According to Engadget, Apple will begin shipping Intel-based (via TUAW) Macs in June of next year. I’m hoping that their notebooks will be among the first to be switched. My PowerBook is starting to feel a little slow.
Matthew Gifford
-
Outside
-
Latest Activity- mattg started watching appcelerator/titanium_developer March 9, 2010
- mattg started watching appcelerator/titanium_mobile March 9, 2010
- First trip to the beach March 6, 2010
- 70000 February 28, 2010
- Rubber duckies February 22, 2010
- Mobile Content Design for Bluedot Group February 15, 2010
- August eating carrots for the first time January 31, 2010
- Sunset at Cannon Beach January 10, 2010
- Long afternoon walk January 3, 2010
- Happy new year! January 1, 2010
Brilliant Bits
GitHub
Google Reader
Twitter
wish list
YouTube
12 Comments
Woot! I just pinkie-swore with my friend Caroline that we would both buy an Intel PB within a year, so it’s good to hear that they’re actually coming out with them within a year. =)
If you think your current one feels slow, wait’ll you’re stuck with the craptastic glory of a Wintel…
…Let the funeral dirges begin.
Slow? Don’t you run terminal most of the time? Try running Adobe: Indesign, Photoshop, ImageReady, and Illustrator while keeping nice with the corporate email via Entourage. Oh and add Dashboard in there. Yet I’ve gotta say, I have yet to find my 1.5ghz Powerbook slow in any way really. I’d recommend doubling your ram for some speed improvement while you’re waiting for those X86 Powerbooks.
Your Powerbook was slow when you bought it, that’s why they’re switching to Intel. ;)
*
You’ve got your wires crossed, Todd.
Although, granted, a 4200rpm HDD is enough to make any machine seem slow, there’s nothing Wintel can do that Motorola or Sun can’t outdo with ease. If Apple thinks greed is a viable reason to turn all of their products from gold to garbage, then that’s their problem. The CPU speed issue is a media brainwash; all processor types are affected by the 90nm barrier, and dual-core is just dual-processor. Don’t be fooled by the hype. Wintel will never be their own wet dream, no matter how much they publically stroke their own egos…
I agree with Gabe, Matt. Doubling my RAM to a gig made a difference almost as noticeable as buying a whole new machine. However, if money’s not a big issue, you might also consider getting a 5400rpm HDD as well. The only slowness I notice on this l’il beastie is during times of heavy drive access. If / when I can get the faster drive, I will.
Of course, the effects that current upgrade tricks like upping RAM have won’t work anymore once the x86 comes. They don’t work as well — double the RAM in a PC and notice how much less a difference it makes. Guess Apple didn’t stop to consider important things like this.
Forgot about that 5400rpm drive. That was the best computer related $50 I’ve ever spent.
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008631.html
Other than his complaints about the hardware, most of his complaints are bogus.
That’s like saying, “I’m not a gamer, Flight Simulator to me isn’t particularly compelling.” Is that really a reason not to use Windows?
Yeah that whole post was kinda weak. I was expecting something a bit more profound.
The included OSX apps, whether you use them or not are certainly better than mindsweeper and paint, which in themselves comprise about half of XP’s included applications.
Right now every OS is sadly underwhelming…
*
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26433
Looks like June is out…
*
Now I remember why I don’t read anything with Russell Beattie’s name on it; he ranks up there in stupidty with Steve Dotto and the man who is the pinnacle of making the IT industry look bad, Leo Laporte.
Weak isn’t a strong enough word for that write-up. ;-)
And as for that last link…
“But Intel doesn’t care what Apple wants”
Heh. if Apple still can’t see its’ own mistake after that, they ARE morons.