Buying a BlackBook

[mckyvlle]

I've not yet managed to get my CPU above about 70
Although I don't do any video editing or 3D modelling so

Also on the matter of the RAM, max out for sure.
I had 2GB of compatible RAM in my old laptop and switched it to the MacBook and as of now I have 16MB free :/
This could probably be assigned to the massive memory usage of Safari but I was still surprised just quite how much OS X uses

I only managed to hit 75c by "stress-testing", i.e. running "yes > /dev/null" in two Terminal windows. I figured with the electronics bathtub curve and I'm allowed a one-to-one swap within the first seven days, I might as well max out my new BlackBook to see if it will hold


According to FedEx tracking, my RAM should arrive tomorrow! Arrgh, can't wait for it to arrive!

 

[Slip]

^ I meant percent usage btw, shoulda been more specific

 

[Stolencheese]

Nice job on your blackbook!

I got mine last Wednesday, Well a macbook in white, and I love it to bits! Only thing with mine is that it gets very hot, I have the iStat menubar and often the temperature is 70-80! Anyone think it's defect? It gets really noisy and it gets really hot when i'm not even doing much.

Also, Get MacSaber! Soooo much fun.

 

[Slip]

Nice job on your blackbook!

I got mine last Wednesday, Well a macbook in white, and I love it to bits! Only thing with mine is that it gets very hot, I have the iStat menubar and often the temperature is 70-80! Anyone think it's defect? It gets really noisy and it gets really hot when i'm not even doing much.

Also, Get MacSaber! Soooo much fun.

I have the 2.0 and atm its running at 56ºC with general iTunes, web and IM.
What sort of things are you running?
Also, I wouldn't recomend MacSabre, the risk to damaging the hard drive is pretty high if you ask me, I'd leave it if I were you
SeisMac's good fun though, takes the info from the SMS and displays it as a seismograph read out

 

[tianuk3]

Ordered my macbook yesterday afternoon! However they say it will be delivered on the 12th of December, thats an appalling delivery time!!

still very hyped about it yaayyy

 

[mckyvlle]

Yay! Upgraded my BlackBook to 4gigs of RAM! It's gonna be fun times now
Maybe I could build an 'aquarium' like so: http://xkcd.com/350/

I have the 2.0 and atm its running at 56ºC with general iTunes, web and IM.
What sort of things are you running?
Also, I wouldn't recomend MacSabre, the risk to damaging the hard drive is pretty high if you ask me, I'd leave it if I were you
SeisMac's good fun though, takes the info from the SMS and displays it as a seismograph read out

Ehem! I'm loving my BlackBook abit too much right now to treat it that way... Though I fear if I get SeisMac, I'll go paranoid with excess vibrations


> tianuk3, Stolencheese and others who are getting/just got your MacBooks
Congrats and I hope you enjoy your new Macs!

 

[Stridder44]

Thanks guys for the software suggestions!

What (un-)archiving do you guys suggest? I mainly have to deal with zip, gzip, tar, bzip2, 7-zip and the occasional rar archives. Used to use 7-zip on Windows, but there is only a commandline version on the Mac.

Any ideas?

The Unarchiver.

It works amazing. Only thing it isn't that great with is passworded .rar's. For that I use UnRarX. The nice thing about these 2 apps is that they're both free and don't take up much space.