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10-01-2006, 09:07 PM
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MacBook 2.0ghz 2gb Ram 120gb HD (White)
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10-01-2006, 09:10 PM
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For the most part everything runs really smoothly. As with any system you'll have the occasional app hang up, but it doesn't take down the whole system Actually, just last week I had Firefox lock up a whole Fedora system. I had to power cycle it. That is very rare for Linux, but in 4 years I've never had a mac do that As for the heat. after a while it can heat up quite nice to the point I wouldn't want it on my lap. But most of the time I can use it on my lap without a problem
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10-01-2006, 09:24 PM
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I use parallels instead of boot camp. With virtuedesktops, you can just hit ctrl+shift+left/right to switch between mac and windows screens.
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10-01-2006, 09:30 PM
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I have my Mac Mini booting into all 3 OS... Windows XP Pro, OSX, and Debian Linux.
Installing XP was easy with bootcamp, but to get Linux to work also, I used Refit, and the latest version of debian (the stable release didn't have all of the kernel drivers it needed. In case anyone else wanted to give it a shot: HOWTO Install Debian on the Intel Mac Mini http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/HOW...Intel_Mac_Mini
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10-01-2006, 09:39 PM
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I bought my first mac about two weeks ago after being a life long PC user. I am prolly a rare case for this but out of the box the MacBook Pro had somethign wrong with the Optical drive, so I had to take it back and they replaced it on the spot. Got that one home, and something was screwd with my iSIGHT and the latch wasn't properly shutting correctly.
So I just took that back and got a MacBook and said screw it. Before taking it back I installed and played World of Warcraft on the MBP, it ran smother than some desktops I have played it on. I was runing it off of OSX, I installed Windows via boot camp, and it ran smooth as pie there as well. After I got my MacBook home I havnt installed windows again, no real need to I guess. I kind of miss the dedicated video card... a little.
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#16
10-01-2006, 10:01 PM
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I just got a new macbook about a week ago. I have been a mac user for a while now. I love it! I have a question for people with macbooks. Has anyone tried using parallels with just 512mb of ram? I just assumed that it would be a waste of time without at least a gig.
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10-01-2006, 10:13 PM
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10-01-2006, 10:33 PM
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I recommend 1gb of ram to people just running OS X. The system will run a lot better and faster. OS X loves its ram. It will maximize the use of all you give it
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10-01-2006, 10:48 PM
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Maybe I will give it a try and see how it works. I really don't need to use windows much. There is a program that i use that is windows only and I use it about once a month. It is a program to program a satellite reciever. It won't run with crossover. It is a program that does not need to be installed. You just run it by clicking the EXE file in the folder. As far as i can tell, you can't run those with crossover.
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#20
10-02-2006, 12:02 AM
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...I very rarely use windows, anymore.
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