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March 1, 2008

Time Capsule: The Arrival

I picked up Time Capsule on Friday at the Apple Store while my friend is still waiting for his pre-order to arrive. Take that Vondiggity!

I bought the 500GB version because:

I didn’t see the 1 TeraByte version in the particular Apple Store.
I don’t want to spend $500 + sales tax for it.

Time Capsule comes with AirPort Utility 5.3 for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard AirPort utility has version 5.2.2 included.

Airport Utility 5.3

The Time Capsule I have is using Seagate Barracuda® ES SATA 3.0Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive, model number ST3500630NS.

From Seagate:

The Seagate® Barracuda® ES enterprise hard drive is the industry’s most reliable, highest capacity 7200-RPM hard drive for 24 x 7, multidrive, business-critical applications. The Barracuda ES hard drive is built with perpendicular recording technology for maximum capacity, reliability and cost-effectiveness.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reported that one user’s 1 TeraByte Time Capsule is equipped with HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (full tech specs here in pdf format).

From Hitachi:

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000

Applications

Internal and external storage for consumer

computers

Networked storage servers

Extreme gaming machines

Video editing arrays

Is it possible that the 500GB model has a better hard drive, or there are a lot more variations on the installed hard drive models?

UPDATE:
The highest capacity for Seagate Barracuda ES is 750GB. Meanwhile, Seagate Barracuda ES.2 is available in capacity up to 1 TeraByte.

March 1, 2008

CNET’s Buzz Out Loud Can Bite Bender’s Shiny Metal Ass

CNET’s “Buzz Out Loud” should change its name to “Bitch Out Loud” and join Fox News for their “Fair and Balanced” news reports. The least CNET can do is to smack some sense into Molly Wood, who apparently does not know anything about technology at all. Wood does not have the knowledge on programing, hardware design, nor logic. The best thing she can do is ranting on things that she personally doesn’t like. She is a menace to electronics, be it a mobile phone or a computer. She complained that she had been having problems with electronics in general, and yet she had the guts to blame some manufacturers instead of herself. Wood has been contradicting herself on Buzz Out Loud, unfortunately it is too painful to listen to back catalogue of the podcast to point out which episodes Wood has been doing so.

Buzz Out Loud is off my subscription list. There’s no need to listen to such biased news reporting.

Buzz Out Loud, you can BITE BENDER’S SHINY METAL ASS! That’s you, Molly Wood.

February 28, 2008

“One New MacBook Please.”

One thing that I always love doing is spending someone else’s money buying computers. I picked up a new white MacBook with SuperDrive yesterday. It looks exactly the same with the previous Santa-Rosa MacBook. It comes with a screen-cleaning cloth inside the box.

I only had 2 hours to install applications and transferring the data from the last generation of iBook G4. I’d update this post after I use the MacBook more.

February 26, 2008

Windows XP Installations on Compaq Presario F732NR Notebook PC

As always, my colleague brought me some challenges on installing Windows XP on a Vista PC. This time is a notebook PC. He already installed most of the drivers with the exception of the video driver. He actually called the tech support and still couldn’t get the video driver installed. Luckily I managed to get it installed. Now the notebook PC is free from Windows Vista.

Compaq Presario F732NR Notebook PC

1.8 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TK-55
1024 MB DDR2 (2x512MB)
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
160 GB (5400 RPM) Hard Drive (SATA)
Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
15.4″ WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display
High speed 56k modem
Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
Conexant High Definition Audio

Windows XP Drivers you need:

You have to manually install the driver for nVidia GeForce Go 6150.

There is one unknown device left in the Device Manager, and I still can’t find out what it really is.

to be updated.

February 26, 2008

Early 2008 MacBook and MacBook Pro

After a seemingly waiting forever for new MacBook Pro, Apple finally releases the updates to both MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. The MacBook Pro update was expected but not for the MacBook.

As predicted, the new MacBook and MacBook Pro sport Intel’s latest Penryn-based Core 2 Duo with 3MB and 6MB L2 Cache. Based on the conversations I had, Apple is finally making a significant distinction between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. The MacBook line sports 45nm Penryn-based Core 2 Duo processors with 3MB L2 Cache as opposed to previous generation Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 4MB L2 Cache. We’ll get to that later. The MacBook Pro line also sports 45nm Penryn-based Core 2 Duo processors with 3MB and 6MB L2 Cache. The “lower-end” 15-inch MacBook Pro comes with 3MB L2 Cache on the Processor, while the “top-end” 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro come with 6MB L2 Cache on the processor.

The Penryn-based Intel Core 2 Duo comes with 6MB L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed. I’d find out if my memory served me correctly that previous generations of Intel Core 2 Duo L2 cache ran at half speed with the processor. UPDATE: According to some people, Merom CPU does have L2 cache that runs at 1:1 speed with the cores.

The new MacBook and MacBook Pro no longer comes with Apple Remote

I will update this.

I am looking forward to test the new MacBook and MacBook Pro.

to be continued here

February 26, 2008