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Is the MacBook Pro all it is cracked up to be?
I've had my MacBook Pro for a few weeks now and I have mixed feelings about it. I upgraded from a 15" PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz to a 15" MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Dual Core. I was expecting dramatic speed improvements, but in everyday usage (with all the junk I have loaded), it doesn't seem blazingly fast. I've made a point to only run Intel native apps, but I'm suspecting that some apps that were just re-compiled for Intel have issues causing slow downs. However, compiling code is so fast that I can recompile an entire project with tons of subprojects in a minute or two.
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Is it hard to polish software?
I've been using Parallels for a few weeks now running Windows XP and am amazed at how well it works. In the latest release candidate, they've cleaned up a bunch of things, but stil seem to be missing some very obvious user interface issues, most likely caused by the cross platform libraries they're using or something like that. If you look at the screenshot below you can see that the popup button definitely doesn't look right.
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Sync Services can make a mess and here's a way to clean it (maybe)
I think that Apple's Sync Services is an excellent technology and has a lot of potential. It is not quite mature, but I have high hopes for it in the future. One of the problems that has been brought up on the Sync Services developer mailing list is that there is no good way for an end user to remove data from Sync Services and unregister it if they remove a program. All developers are in the same boat and Bare Bones, developers of the popular Yojimbo that I've blogged about have written a FAQ about it for their product. Unfortunately this really isn't a solution, especially for people that want to keep clean systems.
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Am I too thick headed to see something funny?
Recently I've heard a bit about the movie Napolean Dynamite and I'm not sure what the attraction to the movie is. I saw the movie in December and did not funny it at all funny; in fact, I thought it was quite stupid. Others seem to think it is one of the funniest movies ever. What am I missing?