Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Windows 7 on a 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch
I’m going to review what it is like to use Windows 7 Home Premium on a 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. This is one of the 2.4GHz models with 4GB of RAM. Some parts of this review would be applicable for running Windows 7 on any Mac, but other parts may be specific to the 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. Installing and setting up Windows 7 I [...]
Windows 7 Experience Index scores on MacBook Pro 13 inch from 2010
I was recently asked about the Windows 7 Experience Index scores for the 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. This is a aluminium unibody MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, an NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics chip, and a 250GB 5200 rpm hard drive. I took a measurement of the score shortly after installing [...]
Triple partitioning Mac with OSX and Windows 7
If you are configuring your Apple Macintosh to dual boot with Mac OS X and Windows there is a good guide on Apple’s website. However it doesn’t cover certain issues such as how to set up a third partition that can be read and written to by both Mac and Windows. And it doesn’t give help with how much space should be used for each OS. I [...]
iPhone apps for learning Japanese
There are many different ways you can learn a foreign language such as Japanese. There are classes, textbooks, CDs, applications for your PC or Mac, podcasts, language exchanges etc. Now you can learn Japanese on your iPhone and iPod Touch as well. I’ve tried many different iPhone Japanese learning apps and am going to review the five apps [...]
iPod dissection
After my first iPod died - a 4th generation 20gb one - I decided to have some fun and see what was in there. There are instructions elsewhere on the web telling you how to dissasemble and put your iPod back together (for battery replacement), but I'm not interested in saving it. The iPod will die! Safety first - if you are going to be [...]
Will the real Fake Steve Jobs please stay in character?
It is with some sadness that I hear that Fake Steve Jobs (dude, he invented the friggin iPhone), has been unmasked. For many months he’d been giving us the inside scoop direct from inside Apple HQ. As the iPhone hype got bigger, so did the amount of time that we spent slacking off from work to read his blog. Some guy named Brad at the New [...]
