Comments on: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro grep understanding Fri, 25 May 2012 02:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steven G. Harms http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-70076 Steven G. Harms Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:40:15 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-70076 <p>I'm loving mine, as you well know.</p> <p>@brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.</p> <p>Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It's not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.</p> <p>I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don't have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.</p> I’m loving mine, as you well know.

@brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.

Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It’s not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.

I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don’t have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.

]]> By: Steven G. Harms http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-248333 Steven G. Harms Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:40:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-248333 <p>I'm loving mine, as you well know.</p> <p>@brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.</p> <p>Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It's not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.</p> <p>I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don't have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.</p> I’m loving mine, as you well know.

@brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.

Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It’s not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.

I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don’t have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.

]]> By: brad http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-69980 brad Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:06:54 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-69980 <p>any idea what kind of battery life I can expect? also, how much improvement will we see with the new LED-backlit screens (as opposed to the LCD's on previous models)? I would have to assume between 30 & 60 minutes of improvement. That is just a guess, though.</p> any idea what kind of battery life I can expect? also, how much improvement will we see with the new LED-backlit screens (as opposed to the LCD’s on previous models)? I would have to assume between 30 & 60 minutes of improvement. That is just a guess, though.

]]> By: brad http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-248332 brad Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:06:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-248332 <p>any idea what kind of battery life I can expect? also, how much improvement will we see with the new LED-backlit screens (as opposed to the LCD's on previous models)? I would have to assume between 30 & 60 minutes of improvement. That is just a guess, though.</p> any idea what kind of battery life I can expect? also, how much improvement will we see with the new LED-backlit screens (as opposed to the LCD’s on previous models)? I would have to assume between 30 & 60 minutes of improvement. That is just a guess, though.

]]> By: christian http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-69940 christian Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:57:48 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-69940 <p>congrats, thats awesome!</p> <p>ever since i turned converted mac user 4 months ago, im in love...</p> <p>i dont even have a windows machine anywhere except in parallels! and at work, but my main box at work is debian :)</p> congrats, thats awesome!

ever since i turned converted mac user 4 months ago, im in love…

i dont even have a windows machine anywhere except in parallels! and at work, but my main box at work is debian :)

]]> By: christian http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-248331 christian Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:57:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-248331 <p>congrats, thats awesome!</p> <p>ever since i turned converted mac user 4 months ago, im in love...</p> <p>i dont even have a windows machine anywhere except in parallels! and at work, but my main box at work is debian :)</p> congrats, thats awesome!

ever since i turned converted mac user 4 months ago, im in love…

i dont even have a windows machine anywhere except in parallels! and at work, but my main box at work is debian :)

]]> By: Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-69916 Daniel Miessler Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:47:55 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-69916 <p>That's sick, man. Keep in mind that you'll get less battery life with the faster drive (that's what I currently have) and that the Mighty Mouse is less than mighty. I'd suggest a regular multi-button mouse. Keep us posted on how you like your first Mac, man.</p> That’s sick, man. Keep in mind that you’ll get less battery life with the faster drive (that’s what I currently have) and that the Mighty Mouse is less than mighty. I’d suggest a regular multi-button mouse. Keep us posted on how you like your first Mac, man.

]]> By: Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-248330 Daniel Miessler Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:47:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-248330 <p>That's sick, man. Keep in mind that you'll get less battery life with the faster drive (that's what I currently have) and that the Mighty Mouse is less than mighty. I'd suggest a regular multi-button mouse. Keep us posted on how you like your first Mac, man.</p> That’s sick, man. Keep in mind that you’ll get less battery life with the faster drive (that’s what I currently have) and that the Mighty Mouse is less than mighty. I’d suggest a regular multi-button mouse. Keep us posted on how you like your first Mac, man.

]]> By: brad http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-69914 brad Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:33:13 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-69914 <p>dude, just got mine ordered today! Work let me choose and spec "whatever I wanted", so I got this:</p> <p>15" MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Dual Core 4 GB RAM 256 MB video 160GB @7200 rpm</p> <p>I can't wait....this is going to be SICK. I also went ahead with the wireless mighty mouse and a sweet case. I will let you know how my adventure in Macland works out.</p> dude, just got mine ordered today! Work let me choose and spec “whatever I wanted”, so I got this:

15″ MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Dual Core 4 GB RAM 256 MB video 160GB @7200 rpm

I can’t wait….this is going to be SICK. I also went ahead with the wireless mighty mouse and a sweet case. I will let you know how my adventure in Macland works out.

]]> By: brad http://danielmiessler.com/blog/new-laptop-15-macbook-pro/comment-page-1#comment-248329 brad Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:33:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1445#comment-248329 <p>dude, just got mine ordered today! Work let me choose and spec "whatever I wanted", so I got this:</p> <p>15" MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Dual Core 4 GB RAM 256 MB video 160GB @7200 rpm</p> <p>I can't wait....this is going to be SICK. I also went ahead with the wireless mighty mouse and a sweet case. I will let you know how my adventure in Macland works out.</p> dude, just got mine ordered today! Work let me choose and spec “whatever I wanted”, so I got this:

15″ MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Dual Core 4 GB RAM 256 MB video 160GB @7200 rpm

I can’t wait….this is going to be SICK. I also went ahead with the wireless mighty mouse and a sweet case. I will let you know how my adventure in Macland works out.

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