iBox (the hardware)

back up. I am sure I missed it. Who (is the idiot that) spilled a coke on it?
:)
Same thing happened to a mega-remote control my parents had. My mom took it apart, stuck it in the dishwasher. Put it back together. And it worked fine.

I like the alcohol idea much better.

put some saran wrap over it next time. :)

Amazing that works. Watching you pour liquid into the MBA is heart-stopping.

The person who poured the Diet Coke in (and it was full) can be briefly seen in the video standing behind me.

He had gone out on lunch break to buy it, and had just booted into Mac OS, when he made some sort of motion which tipped the bottle onto the keyboard.

The machine shut itself down, and we turned it on its face until someone was able to run out and get the supplies to try and fix it.

I'm saying goodbye to two old friends today: a 15" Powerbook G4 from 2004 (back in the days when IU would provide us with both a laptop and a desktop), and a 2007 15: MacBook Pro that replaced my desktop machine (a 2003-era Power Mac G4). The Powerbook replaced a defective iBook G3 800 and served me well in active use for four years or so despite having coffee spilled next to it (and into the side USB ports) when it was just a couple of months old. It's only been put to occasional emergency use in the last couple of years (mostly when I forget my MacBook Air), and it's been acting up quite a bit in the last few months--I've never seen so many kernel panics--but given the abuse I subjected it to, I can't complain. The MacBook Pro mostly stayed on my desk, connected to a 20" monitor, especially after I bought a MacBook Air in 2009, but it did well and only began to feel slow in the last six months or so. With my new office iMac now fully settled in, it's time to turn in the old laptops.

Farewell, my friends.

My god they look identical - 2007 MBP is on the right, no?

Tony's always fantasized about twins

The iSight is a giveaway...

Yup. The MBP is a bit thinner, too, and wider (although the latter isn't evident in this picture). It was a nice design, and I'm going to miss the matte screen.

I couldn't take it any more. I'm not getting a MBP this year, as scheduled, I'm not getting an iPhone this year (for the first time), so I ordered myself a maxed-out 11" MacBook Air. It's a stupid purchase, as I do not travel much, but I've always craved a tiny Mac portable. I like my little Acer hackintosh, but it has a lot of limits that the MBA won't. This purchase is a pure lust thing, impossible to justify except for the need to stop obsessing about getting one.

Sold some Apple stock, as is my tradition, to cover the expense. With Steve drifting farther and farther from day-to-day management, and Apple's valuation so high, and the market (maybe) prepping for another rush to the bottom, I don't mind letting some AAPL go.

The MBAs are nice to play with - I grant you that...

My wife loves her 11" (that came out wrong, but…).

After a few years of maxxed out 17"s and 15"s with dual hard drives, I can't imagine leaving the MBA platform.

MacBook Air with i7 processor is VERY nice. I love this little thing.

yes but do you love it semi-carnally?

Eric the Half-MacBook?

So, HP's getting out of the PC hardware business. More evidence for the total commodization of the PC.

[EDIT] Oops. Thought this had been confirmed. Make this "PROBABLY getting out of the PC business."



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Well, they're definitely getting out of the WebOS business.

They're fudging it -- they're getting out of the WebOS *hardware* business... but the "we'll continue to explore..." crap is investor-speak for "we f'd up on the purchase of Palm and now we're looking to see what we can salvage, please don't dump our shares" IMO.

WebOS on Apple hardware - fantastic story.

http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/19/ipad-runs-webos-twice-as-fast-compared-to-touchpad-internal-hp-testing-revealed/

Even though SMART has probably saved my hard drive twice, I want to upgrade to an SSD (and move the HD to the optical bay). Anyone using a third-party drive? Heard OCZ has great performance, but also iffy firmware that can't be upgraded from Mac OS. I can see benchmarks at BareFeats - interested in any personal experiences.

I'm using an OCZ Agility3 drive in my Windows system. Firmware updates are almost never required. They did have one to address a compatibility problem with certain chipsets but it's one of those situations where it either has the problem or doesn't have the problem. If the drive works, it's going to continue working. It won't suddenly develop a problem down the road that requires a firmware update.