Now that I've been running back and forth between New Jersey and New York more often, I'm dreaming of a lighter laptop--my old 12" G4, while still smaller than the Mac laptops offered today, weighs in at 6+ pounds. So after reading the New York Times Frugal Traveler column, in which writer Matt ...
David Pogue votes Macs!
In the "Mac vs PC" wars, David Pogue, tech columnist for the New York Times, comes down on the side of the Mac. His primary reason is to avoid viruses and spyware, but he also says "they look nicer." However he does suggest that a netbook might be preferable to a Mac, because of its size. See ...
Ode to the PowerBook 2400c
I'd like to take a moment to tell you about my favorite Mac. The Macintosh PowerBook 2400c, the subnotebook version of the more widely known 3400c, is one amazing Mac. It's almost usable today if you have replaced its PowerPC 603ev CPU with a G3, which of course I did. In fact, I have the cool 320 ...
urgent: Apple II floppy update
How to get a 5.25" floppy onto a modern Mac Warning: this post contains some serious Apple retro geekery. I've actually had to exercise serious restraint with the details. You may want to skip this one unless Apple II's, Color Classics, SCSI ethernet interfaces, PowerBook 2400's, and other Apple ...
Seagate offers 7200 RPM, 500 GB drive for laptops
There are a handful of companies who manufacture hard drives: Hitachi, Samsung, Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba (who just this year bought Fujitsu). In a testament to the benefits of a competitive marketplace, they are always attempting to leapfrog one another by offering bigger, faster ...
Apple II Update
A while back I planned to pull my beloved Apple //e (circa 1993) out of storage with the intent of a) having fun, and b) archiving anything noteworthy I found on my many 5.25" floppy disks. I did, and the experience was both better and worse than I imagined. The experience was wonderfully tactile: ...