January 26, 2008 – 2:10 pm
I have my Boot Camp partition set up as a VM under VMware Fusion for those times I am out of town and want to get my gaming fix. Since Sid Meiers Civilization IV Beyond the Sword is not yet out for Mac, that gets played under Windows. Team Fortress 2 is another one that [...]
November 6, 2007 – 3:01 am
Even though I am in the field, the pace of computer technology still often amazes me. (Is it the pace of progress or getitng older and years seeming to fly by faster?) The G5 Dual 2Ghz I bought nearly 3 years ago that crushed everything else at its price point in Photoshop and video encoding [...]
All released today.
Security Update
Airport Extreme
iPhone
Core Duo 2Ghz, 2GB, 100GB HDD, AppleCare that kicks in this month for two more years of coverage. It’s in pristine condition, as I baby all my Apple kit. If interested, let me know.
Why dump a laptop after just one year? Well, the new ones have an LED backlight, DL SuperDrive, Firewire 800, faster GPU, [...]
One of my pet peeves is how reviewers tend to only test the last revision of hardware when doing benchmarks. It’s nice to know that a new revision of this video card or laptop is 5% faster than the last revision, but I really want to know how it performs against gear from 2 or [...]
November 25, 2006 – 6:59 pm
From OS X Daily:
7. lipo
lipo (aptly named) is a utility that manipulates universal binaries in Mac OS X. A lot of (almost all) programs these days ship, or download as “Universal”, meaning they have binary code that both the powerpc and the intel chips can understand. But since you probably don’t care about one of [...]
November 9, 2006 – 5:06 pm
Bare Feats has posted benchmarks pitting the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro against the Core Duo. I expected to see the usual 8 to 10% performance gain. I won’t spoil it, so go check out the results…..
and don’t cry if you bought a Core Duo MacBook Pro.
