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On Sun, 21 May 2006, Daniel Pittman wrote: > 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. I don't actually think that's the problem. It seems to be much, much more I/O related than anything else. > 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. If I wanted to run one of those, I'd just buy a thinkpad. *shudder* I ran Linux on an X31 for a while, and I hope never to have to repeat it. > Why can't I run OSX on something built like an IBM Thinkpad, you > bastards? That would be nice. Seems quite likely this MacBook is going back, though, 10% restocking fee and all. Too hot, SSHKeyChain (or something else) seems to be locking it up constantly, and the I/O is just too debilitating ATM. -- This space intentionally has nothing but text explaining why this space has nothing but text explaining that this space would otherwise have been left blank, and would otherwise have been left blank. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.comThere's stuff above here
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