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Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:1. How far is the reflection of the keyboard on the screen when moving the screen towards us (especially when viewing videos)
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:2. Power supply towards the side and not at the back
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:3. Is the double touch pad a feature of the OS or of the mac book pro
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:4. Sim card possibility? (available in T500...)
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Jesper Young wrote:The MacBook Pro does have an integrated camera (above the screen) and also has audio control keys on the keyboard (on the rop right). It doesn't have a fingerprint scanner, but that's not really an essential feature (I had a Dell laptop with a fingerprint reader, it was a nice gimmick, but not something I couldn't live without).
I've had a MacBook Pro (15-inch) since last summer, and it's the nicest laptop I've ever had.
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Bear Bibeault wrote:It runs OS X.
Slam dunk!
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:I assume that you own a Mac Book Pro.
Can you comment on the heat dissipation of the machine
Another thing that I would like to know with the machine is about the partition
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:I agree that I can use a VMWare which I currently do but sometimes I find it a bit under performant. So that is the reason why I would like to do a dual boot on my new machine. I would be using my computer for some serious development. So speed is vital. I have been using VMWare all these days to just get a feel and in fact to get used to the CLI in Linux. Now I'm confident that I can dual boot my machine and work with Linux without much difficulties.
So finally I have come down to three options:
(1) Upgrade the hardware for my current machine - Upgrade the HDD from 160 GB to 250 or 300 GB
(2) Buy a Mac Book Pro - Sell the R61 that I have
(3) Buy a Lenovo T400 - Sell the R61 that I have
So will have do some rigorous analysis and decide accordingly.
Bear Bibeault wrote:
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:Can you comment on the heat dissipation of the machine
Mac Book Pros are known for getting warm, especially around the battery, when the CPU is in high use. It's never been a problem.
The machine is on constantly -- I never shut it down.
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:Another thing that I would like to know with the machine is about the partition
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:I assume that you own a Mac Book Pro. Can you comment on the heat dissipation of the machine.
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:Another thing that I would like to know with the machine is about the partition. I currently have a Ubuntu dual boot on my Lenovo R61. Is it possible that me after buying a Mac Book Pro, partition the 250 GB HDD and install Ubuntu alongside OS X? Infos needed!
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Jesper Young wrote:Google for "Windows 7 on MacBook Pro" and you'll find info on how to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro. As far as I know, Bootcamp (the Mac's boot program) was recently updated to support Windows 7. Yes, you will need to install drivers for Windows 7 yourself.
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 - Hints for you, Certified Scrum Master
Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Bear Bibeault wrote:If you are always waiting for "the next great thing", you will never buy anything.
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Mark Spritzler wrote:It was too easy to see that you wouldn't choose a Mac because you were nitpicking things that just aren't big deals. You were just trying to come up with reasons not to buy a Mac.
It is a shame because regardless of waiting a month or two for a quad processor in a MacBook, the MacBooks are so much more superior to any other laptops out there.
Enjoy your upgrade.
Mark
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
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Did a rm -R / to find out that I lost my entire Linux installation!
Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:Another question that I have in my mind is on the graphics card. I have the following in my machine...
Graphics
* Intel PM965/GM965 graphics
* 128MB nVidia Quadro NVS 140M
How is the graphics card in Mac Book Pro different from the one that I have in my machine. I know that the graphics card that I have in my machine is not that good as it is obvious form the video quality that I see on my machine.
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The card was introduced in October 2008 in conjunction with the new Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air products (called only 9400M). At the time of announcement it was the fastest mGPU (motherboard GPU) on the market.
Mark Spritzler wrote:
The card was introduced in October 2008 in conjunction with the new Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air products (called only 9400M). At the time of announcement it was the fastest mGPU (motherboard GPU) on the market.
From that same link.
As you can see they are due for an upgrade in the next versions of the MacBooks, which I expect anytime soon.
Also note that they always take the latest and greatest.
It is starting to feel like instead of ever seriously considering a MacBook, that instead you want to try to nitpick and find something wrong with it so you can talk yourself out of it. Trying to convince that small sensible part of you that knows that Macs are far superior. ;)
At his point I recommend closing this thread, go out an buy an upgrade to your laptop or buy a PC.
Mark
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Jothi Shankar Kumar wrote:
I really like the Mac and I can see that we do not have much options here like we have for other notebooks. When I first bought my Lenovo R61, I had so many other options from Lenovo to choose from and now I'm seriously considering to get a Mack Book but this time around I want to buy the machine with exactly knowing what hardware it has. This was the reason why I'm trying to extract and gather as much information as I could. From your replies and suggestions, I'm convinced that Mac is trustworthy. Trust me... my next machine is a Mac but it will not be now.
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