March 8, 2006I saw a hint today on macosxhints.com regarding the ability to put your Mac to sleep using the Apple remote. This little cool feature works with Macs with infrared sensors (with FrontRow preloaded basically) I immediately thought, “That’s a cool feature”, but then I read on:
Note that if you happen to use a [...]
Posted in apple, comedy, geek, macbookpro, macintosh, thoughts 
Comments
February 28, 2006well overall i’m disappointed at apple’s new announcements:
new macminis - overpriced in my opinion, especially with only 512MB ram. even with the speed improvements, putting the 1.67 core duo @800 dollars base price is too much. they should have put a tv tuner in there. it makes absolutely no sense to keep [...]
February 21, 2006got a request to do this over at macnn forums. thought i’d share the results with you here
update: just got some perspective on these results:
Athlon FX-60 (2.8GHz): 692
Intel Pentium 955 EE (3.46GHz): 666
Athlon64 X2-4800+ (2.4GHz): 638
Intel Pentium 840D (3.2GHz): 532
MacBook Pro (2.0GHz): 563
Technorati Tags: macbookpro
Posted in apple, macbookpro, macintosh Comments
February 21, 2006i just ran a quick xbench on the macbook pro, here are the results. score: 63.56
update: per user comment, i disabled quartz beam sync and reran the test. results are here. new score: 80.16 It should be noted that XBench is not optimized for the intel platform and these numbers should [...]
Posted in apple, macbookpro, macintosh Comments
February 21, 2006yup, to my surprise it arrived this morning. i have posted some initial pictures over at flickr. check em out:
very good initial impressions. of course, it smokes everything in my house (all G4s). i tried running coconutbattery to get some indication of the max battery capacity/life, but the app crashed. [...]
Posted in apple, macbookpro, macintosh Comments
February 20, 2006am i really ready to switch my mac experience to the intel platform? i compiled a list of my most used applications on osx, and determined whether they were universal binary or rosetta emulation. out of my 24 most used applications, 14 were universal binaries and 10 were rosetta emulation. only one [...]
Posted in apple, macbookpro, macintosh Comments
February 18, 2006 February 14, 2006just got this in my inbox. i’m sorry apple, but i already have a valentine. you seem to be pulling my heart strings, but this guy’s taken…
To Our Valued Apple Customer:
Today we announced that this week Apple will begin shipping the new 15.4-inch MacBook Pro featuring the Intel Core [...]
Posted in apple, geek, macintosh, news from the web Comments
February 14, 2006what a way to start my day. apple has announced that they have started shipping macbook pros (mine hasn’t shipped yet), but they also announced this little gem:
All models of the new MacBook Pro will ship with faster Intel Core Duo processors than previously announced, delivering even greater performance at no additional cost. The [...]
Posted in apple, macintosh, news from the web Comments
February 13, 2006i heard about it. tried it. it works. man does it work! took all of 2 minutes which included me turning off my useless osx firewall.
no, itunes music store songs don’t work, but if you’re like me, that doesn’t matter as 95% of my library is straight cd rips. now [...]
Cleaker 2.1 Theme created by Adam Walker Cleaveland with Widget support added by ckwebb.com 
content rss | comments rss
