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That's what i'm talkin about!!

What a silly typo... it should read:

"cell phones, cameras, and certain types of MICE"

Wicked fast except for 3D games. That ain't bad for the price. And way thin!!!!

Windows? sill in use? who needs a computer that crash so much? May be some one that have not tried a real computer..

Actually, face, when talking about a computer mouse, it is perfectly acceptable to leave the spelling unchanged for the plural application.

yeah!!!!!!!!! Great feedback!

Steve Olsen:

"May be some one that have not tried a real computer.."

well put.

"certain types of mouse"

Wow, hit traffic to this site has declined considerably.

Must be all the annoying ads.

and of course no more trolls to play with.

One Word: TRUSTED COMPUTING

Actually, Willie G, when talking about a computer mouse, it is acceptable to write mice or mouses. The current trend is actually mice unless you are a technical pub writer and they usually use mouses or mouse devices.

especially for people who are uncertain about their Windows future. Ha, that would be all of you then.
MDN can . . insert 'you just'

I think that the 15" MacBook Pro 1.83Ghz is a better deal at $1599, at the Apple store refurbished page.

The way the keyboard and screen adjust to ambient light is so wonderful to take for granted. The dedicated graphics card is better for your Pro apps, RAM and games (Civilization IV anyone?), the extra screen resolution is nice to have, you've got an expansion slot, and it only costs $100 more than the black MacBook with the same hard drive and RAM.

just one word....

I ordered it yesterday.....

it will replace my old 12inch powerbook.

I'm very excited!

There is one important passage in the article that was left out of MDN's condensation that I would guess will worry lots of Time's readers:

"...while a lot of software now runs directly on the new chip (for instance, Logitech's mouse and keyboard drivers), there are two major hold-outs, Adobe and Microsoft. You can use most of their programs on the new Macs, but they run only with help from Apple's invisible Rosetta software translator. My wife, an avid user of Office apps on her new employer-issued MacBook Pro, says that when she has several Office programs running simultaneously, she notices delays in typing and other subtle sluggishness. "It's microseconds," she says, but admits that it can be irksome. Microsoft has pledged to make the next version of Office for Mac Intel savvy, but whether that version comes this year or next is anyone's guess, perhaps even Microsoft's."

I can't wait for MBs &MBPs;to have those displays that are also CCDs, then they won't even need the iSight.

Let’s not forget how many U.S. citizens are overweight and obese. Lugging those HP and Dell laptops will burn more calories than the MacBook; therefore, HP and Dell are doing the country a service whereas Apple is contributing to the health crisis. Think about it, Apple is a food, Apple laptops weigh less than the competition. Coincidence, I don’t think so.

MDN Magic Word: case, like I'm going to each a case of butter.

The tenor of the article is what I would expect from about 90% of the pc using world if they would only stop being Windows Zombies and try something else. Whether or not a person's first Mac experience is a blinding flash, the minimum effect its almost guaranteed to have is, to cause new users to have to remind themselves why it is they "HAVE TO" use Windows.

Oh well, this article, along with the ever increasing number similar to it in various high profile publications, demonstrates that things can change.

One word: "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"

By comparison, the MacBook is a breath of fresh air.

With reviews like that doing direct comparisons between HP, Hell, etc. and Mac's, it's no wonder why I get more and more people coming up to me in coffee shops asking me about my Mac's.

I've been Macin' for a long time and I can't honestly remember a brighter day for Apple in decades.

Rock on Steve!

MacMania:

"asking me about my Mac's."

http://tranchant.plus.com/notes/apostrophe

I own the MacBook, and I must agree I am blown away. It makes me hate my 17"

Sure, it mooos. It's got heat issues. Drops wireless connection when it wakes up.

And while the quality issues anger me to no end, I still love the MacBook.

It is so fast it's not even funny. And the screen. Oh, the beautiful screen.


I WISH THIS SITE WOULD DUMP THE LINK ADS. THEY STINK SOMETHING FIERCE.

WHAT IS THIS DELL DAILY NEWS? VERY DISGUSTING.

Sorry for the yelling, but man, this site is going down hill.

another writer who didn't check the trackpad setup.
"My biggest problem was an inability to "right-click" using the MacBook's trackpad. Although there is a way to do it by pushing control-shift-F10, I found it was easier to just add an external USB mouse."

GRRRRRR

^ Hi, MacDude!

Pino my old friend, nice seeing you.☹

Now go play in traffic. ☺

Ampar,

Isn't that just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious</B. Aren't you just the little <b>sesquipedalian.

Should've read more like this:

Ampar,

Isn't that just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Aren't you just the little sesquipedalian.

I WISH THIS SITE WOULD DUMP THE LINK ADS. THEY STINK SOMETHING FIERCE

simple solution, are you ready?

sudo pico /etc/hosts

arrow down to the bottom line and add

0.0.0.0 macdailynews.us.intellitxt.com

control x, y and press return

Reload MDN, goodbye Text ads

You can block your computer from many sites this way. just search online for "editing your hosts file" works in Windows too. Even get a big list of sites to block that monitor your web habits.

