Zooooooooooom!!
Apart from trying to work out what optimisation is, a second reason for the brief posting break is the arrival of my new MacBook Pro. Gee willikers, it’s fast!
And quiet too. I was scared off buying one earlier by Daniel Jalkut’s series of posts 
about his hyper-noisy MacBook Pro.
Fortunately, this one has a serial number beginning with W8615****, which tells me that it was made in the fifteenth week of 2006 and that it contains the updated “Revision D” logic board that fixes the problems. And so it does. (Fingers crossed!)
Just a few “real-life” stats: My old 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM 15″ PowerBook takes 10 seconds from the launch of Mail until the end of the initial mail-check. This 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM 15″ MacBook Pro takes 5 seconds. The old one took 23 seconds to search for “hippopotamus” in the entire message in every folder; this one takes 7 seconds.
Repairing permissions on the old one took 118 seconds for a 54GB hard drive. This one does 92GBs in 62 seconds. I’m a happy boy.
[Thanks, Wifey]
Tags: ahhh lovely, lovely, MacBook ProRelated posts
April 26th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Great to hear! I just got mine last week too and I absolutely love it. I’ve been an Apple lover for a while, but I have to admit that their notebook line has been embarrassingly lagging for quite some time now.
In other news: do you really deal with ‘hippopotami’ that often to benchmark a search in Mail? :)
April 26th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
hehehe… No. I tried to think of a word that Mail would have to look hard for.
It did turn up one hit, in an email containing daily headlines from a local Melbourne newspaper.
April 27th, 2006 at 3:34 am
Congratulations on the new laptop, hope you are able to enjoy it for a long time.
April 27th, 2006 at 4:39 am
Now, go have some fun :):
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/
We’ve been installing Linux and Windows in this thing just for kicks to see how it runs — and darn spiffy on an intel iMac I must say.
Have fun, enjoy, and now we can video conference whenever needed, muahahhaa…
April 28th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
I can’t wait for the 12″ or smaller! to be released~~