[osflash] OT: mac book? or Dell?
Edwin van Rijkom
osflash at vanrijkom.org
Sun Sep 3 07:36:35 EDT 2006
The keyboard puts me in a ZX Spectrum mood. Apart from looking good, is
it nice to work with?
Edwin
Martin Heidegger wrote:
> My very small and fancy MSI Notebook crashed due to overheating last
> week so i went to store
> and checked all those notebooks. I love the new MacBook because of its
> size and its very cool
> approach of a keyboard ...
>
> yours
> Martin.
>
> PS.: Who needs a good Graphics Card?
>
> 2006/9/3, Peter Elst <peter.elst at telenet.be
> <mailto:peter.elst at telenet.be>>:
>
> I've just ordered my MacBook Pro this week -- my old Acer was getting
> incredibly hot, running up to 80°C and higher. Unplugged it'd shut
> down
> after just a few minutes caused by the heat issue. The MacBook
> Pro's do
> get hot, I've had a chance to compare newer models with one of a few
> months back and there is a noticeable improvement.
>
> Even so, the heat doesn't seem to affect performance on the MBP unlike
> my old Acer. Have had my hands on some very hot MBP's and unless
> you're
> wearing shorts its not extremely uncomfortable IMHO.
>
> More than likely opting for Parallels over Bootcamp, I like to switch
> around between PC and Mac quite regularly so can't imagine myself
> constantly rebooting. One thing I'm not quite sure about yet is
> whether
> I'll go with Thunderbird on Mac or stick with Mail. Does anyone
> know of
> any easy way to move Thunderbird email over to Mail?
>
> At the moment most of my software would run in Win XP with Parallels
> (Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flex Builder) until there are
> universal
> builds and I get Mac licenses sorted. Shame I have to buy another
> license for Win XP Pro, the ones I've got are all OEM.
>
> - Peter
>
>
> Edwin van Rijkom wrote:
> > Affirmative on the heat issue. I'm not bothered by it though, since
> > whenever I use it portable, I put the second-skin I use to carry it
> > around in, on my lap first and then place the MacBook on top of
> that.
> > The one I've got does not get so hot you can't comfortably use
> the keyboard.
> >
>
>
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