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Is Lightwave unbearably slow?

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Last edited by avkills (2006-04-27 8:00 am)

pcguy wrote:

what is your average real world run time on full charge?

Haven't run the battery down completely yet, but it was about half way after an hour or so. Sorry not more scientific. I'll try to do a test this weekend.

??  Must still sound like an old tube radio.

Does anyone use the iSight built into them? Have you found it useful?

I can see the iSight being a problem in places such as in a corporate enviroment where no cameras are allowed.

Jack Sparrow wrote:

ColourClassic wrote:

Does anyone use the iSight built into them? Have you found it useful?

I would like to know that too. I was thinking about it, but not very many people I know have webcams. Is it helpful?

I have an isight imac, and I've never used the isight, nor the remote.

Macskeeball wrote:

I can see the iSight being a problem in places such as in a corporate enviroment where no cameras are allowed.

Gov't is a concern, not corporations.

Trade up for the 17" MacBook Pro. Deep down, you know you want it.

pcguy wrote:

what is your average real world run time on full charge?

Battery time is almost exactly 2 hours * while in Windows xp *-did a test at a bookstore last night. Apple notes on their site that battery time is less on the windows side than on the Apple side because Windows lacks energy optimization tools or something to that effect. I'll do another test on the mac side...

Cobalt60 wrote:

They are great computers.  How about all the whines and buzzes that were in the first ones?  Have they been repaired?

No whines or buzzes, though the fan kicks in quite a bit while I'm playing Oblivion on the Windows side-must be a fan on the x1600 graphics card...

kamizuno wrote:

I was just wondering how hot it gets, is it so hot that you couldn't stand to have it on your bare chest, because that's how I use my iBook in bed, it gets my chest nice and toasty, not the least bit uncomfortable, so basically if it doesn't cause any pain I would enjoy having one   

Heh, you'll have to try that one yourself. It does get pretty hot, not painful hot, but then again, I only touch it momentarily there, not sleep with it.

I say stick with the 15.4, 17 is too big.. thats just me tho. The only thing that is really missing is a dual layer Superdrive and a Firewire 800 port.

Mine gets hot too but only when I'm playing games. So I don't think you'd want to keep it on your chest playing any games. When i do play games or watch movies, I've got a personal fan just cooling it off all the time. The temp is about 107F-115F while playing games with the fan on it. It goes to 122F without the fan. Surfing the web and stuff like that is ok for chest use.

And the iSight is not very useful for me. All the people that would like to see my face can see me in person. You can't really snap random pics of stuff because its permanently pointed at your face.

Mine does have a whine, but thats not an issue for me. Its a lot quieter than my Graphite G4. If there is no harm in a little whine, then its ok with me. Some humans whine much more but you can't send them back...

Games are great!!... on the windows side. Mainly because halo is not a universal binary, but World of Warcraft is noticebly faster on the windows side, very smooth with higher resolutions also. Mine gets laggy from time to time but, I think that is because I only have 512 RAM and I opted for the 128 VRAM or it maybe the 5400 RPM drive... But, Most likely its the system RAM. Gonna upgrade to 2 gigs soon. I didn't want Apple to charge me up my ass for something that I can install myself. And I tried Call of duty 2... Its really bad with the textures up high.. no matter what resolution. In order for this game to run somewhat smooth, everything must be set really low...