I had the opportuinity to play around with a PowerBook G4 17″ laptop today, so I figured I’d snap a few pics.

As some of you may know, I purchased an Aluminum Apple MacBook around 1 month ago. Before the purchase of my MacBook, I was solely a Windows guy. However, after a month with my Mac, I’ve found OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to be superior to Windows in almost every aspect. Along with the software, things are greatly improved when Apple designs a computer, as it “just works,” and the industrial design is beautiful.

Jump the break to read my full review.

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A MacRumors forum membor, Brett33, bought a Prototype MacBook Air on eBay. Now, he’s selling it again on ebay. The Prototype itself has several differences, like an old style keyboard, black aluminum bottom, and slightly different trackpad, along with no official “Air” branding.

MacRumors Post: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=601953

Ebay Link (currently going for $1700): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200278121944

So, I figured I’d merge the files stored on my flash drive with the ones in my documents folder on my mac. So, I copy them over. OSX prompts me to replace, and I thought it would just replace the files that were already there, not the whole folder. Now, I’m out probably 4 hours of work, and there’s no way to get it back (I’ve already tried all of those recovery programs. I’m enabling time machine right this minute, and I’m backing up to my windows drive (on my server), using this nifty command in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Also, following the steps in this guide can greatly enhance your chances of success.

I just went to the local Apple Store and bought a new aluminum MacBook! It has a 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 1066Mhz RAM, and 160GB HDD. Some people may think you need the top-of-the-line model, but I do not.

Update: Some of the features that I greatly enjoy (after using it for about a week) are the glass trackpad (with multitouch gestures: amazing!), the ambient light sensor for the display, and the chicklet keyboard (lowers errors and improves typing speeds in my opinion). Maybe sometime I’ll write a full review, but for now, all I have to say is that I would rate it a 4.5/5!

I found this little tidbit of information today, and I think that it is particularly neat. Some clever soul out there has figured out how to get OSX running on an ASUS Eee-Pc. You can hit up the guide here, and get archived versions of the (critical to installation) files here and here (please try the links to these files in the guide first, these are slow and only to be used in necessity).

Well, it looks as if Apple is having yet another problem with product recalls. Apparantly, the miniature USB AC adaptors that started shipping along with the iPhone 3G need to be recalled. You can start the process here.

Also, this post marks the insertion of the “Apple” catagory into the blog. None of the previous posts about apple-related stuff will be recatagorized, but any future ones will be there.