if you install another windows operating system it should be XP as it takes less of your RAM. vista is just a human error.
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MacBook grafic card Intel GMA X3100
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Ok, so I love my macbook right? So two days ago my mom got a new toshiba laptop. At first i was jealous of the hardware. 2.1ghz (AMD though), 4gb of ram, ATI Radeon 3100, and the list goes on. I was green with envy..at least until we booted into Vista. First off the setup page had that vista spinning circle SO MANY TIMES. Set up on Mac: 5 mins Vista setup: 17 mins. So I thought ok..this is just one of those quirks. Then we imported some stuff from her external enclosure. Since vista is advanced as OSX, according to mosx, I thought it would just work. I was wrong again! The transfer process took forever, and every 5 seconds there was some kind of notification. Then i thought, ok this is fine, frustrating but fine. Then I encountered UAC...three words: Oh My God. Everytime I did anything, from installing a program, even like using the vista experience calculator, I got the UAC. Even WINDOWS UPDATES froze the whole screen to ask for permission. I know thats totally gonna freak out my mom, who doesn't have any idea whats going on. Shes also getting only 2 hours of battery in power save at the same time as im getting 4. And the one application, the ONE APPLICATION that we wanted to port from XP Quicken 2007, epic failed to install. On the internet people were reporting mixed successes, with using numerous system tools to make it install. Sure the hardware is amazing for $699, the OS is buggy at best. Even with 4 gb of RAM and a fast processor, vista takes 25 seconds and a spinning circle to open up iTunes as a third program. I was thinking that if Vista was as good as mosx posted, i may install it on my macbook..But i know im wrong now, im gonna install XP now, if i can.
btw mosx..no offense. I enjoy your posts. Please dont kill me?
It was Vista 32 Bit - right? i know 32 bit is really buggy, quirky, and annoying - they 64 bit version is really good though - it is comparable to OSX in STABILITY!!!! (still not as good but really close.)
32 or 64 bit doesn't have much to do with anything. Many of the complaints are caused by UAC and bloatware. If those stuff are removed/disabled, it'll run fast regardless of 32 or 64 bit.
I'm considering emailing him. I'm dying for him to return.
I'm not sure I miss him that much
He's probably asking all 260 million license holders of Vista if they like Jerry or not. Thats gonna take time.
I miss those little blue smilies even if they got a bit random at times.
I'm not sure I miss him that much
He's probably asking all 260 million license holders of Vista if they like Jerry or not. Thats gonna take time.
I miss those little blue smilies even if they got a bit random at times.
He should be back soon since there are probably only 2.6 million actual Vista users (I'm one and I haven't heard from him yet); the rest downgraded to XP.
Well I have a Macbook and I play Halo Universal, AOE III, COD2, C&C 3, Far Cry (cider port), UT 2004, and Tiger Woods 2005 and they all run fine (although the latest update (10.5.4) has some buggy video drivers, so gaming suffers a bit...still waiting for 10.5.5). Like some people have said, the GMA X3100 isnt that bad. I also have a Vista Ultimate partition and have a few games on there too which run great.
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Okay... so. Another thread bites the dust. Conclusion: No you cannot upgrade the graphics card... mainly because its not so much a card as another chip on the mother board.
Agreed, the OP should have done research but yeah to be honest when I bought the blackbook even after researching it on here I still wasn't prepared for just how many damn fingerprints it gets, so guys research isn't everything.
Also... yeah the X3100 isn't given as much RAM as it could. So what? Its still better than the old GMA950. Be thankful Apple decided to update it when they did.
Finally, I game on my blackbook in both OS X and WinXP. In OS X it handles well, gets a bit warm and gives a decent performance. In WinXP it runs at full potential and almost singes the hairs off of my legs ... and yet the performance is only a tiny (and we're talking microgeeks of difference in performance here) bit better.
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Thank you all, we can all go back to watching the rain and wondering how long til the floods reach the bottom of the street...
Okay... so. Another thread bites the dust. Conclusion: No you cannot upgrade the graphics card... mainly because its not so much a card as another chip on the mother board.
Agreed, the OP should have done research but yeah to be honest when I bought the blackbook even after researching it on here I still wasn't prepared for just how many damn fingerprints it gets, so guys research isn't everything.
Also... yeah the X3100 isn't given as much RAM as it could. So what? Its still better than the old GMA950. Be thankful Apple decided to update it when they did.
Finally, I game on my blackbook in both OS X and WinXP. In OS X it handles well, gets a bit warm and gives a decent performance. In WinXP it runs at full potential and almost singes the hairs off of my legs ... and yet the performance is only a tiny (and we're talking microgeeks of difference in performance here) bit better.
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Thank you all, we can all go back to watching the rain and wondering how long til the floods reach the bottom of the street...
A thread only dies if people stop posting to it os it is executed (wastelanded)
I have seen loads of stuff about various kit that happens to be black and how much it fingerprints. You are right you probably wouldn't have found that with research. I have seen it in shops though. It started with the iPod nano (original) and boy, could you see prints. I vowed not to buy black in anything. So I went white.
Ah - one of the reasons I left England - cold damp weather. Not the main reason but it does help at 7am to be already enjoying sunshine in T-Shirt and shorts. Its only 32 (90) degrees outside at the moment but should warm up later so I'm not complaining.
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