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15 inch MacBook Pro Battery Tests:

AnandTech takes a look at the new MacBook Pro battery s released at WWDC last week and focuses on the new non-removable battery design. Apple first introduced the non-removable battery into the 17" Unibody MacBook Pro last fall with mixed reactions from the community. Apple's reasoning behind making the battery custom and non-removable has been the ability to incorporate a larger battery that will provide even longer battery life. They've also argued that most laptop owners do not carry spare batteries.

Anandtech does a good job exploring the technology behind the design:



Apple did some clever work on its own here. Standard lithium ion batteries are made up of cylindrical cells, similar to AA Laptop battery . The problem with these batteries is that they waste a lot of space within a notebook (try cramming a lot of cylinders into a box, you end up with wasted space). This wasted space translates into larger batteries than are necessary, which makes for larger notebooks.

They found the 15" MacBook Pro battery got an additional 46% of battery capacity with no additional weight. Improvements were dramatic in their benchmark testing:

The new 15" MacBook Pro battery clocked in at over 8 hours in their light load benchmark. The findings did carry over proportionately in their more intensive tests compared to the older models. Andandtech concludes with a very positive impression of Apple's latest revision:

Ever since I first looked at the power consumption specs of Nehalem I thought it didn?t make any sense to buy a new, expensive notebook before Arrandale?s launch in Q4 2009/Q1 2010. While performance will definitely increase considerably with Arrandale, Apple just threw a huge wrench in my recommendation. The new MacBook Pro battery is near perfect today. If you need a new laptop now, thanks to its incredible battery life, I have no qualms recommending the new MBP.

It has been a really good week for me.

Monday and Tuesday- No class!

Wednesday- One of my friends now has the entire series Samurai Jack. =D

Karate Yellow Belt Review - Went much better than I had expected, felt much more confident. Was still on the fence to take the test, though.

Bought Piano Squall's album - amazing pianist who plays songs from anime and video games on the piano, and the majority of the money he makes from albums and concerts goes to charity. My favorite is either the tetris theme, or "Creul Angel's Thesis"

Finished Kit's (an RP character) backstory, which was approved by the GM. Huzzah!

Thursday- Stolen away by sister and saw Zombieland! And then got to share some of my favorite Zombies vs. Humans stories.

Friday- Neuropsych test went surprisingly well, considering how little I studied for it. One class was cut short.

Decided to follow Bob Dylan's advice: "Don't think twice, it's all right" and took the yellow belt test. And got it!! There were tears in my eyes when Sensei announced that we all got our belts. I had been so worried that I would be the only one to get it.

I am so proud of myself right now, as I probably should be. Even if I injured one of my toes during the test.

In fact, this week has been so good, I'll even forgive it for snowing. And only 15 days left til Nanowrimo! Dun dun dun!

last night YET AGAIN i found it impossible to sleep. so at 1 am i decided to roll out of bed and see what was going on in the world. i turned on the laptop and read a couple of articles about homes made of recycled shipping crates, and men surviving being struck by lightning, and women dragging their toddlers through department stores... then it occured to me that i recently had my cpt scores faxed over to valencia but i hadnt checked if i could sign up for new student orientation yet. so i hustled over to my atlas account and logged in.

and guess what?

I CAN

so i have two options.

option 1:

take the new student orientation online

pros: easy, fast, dont have to waste money on gas

cons: must print out some assessment sheet [dont have a printer], and kinda boring [2 hours sitting at the computer...]

option 2:

go to valencia and attend the new student orientation there

pros: great excuse for a road trip, more fun [more interactive], can visit the new apartment, can get immediate help from a counselor if i need it [as opposed to having to call in if i take it online]

cons: gas to take me from ocala to orlando is going to be pricey [im broke almost all the time :( ], the orientation in orlando is an hour longer, blah blah blah...

im not really sure which one im going to go with right now... option 2 [apart from the financial aspect] seems like the smarter option because i can get more done.

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anyhoo so after i got done with the computer, i went back to my room and started reading the florida drivers handbook because i am DETERMINED to have my license when i move from this place. yupp. i keep envisioning how my test is going to be. im kinda nervous [-tears chunk of hair from head-] i hope i pass it the first time... if i can get my license i wont need to worry about a lot of things. i'll probably use some of my grant money to make a down payment on a not-too-shitty-but-not-too-flashy car and that will help me LOADS when i move. ESPECIALLY considering that the college is a 6 hour walk from my apartment and i dont know how to use the public transit system down there AND i need a way to get to work also [hollister is transferring me -happy dance-].

