Posts by gdguide

Hi All, I jumped in yesterday, and have been quite happy with my MBP purchase. A few hiccups though with my version of XP are preventing me from using bootcamp (My version of XP is service pack 1a, and that can't be slipstreamed...

Hey, thanks for the reply. I went for the MBP, and am using it right now. No regrets except I found out my version of XP isn't supported by Bootcamp. Still happy though. Brian

Hi guys, I was totally gungho to get a MBP this morning, but got cold feet. I want to move to OSX, but am not sure I want to pay the premium for the hardware. I can get a MBP with 1gb ram and 120gbhd, 2.16 DC2D, 128mb X1600 with...

Hey thanks for the reply guys. My notebook isn't totally dead yet. It's just having power issues here and there. I'll probably wait until the end of March and hope for Leopard and maybe upgraded MBP specs. Brian

Hi, I want to dive in and switch over to a Mac pretty soon. My question has to do with Tiger and upgrading to Leopard. Does Apple provide a free upgrade option to those who have just bought a Mac with Tiger if say Leopard gets...

Man, the M100-JG2 I saw in Futureshop has huge light leakage on the bottom part of the screen. The most I maybe have ever seen. Was this just a fluke? Brian Quote: Originally Posted by YP5 Toronto There are...

Hi all, I've been looking for a duo core for a while now. I'm looking for good battery life duo core with a good screen. I don't care about gaming or 3D at all, so an integrated graphics solution is actually what I want. Is there...

Check out the screens first. The HPs in my experience do horrible with text. Just a slight verticle angle viewng change makes fonts fade out. Open the start menu on a HP, look at the text on the start menu as you move your head slightly...

The moving cursor happened with my Dell 9100. The only solution for me was to disable the touchpad. I guess it was way too sensitive, and I might have been brushing up against it. Brian

Well, this one, as well as many Acers are out the window for me. The screens on many of these Acer notebooks including the 4200 are terrible. I've heard of brightness being a problem, but this isn't it. It's subtle details that vary...