Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question

[zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>]

On 10/10/07, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not planning to do anything out of the ordinary with the macbook.
> Just use it to play vids, pictures, and surf the web. Also, to use it to
> connect to work, which uses a Java based interface.

my experience has been, as I attempted to illustrate, that just doing
web browsing, email, IM, and a few "office apps" on top of that will
easily use 4GB of RAM.  nothing "out of the ordinary".

> However, I would like to have atleast 2GB. I want to get 1GB at first, and
> upgrade later.
>
> When is leapord supposed to come out?

in two weeks and two days from now.

> I want something latest, since I am
> spending close to $1500.

supposedly the MacBook hardware update/refresh is happening in January
if you can wait that long.

> should I get the Apple extended warranty, is it worth it?

yes.  the hardware will break (especially the power adapter on the DC
side) and you'll want it fixed; even the cheapest out-of-warranty
repair is more than the $150 or whatever for applecare.  (ok, except
the power adapter is about $80, but you'll go through like 3 of those
at least during the 3 years of applecare.)


> On 10/10/07, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/10/07, gabriel rosenkoetter < gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:
> > > At 2007-10-09 23:12 -0400, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 10/9/07, Mag Gam < magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Also, how hard is it to upgrade Memory on a
> > > > > MacBook? Planning to get 1GB of RAM, but would like to upgrade to
> 2GB or
> > > > > even 4GB if possible.
> > > > > Any thoughts?
> > > > *DEFINITELY* max out your RAM to 4GB; OSX is a RAM hog and probably
> > > > should be running on 8GB if the laptop hardware supported it.
> > >
> > > First, I encourage you to find an Apple-made laptop that supports
> > > more than 2 GB of SO-DIMM RAM. (They don't exist. See
> > > http://support.apple.com/specs/.)
> >
> > I don't think the official Apple specifications are the issue so much
> > as the lack of available 4GB SO-DIMMs.  I'd give at least 50/50 odds
> > that the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro can address more than 4GB (as it is a
> > truly 64-bit system, unlike previously when the C2D was dropped inside
> > a Core Duo intended motherboard -- compatible but unaware of the
> > 64-bit addressing instructions of the Core 2 Duo).
> >
> >
> > > Second, while 1 GB is sluggish on a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook
> > > Pro, 2 GB is quite sufficient to run Firefox with 20+ tabs,
> >
> > try Firefox -- especially Firefox rather than Camino -- with 200+ tabs,
> >
> > > VMware
> > > Fusion with a 250 GB allocation,
> >
> > Parallels allocating 1GB of RAM for WinXP SP2 virtual machine
> >
> > > Virtue with 8 desktops, the Gimp
> > > (under X), Terminal with 30 windows open, Fire, NewsFire, VLC (not
> > > actively playing, but it'd be smooth sailing if it were) Mail,
> > > Addressbook, iCal, iPhoto, iTunes, with two SMB-mounted shares (from
> > > one of which iTunes is playing), an iPod, and an iPhone connected,
> > > under Mac OS X 10.4.10. Just going on what I'm doing right this
> > > very second.
> >
> > and basically all that.  (i.e. X11, iChat+Chax, iCal, iTunes, Keynote,
> > Numbers, VLC, maybe Photoshop)  I've managed to elicit the spinwheel
> > on a 4GB MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D; the spinwheel is always unacceptable,
> > but particularly with new hardware.  I'm not doing Final Cut or
> > anything "crazy", just multitasking on a "workspace".
> >
> > > As regards performing a memory install on a MacBook, it took me two
> > > clicks from http://support.apple.com/ to find:
> > >
> > >   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721
> > >
> > > (Complete with diagrams!)
> >
> > ok, thought so.  I was being too lazy to google.
> >
> > > It does actually pay to do one's own research when one is dealing
> > > with a competent vendor (I hope you're listening, dell.com, though
> > > I know you ain't).
> > >
> > > --
> > > gabriel rosenkoetter
> > > gr@eclipsed.net
> >
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