MacBook Pro

Post by **S@M** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:14 am

got mine today - came with that shitty mighty mouse. But weirdly, no extra cables - my iMac came with a firewire cable and the MacBook Pro had nothing like that

not that ill use it, but the packaging of the mighty mouse is pretty poor as well. Im used to better marketing than that from apple.

Post by **S@M** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:15 am

woah,
this forum rocks

Post by **NCG_Mike** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:21 pm

Hope you like the MacBook Pro. It's a fast machine but sure runs hot.

Post by **S@M** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:34 pm

you werent kidding about running hot!!
I have been working with it on my lap for awhile, its very warm.

Is there a widget somewhere for monitoring temp on these things?

cheers

Post by **NCG_Mike** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:31 pm

Probably a dashboard widget for that. Dunno myself.

I know the one we had at my (now ex) work was one that had the battery recall but they chose to ignore that.

It was insanely hot, much hotter than my PowerBook G4 runs at. I'm expecting a warning sticker on the next rev to state, "Contents are hot" ;-)

Post by **NCG_Mike** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:14 pm

I just spotted this: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31029

Post by **S@M** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:11 pm

version tracker - or that link seems to be down atm,
this might do the trick though:
homepage.mac.com/holtman...page5/page5.html
with:
macbricol.free.fr/coreduotemp

theres also a widget for it!

Post by **CitizenKane** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:41 pm

S@M wrote:woah,
this forum rocks

i agree. us mac folk have to stick together tho

Post by **G-News** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:35 am

I had the opportunity to test a MacBook right when they were released. Went to Apple Switzerlands press meeting for a mag and was able to get a loaner for a week to test it. It's a really nice machine for everything but gaming, due to the crappy integrated graphics chip. But I also noticed how hot it got. I have a 800MHz G4 iBook personally and that only gets about half as warm as the MacBook got. I guess the Pro isn't any cooler either.

Post by **NCG_Mike** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:06 pm

Long time no hear, G-News.

Post by **G-News** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:31 am

Aye, I haven't played Q3 for at least a year, but I still check by here from time to time, even if I don't write anything:) How's it going for you? Back to the island or still in Belgium?

Post by **NCG_Mike** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:38 pm

Still in Belgium for the moment.

Post by **S@M** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:07 pm

im on the island:)

been in oxford and now london for about 12 days

edit: then i go back to the other island. Im in London because i missed out on going to ireland :icon28:
so you could say I came from an island to an island instead of ireland the island...

Post by **CitizenKane** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:59 pm

S@M wrote:im on the island:)

been in oxford and now london for about 12 days

edit: then i go back to the other island. Im in London because i missed out on going to ireland :icon28:
so you could say I came from an island to an island instead of ireland the island...

what about Ireland now??? im from ireland...

Post by **NCG_Mike** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:47 am

"Moe.. who's going to Hawaii? Am I going to Hawaii?"

Post by **CitizenKane** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:45 pm

rofl, got a bit excited there

Post by **torq** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:29 pm

smcfancontrol is really nice to cool that beast

Post by **Dave** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:31 am

S@M wrote:woah,
this forum rocks

I'm waiting for 4 cores x 2 and 4 gigs of ram before I start looking at Apple again

Post by **G-News** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:05 pm

That might be the case sooner than you think:)

Post by **torq** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:16 pm

Give G-News his personal icon back. (and registration date)

Post by **S@M** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:11 am

torq wrote:Give G-News his personal icon back. (and registration date)

and combine the accounts for S@M and rhyder - under S@M

please

Post by **Dave** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:49 pm

G-News wrote:That might be the case sooner than you think:)

True, considering dell just released it's quad core boxes... expensive fuckers. I'm sure Apple's will be cheaper and faster considering the first dual core macpros were too

Post by **Doombrain** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:20 pm

NCG_Mike wrote:Hope you like the MacBook Pro. It's a fast machine but sure runs hot.

i like the heat :L

Post by **G-News** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:36 pm

Oh yeah, and do give me my icon and date back:) I feel like a bloody noob this way.

Post by JB » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:32 am

Doombrain wrote:
NCG_Mike wrote:Hope you like the MacBook Pro. It's a fast machine but sure runs hot.
i like the heat :L