Deirdre Saoirse Moen

Chuq von Rospach has an interesting post about the leaked MBA rumors. I’ll address this in a bit.

Additionally, someone (sorry, can’t find a link to it right now) suggested I try a 13″ Retina MacBook Pro and use it in the scaled mode to get my current resolution.

First, Someone Thought I Was Trolling When I Mentioned a Thunderbolt RAID Array on a MacBook Air

Nope, not trolling. Really have one.

(Note to self: dust the Dyson fan off before taking a pic.)

Think about it: It’s a great thing to back up to. I can wander around and use my MBA anywhere, then, when I’m ready to be at home base, I plug in the RAID array and back up.

I also use a separate Thunderbolt drive for graphics storage. This 2 Tb drive holds my photo library (~1/2Tb), my graphics library (~1/2 Tb), and larger items out of my iTunes library (e.g., movies and TV seasons).

When I just go out with my MBA, I can’t do heavy graphics work, but I still have Photoshop and my fonts. I keep current graphics projects in a directory on my MBA. When I’m done with those, they get shuffled off to a directory on the smaller Thunderbolt drive, and the changes get reflected in my RAID backup.

Chuq Asks an Interesting Question

By the way, are we really sure that’s a USB hub? Maybe Apple’s going to announce a new, thin format thunderbolt port standard instead that would allow for a smaller, thinner connector to allow for a smaller, thinner computer?

That would change everything for me.

Granted, I still think not having MagSafe power’s a problem. Chuq has some interesting commentary. Link again.

13″ Retina MBP Running at 1440×900

That’s a really great idea. It would allow me to keep the form factor I really like, but would also allow me to upgrade to 16Gb RAM and 1TB flash drive. That would solve some problems. In short, it’d be HUGE.

2.8/16/512 is $1999, a pleasant $250 more than the 13″ similarly-configured (save for CPU clock speed) of the MBA.

Sadly, I can’t figure out where this suggestion was made, possibly because I’m bleary-eyed at this hour.

Photo credit: © 2010 Rick Moen.

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I never owned an Apple ] [, but I did own an Apple ///. And yeah, the numbering really was like that.

I didn’t immediately take to the Mac. It was different in weird ways, and I was mostly working on CP/M systems at the time.

In January 1985, the year after the Mac was released, I went in to look at buying a DOS system for work-related reasons, and I had to wait almost an hour for a sales guy. I decided I was going to amuse myself with the store’s Macintosh.

One of the things I’d had to do in the past was engineering drawings (of things like circuit boards). On DOS. (Edit: not just DOS. One of the apps we used was actually on the Apple ///, now that I think about it.) Without square pixels.

Ten minutes with MacPaint and I was sold. Square pixels! How revolutionary. I walked out of the store without the Mac, but with the resolution that I was going to have to figure out how to buy one. Not much later, I bought a used Mac+.

Since then, I’ve never owned a DOS machine — or a Windows machine. I’ve owned a few Linux devices, including some weird ones (like a Corel Netwinder), but basically I’ve been a MacOS person at all other points in the last 30 years.

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