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it didnt take long for me to get bored with studying for the driving thingy. so with complete disregard of the time and my neighbors i picked up the guitar and started trying to figure out the chords to that new panic! at the disco song [called new perspective]. its a lot more fun trying to figure it out by yourself than googling the tabs and chords... at least i think it is [not so sure about my neighbors... im pretty sure they hate me... and my guitar]. i have the bridge of the song and i kinda have the chorus. once i have it all figured out i'll post it here so everyone can see and be dazzled by my amazing talent and whatnot.

im hungry...

-goes to make fruit salad-

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so im wondering if its possible to consume healthy food in such a way that it becomes unhealthy...?

for instance every morning i wake up shower and do all that stuff then i make my breakfast which usually consists of fruit, or granola-y cereal, or a healthy breakfast bar. i also take a daily multivitamin and wash it all down with milk [enriched with more calcium because i sometimes add stawberry nesquik; another guilty pleasure of mine]. lunch is normally something vegetarian like soy burgers [or some other meat substitute] or a hearty sandwhich and fruit juice, and then dinner is almost always soup or salad or something. the point being that maybe im overdoing all the nutrients a bit. the multivitamin PLUS all the "good food"... is it possible that put together they might be doing me some harm...?

-musing-

i dont want to die... maybe i will eat cake for dinner tonight

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Dixie currently feels:

 Neutral

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Blog #81

LOL, WORDY 

All of last week, I had a song I HAD to listen to every day when I walked down to get the free college bus.

That was Dammit by Blink 182.

All this week, I've been listening to No Presents For Christmas by King Diamond.

It's proper weird listening to Christmas songs in the middle of spring.

For the final coursework week, Sarah changed our Thursday lesson to another coursework hour.

I spent it in the LRC with Lewis. I gathered together a bit of my research, but then spent the rest of the time faffing on MindSay and Blogthings.

I saw Shelly come in - she was downstairs on the ground floor doing her IT coursework.

I stood around with her for a while. As soon as she'd finished off, we went back out and sat at the round tables.

A stand had been set up in the corridor at college - giving out free chlamydia tests.

Previously when they'd set one up, Ash and I had dared Shelly to take one - but she refused.

I dared her again this time, and this time she went along with it.

So we went into the toilets on the ground floor and she pissed in a tube. :)

I saw her piss too - proper orange. Weird as.

Of course, I trust her, I believe if she had anything I could catch from her, she'd have told me.

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After she'd handed it in - we went into town.

We bought our lunches and walked back to college in time to see Ash.

We sat back on the round tables - Adam joined us too.

Shelly gave him a glow-in-the-dark condom from the bag of sexual goodies the people at the stand had given her. Lubricants and various novelty condoms - nice. :P

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In English, Mary set us all off on coursework.

I went down to the LRC - but of course, I didn't do any.

I saw Ash at the reception desk - we decided we'd go down onto ground floor and sit together.

We got two computers together and did some work on our Media Studies coursework.

Ash was making changes to the final draft of her evaluation.

She asked me what she could write for her final section - the section about the task we didn't choose.

I'd written about doing an interview and a scandal story.

I took the piss and told her that she couldn't write "scandal story", because I'd written it first. I told her she had to write "a story with elements of scandal".

Fucking piss - she was almost over the maximum word count - and she responds with: "Oh REALLY. How WORDY..."

Then I carried on the joke saying she couldn't write Jonathan 'wears formal clothes' - she had to write 'dresses with an air of formality'.

It carried on for a long time - to the point where Ash was laughing so hard she had to put her hands over her face to muffle herself, as everyone was looking at us.

I love making Ash laugh - it makes me feel warm inside. :)

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At the bus stop, I saw Becca.

She was going to her sister's house and was planning to get the 64 - but I told her she could get the same bus as me.

We stood together in the shelter and took the Leven Valley bus back to my nana's.

She came in for a few minutes and had a natter on to my nana.

Ah, the days when we were young - the randomness on that field out back...

Now she's proper different - I don't think she's changed some things, but others are proper new.