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“The Intel Macs have arrived, and we’ve all begun what is likely to be a year of new product roll-outs the likes of which Mac fans haven’t seen since… well, maybe since ever”. — macworld

Having played with OS X 10.4.3 on an x64 processor - I can only imagine just how fast the intel ‘core duo’ or ‘yonah’* powered mac’s will be. Shame about the name though.. ‘MacBook Pro’ — wtf? I would have gone with ‘iBook’, has a better name to it.

*.. the orginal post wasn’t too clear.. ‘yonah’ is/was the codename of the ‘core duo’ now used by apple..

“Although a stable of Sci-Fi space travel, it is often deemed to be just that: Fiction. However, it seems that one is currently in development.” — Slashdot | Warp Engines In Development?

.. fresh from a move to the new home (which is the best. place. ever.photo’s will be uploaded to
flickr as soon as I can get some spare time to scratch myself) is a PC “power plant” upgrade - namely a brand new Athlon64 running at a cool 3.2ghz (with a beasty RAID SATA Gigabyte […]

de_dust20003, originally uploaded by
Brendan Borlase.

.. since I last put keyboard to blog and posted, well, anthing really. That’s partly due to taking time out to actually have a life and partly due to having recently become addicted to Counter-Strike Source (based on the Half-Life 2 source engine).
I have a few things I want to […]

I crashed into
this post today over at the
blog herald - which makes some interesting and quite valid points, but is missing a few key elements in it’s logic that skews the authors summation..
Perhaps an initial quote is in order:
Geek blogging is in decline. If you don?t believe me, take a look at the […]

“WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) is Apple?s most important annual event for hardware and software developers to receive in-depth information and instruction from Apple’s technical architects and engineers.”
Just finished watching Steve Job’s keynote address from the WWDC 2005. Worth the time to check it out.
Most notable is Apples switch from PowerPC to Intel (and it is […]

The latest addition to the home theatre setup is this spiffy new PVR.
The Topfield TF5000PVRt sports twin standard definition digital tuners and a suitably large 120gb HDD. One can record two shows and watch TV at the same time, pause live television and generally simplify viewing habits.
I’m particularly impressed with the recorded image quality - […]

So, while I was wallowing in how craptastic my day was yesterday, I happened to
stumble on the most hilarious ’spoof’ blog I have had the pleasure to read in quite some time -
darthside.blogspot.com.
The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster
Journal of Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith and Servant to His Supreme Excellency the […]

This is the latest ‘geek toy’ to arrive. It’s a nifty KVM switch that allows one to run two computer systems (in my case, a Windows XP box, and a Ubuntu Linux box) on the same keyboard, mouse, speakers and display.