New Macbook

[ali_baba]

get an imac, you wont regret it.
or buy a used mbp or even a desktop.
i have a g5 tower that's just sitting since i got a new mac pro over the winter.

lets strike a deal.

 

[JeremyLangford]

The only difference between the white Macbook and Aluminum Macbook in terms of performance is that the White would come with 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM and the Aluminum comes with 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM.

Also, the Aluminum Macbook has an LED-backlit screen unlike the White Macbook, and the Aluminum's battery lasts 30 minutes longer. Are any of these things a big deal?

Having a desktop and no laptop might be a pain during college. But the iMac would knock out the need for an external hard-drive and an external monitor.

And it seems like getting an Aluminum Macbook and scanning pictures to my mac-mini would be a pain as well. I'd rather scan to the laptop and then put the huge scans on an external hard-drive that I could take with me whenever I need to.

 

[Trius]

I'm no Mac expert -- the only Apple products I own are an 8GB Touch and an Airport Extreme. While I love my iTouch and it is good for storing/displaying photos, there are some areas where it is very much an unfinished product. I suspect that Jeremy would want to use the Touch for tasks better suited to a "real" computer. And if showing photos is a primary objective, would the small screen be adequate? There ARE Touch apps for VNC and file transfer/sync from a Mac (or PC/Linux box), but I haven't tried them so don't know how useful or clunky that would be.

But all-in-all I love the flexibility and weightlessness of the Touch -- not to mention having a VoIP app (Fring) that is very cool.

 

[JeremyLangford]

If I got a White Macbook instead of an Aluminum to achieve a firewire port I would upgrade the White Macbook to have the same size RAM (4gigs) and also the same size hard-drive (160gigs) as the Aluminum.

After that, the only difference between the white Macbook and Aluminum Macbook in terms of performance is that the White would come with 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM and the Aluminum would come with 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM. Also, the Aluminum Macbook has an LED-backlit screen unlike the White Macbook, and the Aluminum's battery lasts 30 minutes longer.

Are any of these things a big deal?

 

[elshaneo]

Well my friend, honestly it's not really a big deal. The main thing that I found to be the big deal is the Hard Drive.

I used to have the white Macbook but at the beginning of this year, I got the latest Aluminium Macbook with the upgrades to 4Gb RAM DDR3 and 320Gb 7200rpm Hard drive at first. The performance was around 10 to 20 percent faster compared to the white Macbook.

But nowadays, I have a 256Gb Solid State Drive as Hard Drive, and it's now freaking fast, my Macbook is super fast and almost instant, the performance difference is now around 50 to 80 percent. I would say that putting a Solid State Drive in your PC, Mac or whatever, will surprise you how fast your computer could be ;-)