19 Jan
2008

MacBook Pro for a Windows Developer – Would I do it again?

I bought a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro about 5 months ago. The specs are in the original post describing my machine. I use this machine every day and travel with it. I develop with it, I do demos with it, I do all of this on Windows Vista 32 even though I have 4G of RAM […]

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22 Nov
2007

Over-Engineering a Device Driver

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Duh. And to think this came from Apple. Well, RealTek, actually. Seriously, though. Let’s take a lesson from this. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. My wife reminds me of this frequently so I admit to being guilty of this from time to time. Like the bed I made for us when we […]

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17 Oct
2007

I Just Bought a MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro, 17-inch, 2.4GHz2GB 667 DDR2 – 2x1GB SO-DIMMs (Upgraded to 4G aftermarket) Accessory KitSuperDrive 8x (DVD?R DL/DVD?RW/CD-RW)2.4GHz Intel Core 2 DuoBacklit Keyboard/Mac OS – U.S. EnglishMacBook Pro 17-inch High-Resolution Widescreen Display160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm Ships by: Oct 18 – Oct 22 Delivers by: Oct 22 – Oct 26 I haven’t been […]

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4 Apr
2007

Speeding Up Vista

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Not that Vista is slow, far from it, IMO.  Even so, here is a great article on tweaking your Vista machine to make it run a bit faster than it does out of the box.  What I like about the article is that I could send it to my mom and she could understand most […]

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