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Advantages: nice screen, good battery life, fast specs Disadvantages: large size (price?)
Apple mac-books, where to start...
ok, so to start,
it is an apple, that means you get a solid quality product and on the whole very good customer are.
this particualar apple is deffinatly more suited to being a media center than other laptops. At first glance you realise that it is a fairly large laptop, this allows for a big screen, which being an apple ffers clear vivid displays, unfortunatly the big screen increases the overal size and also uses more battery, however, the 4.5 hour yattery is still very good for an entertainment laptop.
The laptops technical specs include a very fast 2.5 ghz dual core proccesor which is very fast, the dual core allows it to tackle multiple tasks quicly as well as increasing the overall speed of the laptop.
The price is quite steep however, but i believe, if given the money, it is ...
Advantages: Stylish, flexible, super fast startup Disadvantages: Pricey compared to a PC
the choices below; they're all open source/freeware. My budget for toys is dry following the arrival of the MacBook, so it's cheapies or freebies for me for a while.
So here goes:
1. Browser (Firefox)
With the advent of Firefox V3.0 (FF3), I was finally teased away from Internet Explorer (IE) on the PC. The time taken to develop css sites and make them work cross-platform was hugely reduced, I was a convert. I'm sure Safari is truly great, but I'll be sticking to FF for dev for the foreseeable future.
2. Messaging client (MSN Messenger for Mac)
A no brainer really, need to retain the continuity with my previous MSN contacts. That said, I've hardly used it since I installed it.
3. Twitter client (TweetDeck)|
If you're into Twitter, you need a client. This one fits the bill nicely, lets you group your followees and has a nice user interface. It ...
Advantages: Smooth, silent, good looking, more than capable, satisfying. Disadvantages: Arguably the cost, some very minor issues in very few cases.
telemarketing, and what a treat it was...
Decisions, decisions, decisions
So off I popped to the Apple online store, and I began to read through the specification options, which were fairly straightforward (bearing in mind the starting price for the basic model is £749):
*2 Gigs of RAM standard, or 4 Gigs for an added £80. I opted for the 4 Gigs on the advice of a friend, who has the 2 Gigs version and told me the upgrade would be better for running games in windows (which I'll come to later). He assures me, and I can back him up having used his from time to time, that the standard memory is enough to run all the main programs very smoothly. Personally I only chose the upgrade for gaming reasons, so I would recommend the basic for anyone who wants to do anything at all besides running large games.
*Hard drive space of 160 GB for standard ...
