News: “My on-again, off-again Apple relationship”

Posted: February 28th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

My on-again, off-again Apple relationship on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Intel 80386, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Pro, System 7

Filed under: Cult of Mac , Apple With TUAW’s Your First Apple series, we let you get a glimpse of our own histories with the Mac. My own history with Apple’s computers has been a bit convoluted. The first Apple computer, in fact the first…


News: “Update on Dell Mini with OSX’sproke”

Posted: October 10th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Update on Dell Mini with OSX’sproke on Planet Geospatial
Topics: Intel 80386, MacBook, MacBook Pro

It’s been six months, so I thought I would do a quick update on my Dell Mini.What worksIt’s small and light weight: I travel frequently and its nice to be able to stick a notebook in my purse/backpack/grocery bag.  In contrast, my MacBook Pro (the…


News: “HP Mini 311 with ION benchmarked: it goes very fast”

Posted: October 5th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

HP Mini 311 with ION benchmarked: it goes very fast on Engadget
Topics: MacBook Air, MacBook, Intel 80386

We’ve already seen the NVIDIA ION-based HP Mini 311 perform impressively during demos, but now that the netbook is hitting reviewers it’s time for some real benchmarks — and according to the crew at Laptop, they’re more than solid. The 311 scored a…


News: “How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish”

Posted: September 3rd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish [How To] on Lifehacker
Topics: Mac OS X, MacBook Pro, Intel 80386, Intel Core 2, MacBook, Disk Utility, Intel Core, GDDR3, DDR2 SDRAM

Two years ago, I detailed how to build a Hackintosh for under $800—then covered how to do the same with less hacking. Now that Snow Leopard’s out, we’re revisiting the Hackintosh, building a Hack Pro from scratch for roughly $900. For folks…


News: “Morten Kjeldgaard: Ubuntu on the Dell mini 10 (1)”

Posted: May 23rd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments »

Morten Kjeldgaard: Ubuntu on the Dell mini 10 (1) on Planet Ubuntu
Topics: Intel 80386, PowerBook G4

I recently purchased a Dell Mini 10 notebook. I’ve been wanting to get a netbook for some time, and I was planning to one of the Asus EEE series. However, looking at one at the local computer store, I found it a bit “plastic-y”….


News: “Shane Caraveo: Better local development with VMs”

Posted: May 22nd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Shane Caraveo: Better local development with VMs on Planet Mozilla
Topics: Intel 80386, Bonjour, Apple Filing Protocol, Mac OS X, MacBook

I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 in a VM Image strictly for the purposes of setting up a simple local dev environment on my MacBook. This is the base image, which I want to configure with some useful but general capabilities. The…