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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RE: Modest computing needs...
by meianoite on Wed 5th Dec 2007 23:28
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Interesting how data manipulation and graphics work are here considered 'modest' computing needs.
"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."
I added the emphasis on my own.
We have no idea what he meant by "data manipulation" (could be as simple as running awk scripts or some spreadsheet work, and I guess the specced C2Ds are more than enough to handle this), so what's wrong with the author's phrasing?
As a PowerBook replacement (as the author suggests), it sure is a great machine.
RE[2]: Modest computing needs...
by kaiwai on Thu 6th Dec 2007 01:59
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Data manipulation he is probably referring to database work and the likes.
I've got the previous generation (Rev. B) and when I first loaded it up, I as genuinely shocekd at the speed. I expected the speed of it to be slow thinking that Mac OS X wasn't optimised yet for Intel processors; I was proven wrong on the boot up.
I'm now running Leopard, I did a clean install, none of this upgrade, or archive and install garbage - not a single problem. Its interesting that when going through the macosrumors.com forum those who seem to have the most problems are those who didn't do a clean install - format and install.
RE[2]: Modest computing needs...
by Almafeta on Thu 6th Dec 2007 02:33
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Interesting how data manipulation and graphics work are here considered 'modest' computing needs.
The baseline of what we think a personal computer should be able to do is creeping steadily forwards, as fast or perhaps faster than computers are advancing...