Well i’ve sold my old laptop so now I’m with out a computer at home really. This explains (hopefully) why I’m slower than usual at replying to emails.
Anyway i should be ordering my new computer sometime this week and hopefully getting it by the end of next week! woohoo!
I’m biting the bullet and getting a dual 2 ghz mac book pro. 1.5 gig of ram and a 100 gig hard drive. It was tough to decide between a macbook and macbook pro. I think if i traveled more the MB would be the way to go. But in the end i decided i couldn’t go down in screen size.
This is also the first computer i’ll own with an intel chip. I’ve been a computer user for almost 16 years. So this is quite a switch for me. I’ve always had macs and my linux machines have always been AMD processors.
I’m not terribly stoked on intel as a company. I hear their workforce has one of the highest suicide rates. Sad.
But i think this is a great move for apple if it doesn’t bite them in the ass.. Which it may. They will get caught up in the processor upgrade nightmare that the PC companies are.
You see before the only computer with a G5 was from apple. Every 6 months or so they would make them a little faster.
You would buy it no matter what because that’s what apple gave you.
Intel puts out faster chips seems like on a weekly basis. If apple drags their feet on putting the fastest processors available people will balk at paying premium prices for apple hardware.
So apple is forced to play the game. Keep up with what intel is putting out. This is gonna mean more changes in documentation, printing shipping boxes, website changes etc etc. It’s gonna be allot of work apple.
This about this Macbook Pro came out in mid Feb. It’s now late may 4 months later and apple has bumped the speed on the macbook pros 3 times already!
This is gonna be a bumpy ride!
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