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I just found myself daydreaming and configuring the most expensive machine on Apple’s web site. Some 14 years ago, in ‘92, I was doing this with the price listing in the romanian PC World magazine. That was long before I got my first PC, a 386, and even longer before I knew what to do [...]

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OK, there was little going on my blog for the past few months, and now I can finally talk about it.

Besides my new job, I was working on an 8 Points project that was eating all my free non-day-job time. It is the complete redesign, from logic to branding to code, of one of the [...]

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I didn’t believe the rumors until I heard it from the horse’s mouth:

iTunes customers will have the choice of 256kbps, non-DRM’ed tracks for $1.29 per, or the same songs in regular 128kbps AAC locked up all nice and tight with FairPlay for the usual 99 cents. What’s more, any EMI tunes you’ve ever [...]

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This was a serious crash on a one week old MacBook.

I was setting up the trial version of Parallels Desktop to make it work with the Boot Camp partition.

The new virtual machine setup took from 5 to 10 minutes, then the other applications started being unresponsive. After about 10 minutes, while Parallels kept beach-balling, other [...]

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Been using Mac and Windows PC’s in parallel for the past 10 years or so. It’s been 5 or 6 years since my primary machine is a Mac.

For the first time in all these years, a PC made me want to switch back to god-damned Windows. Not in the way other nice looking PC’s made [...]

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