Vista and Mac - brothers forever

In our age there are so many pluses, and one of them - is the emergence of a special program of Boot Camp, a pre MacBook laptops from Apple. It allows without unnecessary movements, elegantly and accurately install the operating system Microsoft XP or Vista on a machine with an apple on the lid. I would like to do without long introductions, and go straight to the point - it's the unit itself. And then we'll talk about why they need it.

Correcting the defect

Well do not get mad at me, trust me, I love Leopard, just to many consumers in our country, namely the operating system becomes a stumbling block, hindering the acquisition of a laptop from Apple. Well, do not understand a simple consumer, why we must pay much money for the beautiful, of course, the typewriter, where supposedly "simpler and more understandable." Because, sometimes asking the owner of Mac, which is why he loves his laptop, listen to the answer "because they like it better," ask a question, and that it is better - wait a minute. I think that Boot Camp - a great idea for those who want to buy a Mac, but is experiencing due to transplant to a new "axis". Or has other specific tasks that are not very good will be solved with the help of this notebook. But let us put on the sly "Windu, and then we'll talk about any more.

So, are available: a sophisticated, jet »MacBook Pro (pyatnadtsatidyuymovy processor clocked at 2.5 GHz, memory of the second level 6 mb, video card NVidia GeForce 8600M GT with 512 MB of internal memory, two" gig "of RAM DDR2,« to finish " a couple of gigabytes will rise to a small amount, which is nice), licensed Windows Vista Home Premium, more or less straight arms and Boot Camp program in the operating system Leopard, it should look in System Tools. Actually, the whole installation takes about forty minutes with good cards, no dancing with a tambourine there. Come on in stages.

1. Run the program Boot Camp, it is best to connect your laptop to the power supply to prevent malfunctions and so on.
2. The program offers split your hard disk by moving the slider, we choose the capacity for a foreign "OSes. I chose the 80 GB, hoping that will be installed a couple of games that will be reviewed periodically to high-definition movies and so on. Given that the MacBook has a capacity of 250 GB disk, and the original "axis" location is more than enough.
3. Insert the disc with a licensed version of Windows (only with a license, not the "pirates", it is not!).
4. He is determined, it is proposed to select partition to install. Choose it from the menu Action choose "format", we need a file system is NTFS, and not something else. The process I went for seconds, select the section again, we go further.
5. Proper installation of Windows, there is nothing special to tell, everything is ordinary.
6. At the end of the computer restarts, you will immediately find yourself in a "Mace". It lacks many of the important drivers, you will notice immediately the absence of applications from NVidia graphics card, no access to the wireless adapter and so on. Therefore worth a look at the bottom of the box from the laptop and the little black box to remove two disks, you need the first number (it says).
7. Insert it into the drive, went to install drivers. Everything on this installation process is finished. True, there are problems with the camera work for conferences, but everything else is working on five.

And after hours of hard work in front of me found myself quite normal laptop with Windows. Although not the usual, try to find a similar "pyatnashki" among other notebooks, faced with what looks like a lot, but that was something similar in weight, processor, video card (which, of course, not new, but the powder in the flasks are still not burned) ... no such yet. Add to the above points should also design, materials, housing, fleur brands, different chips, of which there a dime a dozen. I thought I'd be curious to see the Mac from the viewpoint of "normal" laptop, as if it was sold with the OS. If you do not mind, so did he.

Poigrulki

It is clear that we have turned into a sort of centaur with the body in the form of Leopard, and head against in the form of Windows, or vice versa, whatever. Put "Windu" on a MacBook Pro for only that all were familiar, does not make sense no, for to surf the net, work with office documents, music, watching movies (well, almost all video formats, ha ha) to more than enough for "leopard". Have only a small part of the tip of the iceberg, because in actual fact, maybe you car and small truck, and just make it clear that now that Mac just can not like Windows, you can just about one thing. About the game.

