Macbook Pro gets Core 2 Duo!

I don't believe anyone has tested that yet .

 

Oh joy! My macbook pro is being shipped to Indiana (which is where I am right now) from SHANGHAI, CHINA....Guess I'll have to wait about 2-3 weeks for it to get here. Anyone else waiting for their macbook pros to come in?

EDIT: Nevermind, the email says it's estimated to get here on November 1st! Can't wait to become a mac user again! Hopefully it'll be better than the last time I owned a mac which was back in the days of PowerPCs (I always got the bomb error which forced me to restart the mac but when I tried clicking the restart button, the computer would freeze).

 

Completely different now, the most you'd have to worry about like that would be a kernel panic, which is usually fairly rare, and usually caused by bad hardware, etc. Outside of that, OS X is a completely different OS from the classic Mac OS days and those "bomb errors".

 

I really do hope so! Bombs errors were the reason why I stayed away from macs for so many years.

 

You know the funny thing is, that Woz was just recently at a press event for his book, and he was quoted at this event to say that he felt Apple purchasing NeXT OS was a bad idea for apple and that Macs were totally fine without any issues back then. Uh, like most others I think hes off his lid with that comment, that purchase in my opinion was a great idea.

Mac OS X was built much ontop of NeXT OS technology, and I feel that it contributed a lot to OS X's stability issues. Yes I do remember in the wee days of Mac, the Macs in the lab at school were horrible, they crashed SO MUCH.

However the Mac OS X has improved much since then as they added much more features of the BSD variants

 

For what it's worth, Woz did go on to say:

I think his point was more at the time that it wasn't necessary for Apple to buy a completely new OS, instead of working on improving the existing OS. I think he also did feel that whatever it's flaws, the classic Mac OS was incredibly secure compared to a UNIX-based OS like OS X, and certainly to some degree this is true; the classic Mac OS simply didn't have a lot of the underlying layers that something like UNIX has.

But I wouldn't read too much into it. Woz does realize that ultimately Apple is in a good position now with OS X. It really is more just what his thinking was at the time.