January 2008 Archives
The last book I have read was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The first volume of a trilogy in five books. I heard a lot about Douglas Adams and this series of books in particular. There is a movie already about this, but I thought I should read the book before. So, the first is read. Four to go.
Regarding the book, I should say that I laugh a lot in the beginning. Like, one paragraph, a big laugh. Other paragraph, another big laugh. Unfortunately this got down. Really down. I should say that the second quarter of the book is quite gray. In the third and fourth quarters, things got a little better again, with some interesting story, and more laughs.
Now, at least, I can understand the joke about the forty two!
Regarding the book, I should say that I laugh a lot in the beginning. Like, one paragraph, a big laugh. Other paragraph, another big laugh. Unfortunately this got down. Really down. I should say that the second quarter of the book is quite gray. In the third and fourth quarters, things got a little better again, with some interesting story, and more laughs.
Now, at least, I can understand the joke about the forty two!
So, everybody is excited and discussing and bloging about the Apple news, so, I think I should do that too. Probably I should be different. OK, I confess, I am not writing this because everybody is writing about it, but because I want to.
Confession done, let's go for the details.
MacBook Air is a laptop, an elegant and well designed laptop. It is intended to be small, light, but at the same time a good machine. I think Apple did a good job, but it might be better. In fact, I think they released it now because they needed to. I do not see this as a finished up product. I think that in two or three months we will get the real thing.
For the specifications you can just check the Apple product page, thus, I will not present them here. I am just going to comment some of the things I think Apple could do better:
Confession done, let's go for the details.
MacBook Air is a laptop, an elegant and well designed laptop. It is intended to be small, light, but at the same time a good machine. I think Apple did a good job, but it might be better. In fact, I think they released it now because they needed to. I do not see this as a finished up product. I think that in two or three months we will get the real thing.
For the specifications you can just check the Apple product page, thus, I will not present them here. I am just going to comment some of the things I think Apple could do better:
- MacBook Air has a mono speaker. I am not an electronic guy, and I am not sure about the size of one speaker. But I would miss it if I buy this laptop. I love to open the laptop, run iTunes, and just listen. I do not like to have things on my ears.
- MacBook Air has a nice 5 hours battery. As you might have read on other blogs, this battery can't be changed. If a laptop is designed for mobility, think about the guys that have to do more than 10 hours of plane. How can they charge the laptop? It should be easy to change it. Regarding this fact I do not think this was because of the little space. I think this is designers faut.
- MacBook Air has one USB. Some devices need power from two USB. A friend told me that iPhone needs power from two USB connectors. If this is true, shame on Apple new product.
- MacBook Air has builtin memory. 2GB should be enough. But I do not like to have my laptop on technical assistance just to replace a bad memory card.
- MacBook Air bigger disk is 80GB. There is an iPod classic of 160GB and it is not that thicker. Thus, why not putting the 160GB disk directly on MacBook Air? Just beause Apple wants to release an update soon?
Sorry for this long time with no news. My server was hacked (well, in fact it wasn't but another machine I use was, and they got my password). In any case, the software was reinstalled, and services started to be online last Monday night. As you might guess, my blog is not of the most important services, and thus, just today I took some minutes to put it online again.
More news soon (probably a MacBook Air post, as everybody else).
More news soon (probably a MacBook Air post, as everybody else).
I have a PowerBook with Tiger for more than two years now. I tried Aquamacs, it did not work as I expected, and thus, I checked out emacs from CVS, configured it with carbon, and used it... for these two years.Now, I have a MacBook Pro with Leopard. First, I tried Emacs.app, but it is a little slow (with flyspell mode). Also, I needed to give some kicks in the ass so it started working as I like. I tried also Aquamacs, but it is too Mac oriented. I do not like people to change the keybinding to mimic Mac OS like software. I tried to compile my own emacs, but Carbon is now deprecated. Although it compiled, it was still slower than Emacs.app. I just can't understand how Carbon is deprecated, and no other approach for Mac is taken. Oh well...
So, at the moment I have.. Emacs.app. And I am trying to understand if I like Textmate.
