MacOS has been my desktop platform of choice since 2005 or so..
I started to really warm up to the Mac when the first Mac Mini came out (early 2005) and I made the Mac my primary desktop and development machine with some of the earlier Mac Pros (not sure which one though). I have been very disappointed in newer Mac Pros though…
Lately, I have found the Mac Studio to be a decent proposition… compared to the competition. And that’s only because the competition still hasn’t caught up to MacOS, not because I really like the way Apple closes down everything :/
Ok, I've been annoyed by this since the very first day I've been using my Mac Mini: the mouse feels weird, very weird. Broken actually!Part of my problem was the Bluetooth operating range, which I could only fix by moving the mac nearer to where I us…...
WOW! All this time I've been running the wrong AC3 codec on my Mac Mini!
Last week, I found one that works soooo much better! To find it, I actually had to search for "a52 codec" and not "ac3 codec". Go figure!
Intel version (Universal) Original…...
I have recently put together a new Core 2 duo PC for doing my web development. And I have been asked why I didn't get a Core 2 duo Mac instead...
The question definitely makes sense. You can now get essentially the same components into a PC or a Mac.…...
If you crash your mac: AppleJack!
And even if you don't crash your Mac bad, you want AppleJack. Everytime you hard reset/reboot your mac you add a few errors on your hard drive structure. And as time goes by, you get more and more of those turning…
At Apple's last special event, after introducing the new iPods, Steve Jobs added this:
"We've got some new packagings for the new nano as well. And it's 52% less volume. This turns out to be an environmentally great thing. Because it dramatically…...
Wireless Mighty Mouse
Until now, Apple had a cool mouse called the Mighty Mouse with all the advanced features you'd expect from a mouse (right click, scroll weel... even better: multidirectional scrolling ball)... it just wasn't wireless.
Apple also…...
One of my biggest frustrations with the Mac Mini has been using the mouse... the Bluetooth Wireless Mouse actually...
The pointer movement just wasn't smooth enough... just not as responsive as it is on Windows...
I first blamed it on using PowerPC…...
The 10 feet interface
Okay, well, one of the reasons I've been quiet for the last two weeks is because I got myself one of those intel Mac Minis...
The bottom line is: I love that thing!
But here's a little more details... including answers I…...
Update: I originally found this codec.
However, I've later found a much better one!
2009 Update: The a52 codec now supports 5.1 surround passthrough, even on Mac Mini.
"More than even the processor... more than even the hardware innovations that we bring to the market... the soul of the Mac is its operating system... and we're not standing still!" -Steve Jobs, closing his keynote at WWDC 2005
I wonder if that means…...