Apple has released a 17 inch version of the MacBook. Aside from the larger display, it’s the same specs as the 15 inch MacBook with the exception of an 8x DL SuperDrive and a FireWire 800 port. I miss the FW800 port, but I think I’m still happier with a machine that is 1.2 pounds [...]
Autoshare
Apr 23, ’06
6:03 PM
Alison and I are getting busy, and with that, the demands on the car are getting more complicated to manage. We have no desire to purchase another car (in fact I’d be perfectly happy to do without one all together if arriving at a client meeting sweaty/soaked/frozen from the bike ride wasn’t frowned upon).
Luckily Autoshare [...]
Random Thoughts
Apr 23, ’06
5:42 PM
My 2005 Select membership hardware discount key expires in week or so, so I did what any self respecting Mac developer would do. I went shopping. The first week with my new MacBook has been a lot of fun. Some random thoughts:
It is wickedly fast. Scary, freaky fast, even.
Parallels Workstation works very well for me [...]
Apple Remote Desktop 3
Apr 11, ’06
8:57 AM
Apple has just released ARD3 as a universal binary. It’s new feature list can be found here. No word on whether it supports clipboard sharing yet.
Virtualization Baby!
Apr 6, ’06
10:01 AM
Whoo hoo! Parallels released a beta of their virtual machine engine for Intel Macs today.
I know the folks at Q are working on porting the virtualization support from QEMU, but this looks like it is real. Now.
If it works well, I’d be much happier with this than with having to dual boot using Boot Camp. [...]