Posts Tagged ‘powerbook’

Keyboard light rave!

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Someone made a “visualizer for iTunes”:http://www.tuaw.com/2006/06/21/backlight-visualizer-for-itunes/ that flashes the backlight of the keyboard on Powerbook and Macbook Pros that have this feature, completely useless but cool none-the-less. Or visit the “actual home”:http://www.stewreo.de/keyboarddisco.html of the plugin.

Now someone just needs to make a plugin for Adium or Growl to flash the keyboard when I get a new IM, that’d be neat.

Intel ‘PowerBook’ already?

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I know it was rumored to be true, but part of me didn’t expect them to get a “Powerbook” or what’s now a “MacBook Pro” out until maybe Summer ‘06. But they now have a MacBook Pro which they claim is 4x faster than my current PowerBook.

I wonder how smooth they’ll be since Apple has had problems often with first revision of a lot of hardware. I don’t think it’s been too often though so this could easily probably go well. I do kind of wish I could upgrade to the new one, built-in iSight, possibly less crappy power cord, 4x faster, etc. My current machine is great, but always feel like you want the better one, specially if it’s only been 3 months since mine came out.

Also wondering if I should get iLife ‘06 when all I use is iPhoto and not all that frequently.