'Apple' Category
Worse than I expected (Vista)
Very brief, not comprehensive rundown of the myriad problems I’ve encountered with Microsoft Vista Home Basic on my cheap-o Dell Outlet Pentium Dual Core/2gb RAM/integrated graphics/160 HD box:
numerous lockups that eventually require a hard restart
difficulty installing an external USB hard drive (required creating a Environmental Variable to show non-working USB devices, finding it in DevMgr [...]Webkit is smokin’
It has been awhile since I’ve tried Webkit, but the latest version is just freaking me out, it renders pages so quickly. This is on a Mac. On Windows, I’ve not run the latest version. The last time I did try it on Windows, it was clunkier, but still pretty impressive.
I am so used to [...]Why my next home computer MIGHT be a Mac. Or might not…
Why?
Winrot.
Love Love Love the Macbook I use at work.
Similarly, my iPod Nano is my favorite tech purchase of all time.
An OS that gets out of my way.
Almost everything I do now is web-based. MSFT Office, and other WinApps are nearly irrelevant to me now.
Paralells for when they aren’t (e.g. Quicken. And what else? Hmmm….)
iTunes is [...]“Crippleware”
Randall Stross of the New York Times has an article in today’s Sunday Business section about Apple, Microsoft and Digital Rights Management software, the stuff that Apple and the music companies use to lock iPod owners into iTunes, Zune owners into (whatever the Zune thing is called.) I definitely need to checkout eMusic, the company [...]
iPud
I recently purchased a 1st generation refurbished iPod Nano for about $100. I think it is my first Apple product since an old Apple II+ in the early 80s. I like it. It is loud, which is good for when I’m mowing. The click-wheel, I think I’m competent with it now. Pretty simple. I love [...]
