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Happy 20th Anniversary, Macintosh

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steveo
on January 24, 2004
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Twenty years ago today, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh and the world of computing has never been the same ever since.

I bought my first mac on December 13th, 1994. It was a Performa 575 with a 68LC040 33 MHz cpu, 8 MB RAM, and a 250 MB hard drive. It was powered with System 7.5 with cooperative multi-tasking. System 7.5 was so more superior to Windows 3.x. I never thought I would fill up that 250MB hard drive. Boy, was I wrong. Continue reading ‘Happy 20th Anniversary, Macintosh’

mini iPods

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steveo
on January 5, 2004
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With MacWorld SF just a few hours away, rumors are abundant. The most interesting one is about mini iPods with a 2 GB capacity for around $100-150. This would hit a sweet price point for the average Joe user. $299 is just too expensive for 10 GB. How many gigabytes of music does the average consumer have?

G4 iBooks?!?

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steveo
on October 22, 2003
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Apple released new iBooks today. The G4 processor caught me off guard. Wow! I didn’t expect Apple to switch the iBooks to G4s this soon. I was expecting the switch after they had updated the PowerBook line to G5s. Does this mean the PowerBook G5 is coming sooner than expected?

I waited a long time for them to update the 15” PowerBook. Now that it has been updated, I’m was looking forward to purchasing one by the end of the month. But now with the release of the iBook G4, I’m a bit hesitant. Should I wait? Are the PowerBook G5’s just around the corner? If only Apple announce their release schedule.

Site Updates

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steveo
on September 25, 2003
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Damn you, Microsoft. I had to tweaked the stylesheet a bit for Internet Explorer 5.5 to do a decent job at displaying the layout. Well, this webpage looks best with any web compliant browser like Safari, mozilla, or Internet Explorer 6. IE 5 isn’t very web compliant.

Updated the photo album layouts. I removed Orgy/Maisie’s Wedding and Hood’s Wedding pictures. I don’t think they want their wedding photos posted online for all to see. I got over a hundred miscellaneous photos to post. I’ll start working on them this weekend.

I renewed my .mac account. Looks like it’s another year with .mac. I wonder how well the integration is with Panther (Mac OS 10.3).

Bro’s Wintendo

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steveo
on April 13, 2002
in Games and Macintosh
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My little brother’s new computer arrived today. This is to be his very own first computer: a toasty 1.8 Ghz Pentinum 4 with 512 MB of ram, and a 80 GB hard drive. He could have taken my Blue & White G3, so that I could get a new PowerBook G4. But he managed to pursue my folks into buying him a new computer. Bitter? A little, I am more deserving and in need of a new computer than he. Jealous? Definitely not. I have to admit, it simply blazes (in more ways than one). But after playing around with Windows XP for a few minutes, I was so happy to return to my Mac. Mac OS X may be a bit slow and pokey on this Blue & White G3 300 Mhz, but if given a choice between a giga-hertz pc and a mega-hertz mac, I would take the mac any day. Anyways, I think I’ll wait for the G5s =)