ScoobyDoo555

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Oh yeh. This is good

Went for the Matte screen 2Ghz 15.4" screen - really nice machine.

Very happy. Just going through the battery calibration at the moment - 5hrs to go

Dan

Markus

You git

Parallels Desktop for Mac. Get it NOW!

Let us know how well you think the new lappy compares to the other quick machines you have.

ScoobyDoo555

liking that application Markus
Already got Vista to put on it, plus all my audio apps

Gonna put it thru it's paces later this week

DAn

Markus

Vista? umm, how? I was under the impression that it would not install as it nees ACPI and Parallels does not support ACPI at the moment. If there's some trick to doing it, let me know

Mossman

Congrats!

Make sure you max the Ram, mine flies now! Also do the updates.... and yes, they do get HOT!

Mossman

ScoobyDoo555

Yeh, noticed it gets a tad warm, but only when the battery is charging......

V happy with it so far. Gonna max the Ram out too.

Going to put it through its paces in the studio later this week. Then we'll see what's what

Dan

marklemac

i've got a book under my Macbook Black right now as its mega hot !

But what a wicked bit of kit

Markus

Dan,
Tried Parallels and Vista, it's a no-go. Installer says it's due to lack of ACPI. Ah well. Parallels say that ACPI support should be in the next major revision.

mattbeef

or boot camp it and install vista that way if you really want it that bad

Markus

BC is not an option for me as I've got multiple partitions on the machine, and I'm not about to repartition and reinstall just to try out Vista.

Blackscooby

Use my MacBook loads. Very impressed with it... apart from it's new habit of loosing the WiFi connection when coming out of a snooze.

Screen quality is amazing, love the glossy screen.

Markus

Are you running 10.4.7? If not upgrade and see if it makes a difference. might be worth having a look on macfixit.com and macintouch.com and seeing if anyone else has the issue and some workarounds for it.

ScoobyDoo555

Fair enough - will have a look at BootCamp, although I am thinking "why?"

I use Publisher a bit, but with it being dropped by Microsoft (source : IT manager at college), there's no REAL requirement for Windows at all, apart from the novelty value!! (games! )

Dan

Blackscooby

Yes, strangely the problems have begun since updating to 10.4.7
Seems a little random, today it was fine.

I'll monitor it for now.

Cheers

Markus

If you were a switcher then BC might make more sense. Games, yeah, that's a possibility, and hopefully when the Mac Pro desktops come out we'll be able to get very nice graphics cards for them, if the built-in one isn't too special, and then BC might be a proper gaming machine. I've seen reports that WOW under BC is pretty good. Gabe or Tycho @ PA were on about how WOW under BC performed a lot better than even the universal binary version of WOW running natively in OS X.