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It just makes so much sense. Crossing my fingers. http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11/06/apple-working-on-a-tablet-mac/

I must say I'm disappointed in Apple's latest major OS update, OSX version 10.5 "Leopard". Perhaps I haven't caught the correct vibe, or learned all the tricks yet, but it just seems like I'm paying the cost of having to spend more time getting to my files in exchange for some pretty bells. Considering the 2+ years of development time, I have to admit I expected more from Leopard.

Here's a great overview/article on a great app for Mac OSX: Quicksilver for beginners

Anyone here ever mess with clustering? I'm trying to come up with a good reason to do so.  It seems that there are a lot of technologies that come on LiveCD now and use Linux / FreeBSD to allow for distributed computing.  Things that come to mind:

- Rendering
- Music production
- Searching for aliens

Some links:

I like using iTerm on the Mac (http://iterm.sourceforge.net) for SSH because it offers a number of improvements over the builtin terminal app. But one hassle is that the delete key (it's Delete on MacBooks, Backspace on Apple keyboards), when SSH'd into a Linux box, doesn't delete the character to the left but instead the character to the right. Here's how to change that:

I currently am testing out Ryan's MacBook vs.

I need a new laptop. Instead of buying one, I bought two and decided to live with each for a week or so and then decide which one would become *my* laptop. The two candidates are a Dell Inspiron XPS M1210 and an Apple MacBook. They both have the same core specs, same glossy monitor size, about the same weight. The Dell is running Vista and the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Tiger.

With the release this morning of Apple's new Mac Pro Quad-Core super beasty machine I thought I'd do a cost comparison. The bottom line is the Apple, for about the same hardware, costs only a little bit more ($6200 vs $5000). Is the extra $1200 worth it for the Apple OS and hardware? (I think so!)

The Apple Mac Pro Quad-Core ($6,184.94):

The irony is, in this picture of an add for Windows Vista, the laptop is an Apple MacBook!: