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Posted in Apple, Technology on Mar 2nd, 2007
I bit the bullet and went with a new 15″ MacBook Pro @ 2.33Ghz and 2GB of RAM. I figured it would be a little faster, but everything, I mean everything, is much faster than my faithful 15″ G4 PowerBook.
I was really impressed with the Migration Assistant that Apple supplies with their OS. It transferred [...]
We get a discount from Apple through work (no, I don’t work for Apple) and that knocks a couple hundred dollars off the cost of a new 15″ MacBook Pro (2.33GHz/2GB RAM/120GB hard drive/Super Drive). I deal with a local Apple reseller that will honor that discount.
Apple has refurbished MacBook Pros for $500 off [...]
Posted in Apple, Entertainment, Technology on Feb 6th, 2007
With Steve Jobs’ recent Thoughts On Music article mentioning that Apple would drop DRM in a minute if the record companies would buy in to it, I was wondering if people would be willing to pay more for non DRM’d music.
What if you could buy songs at tierd pricing based on compression quality and [...]
I spent the weekend trying to recover a friend’s lost pictures from a hard drive failure, so I had lots of time to kill while waiting. I figured I would use the time by installing a shiny new copy of Windows Vista on our trusty old Dell Dimension XPS R400 that we’ve had forever. [...]
Posted in Apple, Technology on Jan 10th, 2007
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past 30 hours you know that Apple announced, and demonstrated, their entry in to the enormous cellular phone market. With the introduction of the iPhone (if that name sticks) Apple intends to go after 1% of the close to 1 billion cell phones that were [...]
Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Technology on Dec 31st, 2006
Microsoft often takes a huge bashing on the Internet and in the press, but none of that has much affect. Microsoft will continue to dominate because they have the mindset of the people that don’t read Blogs, Digg, Slashdot, etc. People don’t want to deal with tracking down comparable applications for that shiny [...]
Posted in Apple, Entertainment, Microsoft, Technology on Dec 8th, 2006
I was reading one of my favorite writers, Robert X Cringely, and was reading his opinions on Microsoft vs Apple for the living room. He tends to lean towards Apple winning, but I am not so sure.
Although Apple has done a great job with the iPod, iTunes, and will release the iTV soon, Microsoft [...]
Posted in Apple, Technology on Nov 23rd, 2006
I have long been frustrated by how long the “Looking up” or “Contacting” phase of web browsing on OS X takes. I thought I had solutions in the past, but nothing really worked. While I am connected to a wired network I don’t experience the issue, it is only when I am wireless.
The [...]
Posted in Apple on Nov 12th, 2006
Since upgrading my G4 15″ Aluminum PowerBook’s hard drive to a 160GB capacity drive, I have not needed to use the DVD/CDRW Superdrive - until last night when I needed to rip a CD in to iTunes. Unfortunately the drive would not mount and would immediately eject any disc I put in it. I tried [...]
Posted in Apple, Technology on Oct 20th, 2006
If you own anything that runs OS X, do yourself a favor and head over to the Camino site and download the latest nightly build. For me, it just blows the doors off of Safari and I can finally use Google Reader without my CPU going crazy and the fan in my 15″ Aluminum [...]