Sotong...
if u check macnn forums or etc, wat they say is the heat's frm the processor... probable cause is the thermal paste they apply on the processor... may be too much of paste on the processors adi...

dunno bout the battery wor... but historically, macs do run abit hotter wan rite?

dude... so now u got patience or not ah?... hehehe... chill man...

if u hv a credit card... it can happen...

a note is always check if they can process the 12 mth thingie for your bank's credit card... otherwise, you may be subjected to a 4-5% interest on top of amount charged...

if they hv a tie-up wit ur credit card's bank, then they can handle the installment thingie for u... otherwise, you will need to contact ur bank b4/after purchase (depending on banks) abt converting the purchase to 12 mths...

answered ur question?

y dont u try Cycom at LYP?... they give discounts whr no one else will...

yes they do... was kinda surprised too but they are listed in the apple malaysia site... but i'd hv to say they r pretty friendly and helpful... and very willing to negotiate...

they are now my choice for everything IT...

they probably can do installments... not for all banks most definitely...

the macs will prolly arrive sumtime this wk (earliest) or beginnin of July (latest)... tat's wat the apple malaysia phone chick said...

i've changed my order to the blacbook... screw the discoloration man... aint takin no risk...

argghh.... macstudio again???... geez... my guys told me they hope it'll get here sumtime this wk... tat's wat they said last wk... i'm beginnin to think this will be a long and painful wait...................................

but u getting a crazy price man... so tat alone is worth the wait... :-)

Bahir,
it sucks, yes... but it's supposedly only happening to a segment of the buyers... and thr's not much been said lately abt the discoloration... bsides, if it were to happen, a non-acetone nail polish remover is able to get rid of the yellow stains...

actually i'm more chicken shit than u cause i'm totally avoiding this by getting the black one... hehehe...

bahir, go try cycom... speak to kuen... he'll give u a price u'll like... but the shitty thing is i've been waiting for my machine since 2 wks ago... so ur call dude...

abt the ram thingie, yup the mac 1gb ram is abt 700 bucks... yup the price sucks...

my machine's will probably arrive today... yay....

i'm super excited now... it juz arrived!... will be pickin it up shortly...

ordered it frm cycom...

Bahir, u know wat u can do?... even if the place doesnt handle the installment pymt for ur credit card, u can still charge the purchase, then contact ur bank abt the purchase made to convert it to installment.

BUT before u do that, check wit ur bank to see if they allow tat... most banks do now... :-) they'll of course charge a small percentage for their troubles la... the banks i mean...

i think cycom still has a few 2.0ghz (white) units... dunno if they r gonna offload it immediately or not...

can't get back deposits if you dowan the machine wan ah?...

hey all... got my blackbook on fri... it's been pretty good... it runs a little hot esp on the left hand side of the keyboard... idles at abt 40+C... after an hr, it averages abt 50+... the highest i got was 70C... which is scary...

512MB ram is juz not enough man...

i've yet to install windows in it yet tho... wanna get used to OSX... the notepal coolermaster juz doesnt cut it la... got tat oso but the mac's like all closed at the bottom... so even if i left the cooler running, it doesnt reduce the temp by much... mayb 1C...

i installed a copy of microsoft office (my friend's a teacher and the student/teacher version allows for 3 installations)... and i had a little problem... everytime i launch an office app, a pop up will say it has unexpected error; can't reach microsoft framework... wat the heck does this mean?... i've to register the software to get rid of this thing?

Bahir, the cycom folks can handle ur software worries... tat's wat they told me...

erm... protection?... get the blackbook?... then u only need to worry abt oily hands... ;-)

i went to starbucks over the weekend (fully charged) and the machine had 5% power left after 3 odd hrs... battery's pretty good...

how much space will it save roughly eithanius?... and is thr any other way to remove those crap aside frm reinstalling?...

dude... when u click on Apple Byte sub Forum, the first couple of threads is all abt Prices...

kbandito...
I've juz recently switched to Mac... it's my 1st mth now... :-) and am totally loving it.. will not even bother abt Vista now... am so lookin forward to Leopard instead now... ;-)

The codec issue has some solutions. u can get most codecs needed frm www.pure-mac/video.html.... they are quicktime codecs so u can play ur stuff in quicktime, which i'm beginnin to super like now...

if all codecs dont work, u can easily d/l isquint and convert everything to mp4... then u r all set for ur ipod or PSP... :-)

Like eithanius said, realplayer and VLC works...Windows media Player is pretty ok too... wait for the Flip4Mac to update so u can view WMV & WMA files in Quicktime too... but currently, Windows media player works good..

FRONT ROW is juz plain amazing!... Photo Booth will give u hrs of laughs wit ur friends... iWeb will make u a website designer in no time... makin DVDs is so easy wit iDVD...

Bsides, if u happen to pandai pandai remove some architecture files via Monolingual, reinstalling the OS is super easy!... It has an option called Archive & Install whr it'll restore all the apps and settings frm ur previous installation to the new re-installation... i juz did it yesterday... heheh...

BT is easy wit Transmission and/or Azureus...

Go get ur macbook... u'll not regret it... and the fact tat it looks amazing helps too... :-) juz be mindful tat the machine will run abit hot... my averages abt 50-60C... i left my machine on for 36 hrs straight (BT purposes) and the temp was juz 50 odd...

ijatz... look for hanzi_o in this LYP forum... he gives pretty good price... much much less for 2gb than any mac retailers...

btw, the stock 512 is juz not enough man... i made a dvd tat day and it took me more than 4 hrs to complete... and that oso only the burning & encoding process...