Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Dec 2007 22:26 UTC
Ars has reviewed the new Santa Rosa-based MacBook, and concludes: "All in all, the new MacBook is shaping up to be a worthy replacement to my old PowerBook. In combination with Mac OS X 10.5, the most polished iteration of Apple's operating system, the MacBook is a joy to use. Even Omniweb, my favorite but much-maligned web browser, is snappy, and the Core 2 Duo processor appears capable of handling anything I throw at it. Certainly for someone with my fairly modest computing needs (word processing, web browsing, data manipulation, light graphics work, and media playback) the consumer line does what I want and does it well."
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I believed you had the answer to your problems before you even made your statement. Upgrades are rarely smooth. It's always better to do a fresh install. I've learned that even for programs, whether it be MSOffice, WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org, Norton, AVG, GIMP or any program without an internal update mechanism (for version to version upgrades, not fixes and patch updates) it is always better to do a complete uninstall before installing the latest version. In the case of OS's, I always do a clean wipe of the drive and complete install.
Doing this, whether in Windows XP, Mac OS X Tiger or Slackware Linux, I never have crashes or misbehaving programs. It might work for you too, but no promises. Sometimes there are systems that just won't act nicely no matter how correctly you do things.