My New Favourite Toy
And this proves once and for all that I am cooler than Gordon McLean.
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Matt,
I got the Joost link, thanks very much.
Just admiring the photo of your new Macbook, enjoy - a 'health to wear' as my granny used to say.
Hoping my Macbook arrives tomorrow, unfortunately my current Macs are non-intel, so the Joost fun won't start until the new kit arrives.
If you haven't heard of www.43folders.com you should check it out, loads of Mac productivity and software info there.
Cheers.
Posted by: Davy McDonald | May 8, 2007 11:23 PM
No worries for the Joost invite, I still have like, millions left.
Am playing around with my new toy right now, it's the fucking bollocks. The Joost fun hasn't started yet, their servers are a bit fucked at the moment what with all the bajillions of new users. It was good before though, so I assume it'll be good again. And that it will get some newer, better content.
Productivity shmroductivity! It's a toy, for toying. Possibly somewhere down the line it'll be used for work, but not yet.
Posted by: Matt | May 8, 2007 11:53 PM
Very nice! Awesome! Fun to play with, no?
Posted by: Calista | May 9, 2007 4:06 AM
oooo!
Posted by: annie | May 9, 2007 7:59 AM
Calista - Fun to play with, yes!
Annie - Aaaaah!
Posted by: Matt | May 9, 2007 9:39 AM
Being cooler than Gordon is like being less sweary than me.
(I'm fucked once Mclean reads that, you realise. *grin*)
Posted by: Lyle | May 9, 2007 12:16 PM
My macbook Pro just arrived too.
Very cool design tweaks to an already drop-dead cool laptop, best o fall the bootup progress bar showed 5% - and then vanished, 'coz it was already up & running.
- We don't need no steeenking progress bars!
I hope to see very little of spinning beach balls too...
Posted by: Davy McDonald | May 9, 2007 2:49 PM
A friend of mine once had lots of RAM lying around his office so he decided to build a diskless Mac server. He had in booting in the same time as a comparable Windows machine even though he was effectively installing the OS from scratch at each boot.
That wasn't typical hardware though, by a long chalk. I think he said it was somewhere in the region of 32GB of RAM.
Posted by: QE | May 9, 2007 3:40 PM
That's nothing, I followed Lifehacker's guide to moving your iTunes library from a PC to a Mac, and really, it couldn't have been any simpler. I mean sure, driver error meant I had to find-and-replace a few times in the Library.xml file, but after that it was like File>import Library>ZIP!!
Job done. If only my photos had been so easy.
QE, that's crazy talk. But you can get a Mac Pro now with 16GB of RAM out of the box. Speaking of RAM, I have like 4.5 gigs of 256MB DIMMS in my desk drawer. Anyone know of anything I can do with it?
Posted by: Matt | May 9, 2007 3:43 PM
Hmm... 256MB, you say?
I daresay you can come up with a Kerplunk! variant of some kind.
Posted by: QE | May 9, 2007 4:29 PM
I was thinking of using them to play giant tiddlywinks, but Kerplunk! seems like as good an idea as any.
Isn't it sad though, that 256MB DIMMs are as good as garbage these days?
Posted by: Matt | May 9, 2007 4:32 PM
Fancy pantsy huh?
Posted by: babs | May 9, 2007 6:26 PM
It's the fanciest of pastsyests, Babs. You'll be dead jealous when you see it.
So there.
Posted by: Matt | May 9, 2007 6:38 PM
I really don't think so, I am not a gadget person, my auld Dell will do me fine for the moment. But congratulations on buying it, cause I know you wanted it for feckin ever, so yay! See you tomorrow for curry and all that jazz, get naan!!
Posted by: babs | May 9, 2007 10:57 PM
Eeeeuw, it reeks of geek in here... ;-)
Very nice mate.
Posted by: SharkyUK | May 10, 2007 4:48 PM
Mine is nice and shiny white.
Does that count? Thanks for pointing this out though, missed this when you posted!
And Lyle. You are.
Posted by: Gordon | May 16, 2007 2:06 PM
Aah, mine is shiny, "Pro" silver.
Therefore I am, indeed, still cooler. Thank gawd for that. I was worried for a while.
White MacBooks are for girls. :-)
Posted by: Matt | May 16, 2007 3:01 PM
When did I miss out on Gordon - I'll never buy a mac - Mclean getting a mac?
And I'm cooler than the lot of you. For reasons I can't say.
Posted by: Adrian | May 22, 2007 1:33 PM