Jan 01

Revelations Good

A few things have popped up in my small world of sandals, babies and websites. Namely, that OWC makes a 4GB ram chip for my MBP :shock:, that solid state drives are faster than hell and almost making financial sense :shock:, and that Dell makes a pretty nice 30″ 2560×1600 display for ~a grand (when on sale) :shock:.

Portability Good

Since deciding I was sick of the performance Achilles’ Heels of my 2.2GHz Macbook Pro and I was pissed and was going to buy or make a really fast tower out of my old Dual G5 that hey, I can’t live without the portability. It’s really fucking nice to run out to a client’s with all my work with me. I’ve done a few training sessions hooked up to a projector “on site” even. If I did get a tower I’d keep this MBP, so the portability I’d keep, but syncing headaches I’d adopt.

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Jul 03

Economies of scale are alive and well with solid state drives, or “SSD”s. Apple is now passing on savings to those who purchase MacBook Air models with 64GB SSD drives. Yesterday: MacBook Air 1.8GHz SSD $3100, Today: $2600.

13-inch : 1.8GHz

Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2GB memory
64GB solid-state drive1
Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi2 and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Ships: 1-3 business days
Free Shipping
$2,598.00

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