MacBook

jrc313 · Post by **jrc313** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:19 am 0

tufty wrote:[I'd certainly wait until the initial gripe reports come out, though.

Simon

82 degrees under load! You'd think they'd have learned how to apply thermal paste by now.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbook.ars/4

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:48 am 0

Grr. Want one of these, but not at 82 degrees! 6 hour battery life? Yes Please

. Still, I'd mostly be running in Windows for work, and Mac OS for play. But it'd be nice to be able to switch between the two with just a simple restart.

Cheers

Bubba

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:16 am 0

tufty wrote:I'd certainly wait until the initial gripe reports come out, though.

Simon

Here's some, a "whining" noise similar to the problems with the Pro version:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 7&tstart=0

The Powermac G5 line suffers from noise problems too, even after three revisions of the h/w Apple still haven't fixed it. The noise problems on the "wind tunnel" G4 Powermacs were never fixed either, so cross everything if you're buying a Macbook and hope that it's quiet.

My advice is to buy it over the 'phone or the 'net and never in person at a shop, so you're covered by the distance selling regulations act. That entitles you to a no questions asked refund or replacement within seven days, at your discretion. Whatever you do, don't buy a computer from the Apple store, ever, else they'll insist that you get your new machine repaired rather than replaced. I'm speaking from bitter experience here.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:30 am 0

That review seemed very positive to me, apart from the temperature
reading though I think you'd need to demonstrate that it's just an Apple
issue rather than a general problem of the Core Duo, but apart from that
it sounds like a great machine, even the graphics performance looks okay
(for applications).

matt · Post by **matt** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:38 am 0

I'd recommend waiting until 10.5 and the 64-bit cpu and the next revision are all out.

matt

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:45 am 0

matt wrote:I'd recommend waiting until 10.5 and the 64-bit cpu and the next revision are all out.

matt

Aye, good advice.

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:11 pm 0

It's still a bit of a mystery why Apple are reccomending that engineers use such copius amounts of thermal paste. It'll be interesting to see the temperatures the macbook runs at once someone has reapplied the thermal paste properly.

The macbook does look lovely mind. Not so sure about the glossy screen or the 80-odd degrees (centigrade!) operating temperatures, but hopefully their thermal paste policy will be sorted once they go 64-bit and I'd imagine there are anti-glare screen things you can get for laptops.

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:28 pm 0

Atty wrote:It's still a bit of a mystery why Apple are reccomending that engineers use such copius amounts of thermal paste.

It'll be because it's a mass-produced item in a factory where the person has about 5 seconds allocated to putting the paste on the chips. Better to put a bit too much on and have them run a little hot but still within manufactures spec than have too little and have units fail in the field.

Will · Post by **Will** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:54 pm 0

matt wrote:I'd recommend waiting until 10.5 and the 64-bit cpu and the next revision are all out.

Given the heat issues that the Macbook seems to share with the pro, it seems worth waiting until its fixed. Isn't 10.5 due out christmas time? - it seems a long while to wait.

I am slightly confused by this 'revision' malarkey. What qualifies as a revision or more importantly, how will I know when these heat issues are fixed? I guess its just a case of keeping a careful eye on the Mac sites?

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:58 pm 0

Ah well, I needed to really. The venerable Powerbook has been feeling the strain just lately.

Post by **Snakey** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:14 am 0

Cunt.

You got a black one, too, eh ?

What was it you were saying to me before?

MrsSnake · Post by **MrsSnake** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:16 am 0

Snakey wrote:Cunt.

Snake's only jealous cos he can't get one yet

Everytime he goes to check and see if there's any in stock, he always comes out mumbling "Bloody MacWankers"

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:18 am 0

Snakey wrote:Cunt.

You got a black one, too, eh ? What was it you were saying to me before?

I dunno, was it something like "don't pay extra for the black you total fucktard?"

Currently transferring 35Gb over Firewire from my old lappy, but the good news so far is that the MacBook is dreamy. Black though, it had to be done, it was the Sinclair QL keyboard that swung it.

Post by **Snakey** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:21 am 0

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:20 am 0

First impression "Well this is shit and slow". Desktop feeling cludgy, delays with menus opening, just generally not impressed. This is supposed to be an upgrade but it feels just like my G4.

Then it dawned on me that I'm running all my little apps in PowerPC mode (iScrobbler, Launchbar, Synergy etc. etc.). Cue lots of quit process and hurrying around to download new versions of the apps. Now this thing is kicking serious ass and looking fine doing it.

Everything showing up as 'Intel' in Activity Monitor. Slap forehead central.