Zooooooooooom!!
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
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 Pro