MacBook Core 2 Duo Released!
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How much was that? Over a grand surely?
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Good lad. I want a white MacBook but I'm going to wait for Leopard and see what the reviews on that are like. I want one to use at Uni and also on the train home as well as at home now that we have a wireless router. I'd use it for Uni work but also FM07 so I'm trying to work out if I should go for a 2Ghz one with 1Gb RAM or a 1.83Ghz with 2Gb RAM. Or even 2Ghz and 2Gb RAM. I might have to pop along to the Apple store at the Trafford centre and see if I can have a play around with them there and see what they are like.A5H said:£950ish
I'm a cheeky student
Any ideas on which of the three specs would be best for FM07? More CPU power, more RAM or the 2Ghz/2GB RAM option?
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Nicer numbers f.t.w. I might just get a 1.83Ghz with 2Gb RAM then. I'll see if anyone on SI Games has a MacBook and whether they think 1Gb is enough or not.wush said:The CPUs are really pretty similar. Only a 9% difference in clock speed. 2.0 just looks a nicer number.
Am loving my 15.4" Macbook Pro, 2Gb + APP + Case
It runs everything absolutely sweet, still getting to grips with OSX. And it is annoying that when I open finer, and new directories etc. it has the icon view, when I really want to have it all in list/detailed view.
Loving spotlight, and the overall feel of the MBP is simply stunning, so light, very well built. Still working through all the free software on Apples site.
Although I am not to keen on Safari and Firefox on OSX compared to XP, I just notice a difference, but I'll learn to love the quirks.
Also, I am using my G7 wireless mouse, however still to get the sidde button to work.
It runs everything absolutely sweet, still getting to grips with OSX. And it is annoying that when I open finer, and new directories etc. it has the icon view, when I really want to have it all in list/detailed view.
Loving spotlight, and the overall feel of the MBP is simply stunning, so light, very well built. Still working through all the free software on Apples site.
Although I am not to keen on Safari and Firefox on OSX compared to XP, I just notice a difference, but I'll learn to love the quirks.
Also, I am using my G7 wireless mouse, however still to get the sidde button to work.
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Are you dual-booting XP with the Boot Camp? I was leaving my OSM workshop today and thought it'd be good if I could put XP and Ubuntu and/or Fedora onto a MacBook. Offhand do you know if Boot Camp has a limit to the number of OSs it can support?VaderDSL said:
Also if I put a Live CD into a MacBook would the CD run?
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MarcLister said:
I think bootcamp can only do the one. You would need to use something like parallels to have more than one OS
(I could be wrong)Parallels is a good alternative to bootcamp and if you want to have lots of OS running at once use parallels with virtuedesktop!
It will allow you to have lots of desktops and flip between them at a keypress.
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Sounds worth researching. I did a quick google earlier and it seems there is a clever trick in Boot Camp that can get a Linux distro installed. I'll research it more over the weekend at home and post back here if it looks good.Big-Mac-Please said:I think bootcamp can only do the one. You would need to use something like parallels to have more than one OS
Parallels is a good alternative to bootcamp and if you want to have lots of OS running at once use parallels with virtuedesktop!
It will allow you to have lots of desktops and flip between them at a keypress.
Plus Boot Camp is free, Parallels isn't.
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Why o' why are you having a Macbook if you're just going to send it back?toosepin said:My C2D MacBook (2Ghz/2GB) is arriving in a few hours.
*Rolls out red carpet*
Until I send it back for a MBP
EVH said:Why o' why are you having a Macbook if you're just going to send it back?
First ideas were that I needed a simple replacement for my iBook. I'm hoping the upgrade to a more powerful machine (MBP) will encourage me to give up on my Desktop and go 100% mobile - and more importantly - Mac.
MarcLister said:Sounds worth researching. I did a quick google earlier and it seems there is a clever trick in Boot Camp that can get a Linux distro installed. I'll research it more over the weekend at home and post back here if it looks good.
Plus Boot Camp is free, Parallels isn't.
id like to know how this is done, a guide or something. would love it when i get my MBP
Watch out for Parallels now letting you use your Boot Camp drive within its virtual machine. This is great news - saves having to boot up to do quick things on your Windows install and saves having to run two seperate installs of Windows.
I can't seem to get it to work - but the build is in beta.
I can't seem to get it to work - but the build is in beta.
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Think it was this site I found.hartgeh3 said: