March 3, 2008
Some time ago Apple announced the MacBook Air - a ridiculously lightweight and thin MacBook. Although it lacks a lot of features (internal CD drive etc) it can be upgraded to have a solid state HDD (which is fast and near-silent, not to mention very reliable) and relies on wireless to do almost anything.
What’s more impressive is how it fits this all, plus a full size backlit keyboard and LED screen into the thinnest notebook so far.
Apparently uptake has been high, which surprises me. The MacBook Air is a feat of engineering, but the lack of a CD drive and limit of just one USB port limit its practical use, especially at a cost of at least £1199.
As far as I’m concerned, the MacBook Air is the Bugatti Veyron of notebooks. Incredible engineering and ahead of its time, but perhaps beyond what the current market can handle. The sales will probably prove me wrong, but at least I can say this.
If this is the future of notebook technology, it looks promising.
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February 18, 2008
Neat for fans of Oblique Strategies, the little deck of cards that give little quotes and food for thought, there’s a nifty thing you can do on a Mac. Visit the page where you can draw a card in Safari. Choose to clip the page into the Dashboard, and hey presto - an oblique strategies widget that changes each time you go to the Dashboard. Nifty, eh?
[From Oblique Strategies]
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January 20, 2008
Yep, I still say that to myself every couple of days.
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January 9, 2008
Many thanks to Mike (@Mike - is this URL current?) for pointing out the Mac app Genius to me.
Genius is freeware (donations accepted) to help you learn things. You pair answers and questions and then plough through them. It is very useful for learning commercial law cases, as I am doing now (what fun).
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January 4, 2008
Walk into my room at the moment and you will find a few new bits’n'pieces: a heater that makes beeping sound not unlike a microwave (appropriate since it will happily cook the room quite quickly), strewn-about bits of paper detailing exactly how direct effect in the EU works (or doesn’t), but most crucially, a shiny new MacBook, dusted to within an inch of its life.
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The new MacBook is, of course, stunning. More on that later (after I’ve finished this essay and revised for exams), but for now just a quick example.
As predicted, OmniFocus syncs with iCal, which syncs with my old iPod. What I didn’t predict was the built-in Bluetooth, which syncs iCal todos and dates and the address book with my mobile phone.
Hell. Yeah.
P.S. I’m sure there are 101 different ways to do this on a PC, but they all seemed to involve either Outlook (which is no longer standard in the Home & Student edition of Office which I have) or some other bits of software, most likely which are paid. With the exception of OmniFocus, this is all built-in.
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December 26, 2007
According to Douglas Adams, one of the two reasons that the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy succeeded was because it had the words “Don’t Panic” printed n the cover in large friendly letters.
Macs appear to be similar. Error messages are scary things, but my MacBook has just reassured me that “Mail closed unexpectedly. Mac OS X and other applications are not affected”. Perhaps not as friendly, but certainly not as incomprehensible as some Windows errors. No system is perfect, or the crash wouldn’t have happened in the first place, but I am rather liking this little bit of polish.
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November 26, 2007
Something really cool I just worked out I can do with a Mac.
- I can use iCal to subscribe to Google Calendar
- I can use iCal to synchronise with OmniFocus
- I can sync iCal with my iPod so I have both my to-do lists and agenda on my iPod, which travels everywhere with me on campus
At last! A digital to-do list that I keep with me!
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November 24, 2007
Decision taken: I don’t even want to try Vista, my laptop is dying quickly and Ubuntu doesn’t seem to work properly these days.
I’m getting a Mac.
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