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    Ok, so I went to an Apple store to see the new Macbooks...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by gohanssjn, May 30, 2006.

  1. gohanssjn

    gohanssjn Notebook Evangelist

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    And all of them seemed really....slow?

    I even reset one and it took over 3 min to get word running. Is this noraml? Cause the black one looks really nice >.>
     
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    Office for mac has not been optimized for the use of dual core processors. same goes for photoshop, and a few others.
     
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    Sadly this seems like the limitation of having only 512MB as standard configuration but remember that Microsoft Office is still not a Universal Binary and thus, has to be run through Rosetta. It's not as if Windows XP is a speed devil with only 512MB either ;)

    When I inserted an extra 1GB in my MacBook Pro it helped quite a lot.
     
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    Also, maybe it's the gloss on the screen, but the text looked like it was "Cleartype"'d. I hate that stuff. Making it blurry and less crisp for some people visibility. Drives me nuts. Can that be turned off?
     
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    yeah, when i went to the store they seemed a bit on the slow side, but i picked one up today and its amazingly fast :D
     
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    The next version of Office for mac will be Universal Binary, however it is first slated for next year, if I recall correctly.
     
    Pressure, May 31, 2006
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    Rosetta takes almost twice as longer compared to G5 due to binary issues.

    In my opinion, I think Tiger OS X needs at least minimum of 1GB DDR/DDR2 memory just to keep the color wheel from occuring frequently.
     
    t.i., May 31, 2006
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    I wished Apple added the two button right click feature to the touch pad since I don't usually carry a mouse with me.
     
    t.i., May 31, 2006
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