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Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
The MacBook Air is too small,too slow, and too weak for a real Photoshop workhorse ( my opinion entirely - but I looked at it seriously when it came out) The decision between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro is much more nuanced, and finally comes down to whether you can afford the difference when they are fully loaded up.… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Actually, Apple is quite honest about battery life. Unlike most companies who use the "best case" number - Apple has always (in the past at least) used a more realistic number. Wifi on, bluetooth on for x amount of time, screen at normal brightness 70% of the time and dimmer 30%, etc. On top of that they usually understate… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Don't know the exact answer to your question, but if the color gamut plots in this article are any indication, even the best MacBook/MacBook Pro screen will not be close to any desktop LCD. Also, the 17" still uses the older, conventional CCFL backlight, which in the linked article is shown to be inferior to the color… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
One problem with the way that OSX works.... it really needs about 15-20% of your harddrive free to work properly. It's kind of like VRAM, but it also does a lot of overhead stuff there and storing temp things that the system doesn't like to leave in memory. I've not found a workaround for this other than leaving a healthy… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
MacBook Pro Hard Drive Specs? I'm moving to a MacBook Pro 15" from an old Sony Vaio PC. I'm looking at upgrading from the 120 GB 5400rpm drive to the 160GB 5400rpm drive. But I would like to hear opinions, however, on using PS CS3 on the the 160GB 5400rpm vs the 7200rpm. And if anyone has experience with the even larger… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Wow. I am loving my new G5, why didn't I do this sooner. Oh yeah, because a G5 with no ram is no fun. The 20" Cinema Display is awesome, of course I am coming from a 15" laptop. My 19" Lacie seems so small. I cannot imagine the 30" at home, you probably could run one monitor with the 23". This is plenty for me. Still… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
I was in a position one month ago where I had to buy right then. So I bought the 13 inch MacBook Pro and the 27 inch thunderbolt display. I knew the upgrades were coming soon but I couldn't wait. My big fear was that yesterdays 13 inch pro upgrade would be huge. Thankfully it wasn't, and I'm fine with what I have. The new… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Bear in mind that a laptop will do damage to your neck faster than a desktop, if you don't need a laptop get the desktop. The 23 cimema is a different experience altogether from any 17 screen after you have been staring at it for hours. Much bigger, certainly easy on the eye, and the extra desktop space makes a real… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
The neverending Mac monitor question. Alright, we all know that people prefer the matte over the glossy screens. But how much of a difference is there between the 17" MacBook Pro Matte sceen and the 23" Cinema? Also, do users with the 17" MacBook Pro find it too big? Basically I'm trying to decide on a MacBook Pro vs a… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Yes, there are some cron jobs that fire off nightly at between 2 and 4 am localtime, or abotu 10 to 15 minutes after you boot up if they haven't run yet today. They'll grind the disk pretty hard, but that's about it. They're also niced down almost as low as they can go by default, so everything else on the box should have…
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