I am stunned at some of the prices a few of these old pieces of gear are fetching… $700+ for old dual G5 XServes!? $1000 for old Dell Poweredge servers!? nearly $500 each for Dell Latitude D630 laptops!? On the other hand, $851 for a Sun V440 with four processors and 16GB of memory is […]
Doh! Apparently, every Intel based Mac since early 2006 has had a new feature that Apple has completely failed to market. I have owned a few of these Macs and never knew about this feature, and others have probably skipped Apple products not knowing it was available. The feature I am referring to is the […]
Tagged digital audio, Mac Mini, media center, surround soundLooks like it is some sort of announcement/preview of a new iPhone SDK or perhaps a new iPhone OS upgrade/update. I gotta say, if they are considering releasing a new major revision (iPhone OS 3.0) without global search, cut and paste, the ability to synchronize notes between iPhone and Mac desktop; they need to delay. […]
Tagged Apple, Computers, iPhone, PDAWorld Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
Rasmus.com is the official auctioneer and reseller of all the old Server, laptop, and desktop gear I was talking about – now they own it all. http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?rasmus324/category/ALL I have no idea what this stuff will finally go for – but it’s sad to see it all online.
Tagged ComputersThe new Apple Mac Mini is much better than previous models. It’s improvements are subtle, and anyone making a quick glance might miss the changes, but here is a summary: The switch from embedded Intel graphics to NVIDIA GeForce 9400M is a huge energy savings; the new Mini uses only half the power of the […]
Tagged Apple, Computers, MacErci has a 15″ MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2GB memory (2 sticks of 1GB DDR2 memory at 667MHz), ATI Radeon X1600 graphics (128MB VRAM), 112GB SATA drive, and Mac OS X 10.5 cleanly installed. Her machine is pretty mint, having never really traveled outside the family room. She’d love to hear from […]
Tagged computer, for sale, MacBook ProLast night we watched The Fifth Element again rather than waste time on the Oscars, and I do not regret that decision. The Fifth Element is stunning and spectacular, and I finally got to hear the Dolby Digital surround soundtrack as some recent EBay acquisitions all work together (our copy of the movie is on […]
Tagged advertising, Fifth Element, Oscars, televisionI am on a bit of a personal quest to reduce monthly bills where possible. I realized that between two mobile phones, Vonage, broadband internet via Comcast, and television via Comcast and DISH network we were spending a lot on communications. At first I went to reduce redundancy; but my partner and I each like […]
Tagged cable, costs, DISH, televisionUpdate: too late, resellers have picked up all the old Sun gear, and everything else as well. =========== If you are interested in picking up some Sun server gear, contact me before we send it all to a reseller: Four SunFire V440 servers (4u) two servers have 4 drives (72GB, 10,000 rpm); two processors, 4GB […]
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