Thanks for the kudos, DoppelStupid. I also just made it to halfway to 88 years old today. Woohoo. No more pleonasms (for now).

(I can also deconstruct sentences. That's handy.)

I used to say I bled six colors. Now what? I bleed glossy blue?

Here is a nice big list of sites worth blocking

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

and instructions for Windows (works for us too)

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm


127.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.0 work basically the same way. One number just assigns your computer and the other assigns nothing to certain web sites you enter in the list.

"#" means to tell the computer to "ignore this line" comes in handy to put your comments in the /etc/hosts file.


A extra program to get is SafariBlock from Macupdate or VersionTracker.com. It's a plugin that you can right click on annoying banner ads to make them disappear for good.

Luke are you nuts, I will be one of the last hold-outs when buying a ccd screen, have you ever heard of big brother. Look it up man.
It won't be long till they might be watching you and you won't know it.
Think I am paranoid? "They" (the Man) has the power to flag key words, phrases and voice data now. PC or Mac I doubt it will matter.

Snap those mesh stockings? What?
Man, this birthday sucked.

KaramaData - yeah, if you must use Safari then you need to go through all those machinations.

There is a Much easier way:

http://www.caminobrowser.org

Use Camino and disable JavaScript in preferences. ZERO ads on this site (including intellitxt ads). MDN needs to pay the bills, but I have never clicked on one ad on ANY site ever, so I am not singling out MDN here.

For even further functionality download and install CamiTools:

http://www.nadamac.de/camitools/index.php

It adds an additional preference pane that allows much flexibility including automatically downloading a HUGE list of ad servers (daily, weekly - you set it) from: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ and automatically puts them on your blocked list. The list is updated daily.

Camino + CamiTools = NO ADS. BOTH ARE FREE

Yea the Javascipt thing works in Safari too, a bit of a hassle turning it on/off.

Nice plug in though for the camino browser that's auto-updating has got to be da bomb!!!

Wondering if someone is working on a Safari plugin that works along the same lines?

anyone?

The next Apple ad should reveal that anyone can get porn faster on a Macbook without viruses. That's the big sell.

Hey, http://www.caminobrowser.org!

Checked out the links, that really is sweet.

Also I can spoof Safari so that I'm letting sites know they better support our platform.

Plug in "cami tools" is also bad ass.

thanks for the info/links.

Want to know more about the new Intel Core 2 Duo that will be used in up and coming Macs? Loyd Case (and this guy is an EXPERT) talks about it on DL.TV episode 67 here:

http://gearlog.com/blogs/digitallifetv/archive/2006/06/07/13443.aspx

*** Fast forward in to 8:00min if you don't care about the other stuff

4 instructions per clock cycle, 4MB L2 cache, SSE in one cycle instead of two (video encoders will be happy about this) and more. Very interesting stuff. He also tells a bit about AMD's newest offerings and sort of does an opinion comparison. About a 5 min long segment but very interesting.

Sorry MacDude, you're not the only one who can use <span style="color:#FF00CC;">colors</span>

<span title="My Hovercraft is full of eels.">Of course, the obvious question is will these people just use them as Windows machines or not. If so, it doesn't really matter that they buy Macs.</span>

Time ... Ha. What a bunch of liberal, biased fiction writers. The rag has become required reading for yellow belly gutless lib cowards.

Vista Will be successful for the following reason...

Wtih over 90% of the market share and most business using Windows XP, they will have to upgrade to vista sometime in the future. 5 years or 10 years down the road depending on when Microsoft tells everyone to upgrade. With such a high market share, everyone is at the mercy of Microsoft. When Microsoft says XP is done and no longer supports it, everyone will buy Vista.

That's the sad truth. The key to winning market share is not just in the personal PC line, but also in the business line.

KaramaData thanks for the tip.

btw... that took all of 14 seconds, not too tough + def preferable to switching browsers or keeping track of plug-ins imho

"Time ... Ha. What a bunch of liberal, biased fiction writers. The rag has become required reading for yellow belly gutless lib cowards."

If you're going to take meds intended for farm animals, at least have the courtesy to keep your ramblings to yourself... you make thinking conservatives look like morons.

You have to push control shift F10 to get a right click! What a piece of crap!

"you make thinking conservatives look like morons."

LOL

That's the funniest thing I've seen all week.

Microsoft has Windows 'Lock In'. The bastards have to make all Windows software work on Macs and stop this 'Lock In'.

The people in France and Norway are up in arms over this 'Lock In'.

What? Boot Camp? Windows works on a Mac?

Oh. never mind.

Ubuntu Linux 6.06 runs on my Macbook great as well! I LOVE my Macbook!!!!!

Squeal!!!!!