That doesn't come as standard, and I resent having to pay for basic phone support. From what I've heard of Apple support, they're not good at arranging pickups and, from the small print, it seems that the may just send you a part and tell you to install it yourself. Trust me, when you use your laptop every day of your life and it is liable to get bashed around, or even dropped, a fair bit then you appreciate the extra build quality. Those specs are laughably wishful thinking for an ultraportable machine. There is no way that you will get a machine 2+Ghz Core 2 Duo processors, and dedicated graphics cards with 256MB of RAM to give 6 hours of battery life on a 1.2kg machine. The specs just don't work. You would need a significantly larger battery than normal and to push the weight beyond the realms of the ultraportable mark.
Maybe they developed some new battery technology or something, but the only logical solution in my opinion would be to throttle the hardware's performance to save power...which would kinda defeat the purpose of having all that nice hardware in the first place. Kudos to Apple if they can pull it off, but as of now I'm a doubter.
I am considering vista, but the recent releases of vista just seem to be NOT stable. So I think I will wait a while and let other people be vista's test dummies. I have hurd good things about it though.
OS X definitely, but now you don't have to buy a Mac to run OS X. www. wired.com/gadgets/mac/ commentary/cultofmac/2005/08/68501 Put those together ^^^.
We will, but no-one else has done anything like it or made any indication that it is even possible. Those saying that Apple will do it are merely speculating on the standard principle of "If it's Apple then it must be better than everyone else and even do the impossible". They could have, but it's such an unlikely as to be almost impossible that Apple have invented some new battery technology that gives that great an advantage yet still managed to keep it under wraps. Actually, stop there, it's extremely unlikely that Apple would have invented an incredible new battery technology. The realistic way of doing it is to use power efficient hardware, which means lower performance. That is why ultraportables are less powerful than bigger computers. I simply don't think Apple can pull it off, I don't think anyone can, for that matter.
I think that osx 10.5 is great as vista well what is there to say about it. MS is selling downgrade packages now! So what does that tell you. OSX is linux based what else is there to say.
i was hard windows user, then some of my friends told me go to linux, i say well what the hell ill try it. After that try on all my computers in house are linux and only 1 is having windows if i need something that linux dont have. Some info: With linux i can use over 500 opened firefox, and with windows its crashing with 50. P.S. dont ask why i need that Anyway im against windows and believe if OSX is anywhere close to linux is way better than any Windows system.
Thank you for saying that! I have a MacBook Pro, and I absolutely love it. I have had to work with PC's my whole life (and career), but I have always had a Mac at home. With Parallels 3.0 and Leopard, there is no end to the functionality, and they're just flat out fun to use... Take care everyone, Conquer Apathy
Apart from 99.9% of software not released by Adobe, MS, Filemaker, Claris and a few other major publishers ONLY works on PC. dont get me wrong, I love apples, but couldnt live with it for the lack of freeware/shareware/apps in general. If there were a DECENT windows emulator in OSX then Id switch in a second.
if you want to try these program without buy another pc for second O/S i recommend using microsoft virtual pc, parallels workstation or vmware workstation
Dude, have you been living under a rock for the last two years? All of CS3 works on OS X. There are tons of freeware apps and if you do need to run Windows XP, Vista (why would you want to waste your hard drive with that?) or any Linux distro, you can use Parallels, or better yet, VMWare Fusion. And as logylaps said, Bootcamp comes preinstalled on Leopard.
@PokerCardEnt You can do almost anything u can in Windows with a Mac, but it many cases you are limited. Also, in many cases if you want to upgrade your major hardware in order to run a new program u need to buy a new machine as opposed to just a part.