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Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> writes:
Is hating the hardware allowed here? Because, in a short while you
surely will, assuming that you don't mean the Pro version here:
> So I picked up a MacBook yesterday, for various reasons but mostly because
> my 12" powerbook feels really slow these days.
[...]
> And, of course, even though my motivation for buying this machine was
> because my 12" feels really slow, this machine feels just about as slow.
> Particularly, if I am doing more than one thing at a time -- say, Firefox is
> loading a tab, and I switch workspaces -- then the whole machine bogs down
> just as badly as my 12" did. I/O seems to just kill OS X.
From the Tech Specs:
Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM
shared with main memory
Thanks Apple, for investing so much in using the GPU to provide advanced
video display effects ... then dumping the GPU for a half-assed shared
memory system with very little hardware acceleration in your current
MacBook line.
At least they kept a real GPU in the MacBookPro.
Plus, MacBook: worst product name ever.
Daniel
This is why I continue to not buy Apple. I really don't want to use
Linux or *BSD on this machine but, frankly, Apple is /not/ a step up.
Why can't I run OSX on something built like an IBM Thinkpad, you
bastards?
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