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8:39 - 31st, December 2025

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Making your own "Macintosh" running classic Mac OS

I posted about this in the chat, but I thought I'd actually post the video as well. for about 150US you can get a working pc running classic mac os 7/8/9.

I'm curious how it'll run some of the heavier games. I've got one running on my laptop which has an core i3 gen 11 with 20 gigs of ram and it works, but not great. I haven't tried it with any rts or action games, mainly just with Strategic Conquest which is an old game my dad used to love.

I have dosbox working on my ryzen 5600x at home to play simtower, but this might be the better option as that version feels pretty limiting. We'll see.

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10:16 - 14th, March 2025

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Building a CasaOS server with old hardware

I've been doing a lot of research on building my own NAS (Network attached Storage) since my WD Mycloud is practically full and I cannot remote access to it anymore. Ale also needs access to it for work related stuff as well. I've got an EX2 at work that was continuously getting attacked with ransom ware that I believe was coming from a pc on the network, but haven't proven 100%. Apparently it is a known issue with WD drives though. I've had to format that thing so many times and revert to a backup that its not even funny.

I ended up upgrading to a synology NAS at work, which has some nice features but refuse to give it remote access for fear of hacking again.

For those who think, I've got nothing people would want so I don't need to worry, I thought the same thing. It's not about them looking to specifically hack you, it's about them sending out their drones to get whatever they can, so just keep that in mind.

Regardless, right now, I've got an old intel mac mini set up with an external drive (4TB I believe but could be smaller) which Ale's imac is using as a Time Machine server. Her Mac laptop will also do the same. It's quite a nice set up for timemachine but very basic in its capabilities even though it's a fully working mac.

So, I've been looking for alternatives and think I've finally found something that will work. It's an "OS" that sits on top of another OS, usually a Unix or Linux distribution. I believe the easiest is Debian. It's called Casa OS or CasaOS. From what I can tell the whole thing is free, though there might be some paid apps in its app marketplace to add more functionality.

What's more is you can get this great cheap business/office pcs on amazon with 6th gen intel i5 or better with 8 gigs of ram, sometimes 16 gigs with room for expansion in both ram and storage for about 100US. If you want to splurge you can go for a really nice system for 300US but for this project there's no real need.

Seems like a nice little project for me when I get back.

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14:12 - 11th, April 2022

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MacOS 8.0 in a browser

They are saying this is emulation but I'm not sure exactly how it would be.
Maybe just a remote desktop to a workstation running MacOS 8? This hurts my head.

All I know is that this is pretty cool and it's able to run Civilzation 1.

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Alex

14:50 - 18th, November 2020

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Confused about Apple

Last week I read an article on OSNews.com regarding what I would consider a major fault with the mac os and Apple's take on who actually has control over your OS and computer.

Yesterday, every Mac user got a taste of what happens when you don’t actually own the computers you pay a lot of money for. Because Apple wants to control everything you do with the computer you rent from them, and because Apple wants to know everything you do while using the computer you rent from them, a random server somewhere going down meant Mac users couldn’t open their applications anymore.

This pretty much cemented my opinion of Apple and their crazy control over everything. I was completely against buying another mac. Keep in mind that I personally didn't feel this... outage(?)... and I was working on my imac most of the day. I have a pc at home now and the way Windows is now compared to how it was in the 90's, I'm very comfortable using windows on a daily basis. Almost more so than Mac, to the point that I think my next upgrade for the house will be a pc, not a mac. The usual suspects come into play here - gaming being the primary one. But one of the nice things about having an intel mac was always the ability to run windows, either virtualized or bootable.

Now comes the new PPC6 macs as I call them (they are arm based so why not?). At first I was thinking that this ppc6 thing would stop me from wanting a mac strictly because of no windows compatibility but the raw power of the base machines cannot be disregarded. The macbook air, macbook pro 13 and mac mini are all killing it for entry level machines, and sure they can all run ios apps natively now, but most of the real gaming is still on x86.

I'm very curious to see what they do with the pro models of their computers and how they play ball with everything. So I'm either going to go hackintosh or just flat out pc for my upgrade. We'll see.

Whatever the case, the next little while will be interesting to watch for Apple.

