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Thursday, October 19th, 2006The CHOICE iSHONK for Dual-level Shonkyness is awarded to the Apple iPod, mainly relating to the repair "procedure"
Choice Magazine has been the respected voice of Australian consumers; and with strong consumer protection laws in Australia: you must comply with the laws.
This comes on the back of the RMonvirus on 1% of video iPods sold after [...]
Parallels 1884 Vista Quick Notes (and update)
Friday, September 8th, 2006Download the 21Mb update to Parallels (to build 1884)
Boot Windows XP to ensure all is OK before I install Vista. Windows XP "seems" to boot a little faster. Unable to quantify exactly how much.
Backup existing 15Gb Windows XP .hdd, just in case. Create a new 15Gb image to install Vista into.
Pararllels settings:
Install into the fresh [...]
Uptime: 22 days. And I run Windows XP SP2.
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006I am not a Mac fan-boy. Been there, done that. And to be truthful, I think I am a little too old for zealotry. The innocent dogmatism of youth has been replaced with that pragmatism to the point of pessimism middle age.
My 15" MacBook Pro runs MacOS X 10.4.7. The last time I [...]
A/UX 3.0: Apple’s first Unix OS
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006History revisionists state that Apple had to buy NeXT as they could not write their own pre-emptive/protected memory OS.
Apple A/UX 3.0 integrated the best of System 7 and Unix. Maybe not the latest Unix available at that time, nor on the fastest hardware; nor with the best driver support. But it rocked for its [...]
Photoshop on the Mac Pro
Saturday, August 12th, 2006Macintouch readers have reported on the performance of the new Mac Pros, and specifically how Photoshop CS2 performs under Rosetta vs. old Power Mac G5s.
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One Mac Head, Two Minds
Thursday, August 10th, 2006An excellent article from the New York Times: Weighing a Switch to a Mac. Interesting, as it goes through the two options: BootCamp or Parallels.
You don't need to leave your Windows-mind behind when switching. Now that I am disconnected from the Adobe-mind, I rarely use Windows applications. But then again, I've not really done [...]
State of Mac Virtualization
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006MacWorld reports from the WWDC and an interview with Ben Rudolph of Parallels:
..."What’s more, Parallels Desktop for Mac will see “fast 3D graphics support,” presumably to help cater to gamers who want to run Windows games without having to reboot their machine"...
I've just updated to the latest Parallels beta; it was smooth and you can [...]
Virtualization, MacOS X Server
Sunday, August 6th, 2006Silicon Valley Sleuth writes a short article on the appearance of VMware at WWDC. It's about more than just the desktop OS.
Here is another pie-in-the-sky, non-desktop scenario:
Apple releases new versions of both their Xserver and the MacOS X Server.
Xserve becomes a tested and supported platform for VMWare Server and more importantly VMware's ESX Server. This [...]
Our Virtual Future: There are Cycles to Burn
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Just over the digital horizon, your Apple MacBook will boot multiple MacOS X 10.x, Windows Vista and Linux/Ubuntu operating systems at launch. You don't see all of their friendly faces, but they are there ready-to-go. Get-info on Firefox, and you inform the primary OS which of these operating system environments you would like the application [...]
Loving this MacBook Pro
Monday, May 29th, 2006Still the first week (honeymoon period?) with my new MacBook Pro. It has to be the fastest Mac I've owned. Usually, the laptops Apple made have been dissappointing in the performance department.
Thanks to Darwin Ports, the MacBook Pro is now loaded with all the equivilent development tools; easily installed and managed.
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