MacBook Updated with LED Display, Multi-Touch, 7 Hour Battery

[*LTD*]

So, I have no experience using FW. I have an IMAC and thinking of getting the MB for travel, school, etc.. How would I transfer pics, musisc, etc from my Imac to my MB? Whats the easiest and fastest way?

Well what do you have on hand? What do you use?

MobileMe? Do you use any online storage?
Extra hard drives/SD cards/external storage?
spare ethernet cable?
You can possibly use Back to my Mac (I have no experience with this.)
Time Machine, even . . .

I just have a spare hard drive on hand. Mind you I have seven external drives and loads of SD cards, so transferring data anywhere has never been a problem.

 

[ibosie]

The new Macbook iSight is round like the Macbook Air. Does this signify Apple put the lower res camera in there 0.3 MP versus 1.3 MP?

 

[Careyst]

Well what do you have on hand? What do you use?

MobileMe? Do you use any online storage?
Extra hard drives/SD cards/external storage?
spare ethernet cable?
You can possibly use Back to my Mac (I have no experience with this.)
Time Machine, even . . .

I just have a spare hard drive on hand. Mind you I have seven external drives and loads of SD cards, so transferring data anywhere has never been a problem.

I don't use online storage. I have a 160GB external hardrive that I use with Time Machiine. I have never transferred anything because the IMAC is my first and the MB is soon to be arriving. So, i was looking for the easiest way to transfer.

Could I somehow use Timemachine to do this?

 

[Eidorian]

The new Macbook iSight is round like the Macbook Air. Does this signify Apple put the lower res camera in there 0.3 MP versus 1.3 MP?

The iSight has been 1.3 MP since Santa Rosa.

I don't use online storage. I have a 160GB external hardrive that I use with Time Machiine. I have never transferred anything because the IMAC is my first and the MB is soon to be arriving. So, i was looking for the easiest way to transfer.

Could I somehow use Timemachine to do this?

Migration Assistant?

 

[michael.lauden]

This is a very good update to the Macbook IMO. I just ordered one yesterday too. For those complaining about the lack of FW, I guess Apple wants you to get the 13" MBP instead.

or... to give up on FW, once USB 3.0 comes out, and especially when LightPeak... people won't be that lost without firewire.

 

[ibosie]

The iSight has been 1.3 MP since Santa Rosa.

Thanks so when was that? My MBA purchased Nov '08 has the lower res iSight. Do new MBAs have the same camera as MBPs now?

 

[Eidorian]

Thanks so when was that? My MBA purchased Nov '08 has the lower res iSight. Do new MBAs have the same camera as MBPs now?

That was in 2007.

 

[*LTD*]

I don't use online storage. I have a 160GB external hardrive that I use with Time Machiine. I have never transferred anything because the IMAC is my first and the MB is soon to be arriving. So, i was looking for the easiest way to transfer.

Could I somehow use Timemachine to do this?

This might help:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322

 

[ibosie]

That was in 2007.

Hmmm so why is my MBA camera poor quality compared to the old MB and current MBPs? Confused...

 

[Careyst]

This might help:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322

Thank you very much. That pretty much answers the questions I had.

 

[StefSSU]

Wait's for new CrackBook stories to emerge in next few months.

Seriously, from a guy who used to own a Black MacBook 2.4, stay away, they overheat and then crack.

Fork out the extra dosh for a MacBook Pro Alu.

Agreed. Maybe this new "unibody" enclosure will help to prevent cracks, but I doubt it. Its the reason that I decided to upgrade to a Aluminum unibody MacBook Pro, that and the graphics

 

[iPhone 62S]

It's got a slightly different shape, no Firewire, and a extra £50 on the price. I'll stick to my 2008 MacBook thanks.

 

[jegbook]

FW400 has faster sustained speeds than USB2.0. FW800 is much faster altogether. I can live without it, but there is a noticable difference.

I've done a decent amount of testing between USB 2 and FW 400 and I've actually never noticed a difference in throughput.
In Tiger and Leopard, both would max out at about 31MB/s (~240Mbps).
In Snow Leopard they both seem to max out at 40MB/s (~320Mbps). I hope in Snow Leopard the transmission speed is actually MiB/s and not the base 10 stuff, in which case the "faster" speed is not faster, just different units of reporting. I have not, admittedly, done timed tests are research to determine if Activity Monitor reports transmission speeds for HD activity and Networking in Base 2 or Base 10.