Modern, beautiful games that allow excellent time to kill, bringing tangible benefits in the form of a bonus to the reaction, resourcefulness, Mana ("Word" diligently over and over again makes the last word in feminine name). No, there are some games ported specifically for the Mac, but it is crumbs compared to what we have to "pisyukov. Say, here I bought Alone In The Dark in the shop and wanted to play on the new "make". Would then only the original "axis", or shisha I had not happened, and uploaded the system by holding down Alt, selected in Vista, slipped disc with the game, set, select the maximum nastroechki, began to play. I play myself, slowly reach all sorts of minor Circuits, which is necessary to know the reader. So, if we assume a blasphemous idea that we "just" a laptop on Vista, then there is clearly not enough buttons. In Alone In The Dark is so idiotic management, scattered across the keyboard, which in the course of the play begin alter the default settings to fit your needs. But this is, in principle, a small trouble.

The trouble with natural heating. MacBook runs cooler, like a locomotive, burning knees and everything else is hell-fire. Moreover, it is impossible to find a position that all the rest there are not burnt. What's nafurychili cooling - it is not clear, but, despite the temperature of the steel hull, three hours igrulek machine never hangs, do not cut down, and in general, behaved decently.After the trial idiotic (I repeat) Alone in the Dark was installed Call of Duty 4, the game went on without any problems, which can not fail to please, and at maximum graphics settings with a good resolution of this (1280 to something else there). True, there was faced with the fact that countries behaved "wafer", about half an hour of the game - "communication failure", but then blame the laptop, I can not, because the trouble could be with my new ISP, damn it.

Of course, the keyboard is "poppy" is not best suited for online play, I want more room and a few other, more "call" button, but after playing an hour or so already in the kitchen, not on her knees, putting ice under the bottom (forgive me, people from the ruspred »Apple), I used to. Alas, had to be postponed and the wonderful "mighty" mouse, plugging noutbukiku Logitech Nano, which was a second being identified as his own. In the same way I solved the problem of a button, next to the touch-pad with "Poppy" has a long, curved, very comfortable key, but it is one that is not convenient. Normal mouse solves the problem quickly and efficiently, moreover, if we talk about the Nano, then it is also the transmitter is not sticking out of the slot USB, when you carry it matters.

Summing up. The notebook is suitable even for modern games, mostly thanks to the powerful (of course, for compact objects) processor, video card, unfortunately, not the newest. Display resolution is low, but then a checkered or go, if you spend a lot of money on a new MacBook Pro, you must understand that he is as game and should not be considered. But, nevertheless, after installing Vista may well be such. If another memory to add a couple of gigabytes to get four, it will be even better.

More about the display: in addition to staffing, it is possible to get a better model, that is what is written on the site Apple.ru: «An optional glossy widescreen display, it is available for models with a diagonal as fifteen, and seventeen inches, I think, much more costly machine.

I can not fail to note a very good sound from the built-in speakers. It is clean, loud, and in games, and watching movies, listening to music, I liked the sound emission. Of course, no home theater, but for small cars more than good.

On beauty

Of course, MacBook beautiful. It is impossible to say about it. Glare of light on metal glide planes and faces, apple glows in the dark, and how cool magnetostriction where to plug the charger. Yes, and it is very unusual for "barley-break, even in his jacket pocket can be worn, much of the bag and do not say. For those who are planning to wear "beech" with him and curses kirpichepodobnye power supplies of other machines, it might seem interesting. So, glare of the sun slipping and all that, the metal cools the hand (this is where we do not play), the LEDs are small and thoughtful, all the engineering openings decorated perfectly.

But here there is such a moment. Not everyone likes this simplicity. Prior to this refinement is impossible to resist, her good looking, but not always proficient. For a great little silver case that is heated, so still and dirty, and difficult to remove stains with a cloth, a rough coating loves to hoard dust, but does not like its so easy to give.And this is only a small minusik, which can even be and is not to say, but say, I think it is necessary.

So, minimalism is not to everyone's taste. To him differently relate. Someone wants a black notebook that he was from some carbon fiber. Someone thinks that the MacBook is thick, with which I can not agree, an inch - the number is small, especially with the stuffing. Just looks ascetic - this is, in life, working on the design of stopped paying attention after a while, well, there it is.

