Comments on: The New Hotness

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:25:00 +0000

Get the Intel X25 SSD, not the one that Apple ships.

By: ropata

ropata — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:09:54 +0000

what, no Blu-Ray?

By: Moody834

Moody834 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:36:31 +0000

Showed my MacBook to our office’s geek-in-residence. She’d not looked at a Mac since Apple was promoting OS 8. She looked at OS X, looked at the computer’s specs, heard about the full Unix compliance, and deemed it very good indeed. Why? Because it’s a good tool, and it’s pretty, and it plays well with others.

Now, I don’t even need to dream about the new breed of laptops coming out of Apple. However, I am fairly sure that it’s a good indicator of where everyone will be headed in the next couple of years. Is it overpriced? In this economy most things are overpriced, or seem to be. Don’t get the TotL package. You’ll still be getting a hella nice computer. Then, when you get bored or feel experimental, you can install the excellent Ubuntu OS on it, and when you need to or have to you can install Windows on it. Me, I use OS X and don’t worry about all that stuff. The MacBook runs a lot of nice software for science geeks, and it runs it very well. That’s all I need to know. I don’t need my computer to be a gaming platform, really, and I have another computer for Ubuntu: one of the old candy colored Macs.

As far as I can tell, there is no real OS war going on, whatever else the Windows people are saying on AOL and MySpace. ;-p

By: T

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:53:24 +0000

Oh Phil. Phil Phil Phil. I sure love you guys. You had better hope your little Volkswagen doesn’t run Vista. The blue screen of death may mean so much more to you.

By: wds

wds — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:26:33 +0000

I think most people buy macs for the fit and finish really. I am happier with other laptops – I load some flavour of linux on them anyway – but the craptastic way most laptops are put together has always bothered me. You pick it up and it just feels like it’s going to fall apart (and frequently does). That’s one thing Apple really does do right, but then they go and ruin it by patting themselves on the back about it all the time.

By: NDomino

NDomino — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:21:35 +0000

SSD’s time will come but until prices come down to be competitive with HDD they will only be for tech enthusiasts.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:38:30 +0000

Eh I think it’s more likely that you are simply a Macwhore. I had a macbook in college(still have it actually). PCs really can do everything macs do(and more!) at a much lower premium. The performance of a volkswagen does not even approach that of a ferrari, however. I do not really fault people for buying macs, they generally are very slick, aesthetically appealing machines. The mentality that the extra money you are paying is somehow going to pay yield dividends in terms of performance is just demonstrably false, however.

By: T

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:30:53 +0000

@Phil

So you must be a PC user or a volkswagen driver

By: Brian Mingus

Brian Mingus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:35:10 +0000

That is pure hotness. But me, I’m holding out a few years for an 8 core / 64 GB Ram / 1 TB SSD Macbook Pro in the sub $3,000 price range.

Sooner than you think.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:17:01 +0000

@T
That is not even close to analogous.