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My new laptop rules

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Technically I haven't even turned it on yet since I've been so busy today - but this thing is really impressive looking and far better made than my other laptop (that I'm on now).

Hopefully I won't be pulling a Beastboy and finding out in a bit that this thing is busted or something.

Mac 15" Alum PowerBook with SuperDrive, 1.25G processor, and 512M ram.

Tonight I'm going to run some benchmarks on it to see what sort of differences there are in the processors (my current laptop has an Athlon 4 - which is the mobile version of the Athlon chip).
 
I just was at ou office supply/computer shop that we have a company account with.
They had Panther there, so I got that - didn't put it on the company account. $199. I could get it for $19 if I did it online as an upgrade through Apple directly - but they won't ship it here, so it would take me until the end of the month, and I want the thing now.

So there.

Going to get a wireless network setup at lunch for my home network. That will make my fiancee happier about the cables that are strewn about (really only one that crosses the living room towards one side).
She freaks about cables the same way I would if an elephant was dead and rotting in our living room.
 
Ohhh wireless is fun. I got a linksys A/G bb router cards and a wap. Love it!
 
WODIN said:
Ohhh wireless is fun. I got a linksys A/G bb router cards and a wap. Love it!
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Can your wap cook? j/k

WTF is a wap?

I have a Dell Router and it sucks....My house is about 75'wide and I can't get a signal on the opposite end. Could it be because the master bedroom (where the router is) has blown in insulation in all the walls including the interior?
 
WAP = Wireless Access point. It allows you to share multiple devices across a wireless network. You know like printers n shit.
 
WODIN said:
WAP = Wireless Access point. It allows you to share multiple devices across a wireless network. You know like printers n shit.
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Okay...do you know the answer to my second question? Do you have the G card or B card or whatever letters they are?

Maybe I just have a shitty router....bought it from the same dealer as my truck.
 
There are 3 802.11 standards.

I have G cards on our system.

A = 54 mbs @ 2.4 ghz
B = 11 mbs @ 2.4 ghz
G = 54 mbs @ 5.0 ghz

I went with the G standard @ the 5.0 ghz band because there isn't alot of traffic there.
 
WODIN said:
There are 3 802.11 standards.

I have G cards on our system.

A = 54 mbs @ 2.4 ghz
B = 11 mbs @ 2.4 ghz
G = 54 mbs @ 5.0 ghz

I went with the G standard @ the 5.0 ghz band because there isn't alot of traffic there.
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I have the B.

Do you have to have a router that matches the card. B to B , G to G, or does the router work with both and the speed the card can do?
 
If you have the B card you can buy and A/B router or B only router.
 
I was out at lunch to get the wireless shit and couldn't remember what the Mac could do - and since it is built in, I couldn't just get a card (well, could, but silly).
So I came back to my office to check - it can do the G.

So I got a G wireless unit and will use that for my Mac - later I will get two wireless cards for my other laptop and for my fiancee's laptop.
But those can wait.
In the office I'm hooked up to the regular wired network.

I'm installing Panther right now. The slot loading drive is kinda scary. Then again, I'm easily scared. whoa.
This thing rules - going to take a bit to get used to swapping back and forth between the two keyboards of it and my old one.

They say that it gets "warm" with use. My Windows laptop gets so "warm" that it melts the plastic/rubber feet on it now that the heat-sink fan doesn't work.
The Mac's "warm" is just a little bit warmer than someone's skin on a warm day from what I can tell.

So shiny.
 
BBoy - wise move better bandwidth area.

NDN - You should change your handle to UBERGEEK.
 
I'm proud to be an UberGeek. It is how I make my money.

