Dell Mini 10v unboxing
So the Dell Mini 10v that I’ve been waiting for since Christmas came in yesterday. What a great little machine. Right now I’m calling it the Macbook Mini since I installed OSX shortly after taking it out of the box.
Unfortunately the first thing I had to do was downgrade the BIOS, which was a little stressful, but after that it was smooth sailing. Here are some photos of the unboxing: Read the rest of this entry ›
Published: December 30th, 2009 in Tech | Tags: Dell, mini, osx
Bootcamp Clock Issue in Windows
So you finally got around to setting getting that copy of Windows out and setting up bootcamp… or… you’ve been running bootcamp forever and you can’t figure out why the stupid clock in windows won’t work. Nothing will sync because the time doesn’t match up with the real time, it’s a mess and you need to do something about it. Here’s a quick fix.
Most of the fixes on the interenet tell you the wrong way. They say to:
Go to the registry editor and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > TimeZoneInformation
and add the key: RealTimeIsUniversal
and add the DwordValue: 1.
Well it turns out that that method doesn’t work. Sure it looks good for awhile, but after an hour the clock goes back to GMT and it’s broken again, the quick fix is to:
- Right click on the desktop
- new -> text document
- sync-clock.bat
the .bat part is important, if you don’t have extensions enabled it will end up being sync-clock.bat.txt and that’s no good. It must be a bat file. - Copy and paste “
w32tm /resync", without the quotes into that bat file. - Save
- Close
- Move that file into the startup folder on the start menu
There, it looks long, but it is really easy. Now Windows will automatically sync with the time servers when you login.
Published: December 8th, 2008 in Tech | Tags: bootcamp, clock, osx, Windows
Apple announces Leopard delays
Published: April 25th, 2007 in Asides | Tags: Apple, leopard, osx
Are Macs More Expensive?
Yes, Macs are more expensive. This article proves it. I do disagree with some of the statements made in the article though.
First of all, they are using Dell. I have no problem with Dell, in fact, I would recommend it. However, they make a point that Dell doesn’t offer a combo drive. I think that i beyond the point. I don’t think the point of the article was to compare Apple and Dell (if it was they didn’t make it very clear), it was to compare Apple’s and PC’s. Just because Dell doesn’t offer a combo drive or anything else, doesn’t mean you can’t get it on a PC as cheap or cheaper than on a mac.
Secondly, the only way to get a mac is to buy it from Apple. If knew what kind of computer I wanted and exactly what I wanted in it, I could go to my favorite computer store and buy the parts I wanted and put them together fairly easily. And it really doesn’t matter if you don’t know alot about computers. It would be pretty easy to Google a tutorial on how to build a computer.
Having said all that, I still like Macs and OS X. I do still want to buy a Mac Mini (just something cheap to mess with). I like the Mac GUI and like the fact that they come with all the software and extras built in. There are also smaller things I like about it, like the F12 Widgets.
Macs and OS X are great, just expensive.
Published: April 21st, 2006 in Tech | Tags: Apple, Mac, osx