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Alex

21:07 - 2nd, June 2014

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Apple shows off Mac OS X 10.10 AKA Yosemite

Don't know if anyone is interested in this but Apple held its WWDC today and aside from the usual focus on iPhone and iOS was the big reveal of the latest incarnation of Mac OS X. Version 10.10 or Yosemite's big news was about the user interface having a minor overhaul (minihaul?). Check it out:

OOOOOoooo transparencies. Er I mean translucencies.

They mention a bunch of stuff about the internal apple apps, but seriously, who uses those anyways...

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Alex

6:27 - 27th, November 2013

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Western Digital releases software to address data loss under certain conditions

Aha! This is exactly what I was talking about and why I wanted to wait for upgrading to Mavericks.

Western Digital has released a new version of its WD SmartWare hard drive software following extensive reports of data-loss on Western Digital drives after the installation of OS X Mavericks.

The MacRumors Forums, Western Digital's forums, and Apple's Support Communities all had threads about lost data after connecting Western Digital external hard drives to computers after updating to Mavericks.
WD is happy to announce the release of WD SmartWare Version 1.3.6 for Mac 10.5-10.9.

Fixed an issue related to reports of some customers, under certain conditions, experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9).
The WD SmartWare update is available for download from Western Digital's website.

Now, upon further investigation it seems that people were using some back up software instead of time machine, why anyone would do that is beyond me but to each their own I suppose.

Here's a link to that download mentioned

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Alex

22:42 - 11th, November 2013

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Mac OS 10.9: Mavericks

I figure we should start a thread about it since the chat will be too convoluted if we start talking about it there.

So I installed Mavericks on my primary SSD. On battery power it reminded me it's not safe to install while on battery and that I should plug in. I had 100% charge at the beginning of the installation and by the time everything was finished and I had booted into the new system I was down to 85%.

Something a little strange happened though. The mac sat there finalizing the installation saying something on the lines of "less than a second remaining" for a good 5-10 minutes. Not really a big deal but I thought it might of crashed. System restarted and then got into the finder ok.

Booting Mavericks for the first time

MenuCalendarClock iCal asked permission to access my calendar twice and my tasks once. Then CS5 asked me to install the java runtime. This was already installed because I have Minecraft installed. Weird, but no biggie. While that was downloading and installing I briefly checked out the new Safari, seemed a little snappier and has a somewhat new interface but still not a browser I'll be using. I'm sticking with Chrome for one simple reason, I can go to any computer anywhere in the world, log into my google account in chrome and it loads all my settings, bookmarks, plugins and whatever else. If firefox did this, I would use firefox by default, hands down.

Then it hit me, the dock is back to being glass and reflective. Now I hate the dock, and Apple giving it a reflective surface that just eats up cpu time is retarded. So the first thing I usually do is turn that off. But Apple has disabled that feature now, forcing everyone to use the reflective 3D dock unless you snap the dock to the right or left. Shame really.

The more I use the computer I keep thinking that it doesn't feel as snappy as it should for an upgrade.

Installation finished and I hit my power button to tell the mac to reboot and Apple has changed this behaviour now too. I used to be able to hit power, then a dialogue would come up with shut down, restart, sleep and cancel. Now when you hit the power button the computer just goes to sleep. There are no options to change this, the only way to get the dialogue back up is to hold control and hit the power button. Pity.

Reboot the computer and I'm greeted with a "log into your apple id" type of screen. Odd, shouldn't it of done this when the mac booted last time? Log in, and now I feel how snappy the mac is, it's really quite noticeable on my Macbook Pro 2.2 ghz i7.

We'll see tomorrow if all my apps work as they should. From what I understand, iPhoto might be the only one to cause grief so far.

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Alex

15:49 - 6th, November 2013

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Changing the location of the SWAP disk in Mac os X 10.8

Since I've changed my primary drive in my laptop to a solid state drive I've been terrified of its life expectancy. I know for a fact that you can only write to it a finite number of times until it starts to degrade, it's something like 60TB of information or something ridiculous, but being used to hard drives that will literally last for eternity unless they're dropped, this is a big deal to me.

So in my search for extending my ssd's life I thought to myself, "why not stop hibernation and change the SWAP drive?"