I have a fun new side project that could feasibly get me in Wired and definitely on Slashdot :)
 
802.11g is 2.4ghz by default, which is the same frequency microwaves and some cordless phones are on. If you put the devices too close you can lose the signal when the phone rings. You can change it in the WAP setup though.
I have a Linksys WAP with a crapass signal. I get a better connection to one of my neighbors usually and often surf thru them.
 
i want the powerbook
i hate the ibook i'm on
trying to get the owners to upgrade me

I WANT THE SUPERDRIVE!!!!

let me know if you like the Panther
 
Dial_tone said:
802.11g is 2.4ghz by default, which is the same frequency microwaves and some cordless phones are on. If you put the devices too close you can lose the signal when the phone rings. You can change it in the WAP setup though.
I have a Linksys WAP with a crapass signal. I get a better connection to one of my neighbors usually and often surf thru them.
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Just use a 900 mhz phone and you can configure the router to the 5.0 ghz range on the G standard from Linksys. I did.

I love hot linking if possible. Your neighbor doesn't have his WEP enabled?
 
There are 4 other WAPs in my building. One of them isn't using WEP so his junk is wide open. I even changed his SSID and configuration before I realized it wasn't my own.
 
Wow. The mighty has fallen. If I remember you correctly, you would never get a Mac even if your mother was held at a gunpoint. I don't blame you, though. I'd have done the same thing.
 
Dial_tone said:
802.11g is 2.4ghz by default, which is the same frequency microwaves and some cordless phones are on. If you put the devices too close you can lose the signal when the phone rings. You can change it in the WAP setup though.
I have a Linksys WAP with a crapass signal. I get a better connection to one of my neighbors usually and often surf thru them.
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Here the only choices are the Linksys (which I have had in the past, and won't go back to since I now prefer NetGear) or D-Link. If I wanted NetGear, then I would have to special order it, which would cost more and take longer.

So I got a D-Link thing. I could have saved $70 and going with 802.11b and the device is very small (smaller than my fist), but I have had that in the past and the speed difference over being wired is annoying - that said, I might not even notice it here since it is so slow.

Our phone is in the 900Mhz range and the microwave is further away from the unit than the laptop will be.
Out place is so small that I will be sitting no more than 15 feet away from the device at all times.
 
OlavZipser said:
Wow. The mighty has fallen. If I remember you correctly, you would never get a Mac even if your mother was held at a gunpoint. I don't blame you, though. I'd have done the same thing.
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Don't know who you used to be, but yes - I have long hated Macs. With the new Panther though, this one now does everything that I need - and the new processor runs a lot cooler than the previous ones (although it is getting warm - but not so warm that it crashes itself like my Windows laptop).

But Panther is fantastic and the Xcode tools are the main reason I wanted it. They have worked out nearly everything that I had issues with.

Safari is a little slow and the built in Google toolbar that it has doesn't give me the options that I want (to go directly to search images or discussions instead of just the web, and it doesn't have buttons for the words I just searched for so that I can quickly find them within the page).

The trackpad is annoyingly different and the single mouse button is annoying - not in that there is just one (I try to use more keyboard shortcuts now anyway), but in that the button needs to be pressed fairly well centered or it doesn't react - that is annoying.
The trackpad itself feels weird to me and it doesn't respond all that well, even after adusting the settings on it.

But all in all - it is pretty close to MovieOS - and I must say I'm impressed.
 
Damn bros with the lingo.

I`m coming here when I want advice on a new laptop. props.
 
Dial_tone said:
There are 4 other WAPs in my building. One of them isn't using WEP so his junk is wide open. I even changed his SSID and configuration before I realized it wasn't my own.
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Last time I used a wireless sytem was in 2001 I think. At the time any wireless encryption was still relatively easy to crack.

We live in an area with a huge nature preserve on one side of us, and then only a few houses right around us - none of which are tech smart - so I don't have to worry too much.

My friend at Harvard was going to get his own network connection and then noticed that his new laptop was picking up a strong wireless connection.
He then asked me for some tips on how to make his connection secure (so that the person who's system he was connecting to couldn't monitor him on banking stuff) and now he is good to go.
He was going to try to find the person who it belongs to and offer to split the costs, but he can't track them down.
 
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