Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2006
Either my MacBook Pro with sketchy RAM (which only reboots about once every two weeks now) or the 10.4.7 update screwed me over. During the update it rebooted and hosed the OS. There’s all sorts of whacky unresolved dependancies causing the MBP to not boot. It even reverts to text mode at startup to cry […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2006
At work I left my IBP running memtestosx. I learned that at a certain point, it would spontaneously reboot with the 1 GB stick in. I went up to Fry’s and exchanged it for another. Sat out in the parking lot, put in the new memory and ran memtestosx right then and there. It completed […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2006
I have some sort of cancer infecting my Apples that’s making me nervous. I think the battle of PowerPC vs Intel is happening on my kitchen counter. I reinstalled everything on my IBP. Now I’m having some sort of occasional spontaneous reboot problem that happens regardless of what I’m doing. On a whim, I stuck […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2006
Well, that was quick. I’ve already lost all the data on my IntelBook Pro. I spent a good chunk of last night and this morning tracking down my kernel panics and reading through Apple kernel development docs to figure it out. So far I had decided they had to be related to DivX and Xvid, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2006
I downloaded a nightly build of Firefox (Deerpark) and VLC compiled for Intel. Deerpark is a huge improvement, it has a more responsive interface and snappy when it comes to rendering pages. VLC, both the PowerPC and nightly Intel build, on the other hand has crashed OS X so many times tonight. It seems to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2006
I finally broke down and bought an IntelBookPro (a/k/a MacBackPro, what a horrible name) on Thursday. I felt very smug walking into the Apple store, feeling as if they should roll out the red carpet as I walked straight to the service desk to order it. After picking up my booty, I sneered at all […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2006
My Powerbook has faithfully been with me for nearly three years. Today is the final straw. While stepping over it on the way to the kitchen, I snag my toe across the LCD, forcing it back and breaking the hinge assembly out of the LCD. !@#!@$@#! To summarize, here’s the lifeline of my Powerbook: April […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2006
Apple finally came out with Intel-based notebooks. I absolutely hate the name “MacBook Pro.” I’m seriously considering buying one. The price isn’t too bad. So far my G4 Powerbook has survived a full bottle of Pepsi right to the keyboard, the burner doesn’t work, I’m on my 3rd hard drive, my battery won’t hold anywhere […]
