Got Excess Money? Upgrade Your 2009 Mac Mini RAM To 8 GB!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Terabyte home on 22. Oct, 2009 | View Comments
Are you the kind of person who always wants the best? Does an upgrade that costs as much as the original item sound like a good investment? Are you the owner of a 2009 Mac Mini? Then you’re in luck! Apple’s latest firmware update allows nVidia-based Mac Minis to be upgraded to 8 GB of [...]
A Concrete Reason Macs Beat PCs: Intel VT
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 07. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
There is a lot of FUD flowing between Apple Macintosh true believers and the rest of the PC world. This is especially true now that Macs use Intel CPUs, NVIDIA chipsets and graphics, and so much more commodity PC parts. Lots have argued that a Mac is just an expensive PC with a flashy case [...]
Windows 7 Is Here! In My Hands! But Why 8 DVDs?
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Personal, Terabyte home on 27. May, 2009 | View Comments
Microsoft just let loose a Release Candidate for Windows 7, the operating system that will bring peace, love, and joy to PC users everywhere and finally stop folks from switching to Macs instead of using Vista. Maybe.
Lego Fenway Park: Reverse the Curse at Home
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 08. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
What is the perfect gift for someone obsessed with Lego bricks and the Boston Red Sox? It would be easy to assume I was describing myself, but this time I’m talking about my 9 year old son. But both of us enjoyed his big birthday gift this year, a Lego model of Fenway Park!
No, the [...]
Sun’s Excellent VirtualBox Goes 2.0
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Virtual Storage on 04. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
Today, Sun released VirtualBox 2.0, a major revision to the (partially open source) desktop virtualization software. I have long used VirtualBox on my Windows machines as my virtualization product of choice due to its compactness, functionality, and low impact on the host system. Although I’m happy with VMware Fusion on the Mac, I intend to [...]
OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Virtual Storage on 03. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
In my last post, I discussed the simple but confusing steps required to add custom icons to Mac OS X drives. I mentioned that there were some tricks to getting custom icons on some drives, however, including Boot Camp and NTFS disks. This week, I’ll show how to customize these as well.
There are two core [...]
Vista, OS X Boot Time Compared
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 14. Aug, 2008 | View Comments
I recently mentioned how impressed I was with the speed of my MacBook, even when running Windows in Boot Camp. Of course, this was a subjective feeling, so I decided to try timing some events to see if the clock agreed with my brain. Sure enough, the Mac is faster than my Dell XPS M1330 [...]
Switch Day 58: Ten Pros and Cons of the MacBook Pro
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 11. Aug, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve now been a Mac user for two months. Since I switched primarily to get access to Apple’s excellent hardware, I thought I would issue an update on my observations about it at this point. I should note that I’m limiting this post to the hardware (maybe I’ll cover OS X some other time), and [...]
Upgraded! 320 GB in a MacBook Pro!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 25. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
I know I’m not the first to do this, but it does make me chuckle to have upgraded a brand new machine less than a week after buying it. That’s right, my brand new MacBook Pro now has 4 GB of RAM and a massive 320 GB of disk space. If you’re thinking of upgrading your [...]
