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MacBook C2D: My Review
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<blockquote data-quote="jerbils" data-source="post: 284901" data-attributes="member: 18252"><p>I recently got one of the new MacBooks with Core 2 Duo as a replacemnt to an old MacBook. The original was replaced thanks to AppleCare, it had a myriad of problems (none of which I will talk about in this post, but suffice to say it was overall a bad unit). My model is the base black unit (2 Ghz, 120 GB HD), but I maxed out the RAM to 2 GB with memory I had purchased for the previous machine.</p><p></p><p>I am happy to say that I now truly have a Mac. The first MacBook was the first Apple computer I had ever owned, but I seemed to spend more time fixing it than using and enjoying it. Overall, this new unit works as well as can be expected from any laptop, there's no real hiccups or problems to speak of. The hinge creaked horribly on the other MacBook, and the hinge on this unit is flawless. Performance is of course better with Core 2 Duo, but at the end of the day, there's nothing you can do with the new MacBooks that you can't do with the old ones, aside from running Vista. It's worth noting that Vista wouldn't even run well on the MacBooks due to the wimpy graphics card.</p><p></p><p>I've been using CoreDuoTemp to monitor how hot the MacBook gets, and although it actually peaks higher than the old MacBook (I got to 82 degrees Celcius breifly), it runs cooler overall once the fan kicks in. I made a small C++ program that simply makes an infinite loop and prints to the terminal, thus putting a significant load on the processor. I did this because I wanted to drain the new battery, and I've heard that doing that is good practice. I did this for maybe 30 or 40 minutes (the battery was not full when I started this), and the computer never got hot, it merely got warm, which is to be expected. I was quite pleased with this because my old MacBook ran pretty hot often times, and they seemed to have addressed the problem on the new machines. Battery life is about the same as the old MacBook.</p><p></p><p>I've come to the conclusion that gaming is pointless on Macs, at least ones with integrated graphics. I'm not going to test anything out via Bootcamp, although I will likely install it sometime down the road.</p><p></p><p>That's about all I can comment on at this point, if any interesting developments arise, I will certainly post about them. Also, if you guys have any questions I will gladly answer them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jerbils, post: 284901, member: 18252"] I recently got one of the new MacBooks with Core 2 Duo as a replacemnt to an old MacBook. The original was replaced thanks to AppleCare, it had a myriad of problems (none of which I will talk about in this post, but suffice to say it was overall a bad unit). My model is the base black unit (2 Ghz, 120 GB HD), but I maxed out the RAM to 2 GB with memory I had purchased for the previous machine. I am happy to say that I now truly have a Mac. The first MacBook was the first Apple computer I had ever owned, but I seemed to spend more time fixing it than using and enjoying it. Overall, this new unit works as well as can be expected from any laptop, there's no real hiccups or problems to speak of. The hinge creaked horribly on the other MacBook, and the hinge on this unit is flawless. Performance is of course better with Core 2 Duo, but at the end of the day, there's nothing you can do with the new MacBooks that you can't do with the old ones, aside from running Vista. It's worth noting that Vista wouldn't even run well on the MacBooks due to the wimpy graphics card. I've been using CoreDuoTemp to monitor how hot the MacBook gets, and although it actually peaks higher than the old MacBook (I got to 82 degrees Celcius breifly), it runs cooler overall once the fan kicks in. I made a small C++ program that simply makes an infinite loop and prints to the terminal, thus putting a significant load on the processor. I did this because I wanted to drain the new battery, and I've heard that doing that is good practice. I did this for maybe 30 or 40 minutes (the battery was not full when I started this), and the computer never got hot, it merely got warm, which is to be expected. I was quite pleased with this because my old MacBook ran pretty hot often times, and they seemed to have addressed the problem on the new machines. Battery life is about the same as the old MacBook. I've come to the conclusion that gaming is pointless on Macs, at least ones with integrated graphics. I'm not going to test anything out via Bootcamp, although I will likely install it sometime down the road. That's about all I can comment on at this point, if any interesting developments arise, I will certainly post about them. Also, if you guys have any questions I will gladly answer them. [/QUOTE]
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