Re: new macbook- 1 week (plus a couple days) followup
- From: Thundercleets <thundercleets@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 11, 9:42 am, " zara" <arazbackw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"ed" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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alrighty, have had my macbook for a little over a week, and thought i'd
toss out a couple followup thoughts:
here's some more detailed impressions after some use-:
- the chiclet keyboard, as i said before, doesn't register a key press
when i hit a corner of it, even when pressed all the way down. wondering
if anyone else has this issue? maybe apple will update the macbooks again
within a couple months and send me a new one if i complain then. :D
-- hardware related --
- while the keyboard feels very sturdy- my gateway has a somewhat flexy
keyboard- the lack of throw on the keys doesn't quite feel right. this
may be due to years of conditioning, but a keyboard with more feedback
would rock- even might cheap gateway feels better for more extensive
typing. i suspect many folks who have been on computers for years might
agree, folks w/ less experience might not care.
- the edge of the macbook by the 'wrist rest' is crisp and sharp. looks
nice. doesn't feel so good when typing. again, my cheap gateway gets
this right.
- the keyboard could use a couple more keys- page up / down, home / end,
forward del. and a way to lock the keyboard so a faux numeric keypad is
available.
- the macbook holds a wireless connection much better than my gateway.
- why doesn't os x show a signal strength indicator on networks?
- the battery on the macbook rocks. the estimated time remaining is waay
overly optimistic however.
- overall quality of hardware is high- the macbook just feels way more
solid than my crappy gateway.
- having a card reader built in definately rocks. i hate having to dig
out my usb cable all the time.
-- networking related --
- my problems w/ not seeing my smb using nas looks to be mostly solved
(they still disappear on occasion, but are usually there. that's probably
good enough, right?). as a bonus, a couple reboots seems to have made
file sharing appear in the list of services when i 'set access for
specific services and applications'
- haven't gotten my wireless phone (lg chocolate) to work as a bluetooth
modem yet, even though leopard recognizes it (and the modem profile), and
it works fine in vista.
- still can't print to my printer attatched to my nas. i can see it, i
can send jobs to it, but nothing ever comes out.
- having a weird problem where i have to insert, eject, and reinsert a cd
before itunes will import it.
-- software related --
- had an issue with safari and firefox crashing (just about everytime) on
flash heavy websites.
- the dock seriously sucks- this thing is just horrible. i'm not sure i
have anything good to say about it. crap pops in and out of it, moving
stuff around, making it grow and shrink, the applications menu / stack
doesn't have hierarchies so when you do things like go into utilities it
pops up a finder window when you just want to lauch console or some
such... dragging stuff off it makes it go 'poof!'- totally unlike when you
drag from anywhere else onto the desktop... the reflections are retarded
(and distracting). so i turn it off... better, but it's now-
transparent? wow. the thing is just a mess.
- i'm still trying to find a good newsreader. :P (does entourage have a
threaded view?)
- i really like having a unix backend at the ready, and all the 'standard'
unix tools installed, but i'm an old unix guy.
- i like sidebar more than dashboard.
- native support of pdf's rocks.
- iphoto... a mixed bag- better editing than either windows photo gallery
or picasa, but not as good for browsing / managing photos. iphoto's
initial import was painfully slow, but it's pretty snappy after.
- itunes is itunes, but safari on mac is way better than on vista (that's
not saying much though), and better than ie. but i'll stick to firefox on
both. ;D
- i've read review saying that leopard is super fast... but my year old,
lower end vista box (which, to be fair, has recently been upgraded to 2gb
ram versus 1gb for the macbook, but still, i'm hardly doing anything major
on these machines) *feels* snappier in general. i know it's probably just
a difference in updated, but the *feel* is certainly that way.
- on a similar note, spotlight, is a LOT slower than i expected- faster
than vista mind you- based on the reviews on this group talking about how
it was instantaneous and windows search is super slow- there's just not
that much difference, and the difference that is there, seems to be in
presentation. windows will search for a moment then pop up a big ass list,
leopard will populate the list as it goes.
- spotlight (the one in the top right) doesn't search help? what's up
with that?
as i said, overall, a nice box. not any more or less stable than my vista
box (with the exception of my safari / firefox crashing issue- in the last
couple days (before it was resolved), i've had those browsers have to be
force quit more times than i have had windows programs freeze in the last
year). and not any nicer or worse than vista really...
that's it for now. maybe another update in a week or three. i'm going to
get the vpn software from work this week and try to remote login to my box
at work. cross your fingers for me. :D
In all honesty ed, you shouldn't have ANY problems. The mac has been touted
here as the best thing since white bread.
Zara,
Don't you mean "sliced bread"?
.
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