Posted on 02/24/2011 3:52:48 AM PST by Swordmaker
Thanks....definitely will keep that in mind if I get a hot laptop or a friend does. With the whole computer world moving towards laptops and other mobile devices I think there won’t be so many mismatches of CPU and laptop heat removal designs. Plus won’t be tolerated by the buying public
A lot of people don't *need* the big trucks, but they buy them. Nobody *needs* a Mercedes E class, a Toyota will get them there just as well, but they buy them anyway. That doesn't make them too expensive or overpriced. It just makes them not what YOU want.
So instead I will spend $400 like a rational human being will...on an HP laptop with that same screen size of 15.4”.
But you won't quite get the same quality or level of hardware or software, or support, and you'll get a much larger laptop (over 50% bigger) with lower battery life (over one fifth less, and HP's battery life estimates are not very real-world, while Mac users often get more than stated). You may not think you *need* or want that quality, but many do. Quit trying to drag everybody else down to your low level of expectation.
I work from home and seldom go out. Every once in a while I feel the need to be around people, even if I don’t interact with them. Birkenstocks are about the only kind of shoes I can wear due to a back injury...
No BS, it’s an older Mac Book. I wish I had a sleek machine with 8GB of RAM. I develop mostly these days, so I could almost work on a smart phone with a keyboard attachment and toss the laptop - almost. I mostly write JSP, JS, CSS, and HTML. All I need is a text editor and FTP program for that stuff. When I don’t need PS on a daily basis is when I switch to a smart phone as my exclusive work platform. Won’t it be glorious?
Understood. Wish you had made that clear when you complained that MacBooks couldn't handle it when running all of those programs, and that when you needed a notebook for 'WORK' (in all capitals, as you emphasized it), to get a PC. You could also get a newer MacBook and you wouldn't have those problems, so in my opinion there was no need to disparage MacBooks as a result of your experience. And Microsoft DOES NOT produce or support Internet Explorer for the current Mac operating system, so I knew there had to be something strange about slowdowns when running Internet Explorer on your MacBook.
As I said, my three-year old MacBook Pro (with 8GB RAM, though) runs programs requiring more resources than the programs you listed without hiccuping.
Six weeks ago, I replaced it with a MacBook Pro that has 8GB RAM and an i7 processor. If it's possible for me to be compressing one video through Sorenson, rendering another in Final Cut Pro (perhaps using a Red Giant plug-in like ToonIt to get those trendy cartoon-style animations from video), while generating and rendering something else in After Effects CS5 - all while running those other programs like Word, Excel, Firefox, Safari, Dreamweaver and the internal server in the background . . . and have the MacBook Pro just laugh at me, I consider it as being a notebook for work.
I'm not a Mac snob. I've only been a Mac user for three years, and I've built PCs since '92 or '93.
For me, the Mac just works, and I don't think I've ever open a MacBook up inside a coffee shop.
California company sweeps all with a clean KO...
Uh, yes, Maya is available for Mac... Maya for Mac. It's only $1995.00. I was playing with it years ago when it was PowerPC... and it's now Leopard and Snow Leopard compatible too.
I’m such a dummie....missed it. Thanks VERY MUCH.
Don't blame yourself... blame Microsoft for moving things to different places in the two versions. The interfaces should be identical.
WELL, you have a point; but I REALLY searched for it. And there it was! It must be my age. ;^)
You're welcome, but you're no dummie.
In my opinion, once Microsoft Office went to the "ribbon" concept at the top, the product became less intuitive to use.
Think of it this way: Even the 'experts' writing the guide to which you referred didn't know that the review pane in Office 2011 for Mac was in exactly the same place as in Office for WIndows.
Maya is part of a box set of AutoDesk products that I get on an educational license. Maya is cross-platform. However, 3ds Max, Cinema4D, SoftImage, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, and Sketchbox are Windows only. 3ds Max, Cinema4D, and SoftImage are also 3D programs (3ds Max is the choice for gaming creation; Cinema 4D is simply my favorite).
I run the suite of programs on Windows - only Maya will run on Mac.
Don't believe the $1,995 price tag for Maya.
The educational price tag for the entire suite was about $400.
It really is all about RAM in the end it seems to me. I wonder how work would be with a 1GHz processor and 16GB of RAM.
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