Juha Haataja: Universal MacWhere Did the Mac Go Today?Using MacBook Air as the only computer- January 27, 2008 After Apple announced MacBook Air, many reviews have commented that this machine is only good as a second computer, complementing a desktop system or a MacBook Pro. However, I don't think so. As I wrote previously, MacBook Air (hereafter MBA) is in almost all aspect a more powerful system than a PowerBook G4 (from 2002), which I'm currently using as my only computer at work. At my desk I can plug the MBA into my 23-inch widescreen display (1920x1280 resolution is supported), and connect the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/01/27.html#a4881 Too much for me in MacBook Air- January 23, 2008 At work I'm currently using a Titanium PowerBook G4 from 2002. This has been my only computer for well over five years now - both at my office and while traveling. The CPU is 1 GHz PowerPC G4, and there is 1 GB of memory and 60 GB of disk. The machine is fast enough for daily work (I'm running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger), for example MS Office, Acrobat etc. There are several gigabytes of disk available (and I could easily free some more if needed). The memory seems sufficient as well (although...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/01/23.html#a4880 Using EyeTV 3- January 18, 2008 I upgraded the EyeTV software to version 3 on my iMac. There were some new useful features, such as smart lists for automation of recordings. A robust but not a revolutionary upgrade. I have recorded a lot of programs from digital tv using EyeTV and the dual usb stick, which makes it possible to watch or record two channels simultaneously. Extremely nice way of viewing digital television. However, it seems that now I'm getting more and more repeats - there is not so much novelty in the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/01/19.html#a4879 NetNewsWire vs. Google Reader- January 9, 2008 The RSS feed reader NetNewsWire is now free. Some years ago I used it quite a lot, but nowadays I'm using Google Reader, which does a fine job. However, maybe it is time to re-evaluate NetNewsWire. However, the advantage of having RSS feeds automatically up-to-date on any system I happen to be using is hard to replace. Thus, Google Reader will prevail, I think.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/01/09.html#a4876 Not (yet) using Leopard- January 9, 2008 I today upgraded the memory on my iMac to 4 GB. Having several active accounts running simultaneously slowed the system a bit every once in a while, but new everything is running smoothly. I'm running EyeTV, iTunes, several web browsers etc. simultaneously, and sometimes there are jobs running in the background consuming all free cpu cycles. (For example, video format conversion.) The children have been playing games, drawing, experimenting a lot on this system. The iMac has been stable...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/01/09.html#a4875 |