This was originally titled “introducing Beefeater” back in February when we first brought the Mac mini into the fold but… Well, life and blogging has a funny way of getting away from you sometimes. Let us not digress: Remember Malkovich? Poor Malkovich. Malkovich did finally crash its final crash, shitting the bed with epic and […]
…or: a reprise of the “thoughts on replacing our iMac G5” thread. Though discussed here before, I think that this is the real thing this time. As Malkovich 1 approaches its sixth year of service, it is getting close to completely shitting the bed. Gone are the days of the annoying random shutdowns, but they […]
Apple document details Target Display mode for 27" iMac at tuaw — makes me think that I shouldn't bother getting an external monitor for "the home office" and just upgrade to this guy next year and use this instead… (tagged: iMac Apple hardware wishlist ) Advanced Plugin Development with Ext JS Great piece on developing […]
Following up on the September post (“advise me: enhancing storage“)–we went ahead and put a shiny new 1 TB Western Digital hard drive 1 into Malkovich, effectively quadrupling the storage (re this particular problem) and paving the way for a lot more life out of this ol’ iMac. The idea for this particular upgrade owes some […]
While I wouldn’t say that I spoke to soon (re: “Poor Malkovich“), perhaps the situation bears some additional prudence to fully explore the options for remedy and repair. After all, it should not be necessary to replace that iMac G5. So let’s put all the cards out there. Firstly – what the hell is going […]
Recently it became apparent that our trusty iMac G5 (a.k.a., “Malkovich”) may not be long in its continued operation. The iMac seems to have shut itself off randomly on at least two occasions over the past week or so – one minute it’s chugging along, playing music and/or exporting photos from Aperture and the next […]
The Ars Technica review of the new Core Duo iMac, boiled down: “Instead of being able to remove the back of the computer to get to all the good stuff, users are left with a door in the bottom to add or remove RAM. Unfortunately, that has remained the case with the Core Duo iMac.” […]