Sunday, July 14, 2002

Despoiling myself

I'm back on my old G4/500 Titanium laptop, and I'm returning the borrowed G4/800 tomorrow. I'll miss the screen (the color is prettier and it has many more pixels) and the CD burner. Also the slightly better wi-fi range (still inferior to machines that don't put their antennas inside a metal box). It's a beautiful machine, and in much better shape than the G4/500, which I've beat the crap out of, pretty much (though it works fine).

To make life a little easier after I go back to the /500 (where I am now), I replaced the 20 GB drive with a 60 GB, and raised the RAM to 512 MB. The new drive is nice. Stuff opens real fast. And now I'll be able to do more with movies and photos.

One thing that's hard to figure, though. The G4/500 is running Version 10.1.4 (from my install disk). When I try to upgrade to 10.1.5, it grays out the drive and says "This volume doesn't meet the requirements for this update." Doesn't make sense.

Party roundup, cont'd

Martin Devon's L.A. blogbash report and pictures are up. So are lots of others. Revisit yesterday's report (below) for annotated updates.