Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Help me decide on a MacBook.

(NT) They're both 5400rpm

Is bootcamp a stable beta?

I want to use it for my XP stuff, but I'm not sure about it's reliability.

Black is Cool

I guess I'll go with the black since I'm a PC guy and I'm not ready to own a white notebook.

Black Friday Sale

I thought Apple only had accessories for sale during Black friday. If the sale applies to the macbooks and the macbook pros, I'm totally waiting in line at 5am.

Leopard in "Spring '07"

First:

Leopard won't be released until "Spring '07" as noted by Steve Jobs during WWDC in August of this year. That is unless he's underpromising with the intention of over delivering.

Second:

Yes Intel just released it's first quad core processor. However, there is a performance hit in the fact that there is overhead involved in separating tasks to four cores. Unless the software is multithreaded in design, and is designed to actually use all four cores, you'll most likely see a performance hit, rather than a boost. I think either Anandtech or Bit-tech has a great article on this.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but currently Apple's iLife suite is designed to use both cores of the duo chips, however it's not suited for 4 core processors. You can also assume that most third party software is not written for multi-cores just yet either, not even for the dual core procs.

Summary: Buy the macbook when you want, waiting a month or two probably won't get you anything that you can't get now. Also, I came from the PC world where everything is black. The white stands out which is one reason why I went that route with the first edition Macbook. I also specc'd it out the same as the black (larger HD) and upped the RAM to 2GB.

RE: Which MacBook (color) + Black Friday Sales

Well, everyone has brought an aesthetic (sp?) point. I had a friend who had a white iBook (equivalent to the MacBook) and I was always afraid of somehow getting it dirty. I can't remember if his skin residue from long period of ownership usage eventually turned the white to a darker shade where your hands would rest on the keyboard, but I think in this sense... the black MacBook would be ideal. It's sleek, it's thin, and black is the new white.


PS - I'm almost 100% certain that all Apple products including computers would be on sale on Black Friday. If I'm wrong, I apologize.

Personally, I'm Going for the Black One

When I buy my Macbook, I need to time my purchase perfectly. I want to get it as soon as leaopard is released. However, I need to get it before that strange under-laptop disc drive comes out, part of the reason i'm buying a macbook is the cool slot loader, SOOOOO much cooler than a tray.

What I think that comes to is a mid-keynote purchase, so lets see how that goes for me!!