For x-mas I could be getting a 1st gen white macbook but i mquestioning how great are they really....How big of a step up?
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You need to give more information. Although some of us do use Dells (for work etc), few of us are well enough informed to know offhand what a Dell 1501 is like. Is it even a laptop? (I'm assuming it's a 15" laptop but knowing Dell, it could be anything).
What processor does it have?
What kind of graphics chip does it have?
What's the screen specs (size and resolution)?
How big is the hard drive?
What's the Vista hardware score?
What extras does it have (USB or firewire sockets etc)?
What processor does it have?
What kind of graphics chip does it have?
What's the screen specs (size and resolution)?
How big is the hard drive?
What's the Vista hardware score?
What extras does it have (USB or firewire sockets etc)?
Google told me this about The Inspiron 1501:
* AMD Sempron 3500+ (1.8GHz/512Kb)
* 15.4" Ultrasharp WXGA display
* 512GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (1 DIMM)
* ATI Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (Integrated graphics)
* 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
* 24x CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
* 6-cell 53 WHr lithium-ion battery
* Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
* Dell 1390 802.11g Mini Wireless Card
I'd say you notice a difference, especially if you get 2GB ram.
* AMD Sempron 3500+ (1.8GHz/512Kb)
* 15.4" Ultrasharp WXGA display
* 512GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (1 DIMM)
* ATI Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (Integrated graphics)
* 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
* 24x CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
* 6-cell 53 WHr lithium-ion battery
* Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
* Dell 1390 802.11g Mini Wireless Card
I'd say you notice a difference, especially if you get 2GB ram.
immense huge difference i'd say.
from the specs that were revealed, it would be a vast improvement.
from the specs that were revealed, it would be a vast improvement.
It does not matter what kind of PC you have, a 5 year old or brand new Mac is better then any PC. Just my 2 cents.
I'm guessing its the Home edition one.
Probably still crashes every 10 minutes or when watching a YouTube Video.
Anyways, you'll notice a huge difference when you get the MacBook.
i just bought a late 2006 blackbook second of from a guy here in town and i couldnt be happier with it. the machine performs excellent and plenty fast, i won a laptop about a year and a half ago which had vista on it and what not.. and well this thing beats it in performance hands down.
all i would recommend get more ram (2gb) and well a bigger hdd down the road
Yeah 448mb for vista woah nelly when i first installed vista on my PC i had 1gig and that was bad but then i put in 4 gigs but man i feel bad for you. Id do the upgrade.
There are some people here who would have you believe that Mac OS X will run on nothing but 4GB RAM.
As for the two computers, the OP won't notice any difference in performance at all. Indeed, the old Core Duo processor that will be in his 'new' MacBook will be incredibly sluggish, especially when dealing with some of Apple's bloatware like iTunes.
Well I run 'bloated' iTunes (7000 songs) on a >4 year old PowerBook 1.5ghz with 1.5 GB of ram with zero problems maybe PPC wasn't so bad after all
I'm sick of people being so ignorant about Windows.
Honestly, Vista is an improvement over XP. That whole thing about it just being XP with a new GUI is BS.
I have not had a problem with Vista, not with the speed, on a computer with 1GB RAM and Aero on, not with the stability (Not one BSOD in 2 years), not with viruses, not with anything.
You know what keeps Vista going great? People stop surfing shady porn sites and pirating ****.
Youtube does not crash because you're using Vista. Actually Macs have a harder time using Youtube, ha, the irony.
I love OS X, but I still stand by the fact that there is nothing wrong with Windows. It has better support overall, and is not nearly as unstable as apple fanboys make it out to be. I wish people would open their eyes and see how much Windows has given the PC world (Mac = PC), and understand that OS X is not God, OS X and Macs have their flaws, and a 5yr old PC is still not that bad (I'm running off of a 6yr old eMachine of all things right now). A lot of you would still encourage someone to purchase a 5yr old Mac I assume.
To the OP - A first gen Whitebook? Do you mean with just the Core Duo and 512RAM? You probably won't see much, if any significant speed boost with that.
finally.. someone who isn't attacking pc's lol.. i have an hp laptop alongside my new macbook.. and it sorta performs better than my macbook.. the only problem is the o/s, which i believe isn't bad but osx is 10000 better.. anyway back to the original poster.. i believe it should be a good buy, you'll be surprised at how good the macbooks are
I hope you didn't mean me.
I was just shocked because I've literally never seen Vista run decently on less than 1 GB.
Vista can run good on a computer with 512RAM.
A lot of people just bought in to the early Vista haters. The exact same thing came about with XP years ago, and now look at people going, "OMG XP IS PERFECT!!!"
Turn off Aero, it's not needed anyways. Voila, runs great on 512.
There are very few stability issues with Vista, nothing more than a standard OS would have, like XP or Leopard.
If you really look at Vista, and read up on it from a technical standpoint, you'll notice that it's really a great OS. They spent a lot of time building it, and there are a lot of great enhancements the average Joe can't see, and a lot of people get mad when they realize that the pretty graphics mean that they can't run it off of their 10 year old computer that started out with 98.
With things like flash, OS X has some issues though. OS X is a nice OS, but until it gains much more support, it can't necessarily beat Windows, because Youtube eats up over half of my 2.4GHz CPU for one video. Basic tasks are harder on the machines.
I love OS X, don't get me wrong. I'm getting a new MacBook in a couple of weeks, looking forward to it. There are amazing points to OS X that make me want to spend that insane premium, but I will always still love Windows, and wish people would see it for what it is, and not what other people exaggerate for no reason.
I've never seen Vista run decently...period.
You have that right! Vista is the worst thing to come to the PC world, I didn't have a 1/4 of the problems when I had XP. But Vista forced me to Mac, which I love, so I guess I owe a thank you to Mr. Bill for making such a Piece of %$^&&*! crap.
Wow, y'all need to seriously stop hating on Windows...Especially Vista. It has got to be the best OS by Microsoft to this date. If you don't get viruses(virusi?) on it, just like with any other OS, it'll run GREAT. Even the Home edition. I haven't had Vista crash on me in the last 1 year I've had it. I would hate to go back to XP. Sure they changed things on Vista, but its all for the better, so if you actually don't know what they changed (except for the GUI) then you won't see anything better!
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but this is one of thing that confused me. Windows didn't give rise to the Mac...Mac OS was before Windows..