I tried out the Macbook Air for nearly 2 hours today.
The thinness of the laptop is even more stunning in person than photos can convey. I’ve used Sony and Fujitsu übersmall laptops before and the MBA just has a better, more organic feel.
There is absolutely no flex in the screen/lid. Taking it up a [...]
People ask why I would want more than 2 cores since “nothing really uses more than 1 core”. Beyond developer friends who get to appreciate the beauty of a “make -j8″, plenty of other apps utilize more than 1 core. Beyond the OS itself, Adobe Photoshop and Handbrake are just two apps I use that [...]
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 [...]
I have been using iCal as my calendaring solution since Apple’s move to Intel made running Office 2004 for Mac even more painful than before. Now that Office 2008 for Mac is now a Universal Binary, I made the move over to Entourage 2008 last night. I worked through some inconsistencies between the calendars and [...]
I just noticed something new with .ics files in Leopard - if you drag a calendar event to the desktop the date and details of the event are in the icon. A little touch and very slick.
I will say this right off the top - I am not totally enamored of the Macbook Air. First off, that name is… lacking. It also lacks the power and features I want and need in a laptop - but that drives right to my point.
As with the TV and Time Capsule, it’s not [...]
I meant to post this yesterday but did not make the time. Anyway, here it is.
The keynote is done, the fanboys have exhausted their credit limits, the stock has dropped, and the pundits have started their apologist/discreditor posts. My thoughts on the keynote:
MacBook Air is getting all the press and is the flash item. I [...]
ArsTechnica has information on Quicken Financial for Mac which is the successor to plain ol’ Quicken. It is a new application built entirely ground up with Cocoa and a new vision. It is also not due until August.
TUAW caught this tidbit during the keynote.
Starting today if you buy any 20th Century Fox DVD that is labeled ‘iTunes Digital Copy’ you’ll not only get the physical DVD, but a digital copy. Simply insert the disk into your Mac or PC, enter a unique code into iTunes, and iTunes will import a digital [...]
My RSS aggregator of choice is now free. This provides a compelling reason to use NNW in lieu of Mail.app or even the solid OSS Vienna.
