Posts by Joelist

The reason it is silly is that you have no baseline (like % of the population of new MBP owners) to put the posts against. By the way, we are talking MBP not Macbook. They are totally different machines. The Pro had a heat problem...

That's silly. You know how thw web works, namely that people only chip in when they have a gripe for the most part. The fact is that Apple did a logic board revision on the MBP a while ago, and from then on the heat complaints dried...

I wouldn't worry about heat. The MBP hasn't had heat issues for awhile now (since Apple did a logic board revision). Core2Duo gives it more muscle, and the double sided burner is nice too.

Here's the wiki on the development of OSX. It's pretty informative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS_X

Really? I just have a curiosity bump about the OS I use. Being a somewhat recent Mac convert, I am starting out trying to learn about Mac OSX, not just how to use it but what it is.

OSX is a somewhat odd bird. It has some pieces in it that harken to BSD, but it is more Unix-ish than Linux is. However, unlike both it uses a micro-kernel. There are good sites for learning about OSX, which I have been starting to...

That sounds unusual. On my MBP, with Safari and Mail running I use 230.64MB of active and 120.24 of Wired. Check to see what else is running in the background using Activity Monitor.

Of course the superdrive can also double as a shuriken launcher...

I also have tried Opera, Safari and FF. The fastest browsing I got was Safari, followed by Opera than FF. For Mail I have decided OSXs Mail app works the best for me.

Try using the right click functionality and selecting "Get Info". You can then select the "Open With" option and get a list of apps that will open it. Hopefully one is Excel. If it is, select it and also click the...