Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

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Slow Safari in OSX Lion

I’ve just recently updated my MacBook Pro to OSX Lion. In general I’m pretty happy with it but there were a few issues, relating to speed that really significantly annoyed me. This blog post is to remind me what I did to solve those issues and perhaps if someone else reads them and is helped [...]

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MacBook Pro Performance running Parallels

Or VirtualBox, and probably VMWare too.
Its been some months now since I made the switch from PC to Mac, using OSX Snow Leopard. Initially I was really pleased with the performance of the MBP, it was considerably quicker on lesser hardware than Vista had ever been. But there was a niggling slowdown on occasions.
It’s fair [...]

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Regular OSX SBBOD (Spinning Beachball of Death) :: FIXED

Over the past few days I had begun to think that my MacBook Pro was developing a problem. Every so often – and I can’t put my finger on how long, but possibly every 10 minutes or so – no matter what application I was using I would get a Spinning Beachball of Death, [...]

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MacBook Pro and Eve Online – A Good Match?

Can you play Eve Online on the 15″ MacBook Pro 2.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo? Read this article to find out.

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MacBook Pro Review

There’s been thousands of MacBook Pro reviews, but I’ve not done one before and having just taken delivery of my first one, I wanted to write about it.
I’ve previously been using Hackintosh, and fell in love with OSX already. As a long time UNIX user, and developer, OSX is a breeze to use and comes [...]