Buying a Macbook? Pro or no? - Page 2

Mak213 · 06-26-2008, 08:11 PM

Hello,

Just to elaberate on tehdigit's post on drive speeds. You really dont want a 7200 RPM Drive in a laptop. While they are faster at tranferring, they also tend to run hotter. That is why alot of laptop's run with 5400 Drives. To keep the heat down.

Cheers,
Mak

tehdigit · 06-26-2008, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mak213

Hello,

Just to elaberate on tehdigit's post on drive speeds. You really dont want a 7200 RPM Drive in a laptop. While they are faster at tranferring, they also tend to run hotter. That is why alot of laptop's run with 5400 Drives. To keep the heat down.

Cheers,
Mak

good point

KurrentEweser · 06-27-2008, 12:39 PM

My Hitatchi 7200 rpm drive runs cooler than my body temperature. It depends on who makes the drive.

Mak213 · 06-27-2008, 12:52 PM

With the average human body temp being 98.6F or 37C you should hope that you hard drives are at or below that temp. Getting into the 40C range is dangerous. 50C is bad. for hard drive temps. So yeah that isn't a good gage.

Cheers,
Mak

zeroinfinity2 · 07-05-2008, 04:33 AM

I've had 2 MBP's and I would recommend them to anyone. However, as been stated, the run HOT! Well, the older ones do. I had a first gen one (with the ATI GPU), and it ran so hot that it would burn me.

Kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop. The newer ones, if you can afford it, run a lot cooler, and have the 8600. But, for your general college and Warcraft, I'd recommend a regular Macbook (get the matte screen, I'm told it makes truer colors).

EricB · 08-24-2008, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by zeroinfinity2

I've had 2 MBP's and I would recommend them to anyone. However, as been stated, the run HOT! Well, the older ones do. I had a first gen one (with the ATI GPU), and it ran so hot that it would burn me.

Kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop. The newer ones, if you can afford it, run a lot cooler, and have the 8600. But, for your general college and Warcraft, I'd recommend a regular Macbook (get the matte screen, I'm told it makes truer colors).

they really run hot if you dual boot to xp. xp can't run the fans

Drizzt5 · 08-24-2008, 09:17 PM

You don't have to dual boot... you could run a windows emulator. A friend of mine played needforspeed or something on his macbook with an emulator... ran a little choppy, but it WAS newer game then Warcraft.

luke992006 · 08-24-2008, 09:54 PM

why not just get a cheap laptop, instead of a mac? it would save you a lot of money and u could still do anything u could on a mac.

Quote:

You don't have to dual boot... you could run a windows emulator. A friend of mine played needforspeed or something on his macbook with an emulator... ran a little choppy, but it WAS newer game then Warcraft.

talk of emulators is no longer aloud on the forum.

Ventriac · 08-24-2008, 10:16 PM

get the 1500$ one, the rebate that it has is really nice which brings the comp to 900$, and anything now a days can play wc3, as i use to be addicted to that game and played it on a P3, 1.2 or something, 512 ram, integrated video, laptop. So even if the 2300 is an upgrade in the video card you DON'T need it. As for the hard drive being 50gbs bigger you can always buy an external for whatever you intend to use it for.

Drizzt5 · 08-25-2008, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luke992006

why not just get a cheap laptop, instead of a mac? it would save you a lot of money and u could still do anything u could on a mac.

talk of emulators is no longer aloud on the forum.

You can buy these emulators and use them legally on the mac.

06-26-2008, 08:11 PM	#11 (permalink)
Mak213 Commander Super Mod Joker Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In Trotter's crawl space Posts: 15,571	Re: Buying a Macbook? Pro or no? Hello, Just to elaberate on tehdigit's post on drive speeds. You really dont want a 7200 RPM Drive in a laptop. While they are faster at tranferring, they also tend to run hotter. That is why alot of laptop's run with 5400 Drives. To keep the heat down. Cheers, Mak __________________

06-27-2008, 12:39 PM	#13 (permalink)
KurrentEweser Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 793	Re: Buying a Macbook? Pro or no? My Hitatchi 7200 rpm drive runs cooler than my body temperature. It depends on who makes the drive.

06-27-2008, 12:52 PM	#14 (permalink)
Mak213 Commander Super Mod Joker Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In Trotter's crawl space Posts: 15,571	Re: Buying a Macbook? Pro or no? With the average human body temp being 98.6F or 37C you should hope that you hard drives are at or below that temp. Getting into the 40C range is dangerous. 50C is bad. for hard drive temps. So yeah that isn't a good gage. Cheers, Mak __________________

07-05-2008, 04:33 AM	#15 (permalink)
zeroinfinity2 Newb Techie Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 25	Re: Buying a Macbook? Pro or no? I've had 2 MBP's and I would recommend them to anyone. However, as been stated, the run HOT! Well, the older ones do. I had a first gen one (with the ATI GPU), and it ran so hot that it would burn me. Kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop. The newer ones, if you can afford it, run a lot cooler, and have the 8600. But, for your general college and Warcraft, I'd recommend a regular Macbook (get the matte screen, I'm told it makes truer colors).

08-24-2008, 09:17 PM	#17 (permalink)
Drizzt5 Banned Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Joisy Posts: 2,815	Re: Buying a Macbook? Pro or no? You don't have to dual boot... you could run a windows emulator. A friend of mine played needforspeed or something on his macbook with an emulator... ran a little choppy, but it WAS newer game then Warcraft.

08-24-2008, 10:16 PM	#19 (permalink)
Ventriac Super Techie Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Maine Posts: 399	Re: Buying a Macbook? Pro or no? get the 1500$ one, the rebate that it has is really nice which brings the comp to 900$, and anything now a days can play wc3, as i use to be addicted to that game and played it on a P3, 1.2 or something, 512 ram, integrated video, laptop. So even if the 2300 is an upgrade in the video card you DON'T need it. As for the hard drive being 50gbs bigger you can always buy an external for whatever you intend to use it for. __________________ CPU AMD 5000+ 3.0 Stock CoolerMB Biostar 790GX RamCrucial 2GB DDR2667 GPUIntegrated HD3300 PSU 420W Raidmax HDD WD 640 GB

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