On Windows and Linux this is pretty standard stuff, I think it's even built into the OS. On mac, not so much.

I've been reading up on it and it's a little scary, even with my history with screwing around in the terminal and altering system files. I can potentially kill my mac, and with all the work I put into getting this ssd plus windows on here, that's something to worry about...

What do you think, is it worth the risk?

To give you an idea, I've had my mac on for 3 days, running photoshop, illustrator and whatever else. I've maxed out my RAM in no time and burned through 633000 page outs. As far as I know, page outs are basically virtual memory and that's the swap disk. That's unnecessary write to the ssd if you ask me, even with my 8gigs of ram.

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20:51 - 17th, June 2013

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So Pat just sent me this

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22:31 - 13th, May 2013

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Installing Windows using a USB key or External DVD drive on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

After two days of partitioning, formatting, editing, repartitioning, reformatting, installing and reformatting again, I've finally been able to install Windows 7 on my macbook pro. I've read nearly every single thing there is to read on the internet about being able to install Windows 7 without an internal DVD drive on a Macbook Pro 15" running 10.8 Mountain Lion. Through all my reading I've found determined two things:

Windows 7 does not like (cannot?) be installed from an external (USB) DVD drive

Apple simply flags certain macs model numbers in an XML (plist) file to allow installation of Windows from a USB key

These two discoveries are important because it allowed me to understand why my Macbook Pro would either tell me that my USB key with a windows installer on it was not a bootable drive. It also explains why trying to install from a external dvd drive would sit at a black screen with a flashing cursor without actually booting.

My setup

I have a Macbook Pro 2011 (model number MBP 8,1) with 2 hard drives. The first was a 1TB HDD 5400 or 7200 rpm drive. This was my primary drive for the longest while, I had my system, apps, games and all my personal files on here. My DVD drive stopped working and I thought the best thing to do was to purchase a hard drive caddy and get myself on the SSD bandwagon. Once the SSD and caddy were installed I then installed a fresh copy of 10.8 onto the SSD but kept my home directory on the HDD. I figured my personal files like work and music plus windows partition would be on the HDD while everything else on the SSD.

Keeping your home directory on a second drive

This wasn't all that complicated to do. Before you start installing a system on the SSD, boot up your OS on your HDD and create a "bootadmin" account with admin privileges on your HDD, this way you have two admin accounts in your OS.
Mark down the usernames and passwords of all the accounts that you'd like to leave on your HDD.
Now, install your OS on the SSD and make the primary account a generic admin account, not your personal account. Once installation is finished, do all your updates and make sure the system is running as is supposed to, when that is finished go to System preferences and Create a new user, give the user the same name as your personal account from the HDD. Make sure the name and password are the same as the original system you had and you choose administrator from the New Account drop down menu at the top. Now in the list on the left, right click (control click) the name as shown below and choose advanced options.

In the window that comes up change the path of the home directory to the same path from the HDD as show below.

Great, log out of the general admin account and now log back in with your account. You can now clean up the SSD by going to SSD/Users and deleting the folder of the new account since it's not being used by anything. Repeat these steps until all the accounts are created.

Force Bootcamp to acknowledge USB Keys

Certain mac do not have the capability to make USB windows installers. There's a simple fix for this that really just takes two seconds to do.

Make sure Boot Camp Assistant is closed before proceeding.

Open Applications / Utitlities / System Information.

Click Hardware in the left pane to make sure it's the active portion. Copy the value for boot ROM Version. In my case it's as shown below

Go to your Applications / Utilities folder and right click bootcamp assistant and choose Show Package Contents.

In the new window, go to Contents and make a back up of info.plist by selecting it and then option dragging it into the same window. It will ask you for your password, once confirmed rename the file to something like info-bkup.plist.

Open info.plist in your favourite text editor like Text Edit, mine is BBEdit. Changing anything might ask you to unlock the file and will definitely ask you to authenticate when saving. Locate a section <key>DARequiredROMVersions</key> and insert <string>BOOT ROM VERSION</string> as a new as a first line. It should look like this:

One last thing, the same thing needs to be done a little further in the PreUSBBootSupportedModels section. Once again insert a new line as the first line, this time just the model number

Save and close the program.

