got your C2D MBP? please tell us....

[bcavanau]

bcavanau gets my vote as the 2006 C2D Most Valuable Player 😀

Thank you...

I would like to thank......

nevermind..too long of a list.....won't bore you guys...

Keep the questions coming....got quite a list going....

 

[Multimedia]

Probably Will Wait For A 17" Refurb After I Get Sick Of Running 8-Cores All The Time

You mean like Seagate support local employment by having the bulk of their employees in factories in China and Singapore?

Apple use hard drives from different manufacturers in the same model lines and you can often not guarantee what make you'll end up with - you know that. Come on Multimedia, it's another excuse for you not to pull the trigger on a new Mac, that's all. When you get your Intel Core 8 Octo, designed and built in the USA, easy-access HD bay, Santa Rosa-Claus MacBook Nano-Pro you'll be happy 😉

Probably Will Wait For A 17" Refurb next Spring After I Get Sick Of Running 8-Cores All Winter. 😛 🙂

 

[Zadillo]

Darn. Pentagon city got a bunch in, all "pre-sold" which was never an option I was given to be put on a list. Plus they were 2.16ghz models only so it doesn't really matter.

Clarendon : 0 "We only get stuff in on tuesday, so call next week" Somehow I doubt that. Thats two people giving me answers there I don't think of as useful.

Tysons, no clue as they are not answering the phone.

I talked to the people at Tysons earlier this morning, and they said nothing was in yet, but they expected them "soon". I tried to pin them down if anything would be available tomorrow or Saturday, but they couldn't tell me.

 

[Rocketman]

Thank you...

I would like to thank......

nevermind..too long of a list.....won't bore you guys...

Keep the questions coming....got quite a list going....

I would like to add one thing to the list.

Post your full list so other C2D MBP folks can do the SAME series of tests on their machines today and onward so the data is meaningful and comparable.

Thanks again bcavanau.

Rocketman

 

[CaptainCaveMann]

What's wrong with this guy? He thinks food, sleep, Lost, restroom breaks, and work are somehow more important than playing with a new comuputer!

🙂

🙂

Thanks bcavanau. Excellent early news and SCOOPS!

Rocketman

Hey neighbor! 🙂

 

[Maximus434]

I ordered over the phone the 2.16GHz model with glossy screen. I asked the guy if a glossy screen meant a build-to-order machine and he said no.

So I rang apple today to check the status of my 'book, and I was told it was being built in china. Built? I was told glossy screens are not BTO...was the guy wrong?

 

[doubledangerbat]

Here's the info about the screen tilt:

"Built-in Display
Adjust the angle of the display to minimize glare and reflections from overhead lights
and windows. Do not force the display if you meet resistance. The display is not meant
to open past 135 degrees.
You can adjust the brightness of the screen when you take the computer from one
work location to another, or if the lighting in your work area changes."


This is from Apple's manual for the new MacBook Pro.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MacBookPro_15and17-inch_Core2Duo_UserGuide.pdf

 

[evisa]

Haha. I agree with you, Ben. I've got many friends who won't IM with me because I'm such a "grammar nazi". I usually say things like that to them.

Me, too. By the way, it's "grammar nazi." 😉

 

[bcrawf]

moving stuff over to a new Mac

Question: What is the easiest (and without risk) way to move all one's stuff to a new Mac to save needing to reinstall one's applications one-by-one? Would it be by using CCCloner (or other cloner)? Asssume the move is from a PB G4 running 10.4.8 to a MBP Pro.
Bob

 

[tarjan]

evisa: irregardless to your comment, your correct use of the general concensus that his incorrect ordering with the ." symbols architected a spectacular vision in my head of proper grammer being something most people loose. Literally.

tripple

Did I hit most of them with that? 🙂

 

[nevir]

Question: What is the easiest (and without risk) way to move all one's stuff to a new Mac to save needing to reinstall one's applications one-by-one? Would it be by using CCCloner (or other cloner)? Asssume the move is from a PB G4 running 10.4.8 to a MBP Pro.
Bob

I haven't set up a Mac before, but doesn't the setup assistant help you with moving data/programs over?

 

[evisa]

evisa: irregardless to your comment, your correct use of the general concensus that his incorrect ordering with the ." symbols architected a spectacular vision in my head of proper grammer being something most people loose. Literally.

tripple

Did I hit most of them with that?

I don't even get what you're trying to say. Or are you just trying to pack on as many errors as possible? 🙂
Wow, forgive my closet grammar nazi tendencies; I've been blinded by the horror that is your sentence.

 

[eyvind]

Question: What is the easiest (and without risk) way to move all one's stuff to a new Mac to save needing to reinstall one's applications one-by-one? Would it be by using CCCloner (or other cloner)? Asssume the move is from a PB G4 running 10.4.8 to a MBP Pro.
Bob

Mac OS does that by itself, assuming you have a firewire cable. The first time you boot the new Mac it'll prompt you to hook your old Mac up and will copy all apps, users, network settings etc. from the old machine to the new.

Your old Mac won't be modified in any way, so there's no risk of losing data. The process might leave the new Mac in a bad state if it went wrong somehow, but all you'd have to do to fix it is reinstall from the included DVD.

 

[drlunanerd]

Probably Will Wait For A 17" Refurb next Spring After I Get Sick Of Running 8-Cores All Winter. 😛 🙂

You're going to have to bite the bullet soon and come over to the Intel side, especially as Adobe are dropping PPC support on all their new Mac software releases* 😱 😉





*Possibly. Adobe SoundBooth is Intel-only. Has a precedent been set? Discuss.

