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Posted in nerdliness on Nov 2nd, 2009
One of the last things to transfer to the new MacBook Pro was my iPod. I’ve got a 30 GB 5th Generation iPod that is nearly full; at last synchronization it only had 912 MB free.
Any given synchronization between the iPod and the PowerBook was reasonably quick, since the contents of my music library are [...]
Posted in life, nerdliness on Oct 25th, 2009
Moving data from an old computer to a new computer is a bit like moving in the real world. The anticipation of having all your stuff neatly put away, orderly and tidy in the new place isn’t enough to carry you through the actual doing.
Rather than just copy all my old documents and files from [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Oct 23rd, 2009
The following is a list of the software I installed on the new MacBook Pro in the first 24 hours.
Dropbox : A drop-dead simple piece of the “cloud.” 2GB for free and clients for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Adium : Hands down the best multi-protocol chat client for Mac OS X
Tweetie : A twitter [...]
Posted in life, nerdliness on Oct 22nd, 2009
Not since February 2003 (maybe late January of that year) have I gone to work without carrying my PowerBook G4. It has been the ultimate filofax, holding pictures, music, words, code, and all the other electronic flotsam and jetsam near and dear to me.
Tomorrow will be the first day I’ve ventured off to work without [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Oct 22nd, 2009
My new MacBook Pro was delivered this morning, less then two-and-a-half days after it shipped from Shanghai China. It is stunning and sleek, simply beautiful. I am very pleased with my choice.
As some of you might have guessed from the title of this posting, I’ve named the new machine BlackPerl. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Oct 20th, 2009
In Nerd Angst I mentioned briefly that I need to think up a suitable name for the new laptop due to arrive sometime Friday. Being a nerd through-and-through this is actually a more significant undertaking that you might otherwise suspect.
Until I got my PowerBook I had never named a computer. Upon seeing it and using [...]
Posted in life on Oct 20th, 2009
If I were to coin a phrase about buy consumer electronics it would be, “don’t watch the price after completing your purchase.” Usually, over time, the price of consumer electronics goes down, or, if the item is already at its lowest sustainable price, the features or extras go up for the same price.
Personal computers, both [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Oct 19th, 2009
The new MacBook Pro has been ordered. It’s status is still “not yet shipped” more than 48 hours after the order was completed, apparently ordering on a Saturday has disadvantages. However, I can make good use of the waiting time by preparing for how to transferring nearly 90 GB of data and applications from my [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Oct 17th, 2009
For the past seven years my primary day-to-day computer has been a Titanium PowerBook G4. In a word this laptop has been outstanding. Except for a faulty CD drive early in its life, I have had no mechanical difficulty with this machine. I replaced the original hard drive with a new 100 GB model about [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 10th, 2008
Shawn Blanc has put up an excellent review of his new 15″ MacBook Pro over at his site. In the Unchanging section of the review he makes the point that Apple products age very well:
… it is not uncommon to see someone still using their four or five-year-old PowerBook on a daily basis. Even [...]