Open boot camp assistant and you should have a new option as shown below

If you don't see the section highlighted in blue you need to redo the above section.

Installing Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro 2011 with no DVD drive

Now for the gritty part. This is what you'll need:

rEFInd

Windows 7 (image)

USB key / external DVD Drive / ISO of Windows

VMware Fusion (5 trial)

Terminal

Tuxera NTFS / Paragon NTFS

rEFInd is a bootloader for mac, linux and windows, it's based off the code for rEFIt, which is no longer supported and doesn't have support for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Download all the above mentioned software

Install rEFInd. Because I have 2 hard drives and ultimately have 3 partitions I made sure I had it on the SSD and not in my home directory before I installed it. To install rEFInd open terminal and drag the install.sh into the terminal window. It will ask you for a password, that is the same password you would us to log in. Note the message at the end, it should say something on the lines of Successfully installed. A good way to check is to open Macintosh HD (Macintosh SSD for me) and if there's a directory called efi then you're set. (to uninstall just trash that folder).

Open Boot Camp Assistant and make sure the three boxes are checked and hit next. Make sure to have the Windows DVD (image or actual DVD) and a usb key plugged in. It will create a wininstaller and download all the necessary drivers. After that it will ask how much space you want to give bootcamp. Since I have 2 hard drives it gave me another option of which hard drive do I want to use and if I'd like to reformat my secondary and use the whole thing as a bootcamp drive. Once it's finished it's going to reboot the mac. To avoid any issues hold the option key before the apple logo comes up and reboot back into OS X.

Now that you're back in OS X, open disk utility (Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility) and in the left pane select the Boot Camp partition and hit command i to get info on the partition. Take not of the Disk Identifier. This is very important so make sure you have the correct disk and then mark it down and keep it somewhere safe. Quit Disk Utility.

Open Vmware Fusion and create a new Virtual Machine (command n). It will ask you to please insert disc, click continue without disc.

Choose Create Custom Virtual Machine.

Choose the appropriate version of Windows, and then customize settings. Choose a safe place to keep the virtual machine, I like /Users/username/Documents/Virtual Machines. Do not save your Virtual Machine on the Boot Camp partition!

Close Vmware Fusion.

Open Terminal (Applications / Utilities / Terminal), and go to the Virtual Machine. In other words, type "cd " (without the quotes) and then drag the Windows 7 x64 file from your Documents / Virtual Machines into the Terminal window and hit enter. Now, check to make sure that Disk Utility is correct by copying the following and pasting it into your terminal window

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator print /dev/disk1

You should see something like this:

The highlighted portion is the bootcamp partition. The identifier was right, #4, so we're good to proceed.

Now we're going to link the virtual machine we created in VMware Fusion to the Bootcamp partition. You'll need to edit the disk numbers accordingly, this is what it was for me.

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk1 4 win7_raw lsilogic

There's no feedback for this command, but it does create a file called win7_raw.vmdk inside Windows 7 x64. To finish the process we need to edit one last file so type

sudo pico Windows 7 x64.vmx

It's going to ask you for your password, it's the same password as your login.

In the editor you're going to change 2 lines. I've highlighted them below.

Once you're finished hit control x. Save changes by hitting y.

Open VMware Fusion, you'll know it worked when you try to boot the Virtual machine and it asks for a password. It needs your permission to access the bootcamp partition. Pause the Virtual machine.

If you have an external DVD drive put your dvd in the drive and restart the virtual machine.

If you have an image of Windows in an iso, go to settings (command e) and go to the cd / dvd section. Click Autodetect and select choose image, find your image and finally click the enable button at the top.

Install windows through VMware. At one point the installer is going to complain about the bootcamp partition being a Fat32 disk, just use the tools in the installer to format the disk.

When the installer is finished, it's going to try and reboot the Virtual machine. Stop the machine and quit the program.

Open the bootcamp partition and delete all the files you can from that drive.

Copy all the files from your USB key, windows DVD or ISO onto the partition.

Reboot the mac and hold option. While the mac is rebooting unplug all usb and external dvd drives you may have plugged in. If rEFInd is working, the main drive should be called EFI Boot, select that and then choose the Windows part ion (mine was windows partition 4).

