Mac OS Snow Leopard

Well it’s here finally, I ordered mine from Amazon for a cool price of £22.99 delivered and for that you get a tiny little box that looks exactly how any apple user would expect.. Beautiful.Mac OS Snow Leopard

Once opened (bloody shrinkwrap) you can upgrade within Leopard or do as I did reboot, hold down “C” and install from scratch and repartition the laptops drive… I choose this so it was a clean OS install and my work, music and apps we’re saved on my time capsule anyway…

Well once the install went through I got the first run wizard like any other time, this was crunch time would Snow recognise my Leopard time machine backups? Yes it did indeed… 30 minutes later after a full restore of my documents, etc I was happily typing this with all my applications, preferences, documents, etc working perfectly. Continue reading

MacBook is here!

Well after many many hours of deliberating I have finally got my MacBook… and boy am I impressed… If I’d of known how easy to use, well made and perfectly weighted these things were I would of made my mind up a little sooner.

MacBook

MacBook

I plumped for the MacBook Alloy (launched October 2008) with 2Ghz Core 2 Duo and 2Gb DDR3 RAM with a 160Gb hard drive, DVD-RW and LED screen…

I could not justify the extra £300 for a marginally bigger hard drive, illuminated keyboard and slightly quicker clock speed. For my day to day laptop this is more than sufficient.
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