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New MacBook Pros To Sport Light Peak Technology
An anonymous reader writes "Over the past few years, Apple has systematically upgraded the base level MacBook to a level where the difference between the Pro and consumer models were arguably becoming negligible. That's about to change. Apple will reportedly introduce a completely re-designed MacBook Pro this April that will borrow features from the recently released MacBook Air. The new Pros will reportedly come with an SSD and Light Peak technology, a transfer protocol capable of 10 Gbps both up and down. Light Peak, jointly developed by Intel and Apple, will reportedly be an Apple exclusive at first."
Hasn't ethernet pretty much won over Fibre Channel?
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I couldn't write any response to your post that didn't come off sounding like I was trolling so all I can say is...
I'm one of those people that dislike Apple on principle and that I disagree with you about your last statement. In a banana to banana (because you know I hate Apples) comparison I wouldn't pretend to say that Win 7 is on the same level, I'd just flat out say that Win 7 is well above it.
The last 2 posts in this thread mirror my experiences 100%.
As perhaps my most recent "why the hell can't Linux ever detect all the hardware properly?" moment? I had an old Acer laptop (circa 2002) that was in like-new condition. One of my customers dug it out of her closet and gave it to me, saying "It's so old, I don't want it anymore, but I rarely used it even when it was new .... so maybe you can do something constructive with it?" I upgraded the PC100 memory in it from 64MB to 256MB, so it at least had a CHANCE of doing something useful, and proceeded to install Linux on it. First, I tried Ubuntu -- but it ran PAINFULLY slow. Obviously not designed with a Pentium II based processor in mind, these days. Then I started doing research to find out which distro was recommended for a vintage machine like this. I settled on CrunchBang Linux, after looking at a LOT of options. Turns out neither the latest Ubuntu OR CrunchBang could detect the built-in sound on the machine though! It is REALLY so much to ask, for a Linux distro to auto-detect something as basic as a sound chipset on a laptop that they had 8 YEARS to get around to supporting properly??
"all the Mac users I know have little understanding about hardware, nor do they care to know about the hardware."
Not having to care is liberating.
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I'll bet it's liberating.
Probably feels good to know that you can easily get ripped off because you have no knowledge about the hardware, so you don't know exactly what your paying for or getting. Not to mention being overcharged for repairs because you have no clue.
You brought up cars today and not needing to know which sparkplug, etc. Well, mechanics have been ripping people off like you for a long time. why? because you don't bother to learn anything about your car, so you are subject to what they say, because you do NOT know better.
That makes you a very uninformed consumer. the type companies like, because they love to rip you off.
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