Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Elzar

Thinking about the Crackintosh eh? It was only a matter of time before you came back around to the old flame. Once a mac user always a coke user. Gotta admit if I had the bones I would buy one too.

Anyway, the nitty gritty is this... if you can wait a few months, do. The current gen has a few wrinkles they need to iron out. AKA, cheap thermal paste appliction issues that lead to overheating on some units (both Macbook and Macbook Pro). The great thing about being with Intel is that the release cycles/upgrade bumps are sure to be more often, albeit less significant changes in features/performance from release to release. Anyway the next gen is around the corner and should provide a bump in perf and some bug/flaw fixes. If you can not wait, well it will still be a nice unit to have.

If you want to run Wow, do not get the plain MacBook. It is a dog with graphics. It is an intigrated video adapter a la Intel IG shit. Not only does this sap main memory but it dumps a lot of the processing on your CPU. Poor 3d performance and WoW may be miserable. The MacBook Pros do not have integrated graphics, in fact they use ATI X1600 mobility, a much more capable processor. I would do some looking around in the forums if I were you.

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