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10.6 Snow Leopard post 2, electric boogaloo

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by .

Well, I have had some time to play around on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and overall it seems to have been worth the upgrade cost ($10).  I did, however, run into a couple fo snags.  Understandably, there are a few bumps that need to be ironed out, namely software not developed by Apple.  For example, [...]

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I’m a Mac… and why MS is unbalanced

Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by .

I have to tell you, this is my favorite “I’m a Mac..” commercial. It reminds me of my last trip to Florida when I needed to get some old RAM for a 5 year old laptop.  They no longer carried it in the big-box stores, so we ended up going to a local “Computer Repair [...]

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Update: 2 weeks with my 13″ MBP

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by .

So, today is the 2 week anniversary of my latest Apple lust, the 13″ MBP. Specs: 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache 1066MHz frontside bus 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive Here are my initial impressions of the device.  Great!  Duh. Upgrading: Well, [...]

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Apple, you need to hire an in-house crank

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by .

I am an Apple fanboy.  I admit it. However, it doesn’t change my abilty to desire more from the company that I love.  As we in the tech community all know, Apple tends to go it’s own path, shall we say, when it comes to products. For instance, the company makes it’s own hardware and [...]

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