Most of my testing has been from the internal 5400rpm HD of a laptop to an external 3.5" 7200rpm. My tests with Snow Leopard are from my MacBook's 7200rpm Seagate.
My vague memory of testing this over time, though, says that max speeds tended not to vary much regardless of hard drive rpm speed.

I generally have noticed as well that Windows XP some and more so Vista have done much better jobs at pushing the 480Mbps burst speed of USB 2.

I haven't done any testing with FW 800 so can't speek for it...

 

[jegbook]

The fact that this happened ticks me off! However, it does force me into getting a 15 or 17 inch MacBook Pro. haha

Or a 13" MBP w/ FW 800?

 

[jegbook]

You do realize that to actually take advantage of 8 GB of RAM, you'd have to be using some very memory-intensive applications.

Hell, I have 4 GB in my MB and I never tap it out completely. I usually have at least 1 GB free.

Well, I run a Windows VM 100% of the time and I'm usually out of memory all of the time with 4GB in my MacBook. I have noticed in Snow Leopard Safari eats up memory much faster than in Leopard. With the reguarity that I quit Safari or reboot (once every two weeks and once a month respectively), Safari often bloats to over 600MB of RAM. Pretty crazy.

 

[justit]

Well, DUUUHHHH

So by your logic, if its not aluminum, something will always bend/creak/crack?

I'll pony up the $200 and move to aluminum anyday, so yes plastic cracks, plastic creaks.... I'll back down on bends

 

[CyberBob859]

A 3rd USB port & SD card slot would have helped the situation somewhat if they weren't going to keep FW in there.

Agreed. Especially with the SD slot. SD is a Pro feature? I have a netbook with an SD slot and two USB ports for goodness sake!
Please - no excuses on the expense or no room to put expansion ports.

 

[brop52]

The 13" MBP isn't really a Pro machine so if they called it a Macbook and called it a day would you all still be complaining? I have a MacBook from Late 2008 that looks just like the "MBP" and despite the fact that I have an external capable of F800, F400, and USB I'm surviving without firewire. If you need the firewire pay the extra $150 as a student or $200 if not a student and go for the MBP. Otherwise wait a few months for the MBPs to be updated and be happy that you got a new machine (except you'll find something not to your standards in the new machine too I'm sure).

 

[CrackedButter]

I've done a decent amount of testing between USB 2 and FW 400 and I've actually never noticed a difference in throughput.
In Tiger and Leopard, both would max out at about 31MB/s (~240Mbps).
In Snow Leopard they both seem to max out at 40MB/s (~320Mbps). I hope in Snow Leopard the transmission speed is actually MiB/s and not the base 10 stuff, in which case the "faster" speed is not faster, just different units of reporting. I have not, admittedly, done timed tests are research to determine if Activity Monitor reports transmission speeds for HD activity and Networking in Base 2 or Base 10.

Most of my testing has been from the internal 5400rpm HD of a laptop to an external 3.5" 7200rpm. My tests with Snow Leopard are from my MacBook's 7200rpm Seagate.
My vague memory of testing this over time, though, says that max speeds tended not to vary much regardless of hard drive rpm speed.

I generally have noticed as well that Windows XP some and more so Vista have done much better jobs at pushing the 480Mbps burst speed of USB 2.

I haven't done any testing with FW 800 so can't speek for it...

Firewire isn't just about speed, it has other attractive features that USB doesn't have.

For me I love Firewire because I can daisy chain 2 FW drives together with one cable, no power cable and run it off the one port, one of them being a Time Machine drive. At the moment I have 820GB's running off one cable (a 500GB drive and a 320GB drive). Its neat and something USB can't do, it just isn't that flexible.

 

[Corax]

I think it is fair that the prices in the UK went up, considering that the pound is worth a lot less nowadays. Because of the value drop of the pound it was very cheap for people from the Netherlands to buy a Mac in the UK.
I'm glad that the prices went €50,- down again over here. From €949,- to €899,-
That is more fair considering the currancy.