Hi, I'm going to buy the new MacBook AIR full loaded but I have been reading all the discussions here and look like it has so many problems. My other option is the MacBook Retina.
I am worry about these amount of problem that I just read about MBair. I want to change to apple because most of my genetic software runs very good in these computer. As I said MBP retina is my other option. I am thinking to buy a full loaded MBair. I will appreciate your comments or/and recomendations. Thanks
Keep in mind what you are reading here is a biased sample, by definition. People mainly come here because they have a problem. A user who is not experiencing any problems is very likely to have never eveh heard of these forums.
Keep in mind that Apple sells millions of laptops every year, and you have no idea how many of them do NOT have the problems you see being discussed here. And if there were truly huge numbers of dissatisfied customers, how has Apple continued to sell so many computers consistantly for so many years?
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Your iBookG4 is still a pretty awesome Mac. Like already said, it has the power to run Leopard, but it depends if you have an internal DVD drive.
Then I suppose you have to add up the cost of the OS, perhaps another 512MB RAM, iLife 08 and replacements for any favourite apps that you currently use (Leopard breaks a lot of stuff, but Intel breaks even more). Compare it to the cost of a new MacBook, which wil have all of that included and be 3-4x faster too.
It also depends on what you want to achieve with your iBook. My PMG4 still cuts it today, I still use it in preference to my new Mac Pro, It's about the same age as your iBook, and I'll only stop using it when it becomes "painfully" slow. My 1 year old son currently uses the Mac Pro (parts for a Mac Pro are easier to replace than those for a PMG4).
I think your choice is simple, if you can a cheap copy of Tiger, use that, it'll get your iPod Touch up and running. It came in DVD and 4 CD version (by request).
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oh thanx for the reply....actually i was worked in information technology sector company...i worked on java and mainframe platform....so if i buy an apple macbook pro and if it doesn't supports those developer programs i need to buy an pc......so i need to be confirmed....if u know abt this please explain me detailed...thanx again...:)
Are you being serious?
If you've done any programming in Java then I'd really have hoped you already realised it is a platform independent programming language, that was Sun's original intention when they created it , to be able to run compiled code on any Java Virtual Machine regardless of the platform:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29
And as for "dot net" - do you not realise that this is purely a MS Windows development framework?!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework
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The one where it runs and starts up successfully is running on SunFire (OS is Solaris 10).
I am wondering if there is a problem with the JVM loading required libraries because of the OS being different versions.
Any leads on this is welcomed. Thank you.
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Hon Peng
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On Fujitsu Primepower
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bash-2.05$ ldd -r libjvm.so
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libsched.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsched.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
libCrun.so.1 => /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1
libm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libm.so.1
libthread.so.1 => /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1
libnsl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
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libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1
libCrun.so.1 => /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1
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libthread.so.1 => /lib/libthread.so.1
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
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But ultimately the choice is down to you - you don't have to update. You will find that over time apps will start to have iOS 5 as a requirement (the current versions of Pages, Numbers, Keynote already do), so at some point you will probably need to do so if one of your existing apps gets updates that you'd like to have, and/or a new app is released that you want - but you can wait until if/when that happens, the choice is yours. -
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Andy -
I am going to buy myself a MacBook Pro in the near future and was wondering if the new Retina Display model would be worth the extra cash. I will mostly be doing photo/video/music editing.
if you're not in a big rush - why not hold off until Adobe and Microsoft releases an update to support the Retina Screen.
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How is it hard to get it serviced?
How long have you had your iPod?
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If you've had it less than a year, send it back to Apple to replace the battery.
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It's called a dock connector, not a USB port.
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