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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

yes. centrino is the only way PC laptops have ever gotten close (and
in some cases exceeded) apple's battery life with a stock
configuration that i can remember (which isn't *that* long, but i've
been a fanboy for a while, and you gotta keep an eye on the
competition)

i have to agree that centrino rocks, if only for the reason that it
and the pentium-m seem to be getting the dark side to realize a little
more that MHz really don't matter.

~ian


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:20:34 -0500, Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com> wrote:
> Ah.  Very nice.
> 
> http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index15.html
> "...and a 4.5-hour battery"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Spencer [mailto:tony AT tonyspencer.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:16 PM
> To: 'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'
> Subject: RE: [internetworkers] why not a mac?
> 
> I'm curious.  What is the battery life on the new mac laptops?  I get over 4
> hours on a single charge on my Centrino Dell Latitude D-800.  This is normal
> use.  Playing a DVD pulls much more power but I can still easily watch a
> movie and have power to spare.  Centrino rocks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Wilson [mailto:alex AT awstudios.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:45 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] why not a mac?
> 
> On 11/11/04 11:51 AM, "Ian Meyer" <ianmeyer AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > basically, I know a lot of mac users. I also know a lot of people who
> > think they're great computers, but for one reason or another, don't
> > have one. My question is simple: for all you non-mac users out there
> > in INW land, what is the main reason you don't have a mac?
> 
> For me, I didn't find the hardware cost to be a problem, because a
> comparable laptop running Windows (but heavier, with worse battery life)
> would cost about the same as an iBook at the time. But it was a matter of
> 
> (A) having to pay again for software I had already purchased for Windows.
> Adobe has crossplatform upgrades, but Macromedia and some other high end
> software doesn't.
> 
> (B) not knowing how to troubleshoot Macs. I'd used Windows for five years
> (and never owned or seriously used a Mac) and family members would call me
> with their computers for four of those years. If something went wrong, I was
> stuck. And never owning a laptop before, I just assumed there would be
> problems.
> 
> I ended up switching anyway, because battery life was the most important
> thing for my thinking at the time. This was 2001.
> 
> (B) turned out to be no problem. Yeah, I was uncomfortable doing my
> quarterly backup-nuke-paves to keep Windows running smoothly, but it turned
> out I didn't need to.
> 
> (A) turned out to be a problem, mainly because I switched in 2001. Software
> wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be and I could use VirtualPC to do
> file conversions and such when necessary, but I would occasionally need to
> buy the Mac version of a piece of software, and then need to upgrade six
> months later when I wanted the software to run natively in this newfangled
> thing called OS X.
> 
> Anyway, those were my obstacles and aside from having to plunk down more
> money on software than I would have liked, I'm really glad I switched. YMMV.
> 
> Alex.
> 
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