Why swap out a 160GB drive if you don't need to? So people really need all that space on a laptop? None of my 80GB laptop drives are more than 20% full.
The SD card sticking out is not a bad thing. It is not a netbook where you are using it as main storage. You will be popping it in to get photos off then pull it out. The SD card reader on my Dell has stopped holding the SD card properly and I need to hold it in while downloading so it does not shoot out. Even before it was fiddly to eject.
You really do. If you use the machine for collating your photos - something made slightly easier now by the addition of the SD card slot - that 160GB will fill up very quickly. Use it for games, movies, TV shows etc. and that space will disappear faster than the universe in contraction mode.
New MacBook Pro 13-inch is a great buy, and especially now since Apple dropped the prices across the board. Mine's a 15-incher though - I need the screen real estate.
Putting my amateur photographers hat on, I use a laptop for "onsite" photo editing. I use aperture. I have an external USB powered harddrive. The aperture library sits on this hdd. I can use it on my desktop and laptop. So for some the laptop is their principle/only computer. It's still more sensible to have your photo library on an external drive. Music the same. Yes, you can get a cheaper laptop. Yes you can get one with greater capacity, but if you are in the market for a Mac laptop, this is an excellent machine. This is an example of Apples excellent engineering too. Nobody makes computers as well, and if you are an environmentally concious soul, no-one makes them greener. People are prepare to pay a premium for that, even if some of the respondants that lurk here think that they are idiots. I'm sure the agument works both ways. Reminds me of some of the early anti-iPhone "I couldn't possibly live without MMS! How would my parents see my children!?" type logic.
A bit disappointed by the sticky our SD card. My Wii has a flush SD card reader that has never failed to spring the card out. My Powerbook holds a PCMCIA reader that SD cards fit into flush. I'd have probably preferred they drop the optical drive and given me eSATA.
On the subject of hard drives everything is on my 250G laptop drive, backed up to my Time Capsule.
Personally I think it's a good idea to make the sd card slot as shallow as possible in this case (when it's not supposed to sit in the machine for long periods of time - ala ssd netbook) - that means when some muppet (and there's a good number of them) tries to stick a micro sd or some other smaller format into the reader the chances of getting it out are greatly enhanced.
I couldn't tell you the number of memory cards I've had to pull out of the wrong slot with a couple of very small precision screwdrivers to avoid sending the whole laptop away for strip down/repair. The last one that happened to the motherboard had to be replaced cause the reader was soldered to the motherboard and completely busted by the time the card was removed.
It does make you wonder how some people procreate if they can't even find the right hole on a laptop.
Laptop drives hit 500GB some time ago. When I bought my MacBook, I bought a 500GB drive to go with it. It's easily user-replaceable. I paid less than £100 for it. Apple charge £160.
I paid the slight premium for their RAM to get it upgraded to 4GB, but I wouldn't have paid an extra 60% for a drive upgrade - that's just silly.
That all seems preety hard to use. I mean swapping the harddisk when the old one fails is a typical user task, just like replacing a toner cardridge. Although looking back at my experience with Apple computers, you would consider putting the logic board on quick release, too.
>That all seems preety hard to use. I mean swapping the harddisk when the old one fails is a typical >user task, just like replacing a toner cardridge.
The average computer user uses their computer and takes it to PC World or somewhere when there is a problem.
Anyone who can change a toner cartridge can surely use a screwdriver.
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That motherboard is tiny #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 05:42 GMT
That motherboard is so tiny you can see it evolving (a la Darwin) into the predicted sugarcube sized computer.
Charles Manning
Bah! #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 05:42 GMT
Where's the antistatic strap?
Why swap out a 160GB drive if you don't need to? So people really need all that space on a laptop? None of my 80GB laptop drives are more than 20% full.
Jon Connell
Re: Bah! #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 07:18 GMT
@Charles Manning: So people really need all that space on a laptop?
I'm guessing you don't have your music collection on your laptop and you don't edit video?
Ray 11
SD Card #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 07:18 GMT
The SD card sticking out is not a bad thing. It is not a netbook where you are using it as main storage. You will be popping it in to get photos off then pull it out. The SD card reader on my Dell has stopped holding the SD card properly and I need to hold it in while downloading so it does not shoot out. Even before it was fiddly to eject.
