Jessica, what aspect of the 17" do you think will ruin the portability for you?
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Rob - Apr 24, 2008 9:26:17 am PDT #5872 of 25501
Jessica - Apr 24, 2008 9:27:45 am PDT #5873 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jessica, what aspect of the 17" do you think will ruin the portability for you?
Um, the size? (Sorry, I don't know how to answer that without sounding completely snotty! But I know the old 17" Powerbooks were way too big for me to comfortably carry over my shoulder.)
Sean K - Apr 24, 2008 9:29:31 am PDT #5874 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The 17" is big and heavy. It's not doable for me over the shoulder, and I get plenty of upper body and core workout from my job.
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2008 9:35:42 am PDT #5875 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I kinda wish there was some extra benefit to more powerful video cards than just 3D game performance to help justify the Nvidia 8800GT in my home computer, but not really. I think it has a hardware MPEG decoder and some other nifty video features, but so do the bottom end Nvidia cards. I think pretty much all current ATI cards (which Macs use) have similar video features regardless of where they stand in the lineup.
I sure hope AMD doesn't go belly up. That's going to leave pretty much one vendor for CPUs and one vendor for anything but the most basic video GPUs.
megan walker - Apr 24, 2008 9:40:17 am PDT #5876 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My gmail, which never quite works right at the office anyway (I often have to hit refresh or use non-html view), has recently begun giving me this message:
"Your browser's cache is full and may interfere with your Gmail experience."
The odd thing is, I delete everything pretty regularly. And I now have the Temporary Internet Files on my desktop and check in there regularly to delete everything. Anyone else getting this odd message?
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2008 9:49:45 am PDT #5877 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
megan walker - Apr 24, 2008 9:52:06 am PDT #5878 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've done everything there but restart my computer, since that takes an incredibly long time and means entering my username and password at least 5 times. I guess I'll wait and see if it's still doing it tomorrow.
NoiseDesign - Apr 24, 2008 9:54:35 am PDT #5879 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I think pretty much all current ATI cards (which Macs use) have similar video features regardless of where they stand in the lineup.
Actually Macs switch back and forth between ATI and NVidia. Currently they are on an NVidia kick. My 17" has the NVidia 8600M in it.
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2008 9:55:28 am PDT #5880 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you hadn't already done the basics. I was thinking the link to the workaround was the important bit of info.
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2008 10:00:30 am PDT #5881 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Last time I looked I guess they were on an ATI kick. Cool that they are going Nvidia right now, I sorta like Nvidia better.