A few weeks ago the battery of my wife’s MacBook died. I could buy a new battery and continue my Mac journey, but I decided to put it up for sale on Craigslist. That was this morning at 1am.
The MacBook is now gone, and I don’t foresee another Mac in my home for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mac’
30 May
Bye bye MacBook
27 Jan
Cross-OS pain
I tried to move a large file (larger than 4.7GB) from Mac OS to Vista. It was so painful that I just gave up.
Attempt: Burn file to a dual-layer DVD.
Problem: My MacBook only has a single-layer DVD burner.
Attempt: Mount a NTFS-formatted USB drive to Mac and copy the file directly.
Problem: Mac OS cannot write [...]
10 Jan
Bad, bad Mac OS updates
My wife updated her MacBook OS tonight using the built-in Software Updater. These updates were installed:
Security Update 2007-009 (Universal), version 1.1
Java For Mac OS X 10.4 Release 6, version 1.0
Mac OS X Update (Intel), version 10.4.11
iDVD Update, version 6.0.4
Afterwards her decent Mac user experience went down the toilet:
DiskImageMounter.app wouldn’t run. This means I [...]
20 Nov
Mac vs PC ads
I have a MacBook as well as an iPhone, but that doesn’t mean I can stand the BS advertising campaign from Apple championing how superior the Mac is.
I have three Vista machines at home, and while they are not perfect, I am actually happier with them than with the MacBook running OS X. The Mac [...]
