I’ve had my previously-documented problems with Apple’s Bootcamp and silently cursed everyone from Redmond to Cupertino in my casting about to find someone to blame. In a fit of pique, I angrily deleted the NTFS partition Bootcamp helpfully created for…
I’ve had my troubles with dropping Macintoshes, but I swear that I had nothing to do with this guy’s troubles. Thing is, it apparently still works. Looks like it was backed over by a car, though…
So Apple released a little piece of beta software called Bootcamp today. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but it allows Intel Mac owners to install Windows onto their new Macs. Being the tinkerer that I am, I…
Built-in iSight camera + bundled copy of Comic Life + 10 minutes of my time = Wheee, ain’t technology grand? *grin*
My MacBook arrived today. I’ve plugged it in and verified that it 1) suspends on lid close 2) runs at a decent speed and 3) does not crash when USB peripherals are plugged in. Thus far, I’m ahead of my…
As previously noted in this space, things were not-so-rosy in the land of MacBooks – I think my Bad Customer Service/Technology Mojo kicked in and delivered unto me a substandard MBP. However, things are looking rather decidedly up, as Amazon…
I totally had a few posts in the queue for this afternoon, but my MacBook Pro just arrived. I’ll obviously be otherwise occupied for the duration.
…Stephen Green offers the reasons he’s planning on making his next computer a Mac. As long as he avoids the top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users, I guess.
Sweet: Undercover – an anti-theft program designed to help catch Mac laptop thieves. It takes random screenshots, “calls home”, simulates system errors to confound thieves, and will even use iSight-equipped MacBooks to take snapshots of the villains.
MacWorld ’06 started today, and what did Steve Jobs announce but the very first Intel-powered Macintoshes. One was the iMac, as predicted, the other was the newly-christened MacBook Pro, starting at $1,999. Of course, the base model is for poseurs…
