MacWorld Keynote

January 12, 2008

Steve Jobs’s 2008 MacWorld San Francisco Keynote address is just hour away now. It will take place at 9am Pacific on Tuesday, January 15th. I don’t know if anyone else is as excited about this keynote as I am, but Andrew just sent me a link to some pretty good predictions from Gizmodo. The thing [...]

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A Bittersweet Upgrade

July 1, 2007

I’ve had my black MacBook for a few days now, and I am really loving it. I thought I’d share some of my thoughts, briefly, on my move from my 12″ PowerBook to the MacBook.
I like…

The Speed: It is fast. And I mean, really, really fast. I love it. Photoshop (CS3) opens right up. [...]

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Video Chat Newbie

June 29, 2007

I will probably write more about the MacBook later, but I have it, and it’s working great. I also got the Adobe Creative Suite 3 today, and that’s been great fun to play with. However, I just had my first video chat - and I have to admit, it was a little awkward. I hadn’t [...]

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And the 12″ PowerBook is sadly replaced…

June 23, 2007

The decision has been made. And perhaps it is fitting that I ordered a black computer; fitting because of the grief that has enveloped me these past few weeks as I’ve realized I needed to replace my 12″ PowerBook. It’s still working fine - but I don’t want to be working on it without Applecare, [...]

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An Open Letter to Steve Jobs

February 21, 2007

Dear Steve,
So, I’ve heard the rumors. Well, I’ve heard many rumors - and just recently heard that you’re possibly going to roll out a 15" MacBook in the 2nd Quarter of 2007?
Why?
I mean, I guess I can understand that some users of the MacBook might want a slightly larger screen than the 13" - I [...]

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The Family is Complete…

December 19, 2006

Ever since I got my PowerBook, I’ve been a bit of a Mac-evangelist. And my parents’ old Dell desktop running Windows ‘98 was just not cutting it anymore. So last night, after a glorious performance of Handel’s Messiah, we went to the Apple Store in Oregon (no sales tax!) and my parents bought a MacBook. [...]

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