Emma and I were up in Deer Park this morning for the 10:00 am opening of the Apple Store. We got there at about 9:35, and there were about 150 people in line already. By the time the doors opened, there were probably about 350 people queued up. (Emma took this photo.) The store is …
Why a Mac
The other night, one of my daughter’s friends asked me why I have an Apple sticker on my car. I gave my usual response, which is “because I use Apple computers and they’re cool,” but for some reason I felt the need to temper that response because of the way Mac people are perceived these …
Installing a New Hard Drive in the MacBook
Here’s another MacBook hard drive replacement story for the Apple fans out there: My MacBook came from the factory with an 80 GB drive (Fujitsu MHV2080BHPL, on the left in the photo above), and I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to a larger drive because of our podcasting work and the fact that …
Another (Technology) Addition
A couple weeks ago, I bought a new MacBook. It’s the 13-inch Core Duo 2.0 GHz machine, and I upgraded the hard drive to 80 GB. The unit came with 512 MB built-in, which I upgraded myself (more on that in a second). The image above is a screenshot of my current desktop. Note the …
Click To Remove
After a few days of messing with Boot Camp on my Mac Mini, I decided it was time to remove it. No, I’m not giving in to the peer pressure of friends, coworkers, and loved ones (well, one specific fangirl loved one)… I decided the experiment was over. A big contributing factor was the Mini’s …
Okay, You Proved That It Worked, Now Remove It
I took the leap yesterday and installed Boot Camp on my Intel Core Duo Mac Mini. Installation was very straightforward: I had to upgrade the firmware on the Mini to the latest version, and then I ran the Boot Camp installer. It walked me through partitioning the hard drive and creating a CD with device …
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Parallel Our Sights
I downloaded Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta 2 and loaded it on my Intel Mac Mini. This is a brand-new product that lets you run Windows (and several other operating systems) in a window on your OSX desktop. (Click the photo to see a larger version of the screen shot.) Having used Microsoft’s Virtual PC before, …
Hey Rocky, Watch Me Pull a Rabbit Out of my Hat
Apple Computer released a beta product called Boot Camp today. This is a component of their upcoming operating system OSX 10.5 (“Leopard”) which allows the user of an Intel-based Mac to run Windows. This is a brilliant move on Apple’s part for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Microsoft’s next …
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Super Backups
I’ve been looking for a decent backup program for the Mac for a while. Every recommendation I’ve received has been either expensive and overblown with unnecessary features (e.g., .Mac) or mind-numbingly complicated (e.g., some French program I downloaded). For the near term, I’ve been copying my user files to my iPod and then transferring that …
Who You Calling A Fanboy?
Here is the video from today’s Apple event where Steve Jobs introduced the new iMac, the new iPods, and the new iTunes video features. Some things never change– this reminds me a lot of the videos we used to see back in ’89 when Steve was running NeXT. The new products look pretty cool, I …