 

[wackybit]

Question: What is the easiest (and without risk) way to move all one's stuff to a new Mac to save needing to reinstall one's applications one-by-one? Would it be by using CCCloner (or other cloner)? Asssume the move is from a PB G4 running 10.4.8 to a MBP Pro.
Bob

When you boot up your new MBP for the first time, there will be a migration assistant (you'll need a firewire cable for this). If you live in a some country (especially Asia) that installs pirated software (eg. Aperture, Adobe creative suite CS2 premium, Final Cut Studio, etc etc) on every computer that they sell, you won't get the configuration assistant on your first boot since the guys at the store already booted it up for you when they installed all that stuff, and spoils all the fun. You can get the migration assistant from the utilities folder (if I recall correctly).

But I'd recommend moving over all of your files manually since you won't carry along all that junk. I do this everytime I get a new Mac. The way to do this is very similar to using the migration assistant: Boot up your old machine while pressing 'T', this will make the machine enter firewire target disk mode. Connect the old machine to the new one using a firewire cable, it will appear in the finder as an external hard drive. Move all the files over manually. Some files need its library files to come with them too so don't forget.

Cheers 🙂

 

[nick004]

If you live in a some country (especially Asia) that installs pirated software (eg. Aperture, Adobe creative suite CS2 premium, Final Cut Studio, etc etc) on every computer that they sell

That must be a tedious job.😱

 

[tarjan]

I don't even get what you're trying to say. Or are you just trying to pack on as many errors as possible? 🙂
Wow, forgive my closet grammar nazi tendencies; I've been blinded by the horror that is your sentence.

Just all of the most common ones. 🙂

I am not terribly annoyed by grammar problems, though being too lazy to finish words is a real problem. My girlfriend on the other hand... I love sending her emails with really bad errors 😀

 

[nick004]

Benchmarks

Seriously now! Why has no one done any real life benchmarks???? Stop using your dual core 64 bit chips, 2 gig ram and x1600 for browsing porn. PLZ statisfy the lust of those that don't have one yet and give us stats!😡

Thanks😀

 

[xliver]

What about the Ram

I was looking at getting the low-end MBP and wanted to upgrade the RAM myself to 2 gig. I heard something about having to use the same RAM in order to get the best performance out of it.
Does that mean it just has to be the same amount of RAM per dimm or that it has to be the actual same NAME BRAND of RAM?
Any thoughts? 😕
Thanks!

 

[nick004]

No just same specs. DO a search, millions of threads on this topic

 

[sblasl]

Mac OS does that by itself, assuming you have a firewire cable. The first time you boot the new Mac it'll prompt you to hook your old Mac up and will copy all apps, users, network settings etc. from the old machine to the new.

Your old Mac won't be modified in any way, so there's no risk of losing data. The process might leave the new Mac in a bad state if it went wrong somehow, but all you'd have to do to fix it is reinstall from the included DVD.

Can you select what applications & files to move?

 

[evisa]

Just all of the most common ones. 🙂

I am not terribly annoyed by grammar problems, though being too lazy to finish words is a real problem. My girlfriend on the other hand... I love sending her emails with really bad errors 😀

Haha! That's terrible... and terribly funny. That's something I would do, but as I said, I'm a closet grammar nazi; I'll only bring it up around fellow GNs. I have a tendency to use correct punctuation but use lowercase letters when typing anywhere I don't care to look... like I don't care.

 

[wackybit]

That must be a tedious job.😱

Not that tedious to install all that pirated software.....

All they do is whipp out their 500GB (or sometimes 1TB) hard drive and then copies all the installer files onto the machines, and then once it's all on there, they just click install and wait for all the machines to finish, wrap it up in the box, and put it back into the storage room. No need for serial codes or whatever, it's all cracked versions.
When I bought my dad a MacBook I had to yell at them until they will finally get me a brand new *untouched* MacBook. I just want to experience the first "boot up". Too bad I didn't know about this when I got my first Mac, an iMac. i started it up, heard the 'bong' and then WHAT THE F#@%!!!! No setup screen, just the Finder. It spoils all the mood man.........
I might've sued if I was an American (no offense) 😛

The people here love all the *free* stuff they get with their machines. The retailer will just ask you want apps do you want. You want Motion? sure. You want Adobe creative suite CS2 premium? sure. You want iWork? sure. You want Mathmatica? sure. You want some fries to go with that? 😀

I can say that, yeah it's nice and cheap to get those pirated stuff. The whole Adobe Creative Suite CS2 Premium costs under US$10, complete with serial and stuff. It's normal for people here to get pirated software. But it's just plain sick when the retailers actually *bundle* these programs with their computers, without the buyer's knowledge. But most buyers like the free stuff though.

It's even worse because teachers in my school actually require you to have Adobe Photoshop CS2, Flash 8, and all the other expensive stuff to do school work. And if you don't have them the teachers will tell you to go get it, the pirated version. The teachers are not Asian too, they're mostly American and some of them are from Europe, Australia, etc. And I expect them to at least know that piracy is not the right thing.......

Ah well.....sorry for my rant 😎

 

[darkwing]

Me, too. By the way, it's "grammar nazi." 😉

Depends on where you're from. The British put punctuation marks outside the quotes or parenthesis, and I think this makes more sense than the way Americans do it.

Not that I think the British do much of anything right mind you, but I have adopted that. 🙂

 

[wackybit]

Can you select what applications & files to move?

I don't think so....

Tell you what, do it the manual way and save yourself from moving all that junk that you've accumulated over the years. 😎