Install windows on the same partition that you've booted from, there's no need to reformat that partition.

Once the installer is finished, find your Apple drivers and install all of that.

You can now delete the files from the windows ISO / DVD / USB key you put on the drive. If you don't, every time you boot you'll be asked which Windows to boot to, the installer or a working version of windows.

Congratulations, you've installed Windows on your mac!

I'd like to thank several people for help with this. First the USB key trick was found at insanelymac.com - Thanks JamietheMorris.
Second, the main portion of the tutorial here was thanks to the folks over at 8na.de
Finally, none of this would be possible without one small tidbit from Severin over at macrumors forums. It was Severin's idea of erasing all the info from the hard drive and replacing it with the installation info that really brought all this together.

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18:54 - 7th, November 2012
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Finally some Apple news I can get behind

I'm really tired of hearing about iphone this and ipad that. They're inferior products compared to what's out there and I'm especially upset at the fact that they are also Apple's main focus now. I'm a "die hard" Apple Computer guy, but am completely against the direction the iPhone and iPad are taking Apple.

Recently Apple shook up their executives a bit a played musical chairs. This is a major thing because they got rid of a very bad egg, at least a very bad egg in my opinion. I don't work at Apple, I don't know the politics at Apple aside from what is publicly available online and I have no idea what the working conditions are like at Apple under previous or current management. That's not what interests me. Apple's products interest me, more specifically the Mac, its operating system and the apps for the operating system. This is why this news is huge for me.

This is Scott Forstall. Recently Apple (Tim Cook?) got rid of Scott Forstall. He was the lead on iOS and all things related, including the iPhone and iPad. Why is his firing a good thing? First because Scott was a big proponent for skeuomorphism. Personally, I can't stand it, neither can a lot of people at Apple, including Jonny Ive. It really removes what a computer is and is supposed to do by adding a style or layer of unnecessary design to any application. It also breaks any uniformity that existed before iOS became big. Originally it was really just part of iOS but since 10.6 or 10.7 Apple started bringing elements of iOS into OS X, they started bringing elements of skeuomorphism as well.

Design choices like the one made for iCal have been creeping on Mac. It was a big deal when everything started becoming brushed metal, and then finally settling on "dark aqua" or polished metal. All of which are pretty bad if you ask me. This is one area where Microsoft seems to be doing things a little better. Forget for a second "Metro". Aero may not necessarily be better than aqua but at least it's uniform all throughout the system.

So more recently Apple and Tim Cook announced that Scott's task would be divided between 3 people but most importantly all design now falls under Jonny Ive. That's OS design as well as well as hardware design. I think Jonny does a great job and it's good to think that one person will have creative control like this.

It was also revealed today that things are going back the way they were when Steve Jobs was around; Jobs/Ive in charge of will be handling everything products while Cook will be taking care of operations. Does this mean that Apple will get back to how it was to its pre-iPhone days? Hardly, the iPhone has too much a hold on Apple to take second place, even when it comes to design issues, but it does mean things are going to be organized a little bit better.

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17:40 - 6th, September 2011
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Alex's new office work horse

Since I came to St. Kitts I've been using my macbook pro as my main machine. That ended today.

Came in from Miami, I heard something rattling around inside so was quite concerned.

Finally got the ugly brown shipping box off.

It arrived at the best time too, my office was just finished and I had started putting my desk together, it's a nice big L shaped glass desk.

It's stunning when turned on or off. Quite frankly I never thought I'd buy another imac since their just so constrained, but with space for 8 to 16 gigs of ram and an i5 2.5 quad core cpu in here, I'm very happy.

It also has Lion on it, which I'll write a mini review about later.

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12:48 - 2nd, April 2011
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Running windows applications on your mac without windows or a windows partition

I found this today while trying to avoid booting into vmware's win 7.
i need to do some design testing on explorer and this is the perfect thing if i can get it working properly. seems pretty straight forward though.

now i know wine has been out for the longest time on linux, but it's always been somewhat elusive on the mac. here's hoping this works properly. installing now.

download it here: http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

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11:57 - 28th, December 2010
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State of the Mac Finder

I hate the finder.

