Apple Laptops

Really, how tempting...this would include my trusty G4 Cube?

Clean install is best of all as it will wipe your disk and you can put back everything onto a clean system, but no one has that much time.

Upgrade will work just fine but you miss a great opportunity to give the system a spring clean.

I don't really mind re-installing my 3rd party apps, it's just holding onto data in my user folder (music, docs--not much else) that I care about.

Been running it on several different machines and started in on installing it on machines at work.

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An imminent G5 (or otherwise-named next-gen) PowerBook has been rumored since January 2004. Sooner or later, the rumors will be true. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

As far as the value goes, the OS is a nice perk that you can only get with an Apple laptop. As is nigh-invulnerability to malware of all kinds, for which I'd happily pay a one-time fee of, say, a few hundred bucks.

Beyond that, the 1.67gHz pbooks actually stack up pretty well against similarly configured "stylish" PC laptops (e.g., Sony VAIO with Bluetooth/wifi/80GB HD, DVD-RW). They're just less customizable and there are fewer "budget" options.

A thin'n'light would be more apples-to-apples, and the lowest I can get in comparably configured would be about $1700, saving a pound or so on a pbook but giving up a diagonal inch of screen.

Anyhoo, I freely acknowledge that you can get a PC box for less. Just not so much less, all things considered.

Of course, OS X for Intel is already rumored to have leaked into the wild, which could make this whole conversation moot (no matter how staunchly Apple insists that OS X will not be licensed for use outside of Apple machines...)

i'm not going to be doing any real graphics work but i'll be doing lots of matlab/mathematica and lots of desktop publishing.

so, um, what's better criteria?

Comparing "1.5gHz w/1GB vs. 1.67 gHz w/512MB" makes not so much sense, as the 1.67 is just as easily upgradeable. If you get the machine from Apple and opt for the 1-stick upgrade to 1GB it's actually kinda reasonably priced. Otherwise, Crucial/Other World is definitely the way to go.

The point is, it's a cheap, easy upgrade that you can do any time. So it makes sense to go for the machine with greater expandability (15"). And for desktop publishing you'll appreciate the screen (and potentially the VRAM upgrade as well (ONLY available if you order from Apple).

Worst possible timing. Can't you beg or borrow another laptop to make do until then?

I'm afraid not, my current build is not robust enough to handle the processes I'm sending it and the next 12 weeks of projects are pretty critical for me.

You could aways go to Tekserve. Oh wait, no you can't, not anymore.

my macbook crashed and I was just going to go to the apple store tommorrow to fix it and/or get a new one, y'all saying I should hold off until the next series comes out?

Definitely.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac

I got a 16” pro and the sound is pretty amazing. First time I’ve ever heard honest bass on laptop speakers

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I have a 2016 Macbook Pro running Monterey 12.7.4. Everything seems fine except that for a few months now, I've been getting a weird pixelated effect on the display, most notably in text displayed in browsers, but also in some videos and other documents. For instance, as I type this in the Add a Post box in Chrome, there are strange, faint underlines below some of the text that seem to shift and reform as I type. Switching windows and/or scrolling sometimes clears it up temporarily.

Any suggestions for what this could be?

haunted

2016 means could be flexgate related https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate-macbook-pro-display-issue/

Thanks. It doesn't really look like the flexgate pictures I have seen, but the display top of the laptop is also way looser than when new so maybe related.