Chris Haynes
Yes, you need that much hard drive space #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 07:18 GMT
You really do. If you use the machine for collating your photos - something made slightly easier now by the addition of the SD card slot - that 160GB will fill up very quickly. Use it for games, movies, TV shows etc. and that space will disappear faster than the universe in contraction mode.
New MacBook Pro 13-inch is a great buy, and especially now since Apple dropped the prices across the board. Mine's a 15-incher though - I need the screen real estate.
Wrenchy
I need all that space... #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 07:56 GMT
just for all my porn.
I may have to upgrade to one of those roomy 1/2 terabyte drives for my growing collection. I hope the motherboard will support it!
Mac Phreak
Disk space #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 08:14 GMT
Putting my amateur photographers hat on, I use a laptop for "onsite" photo editing. I use aperture. I have an external USB powered harddrive. The aperture library sits on this hdd. I can use it on my desktop and laptop. So for some the laptop is their principle/only computer. It's still more sensible to have your photo library on an external drive. Music the same. Yes, you can get a cheaper laptop. Yes you can get one with greater capacity, but if you are in the market for a Mac laptop, this is an excellent machine. This is an example of Apples excellent engineering too. Nobody makes computers as well, and if you are an environmentally concious soul, no-one makes them greener. People are prepare to pay a premium for that, even if some of the respondants that lurk here think that they are idiots. I'm sure the agument works both ways. Reminds me of some of the early anti-iPhone "I couldn't possibly live without MMS! How would my parents see my children!?" type logic.
Buck Futter
@Wrenchy #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 10:07 GMT
Don't you mean milfboard?
Individual #6/42
The Apple way - taste the Koolaid #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 10:07 GMT
A bit disappointed by the sticky our SD card. My Wii has a flush SD card reader that has never failed to spring the card out. My Powerbook holds a PCMCIA reader that SD cards fit into flush. I'd have probably preferred they drop the optical drive and given me eSATA.
On the subject of hard drives everything is on my 250G laptop drive, backed up to my Time Capsule.
Ian Ferguson
No removable battery? #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 10:07 GMT
What a pain, having to dismantle the laptop to swap the battery. I'm guessing buying a spare for long trips is now out of the question.
(To be fair, I rarely find a train or plane that doesn't provide power now - but that's assuming you travel in the West)
Dan Wilkinson
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Posted Friday 12th June 2009 10:07 GMT
Where's the Kensington Lock slot gone?
Brian Whittle
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Posted Friday 12th June 2009 10:53 GMT
the lock is next to the cd slot on the other side thats why the teardown says #
Computer lock is now on the other side.
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Anonymous Coward
@ Chris Haynes - Mine's a 15-incher though #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 11:18 GMT
really? What about your laptop tho...
Anonymous Coward
Sticky out SD Card #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 12:15 GMT
Personally I think it's a good idea to make the sd card slot as shallow as possible in this case (when it's not supposed to sit in the machine for long periods of time - ala ssd netbook) - that means when some muppet (and there's a good number of them) tries to stick a micro sd or some other smaller format into the reader the chances of getting it out are greatly enhanced.
I couldn't tell you the number of memory cards I've had to pull out of the wrong slot with a couple of very small precision screwdrivers to avoid sending the whole laptop away for strip down/repair. The last one that happened to the motherboard had to be replaced cause the reader was soldered to the motherboard and completely busted by the time the card was removed.
It does make you wonder how some people procreate if they can't even find the right hole on a laptop.
Rik Hemsley
500GB drives #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 14:53 GMT
Laptop drives hit 500GB some time ago. When I bought my MacBook, I bought a 500GB drive to go with it. It's easily user-replaceable. I paid less than £100 for it. Apple charge £160.
I paid the slight premium for their RAM to get it upgraded to 4GB, but I wouldn't have paid an extra 60% for a drive upgrade - that's just silly.
Christian Berger
Hard to use #
Posted Friday 12th June 2009 15:09 GMT
That all seems preety hard to use. I mean swapping the harddisk when the old one fails is a typical user task, just like replacing a toner cardridge. Although looking back at my experience with Apple computers, you would consider putting the logic board on quick release, too.
Giles Jones
@Hard to use #
Posted Sunday 14th June 2009 16:19 GMT
>That all seems preety hard to use. I mean swapping the harddisk when the old one fails is a typical >user task, just like replacing a toner cardridge.
The average computer user uses their computer and takes it to PC World or somewhere when there is a problem.
Anyone who can change a toner cartridge can surely use a screwdriver.