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The Road Warrior MailBag - December 15, 2008

• Mac Fan Finds PC Netbook Life Satisfactory
• Cleaning Soiled White MacBooks, iBooks and iPods

Why Can’t Apple Build A Laptop Like This? - Perhaps They Will

How come Lenovo can build a $400, sub three pound netbook with an ExpressCard 34 slot (in which you can use a FireWire adapter card) and a card reader, while Apple supplies neither, with no FireWire workaround whatsoever available on the new $1,300 unibody MacBook? Just asking

The Road Warrior Mailbag, December 1, 2008

• The End Of Matte Notebook Displays
• Glossy Screens A Major Turn-off
• May Never Go Back To Apple Portables Again
• Wireless Hard Drive

The Road Warrior Mailbag - November 17, 2008

Voice Recognition on the Mac

New MacBook Pro A Performer In Spite Of “Questionable” Apple Choices

But is the loss of FireWire Support hurting Aluminum MacBook Sales?

Is The End Of Matte Notebook Displays A Problem For You?

Some users love glossy displays. Others can't abide them, and some are ambivalent. How big a deal is Apple's dropping matte displays?

The Road Warrior Mailbag - October 27, 2008

• New Apple Notebooks Enticing But Not Without Shortcomings
• New Apple Laptops
• Laptop Laidback 3 Discount?

New Apple Notebooks Enticing But Not Without Shortcomings

Now that I've had a week to ponder the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models Apple unveiled last Tuesday, impressions are beginning to gel, and a lot of equivocation is setting in.

The Road Warrior Mailbag - From The Archive - October 20, 2008

• MCS computer sensitivities
• Computer Workarounds For The Chemically Sensitive [Originally Published March 26, 2001]

The Road Warrior Mailbag and From The Archive, October 13, 2008

• Leopard on a G4

• From The Archive Learning To Love Leopard

Early Days Yet, But OS 10.5.5 Feels Like A Winner On My Old G4 PowerBook

I finally got around to installing the OS X 10.5.5 update on my G4 PowerBook over the weekend. I haven't noted anything really dramatic in terms of differences from OS 10.5.4, but so far it's been all good.Sometimes there's just an intangible, je ne sais quoi "feel" about an OS version update that provides the impression that it's a good one (more common in the higher point number updates)

Which PowerBook? - From The Road Warrior Archive

Nearly a decade ago, on December 10, 1998, I posted the Road Warrior column republished below, which provides an interesting sanpshot of the state of Apple laptops ten years back. Aside from the particularities of the hardware, much of my commentary still holds up I think, especially on the matter of timing one's system upgrades

Is There A Solid State Drive In Your Laptop Future?

“In my estimation, two of the biggest SSD advantages are that with no moving parts, they run cooler and quieter than hard drives, which helps advance my ideal of dead silent computing unsullied by hard drive or cooling fan racket”

The Road Warrior Mailbag September 29, 2008

• Cheap Windows Notebooks

• From The Archive - Road (Warrior) Testing A PowerBook G3 (1998)

Cheap PC Laptops Are, Well, Cheap, But Check The Bottom Line

Still, I have to concede that sometimes it’s been tempting