All welcome me to the fold

Metalface Mark · 4 Feb 2009 at 20:23

Purchased a new aluminium macbook today after city link managed to lose the dell i bought off the MM.

Unfortunatey i ran into a problem using bootcamp and ive had to reinstall.

It got me thinking though, is there any real benefit to bootcamp for what ill use it for? Its for browsing, email, a bit of Warcraft, music and thats it.

I have to say though, the screen is fantastic on it, so vibrant and the laptop feels great, after my dell 1730xps i had, its light as a butterfly.

Metalface Mark · 5 Feb 2009 at 00:17

Yeh I knew about WOW, i couldnt really see any reason to stick windows on it, ive spent the night trying to get to grips with everything. I do love the battery life, its what a laptop should be, after using dells for years and having about a 2 hour maximum, this has been going strong over 4 hours now.

Really impressed and loving the trackpad gestures.

Metalface Mark · 5 Feb 2009 at 13:01

If i was to upgrade the hard drive, is it sata or ide? (im guessing sata). Whats involved in doing this, can i just drop in a 500gb sata one or are there particulars one that have to be used?

Metalface Mark · 5 Feb 2009 at 17:31

Thanks bud. Is there much of a difference in osx with 4gb over 2gb?

Metalface Mark · 5 Feb 2009 at 20:15

Thanks for the hints, im just going to stick with osx, im starting to feel my way around, i still have my media centre pc and my wife has a netbook if windows is really needed for anything at home.

I was hoping it played WOW well but i was surprised just how well it handles it, 50-60 fps with most detail on, just takes a while to get used to playing it on a 13.3" screen!

Metalface Mark · 7 Feb 2009 at 16:43

Im a few days in now, and really loving the mac, as a laptop its fantastic, its light, its got really long battery life, i can control everything with one hand and laze back comfortably.

The only downside is im regretting now not going for a macbook pro and 15.4" one, im finding 13.3 a wee bit small to play wow on, although it does run great.