EtHi
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Its the upgrade form the ibook with the intel processor.
what you lot reckon?
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore
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Cosmo
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Macs are top quality. Think of getting one of these as need a new laptop and already have an iMac
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Dom
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the intel macs are shocking - its just a pc with a different OS installed (especially as ive got osx running on my pc  ) - mate bought the 2k powerbook a few weeks back, was bragging about how good it is - then took back a few days later as it kept locking up and wouldnt shut down properly etc 
Hes taken my advice and just got a PowerVR G5 - now that is a PROPPER mac 
[Edited on 18-05-2006 by Dom]
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Marc
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They do look the dogs danglys, but I don't think I could live with one.
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Sam
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Do they still have only one mouse button?
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Do they still have only one mouse button?
the apple mice do but you can use a standard 2 button mouse with them.
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John
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Does mac stuff not run better on the intels than it ever did on the powerpc's?
I'm not that clued up on it, i'm more interested in running windows and osx dual boot.
Wouldn't mind having a go with osx but don't see why people want to have a system that has nothing for it compared to a windows one.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Does mac stuff not run better on the intels than it ever did on the powerpc's?
I'm not that clued up on it, i'm more interested in running windows and osx dual boot.
Wouldn't mind having a go with osx but don't see why people want to have a system that has nothing for it compared to a windows one.
the old PowerVR macs were the muts nuts as they say, but mainly for doing professional/raw processing tasks IE: i used to use a G3, 500Mhz of pure power and when using music software like protools i was able to record 8 tracks of audio in whilst playing 30 odd out with plugins etc whereas on my amd system at the time xp2000, if i could play 15 tracks it would be a miracle!!
Same as with adobe packages, photoshop seemed a lot better with the powerVR macs, generally faster etc.
However, the new intels are toss personally - all they are is a pc in a different case. And like ive said, my mate had problems with his £2k power book (intel version), let alone the fact that a lot of the software/hardware he wanted to run wouldnt until they released a patch/upgrade - its all very shoddy and a bit of a mess on how apple released the macintels!
Plus there have been a lot of comparisons between the old powerVRs and Intels and they still say the powervrs out perform the new intels - then again a lot of that is down to RISC vs CISC etc.
One good thing that has come of it all, is that we can now go out buy a reasonably high spec'd intel system (or amd, but if the spec is kept close to intel macs then less problems will be had) and dual boot XP and OSX, meaning we can get the best of both worlds
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dave17
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OSX / XP dual boot? Tell me moooooore
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John
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If you have an intel mac apple have a program called boot camp for doing it.
If you don't have a mac a quick google should give you comprehensive instructions.
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MikeLamb
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I'm getting the black one, but its about the same price to fly to new york and buy it there as it is to buy it here, I'll prob go over for a weekend and buy it from the new apple store 
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James_DT
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Do they still have only one mouse button?
the apple mice do but you can use a standard 2 button mouse with them.
The new Apple mice have 4 buttons and a 4-way scroll wheel (which might also be a 5th button). The MacBooks still have 1 button, but Ctrl+click does right click.
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corsaevu
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my mate is gettin one of these in white!!!
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