Recent content by alaskan_handyman

I believe that you get what you pay for and I am using a MacBook Pro 17" that has max RAM, I bought it two years ago and have upgraded the hard drive recently to a seagate 500GB 7200 RPM, I think that I have Just over $3000 invested in this machine and I will probably replace it with something...

I am currently running the 32bit version of Windows 7 RC in dual boot on my MacBook Pro, and I use it almost entirely for older PC games that I still like to play on occasion, I will probably not be going 64 bit with windows simply because I do not have any pressing need. After 8 years of being...

I personally moved away from desktop machines about two years ago. My MacBook Pro runs OS X and Windows 7 RC in dual boot configuration and it runs both extremely well. I do graphic/web design and I need the portability when I have to go meet clients at their location. In my usage I have...

Not very often but I have been known to from time to time.

I never buy extended warranties because if the product is defective from manufacturing problems you will know more often than not long before the limited initial warranty expires. The only time I have ever needed to even use my initial warranty was a little over 7 years ago when I purchased an...

TindytimYou seem different from most Mactards. First off I would say that anyone who considers someone else a Mactard needs to grow up a bit. First and foremost I am a computer user probably the likes that you have never met before. My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 99-4A, I...

Apple has enough good things going for it now that they will have plenty of reserves set aside when they do have a downturn in productivity. I only see the iPhone, iPod, iTunes Music Store market growing and that has been their biggest revenue stream. Their computers are a separate business...

I think that Apple will do just fine without Steve Jobs at the helm... Apple has quite a bit of cash reserves lying around for a rainy day. The one thing that people fail to understand about Steve Jobs is his ability to take anything that he has and make it a success. He bought Lucas Digital...

Does anyone else out there that updated to 10.5.7 know if the graphics improvement to nVidia Graphics users enabled CUDA support at the OS level. I just ripped one of my DVD's to my iTunes Library using Handbrake, and went from an average 30 fps to close to 100 fps on my encode. The only...