You got yours, right?
This is one that comes up more and more lately. How do I run Windows on my Mac? Systm has an episode that is just for you.
I was following along with Tom as he played with bootcamp, Parallels and VMWare. Here he favors VMWare, but says they both pretty much run the same and he thinks Parallels is a little slicker, but also really likes the v2 of VMWare (still in beta).
For the last 6 months or so I’ve been going back and forth on my next computer purchase. As I’ve mentioned before, I like 2 machines. 1 that is mobile that I can keep small, light and having only what I need to have while I’m mobile. And the other for my desk which holds all of my media (music, photos, video) and does everything the mobile machine does.
I haven’t had that. Not since my PC died in early ‘07, shortly after I got the MacBook. And, while the MacBook is a great little mobile machine, it just doesn’t have the horsepower I need for doing other things. As it turns out, there are a few other issues I have with it as well.
So I’ve been watching the refurb shop at the Apple store for a 20″ iMac (the good one, not the low-end model), a 24″ iMac and a 15″ MacBook Pro. After my last trip, I’ve made my decision.
15″ MacBook Pro.
This came to me as I was trying to edit video on the road on the 13″ MB screen and watching as iMovie brought the machine to a smoking, screeching halt and declared 200+ minutes to export a 15 minute long video. No good that. Also I got the chance to check one out in person at that ginormous Apple store in Boston. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend it.
So, when the time comes, I will get a 15″ MBP for my desk. Run it off the juice with the battery removed (if I can) and use it mobile when I need the extra power.
Something else that I discovered after last week was just how cool the iPhone was. Every day during MTTS it saved our asses no less than twice, and some days more often than that. Whether it was finding the nearest Starbucks or giving us directions from point a to point b, just have access to Google Maps, even as slow as it is over EDGE, was a godsend!
Now, I’m not going to do anything foolish like drop Verizon and go to AT&T. Besides not liking AT&T, the coverage, where I spend most of my time, is crap. And, since it’s the only phone I carry, I like it to work all the time.
What I’m actually hoping to be able to do is get my MBP sometime before Apple stops that student special so I can also get an iPod Touch. Um, sure, it’s, um, for teh lad. Yea, that’s the ticket!
All of which hinges, directly or not, on my getting work. Don’t forget, I am for hire! Feel free to pass along my contact info and whatnot to anyone that you think could benefit from my skills.
Ok, back to processing one more video. Then, and only then, will this round of MTTS be done!
For starters, in case you were wondering, I am, in fact, for hire. Not a craigslist fan? Check this out instead. Feel free to pass that along to anyone, anywhere, that you think could benefit from my services.
Next up, you probably noticed all of the sites I run were down today. The outage effected 14 sites. Middle of the night hard disk failure was the culprit, then it took all day to rebuild the RAID array. That it took that long to rebuild the array tells me it was something more than a hard drive failure. I would guess either it was a RAID controller failure or complete corruption of the OS on the server. Normal RAID hard drive failure doesn’t require a 12+ hour rebuild. That’s the benefit of RAID. Regardless, it’s fixed and that’s that.
MTTS starts Friday. My trip is planned, flights confirmed and I’m ready to go. My journey starts Thursday, and you know you’ll be hearing about it. To make things easier for the non-w(t)f readers that are going to want to track me, I’m going to be thinning out my friendfeed feed to include only twitter, WRR and WR.tv. For those of you that use that feed for everything else, all apologies. I will go back to normal when I get back.
I certainly wish I could get excited about the iPhone. I just can’t switch to AT&T. I can, however, give serious thought about the iPod touch now. For those of you pissed that you have to pay for the 2.0 update, feel free to share your feelings in the comments.
You can wish me a happy birthday too unless you did already otherwise. it’s totally allowed, esp. since today marks the 40th anniversary of my life on earth. Double ugh with a side of ack right there.
Only 4 to go before 1K. Think I can do it before I leave at 5:00AM Thursday?
I don’t have an iPhone now.
I’m not going to switch to AT&T so I can get one later.
So why am I sitting here, excited like the rest of you, about the keynote?
I’ll follow along as best I can, but here we are, about an hour before it starts and twitter is already down. I will be keeping an eye on macrumorslive, twitlive (in case Leo does play by play) and hangin’ out in #viddler-chat on irc.freenode.net. C’mon by and have a chat if you are looking for someone to talk to .
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