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Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by Corrado »

flomo wrote: post #101
Corrado wrote: post #53

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Yea, I just ordered 4 Henge Docks for the current (last?) generation MacBook Pro lineup. Crap! I have a support question out to Henge to see if the ports line up or not. BTW: I'm not affiliated with Henge in any way, just a satisfied customer. If you need a dock for your MBP, the Henge is it!

I'm excited about "Thunderbolt" because someone will finally be able to build a real Mac laptop dock/port replicator. Henge looks nice, but having a bunch of plugs sticking out from a piece of plastic seems like such a kludge.

It actually works quite well. I have it set up behind my huge cinema display and it looks kinda like a tiny tower back there. :)

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by hrktb »

moe wrote: post #330
hrktb wrote: post #247

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It's 2011, when have you last time used an optical drive? I see where you're standing. But actually I receive two DVDs per week in my mailbox, so last time was today. And I still buy CDs, yes. I think what you really want is the next iteration of the Air with whatnot is missing from the current model.

So, honest question, would you not trade the internal CD-Rom for better battery life, more ram, lighter weight or some other tangible advantage? The only situation where I could imagine an external CD-Rom to get in the way would be for watching DVDs on the go. But afaik even for that most people copy the movie to the harddrive beforehand - to prevent the drive from sucking the battery dry while watching.

Instead of the above trade off, I think I'd buy two machines if needed.

I see the MBP as a laptop to use plugged in a socket and with a lan cable at home, work, a client's place or a library, and only need decent portability and battery life. For all other uses I'd prefer the ipad or the Air(wish I get the $$ for it).

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by rmc »

mapgrep wrote: post #318
rmc wrote: post #297

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POSIX is irrelevant, Linux is POSIX compliant, no-ones bothered to pay the money for the piece of paper the important thing is the tools. The main thing lacking from OSX is a package manager, in Linux its build in. On OSX you have to use 3rd party ones. Just look at mark pilgrims 'how to install mysql on ubuntu' for an example of how It Just Works on Linux and on OSX you have to tweak lots of config files.

There is no package manager built into Linux. There are a variety package managers to choose from on Linux (apt, yum, portage) just as on Mac OS X (which has MacPorts, Homebrew, and Fink). Perhaps you are thinking of apt, a popular, slick, "best of breed" package manager that is native on exactly one of the many Linux distributions: Debian. It is technically "third party," though "built in," on other Linux distributi…

Balls to semantics! :) If you install Linux on your machine, you get a distro and you get a package manager. It's not third party to your OS it comes with you OS, your OS is installed with it, you OS is upgraded with the package manager. You only need to use the package manager that comes with your OS (i have never had to use yum while on a debian os). None is true on OSX.

The OSX package managers are not as good as apt (the one package manager I have a lot of experience), in the same way Nextstep is not as good as OSX. The fact that you need to have more than one installed and use for different software (my experience working with fink afnd macports in OSX tiger days) shows that its not as good as apt

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by blasdel »

rmc wrote: post #353
mapgrep wrote: post #318

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There is no package manager built into Linux. There are a variety package managers to choose from on Linux (apt, yum, portage) just as on Mac OS X (which has MacPorts, Homebrew, and Fink). Perhaps you are thinking of apt, a popular, slick, "best of breed" package manager that is native on exactly one of the many Linux distributions: Debian. It is technically "third party," though "built in," on other Linux distributi…

Balls to semantics! :) If you install Linux on your machine, you get a distro and you get a package manager. It's not third party to your OS it comes with you OS, your OS is installed with it, you OS is upgraded with the package manager. You only need to use the package manager that comes with your OS (i have never had to use yum while on a debian os). None is true on OSX. The OSX package managers are not as good as…

Fink is apt, and it is by far the worst of the three package managers available for OS X.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by Tiomaidh »

wyclif wrote: post #264
SandB0x wrote: post #78

Didn't get as much coverage, but there are also new ThinkPads this week: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/lenovo-trots-out-new-thin... The 14" models look good: 30 hours (claimed) battery on the T420, 0.83" ultrathin T420s with discrete graphics. Edit: Here's the official announcement, which took a bit of digging around to find: http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1421 . synacksynack has posted a…

ThinkPad keyboards are still better than any keyboard on any Apple product.

I agree, but I am disappointed that the keyboard on my IBM Thinkpad T40 is significantly better than the one on my Lenovo T60. The T60's just seems flimsier, somehow.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by phob »

Bjoern wrote: post #345
tsuraan wrote: post #195

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Any news on the resolution on the 14" models? I'm still looking for a competitor for the display on my three or four year old sony: 13.3" with a 1600x900 display. The new Sony laptops do full 1080p at 13.3", but Sony really doesn't like linux, so I'd love to get a different brand. If only there were somebody else making high-DPI laptops... UPDATED: Noticed the Tech Specs PDF. Looks like the 14" does offer a 1600x900…

I had a Vaio VGN-Z70B. You can somehow run linux on it but its a pure pain. On another note, I strongly suggest against Sony. Some things I experienced: - Severe quality problems (broken cdrom plastic part on the side, white pixels screen, discoloring and wearout of plastic) - Broke down completely once in the guarantee time, exchanged it freely but with penalty ( I had to get my data of the disk, but guess what, you…

The problem with anecdotal evidence is that it makes you under the impression that you know something. If it were as harmless as it were useless, there would be no problem.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by Bjoern »

phob wrote: post #356
Bjoern wrote: post #345

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I had a Vaio VGN-Z70B. You can somehow run linux on it but its a pure pain. On another note, I strongly suggest against Sony. Some things I experienced: - Severe quality problems (broken cdrom plastic part on the side, white pixels screen, discoloring and wearout of plastic) - Broke down completely once in the guarantee time, exchanged it freely but with penalty ( I had to get my data of the disk, but guess what, you…

The problem with anecdotal evidence is that it makes you under the impression that you know something. If it were as harmless as it were useless, there would be no problem.

Sure you are right, it's anecdotal and subjective. If you think nothing of it, please go ahead and try Sony.

Getting so many problems in such a short time despite a costly service repair didn't really make my day. Now the machine is a brick and under no guarantee.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by stanmancan »

robotresearcher wrote: post #250
stanmancan wrote: post #227

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Nope. I got my 13" Macbook Pro in early January of this year and it took me a total of 10 minutes to replace the stock HDD with an SSD.

If you ignore the hours of data copying or fresh install.

I actually cloned it with Carbon Copy Cloner before switching it in. It was about another 5 minutes of work, and then letting it sit and run in the background for an hour. Not much to worry or complain about.

Re: New MacBook Pro series

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Post by mmt »

daniel02216 wrote: post #287
mmt wrote: post #144

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3G? What about 4G? I'm a little irked that there's no system bus [1] slot, into which I could install a 3G/4G combo card. However, in the past, I've turned out to be unwilling to spend the extra money on the dedicated hardware and extra subscription. I'd rather have a (nowadays quite tolerably small) USB dongle that I can use on any laptop or even a battery-powered wireless access point [2] than the sleek convenience…

There is an ExpressCard/34 slot on the 17" MBPs, and there isn't really room for one on the 15" and smaller sizes.

I'm aware, but the 17" is just too huge. The 15" is just right, and I wouldn't mind it being larger, as in previous generations, if only from squarer corners.

I'm not convinced there's an issue of space per se, since the SD card slot is only slightly smaller, and, even there, a card is not completely contained within the chassis when plugged in. Doing this with ExpressCard would be better than having none at all, IMO.

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