Ok, that's pretty harsh, I don't actually hate the finder, but it does annoy me, a lot. So much so that in the past I've looked for ways to bypass the Finder. In the past I've used applications like Path Finder to try and get a better solution to the problem. But even Path Finder itself was bulky and a pain to use.

On top of that I couldn't get it to automatically load PathFinder and kill the finder when I booted my Mac despite it having options for that. So it lost points there. And forget about replacing the finder icon in the dock. Maybe the new version is better, haven't tried it yet.

Let's take a step back and ask the question: what is wrong with the finder? Why do I dislike it so much?

Mainly because it's terrible for networking and despite it being an Apple product and having a huge focus on usability it has some short comings compared to Windows. What? shortcomings to Windows?! blasphemy!

In windows you can right click and drag files with the option to copy, move or expand (if zipped) to the new location. You can't do that on mac, and it frustrates me because i still use a mouse, I love the mouse despite apple thinking it's antiquated technology.

As for networking on the mac, God, don't even get me started. It's terrible, and I openly admit that Windows far outpaces Mac in this area. Now I connect to PC's through the finder so this shortcoming I blame the finder. If anyone can prove me otherwise, I'll gladly change my mind about it.

But Apple is slowly catching on and fixing these issues, though it doesn't seem like a main priority since the release of the iPhone but that's a debate for another day.

So what is a user left to do?

We can download programs like Tinkertool or Total Finder. Both are addons for the finder and bring some of that functionality that we're missing. It's not going to make you love your finder more than you already do but it will help. Tinkertool also has a lot of tools to change other things in the OS and applications as well.

Total Finder is a little of a mystery to me since I haven't installed it yet. This post was actually something to help me remember to install it later today when I get home. From their website:

Otherwise, we could wait and pray for the next version of the OS to rewrite the finder a bit, but that's unlikely. It's just not a priority for the mac to be part of the corporate environment.

Apple seems to have other plans for the iPad and iPhone. and whats worse is it looks like we're going to be seeing elements of the iOS in the Tiger's version of the Finder.

Is this the death of the Finder? I don't want to have less control over my computer. If I did, I'd be using an iPad, like my grandmother. It's things like this that make me think about switching to Ubuntu or some other linux distribution. Then I remember how crappy Linux actually is.

A little flashback: some might disagree with me, but I loved the old classic finder. It was terrible back in the day and by today's standards it's absolutely horrendous, but a get a little nerdgasm when I boot up my quicksilver mac with os9 on it to play some old games.

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15:15 - 20th, October 2010
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Macbook Air updated

here you go andy. the specs:

- 0.68" at thickest point, 0.11" at thinnest. Weighs 2.9 lbs. Rigid and durable with complete aluminum unibody construction. Full size keyboard and full size glass trackpad.
- 13.3" LED display at 1440x900, more than on our 15" MacBook Pro.
- Core 2 Duo processor with NVIDIA GeForce 320M. (took a little bit of digging but found the cpu specs, 1.4 ghz on the 11.6" and 1.8 on the 13" totally not worth the money)
- FaceTime camera. <-- FACE TIME CAMERA?! come on really...
- No optical drive, no hard drive. Moved to flash storage...we know the benefits: Instant-on, up to 2x faster, more reliable, and 90% smaller and lighter, silent operation.
- Battery life: Wireless web tests yield 7 hours, 30 days of standby time. The PC industry's battery tests don't often reflect real-world results. We've developed more stringent tests , and the new MacBook Air still gets 7 hours under the new tests. The old MacBook Air gets only 5 hours by that metric.
- Showing the guts: flash memory right on the board, 802.11n Wi-Fi, CPU, GPU, RAM, stereo speakers, battery...just like in leaked prototype.
- Now, this 13.3" MacBook Air isn't the whole story, because it has a younger brother too. 11.6 inches, 2.3 lbs., 1366x768 display, more than our MacBook. 5 hours of wireless web battery and 30 days of standby.
- Pricing: 11.6-inch/64 GB at $999, 128 GB at $1199. 13-inch/128 GB at $1299, 256 GB at $1599. All with 2 GB of RAM. All available today.

so, tiny hard drive, slow processors, crappy gpu and same price as a macbook. is it worth it andy? i don't think so, even if the thing is like 2 lbs