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Andrew Poole |
Message #120428, posted by andypoole at 21:41, 18/5/2012, in reply to message #120416 |
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Is it too soon to be thinking about getting a new one? 
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/14/apple-to-release-thinner-macbook-pro-at-wwdc/ Meh. I wouldn't bother, but that's me. Mac OS X Lion (and Mountain Lion, from a quick play with the developer preview) is awful.
I like Lion! Mail, Calendar, full screen apps are things I couldn't be without now. (Faffy saving and reloading tabs in Safari not so great though). Looking forward to Twitter integration, notifications and AirPlay mirroring in Mountain Lion.
Would love the retina display and more processing power for doing photo editing.
The fact you can't disable AutoSave/Versions is the huge deal-breaker for me. That and the fact that when you're using multiple monitors, putting an app in full screen blanks the other monitors, completely breaking the idea of multiple monitors in the first place. AutoSave/Versions is the primary reason I went back to Snow Leopard though.
It astound me that they made it mandatory to automatically save everything you do all the time and offer absolutely no way to turn it off. But then, it's Apple. They apparently know how I want to use my computer better than I do. 
Oh, and the Lion scrollbars are horrendous. At certain angles on my MacBook Pro screen they become completely invisible. Accessibility wise they're a complete nightmare.
My MacBook Pro still runs Snow Leopard, and will be staying that way.
Anyway, my latest hardware purchase arrived today  
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Bonez |
Message #120483, posted by Bonez at 07:20, 25/5/2012, in reply to message #120428 |
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Well my next one is a 486. |
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jess hampshire |
Message #120489, posted by jess at 13:30, 25/5/2012, in reply to message #120483 |
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A Raspberry Pi (Unless you count a Nokia e72 as a computer).
Of course if someone gives me a shiny Mac first, then the situation will change. |
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Juhani Haverinen |
Message #120497, posted by JuEeHa at 12:09, 27/5/2012, in reply to message #95323 |
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Probably Raspberry Pi if they get decent port of RISC OS to run on it. (And about browsers. Netsurf will be upgrade to my current situation. (I am using Links2 with framebuffer under Linux)) It may sound strange but it is more powerfull than my current computer. (IBM Thinkpad T20 saved from dumpster, screen missing, 700MHz Pentium III, 64MB of RAM). Or maybe I'll buy G4 Mac Mini and run MorphOS on it.
EDIT: Or one possibility cound also be Mac with Mac OS 9. Some Powermac G4s seem pretty good.
[Edited by JuEeHa at 13:11, 27/5/2012] |
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Eric Rucker |
Message #120501, posted by bhtooefr at 16:54, 29/5/2012, in reply to message #120497 |
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RPi may clock at 700 MHz, but it's less powerful - IIRC, even the Foundation compares it to a 300 MHz Pentium II. |
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Juhani Haverinen |
Message #120504, posted by JuEeHa at 10:08, 30/5/2012, in reply to message #120501 |
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It is? Hmm. Well at least it has more memory. I can push my processor speed requirement back to 100MHz Pentium pretty nicely but I am pretty much at my comfortable RAM minimum for my main computer if I don't make any more tradeoffs.
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Eric Rucker |
Message #120505, posted by bhtooefr at 10:42, 30/5/2012, in reply to message #120504 |
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Keep in mind, the T20 can max out at 512 MiB RAM, although that was back when they needed weird low-density RAM to run 256 per slot. (More info on that: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/ram_bx_faq.html) |
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Michael Emerton |
Message #120514, posted by MEmerton at 20:31, 31/5/2012, in reply to message #95323 |
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Well, that's my RaspberryPI paid for!  |
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keith dunlop |
Message #120515, posted by epistaxsis at 22:10, 31/5/2012, in reply to message #120514 |
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Well, that's my RaspberryPI paid for! Mine arrived on Friday last week  |
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qUE |
Message #120516, posted by qUE at 02:11, 1/6/2012, in reply to message #120515 |
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No more computers for me, well, at least for a while.
I've got to the point that I can't use hand-me-downs fast enough and I danced a bit with the latestish ARM tech by getting a WM8505 netbook (even though the build was crap, it's still going after some gaffer tape bodges).
From recent experience I'm actually suprised how the tech. industry smashes stuff together as quickly as possible, gets all the least requirements together and ships it. Seems as long as it barely runs Android, it's worthy of market.
I guess it's a sign of the times, it'll be binned before it breaks :/ |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #120855, posted by monkeyson2 at 23:21, 26/7/2012, in reply to message #120516 |
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Installed Mountain Lion. Feels much snappier! |
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jess hampshire |
Message #120856, posted by jess at 09:25, 27/7/2012, in reply to message #120497 |
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I have mine. The RISC OS port seems pretty stable, and is very easy to get running. (Plugged it all up and it worked, I sort of felt cheated, I at least expected some problems.)
Currently it isn't as fast as my Iyonix. I think this will change.
I think the issues with speed are;
Video, so far, single mode unoptimised 1080p support.
RAM, currently only supports 128\128 OS\Video split, changing this would allow scrap in a RAM drive.
SD Card speed, a faster card would probably help.
(I have seen some posts saying that the USB drivers aren't particularly efficient, and that also aplies to Linux on the Pi.)
Currently it runs only in ARM v7 mode so has same software compatibility as a BeagleBoard. It should be able to run in an ARM v5, so it would run most Iyonix software.
No sound.
I will try Debian some time and compare it to my 1999 P2 - 300 laptop running it.
XBMC seems very promising.
No simple multi boot facility apart from swapping SD Cards, as yet. |
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