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Jeldora
Published on 02/26/07 at 01:34
Value For Money :
Excellent
Macbook 1.83 GHz, 1GB RAM
- I use it for a little less than a year, and except for two days that I followed the Kernel Panics, no significant problems. Reliability Apple, when you hold us ...
- Assets: there are too many, so here are some: exemplary stability, strength, Unix kernel, Intel dual core, can use any other OS (whether with or without native Bootcamp, or in particular the virtual machine with Parallels most excellent), ergonomics extraordinary, extremely easy to use, and a host of small details that are all extras in the machine ...
- Cons: Poor heat dissipation (the laptop is very thin ...), crappy integrated graphics card (but it's not a problem if you use your Macbook for anything other than the game .. d Moreover, buying a Macbook to play, it is a lamentable mistake), yellowing of the parts that remain long in contact with the skin (but this problem seems to have been fixed on new versions, to see)
- I am in the license info, so I saw a lot of scroll machines, including Acer, the Sony Vaio, the IBM Thinkpad, etc.. Be careful, it is completely impossible to compare one machine to another machine Apple: Apple hardware is made for the Apple OS and vice versa. Therefore, everything is optimized, given that software engineers know by heart the stuff on which their system will turn, and vice versa. In comparison, take Windows: it will run on thousands of different machines, and it will adapt to almost any configuration. You can deduct the blow yourself that Apple systems will always be inherently more efficient than the systems back. Small point to note, however: the use of any machine to run a good Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSuse ...) can give excellent results.
- The value for money is good or very good. One might think that the machine is expensive (and yes, it is not accessible to everyone to shell out 1100 euros for the minimum, knowing that it takes close to 100 euros more for switch to 1GB of RAM, which I think is MANDATORY) and yes, it is expensive, but for that price you really all in one. You pay once and you will not pay a penny more in the next few years ... Do the math, it can become profitable if you trèèèès minimal attention to your gear.
- With experience, I will do it again and this choice no matter what. I find it difficult to become re-use Windows, especially in college where many of the machines running under the OS from Redmond. We must invest in the beginning, do not be afraid to pay the sum, and after it is a joy beyond compare.
- From the musical point of view, the integrated software (Garage Band) is downright fun to have some fun. Multitrack sequencer (I have not counted the number of tracks that maximum loads, but I guess it's quite big ... and in any case should not cloud the issue: if you use Garage Band to work is that you do not need more than fifty tracks ...), intruments software, real and noon, clear interface and getting started very fast, it's a great little app. After, of course, you can work on Live5, Logic, Cubase, and more. For DJ, Traktor note the very good, and free Mixxx, not very stable though. Be careful with the compatibility of the external sound cards, which are not always identified by the machine. Please ask before embarking on the purchase of the last Terratec tearing, it may be that your Macbook ... do not recognize just not!
In short, if you choose not to go Mac, you will not regret it ...
- I use it for a little less than a year, and except for two days that I followed the Kernel Panics, no significant problems. Reliability Apple, when you hold us ...
- Assets: there are too many, so here are some: exemplary stability, strength, Unix kernel, Intel dual core, can use any other OS (whether with or without native Bootcamp, or in particular the virtual machine with Parallels most excellent), ergonomics extraordinary, extremely easy to use, and a host of small details that are all extras in the machine ...
- Cons: Poor heat dissipation (the laptop is very thin ...), crappy integrated graphics card (but it's not a problem if you use your Macbook for anything other than the game .. d Moreover, buying a Macbook to play, it is a lamentable mistake), yellowing of the parts that remain long in contact with the skin (but this problem seems to have been fixed on new versions, to see)
- I am in the license info, so I saw a lot of scroll machines, including Acer, the Sony Vaio, the IBM Thinkpad, etc.. Be careful, it is completely impossible to compare one machine to another machine Apple: Apple hardware is made for the Apple OS and vice versa. Therefore, everything is optimized, given that software engineers know by heart the stuff on which their system will turn, and vice versa. In comparison, take Windows: it will run on thousands of different machines, and it will adapt to almost any configuration. You can deduct the blow yourself that Apple systems will always be inherently more efficient than the systems back. Small point to note, however: the use of any machine to run a good Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSuse ...) can give excellent results.
- The value for money is good or very good. One might think that the machine is expensive (and yes, it is not accessible to everyone to shell out 1100 euros for the minimum, knowing that it takes close to 100 euros more for switch to 1GB of RAM, which I think is MANDATORY) and yes, it is expensive, but for that price you really all in one. You pay once and you will not pay a penny more in the next few years ... Do the math, it can become profitable if you trèèèès minimal attention to your gear.
- With experience, I will do it again and this choice no matter what. I find it difficult to become re-use Windows, especially in college where many of the machines running under the OS from Redmond. We must invest in the beginning, do not be afraid to pay the sum, and after it is a joy beyond compare.
- From the musical point of view, the integrated software (Garage Band) is downright fun to have some fun. Multitrack sequencer (I have not counted the number of tracks that maximum loads, but I guess it's quite big ... and in any case should not cloud the issue: if you use Garage Band to work is that you do not need more than fifty tracks ...), intruments software, real and noon, clear interface and getting started very fast, it's a great little app. After, of course, you can work on Live5, Logic, Cubase, and more. For DJ, Traktor note the very good, and free Mixxx, not very stable though. Be careful with the compatibility of the external sound cards, which are not always identified by the machine. Please ask before embarking on the purchase of the last Terratec tearing, it may be that your Macbook ... do not recognize just not!
In short, if you choose not to go Mac, you will not regret it ...