MacBook Pro

Switching to a Mac has been a bittersweet experience so far. Sweet, because: I love my crisp wide-screen display – how all connections are consolidated into one cable which I plug into my G5, which is neat. The G5 is so quiet, you hardly realise it’s on. Mac-compatible hardware and software programs are really easy…

[Update 27/10/04. Just when things were going hunkydory … My screen turned dark and I received a warning message telling me to shut down or reboot my Mac. This hasn’t happened for a while, but this isn’t the sort of thing that should happen at all! Worse, I can’t seem to find a solution in…

Calling Mac users and experts – I need help with making a decision! I was at Apple Centre Orchard this afternoon and noticed an offer for all three MacBook Pro models (1.83, 2.0 and 2.16GHz dual Intel processors). That was surprising, considering that they should be in hot demand (according to the salesman) so there’d…

VanPod had the closest thing to a heart attack just now – multiple times. I docked it to my PowerMac and it kept on restarting. Which is exactly what happened to my sister’s 15GB iPod which I bought for her. 2 AppleCentres quoted a high price to fix the problem, which was apparently quite serious….

My system is down. I suspect it’s been hit by the same bug that affected both my sister’s and mother’s systems. I suspect it is something that breached our home network. In fact I used to pride myself on the fact that my computer was the only system that withstood all the funny problems that…

A friend was showing me her new Fuji Finepix F601 camera over lunch on Saturday (note how the information in the table is presented, and which specification is in bold). “It’s SIX megapixels and I got it for only S$600!” She added that it was originally worth S$1000 but she got a trade-in deal. Hmm….