That's not really liked a small keyboard (but the backlight is wonderful), sitting as a character from the movie about an evil professor - pen in front of him the keys knock-knock. A lot of mistakes, that's what I tell you, but mindful of the frequent transfer to different laptops, adaptation occurs very quickly. Alas, in the case of this "poppy" this has not happened so far, such as uncomfortable or something. It's funny, but here's the keyboard Air, I found a common language for a minute, there is an order of magnitude more pleasant, I think. Progress in incomprehensible "Claudia» MacBook - that's probably what the problem is, in addition to accommodation. Even when typing on my knees hands rest on a rather sharp edge case, it is not healthy, then think more about design than about ergonomics.

Yet to be said about the ports available. I can not understand why only two USB. Here's one now, the transmitter for the mouse. In another flash drive is inserted. But I want a third, to connect the camera. Possible, and another one to connect more of a feature bald. In my opinion, for "pyatnashek" It is high time to introduce standardization - not less than four USB-ports there. Okay Air, with him and everything is clear, "all such air" and so on - shall do one eventually. But the MacBook Pro? Strange. But there is a very necessary and useful FireWire 400 port (up to 400 Mbps) and FireWire 800 (up to 800 Mbps), plus the ExpressCard slot and a slot Kensington. Well, the last two or something, all right yet, but that's just plug in the FireWire - personally I'm in my industry (very large) is not found. Still have 3.5 mm holes for the microphone and headphones, ie podcasts, write me completely out.

Nedoobzor

I do not think it makes sense to straight-away to write a review about the new MacBook Pro (http://www.apple.com/ru/macbookpro/specs.html), because it is an old song about the main thing in the network, you can find lots of information about considered a typewriter. Let me just say that under this section shall write about her short any changes in the product line, and when will leave the really new stuff like Air, to consider them in more detail. Now I want to talk about the price of the instance that was in my hands, and figure out who this miracle may come. Thus, the average price for a MacBook Pro, pyatnadtsatidyuymovy and reactive, is about eighty thousand rubles plus or minus three thousand.

In the secondary market, this notebook can be found in sixty-plus thousand that, in general, too, is impressive. Version with a 2.4 in the store here in about as much and cost, plus or minus a few thousand. In the store, the site Apple.com, considered an instance is where some two thousand five hundred dollars, when translated into U.S. Dollars, this amount is just about sixty thousand. I will not say anything about the extent to which the normal margin for Russia almost a thousand dollars (figures are all approximate) in the representation I have been assured that the work of correction and smoothing is underway. Hopefully, somewhere it will come, because in our country, buying a laptop - it is really for the elite.

This, of course, well, be elected, but that's only if nothing like this would not be standing next to. It's not quite true, if you buy it MacBook Pro, to work on it, then it is quite normal. Photographers, musicians, architects, web designers, advertisers - there are plenty of professions where the machine in demand and price of the issue so far as concerned. Narrow niche, but it we have, when needed, and powerful, and beautiful notebook for carrying with you. Beautiful, expensive - important aspect for presentations, including myself, it's silly to believe that such a thing does not matter for negotiation (all matters).

Of course, if we are talking about "barley-break, and about these people, then there probably is not about wearing, but the" told to the car, threw the bag on the seat. " But if suddenly with a battle horse, something happened, or did you get in the morning, the weight of the MacBook Pro is not too large, it is possible to carry on the shoulders of his office, has not collapsed.

Conclusion I rewrote at least seven times. Each of them was carrying some new jet. Wrote about the fact that for comparable money to buy a comparable, but, as said in the beginning, is identical to fill things do not turn up. That both weight and size, and power, and Display, and design and materials. Wrote about the fact that there are now laptops Sony, for example, FZ-Series, too beautiful, "barley-break, but the parameters are not quite right. Wrote about that here in the U.S. consumer "Macs are much greater than ours, and, in particular, because of the interesting prices in Russia. But no matter what I wrote, I can not say that the updated model in its own way brilliant, beautiful and quite productive, it can be recommended for purchase. For a limited audience. But the possibility of a simple Windows installation will not only deal with cases under the "Leopard", but sygranut into something vigorous long night at work.