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How to Play Poker on a Mac

Working Around Apple’s Inflated Hardware Upgrade Prices

Rory Reid, writing for CNET's UK-based Crave site, last week posted a provocative comparison castigating Apple for charging grossly inflated prices for BTO upgrades like RAM and hard disks for their laptop computers - as much as 200 percent higher from Apple, for what would be essentially the same quality or even identical drive from a third-party OEM supplier. The obvious alternative for savvy Apple system purchasers is to boycott Apple's grossly inflated hardware upgrade prices and get one's upgrade goodies from a third-party vendor

From The Road Warrior Archive - Which Powerbook?

This year marks the 10th anniversary of The Road Warrior. It’s amazing how time flies, and there’s a great deal of profundity in mid 19th-Century journalist and Le Figaro editor Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s French language aphorism - “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” ("the more it changes, the more it’s the same thing"). For example, in 1998 I was shopping somewhat casually for a new laptop, and in 2008 I’m also casually shopping for a new laptop, or in the present Apple-approved vernacular, “notebook.”

The Road Warrior Review: Colored Laptop Desk Futuras And New Gaming Platform

LapWorks is offering eight , bright new color themes in its line of colorful printed Laptop Desk Futura laptop coolers, plus a new wide portable keyboard and mousing platform for comfortable computer gameplay

Snow Leopard, Nehalem, And Apple’s Notebook Product Release Roadmap

Apple's chose not to enlighten us in the slightest at WWDC about its intentions regarding the next Mac notebook upgrades, or for that matter any of its computer platforms, and even the rumor mills have been relatively quiet lately on that topic after a flurry of speculation a month or two ago about an aluminum MacBook being in the offing - something I think will indeed materialize, but the question is when

From The Road Warrior Archive - My Three ‘Books Revisited

Something Old; Something New, And Maybe The Best ‘Book Of All [Originally Published April 20, 2003]

Sorting Out Intel’s Core 2 Duo Mobile Processors - Past, Present, And What’s Coming

Anyone out there besides me find Intel's CPU nomenclature conventions confusing? Core 2 Duo; Merom; Santa Rosa; Penryn; Centrino; Montevina; Nehalem; and so on and so on, and aside from the Core 2 Duo designation, those are just Intel's mobile chips and platforms

The Road Warrior Mailbag -, June 9, 2008

• Re: The Ideal Mac Notebook For Road Warrioring
• Two-finger clicking in early Powerbook
• You don’t need two hands to right-click on a Mac notebook

The Road Warrior Review - Lapworks Attaché Fan-Cooled Laptop Stand

One feature that distinguishes the Attaché from most laptop stands is that its main computer support tray is made of solid aluminum plate, which is durable, lightweight, attractive, and acts as a large passive heat sink that draws heat away from the computer. However that's only part of the story. The "active" feature of the Attaché stand consists of two relatively large diameter, slow-turning (2200 RPM), USB-powered cooling fans built into the unit's support base

The Road Warrior Mailbag - June 2, 2008

• Kanga Redux
• The Ideal Mac Notebook For Road Warrioring
• You don't need two hands to right-click on a Mac notebook

The Ideal Mac Notebook For Road Warrioring

Two perspectives

The Road Warrior Mailbag - May 27, 2008

• Where do old Wallstreets go to die?
• New MacBook Scuttlebutt Complicates System Upgrade Equation
• MacSpeech Dictate

New MacBook Scuttlebutt Complicates System Upgrade Equation

If Apple can manage to engineer a consumer laptop in the MacBook Air design motif, but with a real, 2.5" notebook hard drive, upgradeable RAM, a quick-swap replaceable battery, built-in Ethernet and FireWire ports and more than a single USB 2 port, they should have a winner on their hands, and I expect I would be suffering severe buyer-remorse two or three months from now if I went ahead and purchased a Penryn MacBook now

The Road Warrior Mailbag - Monday, May 19, 2008

• WallStreet Power Surge Damage?

• A Decade Of The PowerBook G3 Series - From The Road Warrior Archive

Buying A Mac; Have The “Rules” Really Changed?

Which Mac is best for you? Actually, there never were any hard-and-fast rules governing system choices, but there were some fairly widely accepted and critically-unexamined assumptions

The Road Warrior Mailbag - May 12, 2008

• PIsmo Purchase

• Restoring Files With Time Machine - Not