Now that the new MacBook Pro is out... - Page 2

it's old, but apparently they will not make it hard for us to install windows

http://www.everymac.com/articles/q&a...ibility_2.html

I'm sorry, this is kind of an off topic question... I bought an iMac 2 weeks ago, but apple just came out with their new intel duo version. Would I be able to return/exchange for the new version? Apple guards their secrets really well so I basically got screwed.

Or maybe I can find the store policy? I bought it at an apple store, not online.

On other forums I have heard from someone that had bought one the day before(Lord only knows why) that he was going to be able to exchange it. Call your local store. Not sure if this applies to everyone or not, but it is worth a shot.

Seablade

One freaken nice laptop...but oh well wrong forum..moving it.

Heh well that line is going to get blurred some lately now that there isnt a difference in hardware, and that is essentially what was being asked about

Seablade

By the way, anyone aware of an ExpressCard/34 that supplies Firewire 800? After looking around I cant seem to find one, which means that I will be holding off on this notebook for some time it seems.

Seablade

huh?

Apple doesn't make money on it's hardware? That's funny...I mean, it must mean that it's because of iPods and iTunes that Apple has something like 8 BILLION (with a B) dollars in cash on hand.

Just because you hire another company to make something for you doesn't mean you ain't gonna make money off it. A 2000 dollar PowerBook probably only costs Asus 300 bucks to make, if even that. Apple pays a couple hundred more for the finished product, and then they mark the finished product up 1000+ dollars, all of which is pure profit.

Apple doesn't make shit by putting OS X on their computers because they themselves make OS X. Just as Apple doesn't make any money off of iLife unless you go to buy the upgrades.

Apple wouldn't lose shit if people put Windows on Macs, just like they don't lose anything now when people put Linux on a Mac. The hardware has been paid for, Apple has their pound of flesh, you can do whatever you like with the computer once you buy it and it won't hurt Apple one iota.

Generally if you buy 14 days before an update you can get an upgrade, if it's been longer you're most likely out of luck unless you find a generous manager/supervisor.

Why did you buy an iMac 2 weeks before a Stevenote?

I want one!

Oh, is it 64 Bit Processor?

I dont think so but im not sure (about the 64 bits)

Aw, lol. This totally screws the original posters original meaning of the thread. He posted it in the general notebook forum to get both apple and PC user opinions. Buried in the apple section its not going to get seen much. I thought the general notebook forum was for all types of notebooks, not just PCs.


As for the notebook... As always it looks very sexy and I have always saidonce apple comes out with a windows version of the powerbook I might buy one (never cared for the apple os). But as a college student I just can't justify the cost of the hardware for so little a return for it. It comes with a lot of stuff but most of it I will not use. And the point of buying a mac is for the OS and I just don't like it. My opinion is that I would put my money elsewhere but if you like/need the Mac OS then this notebook definitely has the power and I am sure the new Mac OS is optimized or will soon be for the dual core processor.

I have also always noticed the Mac croud seems to always be willing to pay more. If the prices were just a little more comparible to PCs I might have jumped on a powerbook before I got my 6000D, but as it was the one I configured was over $2000 and I got the 6000D for a little over a thousand.

On the other hand my business professor here at my college says that things getting cheaper only benifits the consumer and drives competition but damn it I hate it when the quality goes down as well. Eventually things will get too cheapand people compromise too much with the phrase "they are cheap to replace". Sometimes I just want quality!

As soon as the intel ports are finished, they should be able to run games just fine. Not as well as windows machines, because OSX doesn't lock to kernel to a single app, but it'll more than accepible. Then again, OSX has full SMP support, unlike that 80s dinosaur called windows.

no XP on Apple, only Vista

http://www.betanews.com/article/XP_W...Mac/1137003330

nope. the Pentium M based chips won't get 64 bits until later this year, along w/ hyperthreading capabilities.