{"id":221,"date":"2006-08-12T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wordpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2007-09-18T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:20:01","slug":"macbook-1-month-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/2006\/08\/12\/macbook-1-month-on\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook, 1 month on."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a month since I bought my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/macbook\/macbook.html\">MacBook<\/a> so I thought I&#8217;d air my views (its unlike me to have an opinion, eh!).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Its thin.<\/strong> I had a G3\/800Mhz iBook before (and have a G4\/1.33GHz iBook for work) and it feels noticeably thinner but that makes me worry about snapping it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its wide and shiney.<\/strong> The width of the screen is okay, TBH I don&#8217;t see much reason for this swing to wider aspect ratio monitors generally, but the glossy coating, whilst indeed making colours more vibrant does mean using a MacBook outside is nearly impossible. I don&#8217;t do that much, so&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>It gets warm.<\/strong> Especially by the power conector. However, its not a great deal warmer than either iBook ever got and I don&#8217;t feel overly worried.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its insensitive.<\/strong> The touchpad particularly at times seems not to work. I end up licking my finger a touch and pressing harder to make the mouse move. The wider button is also not great and rather vague, especially at the ends.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its sluggish.<\/strong> I do find that quite often it takes a second or two to figure out I clicked on a tab in Safari or on a different Terminal window. This makes the beach ball pop up for a moment whilst it pauses then doe things very quickly. Odd. This has gotten better over night though, with  UB of Flash installed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It takes ages to charge.<\/strong> I don&#8217;t know why but it takes a bloomin&#8217; age to charge the battery. The iBook would race up to 95% in an hour or so, then trickle the last 5% in another hour. The MacBook doesn&#8217;t race, it just takes about 5 hours to charge from 20% empty to full.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its an Intel.<\/strong>Yes, you knew that I know, but it means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codetek.com\/\">CodeTek&#8217;s<\/a> Virtual Desktop Pro (for which I have paid!) doesn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its clicky.<\/strong> The keyboard is really nice. Its clicky yet it doesn&#8217;t feel to hard. Its just lovely \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stuff like the magnetic power cord and screen latch, well, they work but I don&#8217;t see much real in-use difference. I never had trouble with the old systems, new stuff works, so did old. I have not made any use of the remote control or iSight (anyone use iChat?).<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to increase the RAM (its on stock 512MB), I&#8217;m pretty sure this will help the little freezes between apps (I guess I&#8217;m swapping?). I will also at some point put in a larger hard disk and probably make sure its a faster one.<\/p>\n<p>So, would I buy another? Well, if my iBook had not died and I know now what I do about the MacBook I wouldn&#8217;t be rushing to buy one (esp if they are bringing out Memron ones next month, bastards) but overall I&#8217;m happy enough. Its a laptop (notebook, sorry) which runs Mac OS X at the end of the day and thats what I really want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a month since I bought my MacBook so I thought I&#8217;d air my views (its unlike me to have an opinion, eh!). Its thin. I had a G3\/800Mhz iBook before (and have a G4\/1.33GHz iBook for work) and it feels noticeably thinner but that makes me worry about snapping it. Its wide and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-personal","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}