System:
(late 2008 model according to OWC)
2.4ghz c2d "penryn"
13" 1280 resolution
4gb ram @ 1067ghz
500gb HD 7200rpm
9400m GPU
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I've posted a few remarks on sluggishness with the RAM on this model on the other forum so I'll summarize them here and can see my past posting for links to the screen shots.
After indexing, started up to see the new safari and mail applications.
Safari was so cool that I went through and opened my old favorite sites I like to keep up on at home. Facebook, macrumors, fox news, CNN, Guardian, Defensetech, military.com things of this nature ( I read a lot ) The Machine's single exhaust fan started roaring almost immediately so I took it off my lap and put it on the laptop portable stand (yes hooked into the wall this whole time). I then proceeded to open mail and add my main account to it and get the RSS feeds running. Still nothing that should be taxing on this machine in my opinion.
I noticed the machine was going very slow and fan still going very hot so I hit f4 to check out my stat widget. It loaded after a couple of seconds with the spinning icon and under memory I was astounded to see sub 100mb of FREE RAM on this machine. Fine, probably downloading something in the background. Well the machine didn't let up for about half an hour so I shut it down. Did some reading on my iPhone and did a hard restart followed by installing the icleanmemory app from the mac app store, it too was showing between 70-200mb of free ram. After running it, it jumped up to over 800 and stayed there since. I'm sure this is all just some fluke with memory management on first time runs with the new safari and mail apps opening back to their previous state with open windows. Just letting those with similar configurations know to look out if this is your primary machine for now.
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Second issue I've noticed now.
I hook up my macbook 2.4 to a view sonic led lcd 20" screen via dvi. In the past when I hook them up and hit the space bar on the external keyboard, the large screen would run in 1920 resolution. To keep things cool if watching videos I would proceed to open the laptop.
Now after installing lion, the external display displays in full screen 1920 resolution ONLY if the laptop remains closed. If you open the laptop, it reverts to the mirroring and back to 1280 resolution on the laptop screen and external display. If you close the laptop again, it reverts to the full screen 1920 resolution on the external only. I'm not sure if I like that since these laptops like to breathe hot air through their keyboard as part of the cooling capabilities. Hopefully somebody with a newer machine can run their configuration and see if this scenario is similar with hdmi hookins.
(late 2008 model according to OWC)
2.4ghz c2d "penryn"
13" 1280 resolution
4gb ram @ 1067ghz
500gb HD 7200rpm
9400m GPU
---
I've posted a few remarks on sluggishness with the RAM on this model on the other forum so I'll summarize them here and can see my past posting for links to the screen shots.
After indexing, started up to see the new safari and mail applications.
Safari was so cool that I went through and opened my old favorite sites I like to keep up on at home. Facebook, macrumors, fox news, CNN, Guardian, Defensetech, military.com things of this nature ( I read a lot ) The Machine's single exhaust fan started roaring almost immediately so I took it off my lap and put it on the laptop portable stand (yes hooked into the wall this whole time). I then proceeded to open mail and add my main account to it and get the RSS feeds running. Still nothing that should be taxing on this machine in my opinion.
I noticed the machine was going very slow and fan still going very hot so I hit f4 to check out my stat widget. It loaded after a couple of seconds with the spinning icon and under memory I was astounded to see sub 100mb of FREE RAM on this machine. Fine, probably downloading something in the background. Well the machine didn't let up for about half an hour so I shut it down. Did some reading on my iPhone and did a hard restart followed by installing the icleanmemory app from the mac app store, it too was showing between 70-200mb of free ram. After running it, it jumped up to over 800 and stayed there since. I'm sure this is all just some fluke with memory management on first time runs with the new safari and mail apps opening back to their previous state with open windows. Just letting those with similar configurations know to look out if this is your primary machine for now.
---=---
Second issue I've noticed now.
I hook up my macbook 2.4 to a view sonic led lcd 20" screen via dvi. In the past when I hook them up and hit the space bar on the external keyboard, the large screen would run in 1920 resolution. To keep things cool if watching videos I would proceed to open the laptop.
Now after installing lion, the external display displays in full screen 1920 resolution ONLY if the laptop remains closed. If you open the laptop, it reverts to the mirroring and back to 1280 resolution on the laptop screen and external display. If you close the laptop again, it reverts to the full screen 1920 resolution on the external only. I'm not sure if I like that since these laptops like to breathe hot air through their keyboard as part of the cooling capabilities. Hopefully somebody with a newer machine can run their configuration and see if this scenario is similar with hdmi hookins.