Well, Tom and I are off to Meadowhall to do a bit of shopping, I wonder what tat we will come back with!!!
I feel like buying a macbook air, but I know they are pretty limited, but they look so cute.
We are however looking at getting a apple timecapsule, lets hope it helps with 1. The lack of backups, 2. The wifi here in the rented house.
It was Tom’s birthday on Friday, and the family and I had clubbed together to collect enough money for the gift he wanted.
He had a old Dell latitude laptop, a D400 or something, with the noisiest hard drive ever™. He wanted a macbook, so we drove off to Bluewater (our nearest apple store) to get one.
once there, we finally decided on a white macbook, same spec as the black one, but £80 cheaper. We saw the same sales bloke as the last two times, but sadly he let the impression I had of him down big time by pushing the sale of silly apple support things, ffs if we needed training on how to use OSX we would not be buying our third OSX machine this year… (all bought from the same sales guy btw)
I thought he would have realised the reason I liked buying from him was his no-nonsense selling manner, but maybe they have been told to try to mis-sell support services by management or something 
Anyways, we parted with too much money, then went to Costa (lot) coffee, Tom was well happy and opened the box right away to have a play (since apple ship there machines with 50% odd battery life)
The opening of a apple product is like so cool, you cannot believe how cool apple products are packaged. So he opened it up and went through the setting up sequence and had a play with it, all the time with a massive smile on his face.
Since then, he did a rebuild, as we are both geeks and like doing that kind of thing, and has hardly left it alone 
The dell laptop has not been switched on once, not even to copy data over, which I think is cool as I got a bit of peace from the clunky hard drive.
He even found some OSS book writing software and has been busy writing his mathematics book.
Lets end by saying tom is very impressed with the build, fit and finish etc of the apple macbook. we will probably be installing ubuntu on it at some point, as the ubuntu install is a lot easier on that than my macbookpro (which I am waiting for others to write ubuntu install guides for first)
Just back in June 2007 I bought a 15″ Core2Duo 2.2Ghz MacBook Pro from the Apple Store in BlueWater, and thought it about time I made a report on it.
I bought the laptop a matter of days after the slight upgrade and price drop, so I got the SantaRosa cpu and all for the sum of £1299 - which I thought expensive but better value than the previous models.
I had a great time in the store, sales assistants were helpful, it was light and airy, there was no pressure to be forced into a sale, nothing like PC World or similar, I was very impressed. I chose the Glossy screen, took me ages to decide too, but in the end I thought that the glossy screen suited my intended use better.
I have joined the apple discussions forums and helped out a bit, and read up on what troubles people have had with these laptops, obviously being a support site, people are mostly there to whinge or seek help, not to give help like me. I have had no issues at all with my machine, well except the skipping a key problem, but thats a very very minor issue for me.
Over all I am very happy with this laptop, and since it is the first machine I have bought with my own money, thats just as well :p
Well, a short while ago I bought a MacBookPro.
It’s a great piece of engineering and I really like it, OSX is easy to get used to etc, but I felt really guity, as it has a closed source OS on it.
Well today I thought i’d have a go at putting Ubuntu on it, as the last time I tried I had some problems,
I followed the guide here Ubuntu Wiki Link and got most it installed, rEFIt is brilliant, it looks great and performs well.
The only things left are hoping someone figures out how to get audio, wifi and the Nvidia graphics card working, as at the moment it is rather quiet, non-roaming and using vesa graphics drivers, sadly.
