Posts by bsmit007

simple get a mac

Quote: Originally Posted by prism well according to the macworld benchmarks, there is a 14% gain between the two versions which IMO is...

Ya its kind of sad, it defeats the purpose of having a 64-bit processor.

You can only run 64-bit command line applications on 10.4. So it is not truly 64-bit. Actually I used to get about 3hrs on an average on the Yonah Macbook Pro and last night I got 3hrs 5min on the Merom Macbook Pro. So there is no real...

What I meant in my post was, yes the new Macbook Pro upgrades are worth $200 but they are not worth selling you existing Macbook Pro on ebay for something like $1400 and then getting a new one for atleast $1999 + tax. About the...

Hi, Just wanted to share my observations about the new core 2 duo macbook pro. 1) If you already own a macbook pro, then you will benifit very little from getting the new macbook pro. I owned the previous macbook pro and I can...

Actually I have scrapped the head and so I really cannot get a grip. However I tried your method but I didn't work. Thanks anyway, Smit

Hi, I am trying to upgrade the RAM on my Macbook Pro. But one of the thre screws of the RAM cover has a broken head ie. I can't use the screw driver to turn it. The cross on the head is not proper. Can anyone give me a suggestion on...

Thanks a lot for all your posts. I guess I will just have to install parallels and solaris to run hspice with which I am quite fimiliar. I just didn't want to go through all that trouble.

Thanks for all your posts. I don't like the dual boot option as it requires restarting everytime I want to run a linus program in OSX. I think I will probably just go with parallels although I mighttry the X11 method (which I was...