[TriLUG] Macbook Curious

[John Broome]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 15:35, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I personally think that the hardware is, in general, better put together,
>> even if the specs aren't the best.  I have a first generation Core Duo
>> Macbook from June 2006 and it's still going strong.   The plastic is/was
>
> My wife has a 2006 era MacBook and it is still going strong.  The
> battery firmware had a bug, Apple replaced the battery under warranty,
> and I have upgraded the HDD just to hold more digital photos.  After
> the last major OS X upgrade (Snow Leopard), Apple improved their
> compiler or something, and the MacBook actually ran faster that it did
> originally.
>
> The MacBook just works (TM).  Close the lid and it goes to sleep, open
> the lid and it is ready to go in a second or two - really fast.
>
> As for tax software, H&R Block comes with both Win and Mac versions on
> the same CDROM.
>
> Every time I touch a Win 7 laptop I am disappointed at all the little
> things, like boot times,  weekly updates and patches,  pre-installed
> crap-ware, malware, anti-virus bog etc.  It leaves you feeling icky.
> We know better than that !


This.

2006 era macbook here.  Had the cracking near the palmrest and that
was a covered fix.  Didn't know about the battery firmware bug, but
recently purchased a replacement from OWC for < $100.

I need a bash shell to do my work, cygwin and putty aren't cutting it
on windows.  I don't want to dick around with worrying about if my
sound isn't going to play or the wireless is going to work or if the
laptop is going to wake up from sleep if it even goes to sleep in the
first place after an apt-get upgrade.

When i cash out my vacation time here i'm headed to a 15" MBP with 8
GB of aftermarket ram, the macbook gets passed on to my wife.

I certainly won't have to wonder if *that* will run VMs or not.

I'm not purchasing turbotax.  I did my taxes on the web which worked
fine in Chrome on the mac.