Macbooks, Party Pills. Ok, so legal highs and geeking out aren’t exactly interconnected but the creative department @ Partypills.com is stoked that the waiting is finally over. And as well as partying it up at the clubs, pubs n parties we do feel that our customers are a fairly stylish and tech savvy bunch most of the time (Except that hick from Western Australia who keeps calling and leaving us on speakerphone while he milks his goats or whatever that weird sound in the background was, no offence Jed) Anywho i digress, back to the coveted Apple release.After passing up on the opportunity to buy the Macbook Pro through my friends sister to receive a free iTouch during last months back to school cut-off date, I like the rest of the world have been waiting anxiously for this new laptop to hit the stores. There’s been a zillion fake releases, ‘official leaks’ and similar rumours saying it’s coming this week, last week, in time for the third lunar months beginning when the solar orbits are in synch etc. Enough of the crap, this ain’t the apocalypse.
So after waiting patiently the guts of it is:
- It’s been released worldwide (well at least in my New Zealand, Australia, America and the UK)
- The 13″ variants are still rocking the old Core 2 Duo, boo (but to their credit 10hours battery)
- The 15″ comes in two flavours Core i5 and Core i7 (17″ in the i7 only)
- The graphics cards are GeForce320 (13″) / Nvidea GeForce GT 330 256mb/512mb (15″&17″)
- The max stock standard RAM is 4 gig
Not quite an exhaustive view but you get the idea, pretty decent overall. For those of you still with questions here’s a more indepth Macbook Review
I had brought into a few of the rumours that the higher end models would be shipping with 8gigs Ram standard so was a bit dissapointed. I also thought the graphics would be tipping in at 1gig by now but some of my techy friends seem to think that this new 512mb is far superiour to the old model. I’m making a purchase this week so time will tell.
My major decision now is whether to get the 15″ or the 17″ model and if I can stomach a NZD$700 upgrade for 4 more gigs of RAM muscle (8 would be ace!) I’ll be lugging it round Europe in a month so portability is key but the 17″ is going to be much better for in the field video editing at gigs parties and festivals this summer 
decisions decisions..
Oh and I am excited/nervous to see how this will handle native AVCHD editing in CS4, fingers crossed!
While I’m waffling I must give props to the fantastic Herbal highs team Partypills.com whom allow me to scope the internet looking at cool gadgets, attend festivals and make random video’s for their site and youtube, I can think of worse ways to make a living. If you’ve never come across Party pills I suggest you give them a try, they’re legal worldwide and add a great boost to a night out. *sales pitch over 
Have a goodun.
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