My Macbook, which is only about a year old, has an easily replaceable battery that will usually give me abut five hours of computing time. Enough for a flight to California. Works for me. Paul On Sep 5, 2010, at 4:52 PM, drd1...@gmail.com wrote:
> Damn, out of popcorn. Hang on while I run to the kitchen. > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> > Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 16:47:22 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> > Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: OT PC thingies > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: >> On 2010-09-05 10:56 , Adam Maas wrote: >>> >>> I'm talking Dell, HP, Toshiba and Lenovo here. Similar quality >>> components, sometimes better (HP for example uses Asus MB's on their >>> desktops, better quality boards than the Mac desktop boards aside from >>> the Mac Pro's). The components used in the non-Pro Mac's are nothing >>> special and some parts (desktop PSU's in particular) are inferior to >>> the standardized designs used in the PC world. >> >> avoiding the general point, some high points on Mac components are batteries >> in current MacBooks and MacBooks Pro, and displays on current iMacs; also >> worth mentioning that the current Mini has an extremely low power draw > > Actually, the Batteries are a current low point. Good life at the cost > of a shop-run to replace. The iMac displays are good. The Mini's power > draw is nothing special, any laptop-based SFF PC will have similar > draw (that's how the Mini achieves it) and the Mini gives up a LOT of > performance to get the low power draw. Most SFF PC's are based on > desktop hardware and have significantly greater performance, > especially in terms of video and HDD performance. > >> >> >>> Note Macs are poor hosts for OS's other than OS X or >>> >>> Windows as well >> >> how so? do you mean that virtualized OSs run more slowly, or what? i >> certainly get what i need running Win2000, XP & 7 plus various Ubuntu and >> CentOS VMs, so for my modest purposes i don't understand what you might mean >> by "poor host" >> > > Virtualization is fine, booting natively not so much and getting those > OS's to boot on EFI-based systems can be a real pain. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
