Mini review/observations of my MacBook Pro
Back in the old days I felt that having two PCs was the best way to go. A high-spec PC for my gaming habit and a low spec machine for general day to day web browsing, email, and general apps. That was in 2003 and by 2005 the low spec machine was becoming a painfully slow machine. By December 2005 I’d had 4 years of Windows XP and while it wasn’t unreliable or slow, I was bored of it! It’d still be another 2 years before Vista made an appearance.
I’d seen Macs before and had dismissed them as over expensive, but now there was the MacMini on the market, it was exactly what I wanted, a small low spec machine for general day to day work, this is what it was being marketed as! So after a 30min play around with one in the local PC World I hit the Apple website and plonked down £565 on a 1.42Ghz PowerPC MacMini with 1Gb of RAM and an 80Gb HDD. I was pretty impressed with the hardware, however as it was an alien OS to me (OS X Tiger at the time) I think I struggled to get on with it. This was in the dark days, before FireFox had really caught on and a lot of websites still used WMV and IE6 compatibility. This caused the little MacMini a lot of problems, any time some intensive Flash kicked in or I wanted to play a WMV file the fans would crank up to maximum and it would grind to a halt. After about 18 months I got sick of it and went back to a single Windows PC just in time for Vista, vowing never to return to a Mac…
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Netbook first impressions
I’ve been after a netbook for some time. The current Toshiba M400 while a power house seems overkill and I find it hard to use at home be it for work or web browsing as it is so awkward to hold, and the lack of side air vents mean if [...]
Ya see it?! Apples and Oranges!!
H’anyway yesterday was the release of Half Life 2 : Episode 2 the second part of the episodic content that followed up Half Life 2. Also released was Portal and Team Fortress 2. Hopefully this will be better than the woeful Halo 3, hell it couldn’t be much [...]
I don’t go to the cinema much, mostly because it’s full of annoying kids chatting and getting up to go to the toilet way too often. That’s not to mention the awful image quality and crackly sound. I think the last film I went to see was Casino Royale.
I’ve been a bit of a Harry Potter fan since book 4 was released. I was interested in what all the fuss was about and got the first four books from the library and thoroughly enjoyed them. I like the books and I enjoy the films but I don’t frequent the many forums and I don’t own Harry Potter action figures or Lunch Box!
The films - I felt - didn’t start off perfectly, perhaps because I was expecting something as rich with detail as the books, the second film was better and the third took the films in a much darker direction. The fourth (like the book) was my favourite. I was a little concerned when I went to see the fifth that too much would be cut from the original book which was huge, especially considering the fact that Order of Phoenix has one of the shortest running times at 2hrs 18mins.
I booked my day off work and went to see the first showing at the local cinema on Thursday 12th July at 11am.
Be warned that the following review contains spoilers about both Order of the Phoenix and the Half Blood Prince.
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This months review is something a little out of the ordinary.
There is an alternative to tearing holes in your walls to fit CAT5 cables or Wireless frying your brain. Now we have – LAN over power cables!
Read on to find out more…
Finally got around to finishing my review of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive…
Last year MS released the HD-DVD drive add-on for the Xbox 360 and after all the stock shortages and having sold my soul to pay for my M400 Tablet, I finally managed to get my hands on one from the local [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Category: 