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: Continue Reading »
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:
w32tm /resync", without the quotes into that bat file.There, it looks long, but it is really easy. Now Windows will automatically sync with the time servers when you login.
Apple announces Leopard delays due to the iPhone – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW). Apparently it won’t be released until October.
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.
