I don't mind the lack of DVD drive or Ethanet, but I like the 250 Gb storage I have on my MB. 128 would not cut it for me, though I presume there's an expensive upgrade!
On 27 Jul 2011, at 01:29, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Yes, I think apple has discontinued the regular macbook, so now it's either > the macbook air or the macbook pro. I also have the last generation of the > white macbook. The macbook air is great for portability, but it lacks a > couple features I would want, a dvd drive and an ethernet port. > On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:03 PM, David Taylor wrote: > >> It's nice to see somebody being generally positive on here! With regard to >> your questions, I can only say that my ordinary Macbook, the nice White one >> that you can't get any more because it apparently isn't good enough, runs >> just fine. There's the odd task that takes longer or makes it run hot that >> didn't used to, particularly opening and closing lots of apps, but I'll take >> the sandboxing any day as the performance loss is very minimal on my old >> fashioned thing! >> >> Take care >> Dave >> >> On 26 Jul 2011, at 18:22, Ray Foret Jr wrote: >> >>> Okay. Subject line says it all. >>> >>> 1. The sluggishness was immediately obvious upon installation; but, after >>> the passing of an hour or so, that went away; indexing I suppose. >>> >>> 2. Mail. >>> >>> a. I love the new view with the way the conversations work. >>> b. Would like a reminder how to download any attachments I may happen to >>> receive directly from e-mail. >>> >>> c. The signatures part doesn't crash anymore. About damn time they fixed >>> that one. >>> >>> 3. Safari. >>> >>> a. I don't mind most of the changes. The item chooser certainly acts >>> differently; however, VO+f seems to work even faster than the item chooser >>> once did and in Lion, Found things that it did not find under SL. >>> >>> b. What sucks is that now, I cannot seem to select text from web pages >>> anymore. They broke shift+down arrow even after interacting with text; >>> and, select all does not work. A work around would be appreciated. >>> c. Made some changes to how VO reacts when loading a web page because I >>> never get the sound anymore once a page is loaded. So, all sounds now >>> muted and things sounds once did are now spoken or silent. >>> >>> 3. I'm very happy to say that, after preliminary examination, RX seems to >>> behave well under Lion and no issues with noise reduction and the like. >>> All processing dialogs appear to work well. >>> >>> 4. Have not yet tried amadeus Pro; but, I'm quite sure that it works well; >>> and, if it did not, also quite sure that there would be multiple >>> conversations here about it. >>> >>> 5. Boy, does my Mac ever run hot now. It never did under SL. My fan goes >>> Quite hard if I just do stuff like checking my e-mail and even now, as I >>> type this message to y'all, I can hear it in the background. This only >>> happened if I was doing something like noise reduction under SL. That >>> would be the only thing that would push my GPU hard enough to make that >>> happen. >>> >>> 6. Because I did the install of Lion overtop of LS, all my settings did in >>> fact get preserved; but, had to change the lines in Mail preview under the >>> view tab to Zero. Mail goes busy when first opened, but, only if there are >>> very many messages yet to be gone through. >>> >>> Well, that's it so far. >>> >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >>> >>> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! >>> >>> Skype name: >>> barefootedray >>> >>> Facebook: >>> facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
