Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: mac pro no?

Still holding a charge (almost 2 hours), 3 years later, on my MBP 15".
Swapped out a Superdrive and the HD once though.


Raj

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com>wrote:

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>
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> I'm going on two and a half years with the same battery on my MacBook Pro
> 15"
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>
> On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Oliver Peters wrote:
>
> > > Posted by: Alan Miller
> > > Jimmy,
> > > Are you giving up your Mac Air?
> >
> > I will say that I really enjoy the Apple laptops. Nevertheless, the
> current 15" MBP I own has a terrible battery design. I'm on the fourth in
> its life of 4 years. The previous PowerBook G4 was much better than that.
> Same battery for 4 years. That's probably more of a Sony problem than an
> Apple one.
> >
> > I've gone to strictly using an iPad during travels and it's far, far
> better in most cases. Plus, you can pass it through airport x-ray without
> having to hassle with a laptop in the security line.
> >
> > For real work, on the road, a Mac Mini might actually be the ideal
> solution down the road. I rarely need battery power on location gigs and
> it's usually pretty easy to get external monitoring depending on how the
> job is spec'ed.
>
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