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Macbook, 2 months later
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<blockquote data-quote="gilesjuk" data-source="post: 374500" data-attributes="member: 29394"><p>Macbook runs like a dog unless you have 1GB or 2GB of RAM.</p><p></p><p>Like others have said, make sure you run Intel native versions of software, the Activity Monitor tells you if an app is Intel or not.</p><p></p><p>If you run old PowerPC compiled applications then the application runs under emulation/translation. While the Intel chips have more grunt than the PowerPC, the emulation spends half of its time flipping byte ordering around and PPC used one order and Intel another order (little endian vs big endian).</p><p></p><p>PPC can switch byte ordering, Intel can't.</p><p></p><p>Also, it's a laptop! the drives are slower. You should only get a laptop if you truly need a portable computer. There's a performance hit in all areas, disk speed (and life), CPUs are often mobile versions (less power, less performance) etc....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gilesjuk, post: 374500, member: 29394"] Macbook runs like a dog unless you have 1GB or 2GB of RAM. Like others have said, make sure you run Intel native versions of software, the Activity Monitor tells you if an app is Intel or not. If you run old PowerPC compiled applications then the application runs under emulation/translation. While the Intel chips have more grunt than the PowerPC, the emulation spends half of its time flipping byte ordering around and PPC used one order and Intel another order (little endian vs big endian). PPC can switch byte ordering, Intel can't. Also, it's a laptop! the drives are slower. You should only get a laptop if you truly need a portable computer. There's a performance hit in all areas, disk speed (and life), CPUs are often mobile versions (less power, less performance) etc.... [/QUOTE]
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