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New MacBook performance decrease.
Nov 22nd
All over the blogosphere there are reports about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro’s performance decreasing when the battery is removed. By 37% to be exact. This hereby raises the questions: why did Apple allow this? What else did they do to ruin our lives? And WHO IN THE HELL CARES???
The Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro lines are laptops, or more specifically, according to Apple, notebooks. Laptops and notebooks are precisely this: portable computers. Why on earth are you removing the battery for anything more than maintenance? If you’re using your MacBook as a main computer (which I do, in fact) I’m almost certain that you don’t have to have the battery out.
I want to know who is a perpetual MacBook or any sort of notebook user who uses their portable computer without the battery in it that this 37% decrease in performance would really…REALLY affect. It doesn’t affect me, not only because I’m still using an ancient MacBook, but if I did, in fact, get myself a new MacBook Pro (hint hint xmas gift) the contacts for that battery would never see the light of day unless I was upgrading my RAM or Hard Drive. You know why? Because I use a portable computer the way it’s supposed to be used: in the office, out of the office, on the road, on a plane, in class, outside of class, at my friends house, at my neighbor’s house, at a client’s house, at my girlfriend’s house. (HINT: when typing most of these posts, I’m running on battery)
So shame on anyone who’s making a fuss about it.
[11/23/08] TUAW
Today’s Mission: Computer Repair
Jul 28th
dusty, eh?
I was given a mission today. Rid a computer of all it’s problems (without just buying a Mac), something I haven’t done in a while. What seemed to be the problem with the computer? (pictured above) Well, it was dusty as HELL, but it was also bogged down by viruses and other mal-ware. (typical Windows stuff) What I found to be most painstaking was that the power supply was completely unable to power my external drive if it needed to write something, thus causing data corruption to the backup.
Any computer tech will know my pain the second I say that it was, in fact, a Dell.
It wasn’t just the computer I was working on today. I fixed up another computer (practically the same model) and it gave me the exact same problem with the power supply. So, here’s the thought: why put a PSU in a computer (whether it be Mac or PC) that will not be able to power everything the computer can offer simultaneously? I understand that the computer is not meant for the power user, but for low-end consumers, but it should be able to work at it’s prime no matter who’s using it.
One could argue that the age of the PSU would slowly make it less powerful (small pun, lol), and I see where you’d be coming from, but I’ve got computers as old, if not older than these two I’ve worked on in the past couple days that can power more than they can.
My diagnosis: it’s one of two things: either it’s a bad PSU or it’s an ID 10 T error.
Just as no one will ever know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop, the world may never know why these power supplies are bad.
PS: I actually fixed them both completely, minus the PSU problem
Second WordPress Post! [a ramble]
Jul 23rd
ZoMg!1!! WoRdPrEsS!!1!
Ah, my second WordPress post. I’ve gotten quite familiar with this site, although I’ve been distracted most of my day today. Needless to say, my iPhone 3G has finally gotten to the imfamous 20% mark [in the red, if you will], and it’s reporting to me that it has received over 127 MB over EDGE. I somehow don’t think that that is enough.
Tomorrow [this being written at 1am, so essentially today], for me, is another lovely day in the wonderful world of retail. I think I’ll be home mid-afternoon, which could be good so that I might actually produce my podcast finally…however I might do that with WordPress, I’m not 100% sure, but I’m bound to find out the long way [just like I found out about WordPress's greatness...the long way].
In the event that you haven’t seen all of my posts either here or on twitter, I’ve recently upgraded to Leopard on my, at least, 1.5 year old MacBook [which I like to call the MacTop, cause I prefer the term laptop over notebook since I use notebooks regularly to collect my thoughts] and I absolutely am loving it, as any Mac nerd would. The only problems I’ve had is that it’s crashed twice on me, and every time I reboot it, Spotlight seems to want to index the drive all over again, thus killing my CPU. Maybe rebooting it without forcing it to shut down could fix that. Then again, I may have not updated recently.
We’ll see how tomorrow goes…you shall hear from me later [haha, literally]
