A Song of Intel and Apple
Inane construction supply company banner ‘truism’ of the week: “The end result of kindness is that it drawns people to you”.
Although I haven’t used it for much beyond “World of Warcraft”, I am very very much in love with the iMac Core Duo
. It’s really the first time with an iMac that Apple has stuffed everything happily in the base model: Airport, Bluetooth, iSight, dual-layer Superdrive, dual-head capability and a video chipset that isn’t anemic.
The thing that makes me geekily giddy is Front Row and the remote control. Yes, it’s just playing a DVD, but the visual presentation makes the user experience just feel so good. I want to hit the button just to watch the menu transition effects. I am disturbed by how much I like it.
Since the iMac had built in 802.11, I decided to finally kill two birds with one stone and bought a high end D-Link wireless router. Once upon a time I had a cheap Orinoco wireless access point, but A) it didn’t support WPA and B) started getting really flaky so I retired it. In addition, the D-Link had robust router configuration capability, which meant I could finally replace my existing router/firewall…
…a prototype rev B. iMac from 1998 running OS 9.2.2 and IPNetRouter. Don’t laugh, good luck cracking into that box! Open port? What’s an open port? The iMac had served faithfully and was still cranking away, but it did have two small limitations that the D-Link wouldn’t. One was recovering from DSL hiccups, I’m running on the edge of stability for my bandwidth speed and it does blink from time to time. However, I’m too used to the 3.0/384 to downgrade. The iMac would usually recover the PPPoE connection, but IPNetRouter wouldn’t reset. This got annoying. Another issue was QoS/bandwidth throttling. The D-Link will do prioritization for things like games over…other higher bandwidth uses.
Big thumbs up for the D-Link. It’s a bit pricy, but it does indeed handle massive connection and bandwidth load without freaking out, and lets me play WoW while doing so!
Goodnight iMac rev B, thou hast been a good and faithful servant. Hopefully the iMac Core Duo will prove a worthy successor.
I’ve finally gotten around to reading George R.R. Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice books, and I understand why they are popular. Damn I’m enjoying them, and I’m not usually a big fantasy fan.
More later, I must get into the writing habit again.
Although I haven’t used it for much beyond “World of Warcraft”, I am very very much in love with the iMac Core Duo
. It’s really the first time with an iMac that Apple has stuffed everything happily in the base model: Airport, Bluetooth, iSight, dual-layer Superdrive, dual-head capability and a video chipset that isn’t anemic.The thing that makes me geekily giddy is Front Row and the remote control. Yes, it’s just playing a DVD, but the visual presentation makes the user experience just feel so good. I want to hit the button just to watch the menu transition effects. I am disturbed by how much I like it.
Since the iMac had built in 802.11, I decided to finally kill two birds with one stone and bought a high end D-Link wireless router
. Once upon a time I had a cheap Orinoco wireless access point, but A) it didn’t support WPA and B) started getting really flaky so I retired it. In addition, the D-Link had robust router configuration capability, which meant I could finally replace my existing router/firewall……a prototype rev B. iMac from 1998 running OS 9.2.2 and IPNetRouter. Don’t laugh, good luck cracking into that box! Open port? What’s an open port? The iMac had served faithfully and was still cranking away, but it did have two small limitations that the D-Link wouldn’t. One was recovering from DSL hiccups, I’m running on the edge of stability for my bandwidth speed and it does blink from time to time. However, I’m too used to the 3.0/384 to downgrade. The iMac would usually recover the PPPoE connection, but IPNetRouter wouldn’t reset. This got annoying. Another issue was QoS/bandwidth throttling. The D-Link will do prioritization for things like games over…other higher bandwidth uses.
Big thumbs up for the D-Link. It’s a bit pricy, but it does indeed handle massive connection and bandwidth load without freaking out, and lets me play WoW while doing so!
Goodnight iMac rev B, thou hast been a good and faithful servant. Hopefully the iMac Core Duo will prove a worthy successor.
I’ve finally gotten around to reading George R.R. Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice
books, and I understand why they are popular. Damn I’m enjoying them, and I’m not usually a big fantasy fan.More later, I must get into the writing habit again.