05 Jun 2007 2148H

re: New MacBook Pros

Okay, never mind the speed bump. Faster computers = nice, sure, but the front side bus is now 800MHz, which is encouraging, and the system can address all 4GB of RAM if it’s installed, unlike before. Never really needed all the RAM in my system anyway, but, good to know. They come standard with 2GB/667 DDR, which is good, since the price of RAM is crawling on the floor, pretty much. LED display backlight means brighter displays and up to 6 hours of battery life. That will fade in a year and a half to like, two hours. Then they finally swapped out the crappy ATI Mobility Radeon chips with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GTs — I’ve never liked ATI anyway, and I think Nvidia has the better engineers. The price on the Macbook Pros hasn’t changed. So, I’m pushing forward my purchase until October, at least. Leopard and apps updates by then, plus, we should know the skinny on what are the pain points for this new hardware update. Let someone else be the early adopter on Apple hardware, I say. I never buy version 1 anymore. Too much risk for the price.

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