Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question

["Aaron Mulder" <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu>]

On 10/10/07, Edward Smola <meanderis@mac.com> wrote:
> The MBP is the only one that can do the 4gb config. The macbook is
> still limited to 2gb ( probably technically 3 but for best
> performance you'll want to use a matched pair)

Yeah, someone tested the MacBook (not Pro) with 2 GB, 3 GB, and 4 GB
installed.  It will only address 3 GB, but according to the article,
if you install 4 GB, it will use the dual-channel access or whatever
for the 3 GB it can address, so there's theoretically a tiny
performance bump over 1 GB + 2 GB.  Anyway, IIRC the results of the
tests they ran showed that 3 GB was well worth it, and 4 GB installed
was almost unnoticeably better.  There's a blog or article out there
somewhere with all the results.  (The current MacBook Pro, as has been
noted, can support 4 GB no problem.)

But going back to the original questions, Java 4/5 is fine on the Mac;
there is a JDK 1.6 beta for Mac, but it's apparently broken in a few
areas that you may or may not come across (also, I can't find it on
the download site any more).  There seems to be hope that a better JDK
1.6 will come with 10.5.  And 10.5 supposedly had a "gold master
release candidate" last week, hoping to reach a final gold master this
week for an October release.

Anyway, I'd certainly wait for 10.5 at this point.  If you're looking
at a MacBook (not Pro), it may be worth waiting until mid-November to
see if they release the rumored minor update (better graphics, more
memory capacity, slightly faster CPU?).  And I'd get black, not
because it's cooler, but because I looked at the palm rests on the
white floor samples (kind of yellowish -- eww!).

Finally, the memory is pretty easy to swap on both MacBook and MacBook
Pro, but the hard drive is only easy to swap on the MacBook.  You can
put in a 200GB/7200 and it works fine.

Thanks,
       Aaron

> Now that may change
> if the rumored macbook bump updates it to santa rosa instead of the
> small cpu bump that is being talked about.  I'm also curious as to
> were all the 13" led backlit displays that apple supposedly ordered
> months ago.  Are they going to the Macbook , a macbook pro mini or
> something completely new... or is it just wrong reporting.
>
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