacBook Pro has dedicated 128MB video and the
MacBook has
shared video and the screen size is bigger, etc etc but I'm sure
when some
customers are just "looking" at the specs I'm sure they'll wonder
what the
difference is in price for the features they get.
And I'm sure this could start a big flame war, but I'd be curious
on what
people think....
Kind Regards
Daniel
On 8/11/2006 11:08 PM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well spotted Susan. Nice new Core 2 Duo MacBooks with 6x dual
layer DVD
burner on the 2GHz model and option of the 200GB HD as well.
Apple's saying the 2GHz Core 2 Duo model is up to 25% faster than the
earlier 2GHz Core Duo beastie thanks to the 4MB cache and 64bit CPU.
That's one sweet little machine. :-)
-Mart
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 22:44:19 +0800
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Subject: store down, but Core 2 duo Macbooks on US website
So, just new Macbooks?
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