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Is your Mac sleepy?

Bwana — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:07:00 +0000

I 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 remote-equipped Mac in a public place, you may wish to disable the IR remote, lest you find your machine suddenly sleeping thanks to tricksters nearby with their own remotes! You can do this in the Security System Preferences panel.

I started to laugh.

This would be hilarious to watch like in say, an airport. Some guy is typing away, sending an email to his loved one and *BAM*, his computer goes to sleep. Rinse and repeat. I don’t know why I would be cracking up if this happened. Maybe I had a long day. So, if you have an infrared port on your Mac, be sure to disable it in public places. You might experience a prankster putting your Mac to sleep from afar.

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early flight = all nighter

macbook pro cinebench results

Bwana — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:53:48 +0000

got 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

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macbook pro xbench results

Bwana — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:59:31 +0000

i 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 be looked at as such.

macbook pro hath arrived

Bwana — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:26:43 +0000

yup, 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. darn. look for much more as i tinker with this thing today.

ready for macbook pro/intel switch?

Bwana — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:05:04 +0000

am 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 i could confirm would not be universal binary until 2007, and that’s the well known adobe photoshop. here’s the list for those curious:

Feeder – Universal
Transmit – Universal
iLife 06 (Garageband, iTunes) – Universal
Terminal – Universal
Safari – Universal
Camino – Universal
Geektool – Intel build @ kung-foo.tv
AdiumX – Universal
Quicksilver – Universal
Connect 360 – Universal
Audio Hijack Pro – Universal
OmniOutliner – Universal
Growl - Universal
iWork 06 – Universal

Firefox – Rosetta
Desktop Manager – Rosetta
Photoshop – Rosetta
MPlayer – Rosetta
Azureus – Rosetta
Skype – Rosetta (ON2 video codecs are using ALTIVEC, which can be emulated)
tickr – Rosetta
TinkerTool – Rosetta
Snapz Pro X – Rosetta (Universal in works)
Asterisk – Rosetta

i was pleased to see that out of these 10 that have to be emulated, only 2 cost money: Adobe Photoshop and Snapz Pro X. when my macbook pro arrives on wednesday, i think i’ll be ready..