MacBook good?
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- CincodeMayo
Just sold off my 4 year old PowerBook and I'm in the market for a new one. I'll probably wait til Leopard pops out, but considering the fact that I was occasionally designing on a G4 12" PB, a new MacBook should do the trick, right?
Do any of you guys design on one?
Oh, FYI, my office computer is a MacPro, so this will be my home computer that I'll do some work on every so often. Mostly a mail, internet, media machine.
Any thoughts?
- jevad0
No
- heavyt0
Yes.
- slappy0
Maybe.
- kodap0
my macbook is having motherboard issues: cables on ethernet port not recognized (no signal) and simply without warning, it just turns off--- maybe overheat. btw, 6 months old with all updates made... I have already called Apple and they're picking in a day or two... I'm very disappointed thinking it was a good hardware choice (However, it crashed on the floor twice and continued working - maybe problems were motivated by this)
just go for a mackbok pro...
- akoni0
macbook pro ...
and don't wait for leopard... thatss almost useless because once it comes out it will take forever for leopard to ship with it anyways
- orkman0
I get scared by anything with:
"Intel GMA 950 graphics processor"
- edd-e0
Speak and Math!!!
:)
- Raniator0
I think MacBook's will get an update before the end of the year, after Leopard comes out...
- misterblank0
I've done some video editing & motion graphics on macbook, seems good enough (for me)
- ********0
aside from a cracked case that apple fixed for free my macbook has been stellar.
Wish they still made the 12 inch.
- joqui0
Not totally satisfied with my macbook black... buy a pro!
- madirish0
why not use one? what's the worst that can happen?
i have seen many people use them, many not. it is seriously all relative to types of software being used and setup. w/ a second momnitor i would think it would be great. i can also see running Quake, FCP or the like on it making it suck bad... but, like any machine, keep the drive maintained, scratch disk allocation generous and plenty of RAM and it will be fine.
awesome to hear you sold that PB dude.
- Woolhouse0
My MacBook Pro is new and constantly give me the black window of death , (restart yo computa).
I hate it and wouldn't buy one until they got a good update.
Buy a tower, they're far more stable.
- madirish0
Woolhouse, sounds like you need to rebuild that machine ASAP. that screen only happens with conflicting startup permissions (data block where master software codes are stored in UNIX machine) are in place, or got corrupted for some reason.
and i am a UNIX fan, not solely Apple version of it fan, but to say that towers are far more reliable than notebooks is kind of false; it is the user permissions implimented and how the machine is tuned that determines the reliability of it 95% of time. notebooks though, are far more 'fragile' than towers from a form factor position though, clearly.
- CincodeMayo0
Thanks Madirish. Just sold off the PB to someone at work for their kid's school. Sold it for a bit less than I wanted, but at least I know it'll be used for a good cause.
Just spoke with Apple and apparently if I go buy a MacBook today I'll get Leopard delivered in my hands on Oct. 26. It's a $9.95 shipping fee. So rather than wait another 10 days and stand in line to pick one up, might as well go buy one today, right?
FYI, I'll be using the MacBook for Adobe Suite stuff, iMovie, iTunes, that sorta thing. Nothing too huge. And if my PB was capable of running the Adobe stuff, I'd imaging the MacBook would be just fine. Can't afford a MBPro at the moment. I use a MacPro at work anyways, so I think a MacBook at home will do the trick.
- rafalski0
I guess you still might be eligible for a replacement Cinco, new macbooks with a considerably better video board are out today
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11…
- Wolfboy0
I can't help you on the mac book I'm afraid but I did buy a Macbook pro a couple of months ago and it is fantastic. I do loads of work on it and have no problems.
