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Luke-the-magic-man
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On 2006-05-15 13:37:42, SE Rules wrote:
What does everyone think about the announcement of the Core 2 Duo CPU's, might be my excuse to finally get a MacBook Pro...
Cheers
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I personally want one, i went to have a look at them today, I saw the 17' pb and 15" mac book and gota say I actually think the 17" looks a bit odd and may be a bit big for me (the keybaord looks silly). Now there are 3 things stopping me buying /upgrading my mac, and its not actually the rpice, firstly im quite hesitent to swap as although I have heard allot of good about the macbooks I have also heard of allot of problems regarding noice and over heating... I also want firewire 800 and a dual layer disc drive, which only the 17" model have. If possible id like a blueray or hd drive, but i cant see that happening any time soon. The one other thing is im tempted to buy a windows lappy due to the better spec I could get and install mac and vista on it, but not to sure how well it would work....
anyway thats my opionion
@ dicky: you have downloaded a windows version aka .exe whcih aint compatable with mac, you need a mac version, but I heard microsoft stoped developing it for macs, duno how true that is. You want flip4 mac. Dowloadable from here:
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
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[ This Message was edited by: Luke-the-magic-man on 2006-05-16 00:19 ] |
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SE Rules
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Looks like the new 'Merom' processors are being branded Intel Core Centrino, and the desktop 'Conroe', are being rebranded Intel Core Viiv (pronounced like five) and Intel Core vPro, can't quite work out the difference between these two processors yet. There's also going to be an Intel Core Extreme. So lets wait and see what the new iMacs and PowerMacs get...
The release of the intel Core 2 Processors will take place this July/August, but I'm guessing that Apple won't miss the opportunity to get 64-bit processing in thier computers ASAP, so can we expect an all new line-up by september??
I'm gonna wait until Apple release OS X.5 before I purchase a MacBook, I don't want to go and spend £2000 on a laptop, only t spend £100 a couple of months later to get the latest OS...
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Luke-the-magic-man
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lol you dont have to buy it mate ...
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[ This Message was edited by: miss copperfield on 2006-05-20 10:35 ] |
haynesycop
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Ok so i want to put windows on my intel mac. I have installed boot camp, updated the firmware and done a software update, got a xp pro with service pack 2 disc and a blank cd and the instructions.
But when i got to open boot camp it quits and tells me to update the firmware which i have already down.
WTF!!!
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Luke-the-magic-man
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hmmmm, it could be worth going to the apple/bootcamp site and looking for another firmware patch, I currently dont own a intel mac, but have seen them running windows and it should be striaght foward
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Yeah i tried looking but could'nt spot anything? Will have another look this is soooo annoying want to get it done asap.
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Luke-the-magic-man
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hmmm, you tried rebooting ur mac yet?
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haynesycop
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Oh it's all good now there were two firmware updates, just found the other now and it is ok. Thought you just needed the latest one.
Just going to burn the drivers onto a disc and get started hopefully i won't fook it up.
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fatreg
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i got win xp on my mac miss c,
DONT DO IT!
its awful....
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Luke-the-magic-man
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it is, i booted one the otherday, it seems so wrong
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Too late but i already did it, seems very weird, won't keep it for long just did it for novelty factor. |
Luke-the-magic-man
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lol, when I get my mbp il be doing it as I want to use turbolister on it and currently there no mac version.
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haynesycop
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Will the macbook pro be able to have leopard and vista simultaneously aswell or will we just have to use xp?
Think i am going to reformatt my macbook again and have half ox half xp for the programs you can't use on a mac.
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On 2006-05-24 13:58:22, miss copperfield wrote:
Will the macbook pro be able to have leopard and vista simultaneously aswell or will we just have to use xp?
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well there is talk of it, though it could be xp at the same time as mac os, but windows would run in a seperate finder window a bit like virtual pc, although the sorces I have heard this from seem to be very unreliable, and the proposed spec to do this seemed very unrelistic
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On 2006-05-24 13:58:22, miss copperfield wrote:
Think i am going to reformatt my macbook again and have half ox half xp for the programs you can't use on a mac.
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why bother doing that? surley it would make more sense for the windows partition smaller as you wont be running as many apps on it etc, I am only planning on making my one 10gb as I will hardly ever use it. If I were you id consider if theres much point to it...
also anyone know when jools is getting back for holiday or wherever hes gone?
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Posted: 2006-05-16 01:16
K750 > Nokia N80 > 
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