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Thanks for bringing it to my attention. If I can stay awake long enough to finish my current book, I'll order "How I Live Now" from the library 
My little iBook was 4 years old when Tiger was released and about 7 years old when I upgraded it to Tiger. Having said that... it's got 576MB of RAM and a 500Mhz CPU and it is pretty darn slow... painful, actually.-Darwin (November 08, 2009, 11:19 PM)
I'm not quite sure how to respond. Should I congratulate you for your accomplishment or express sympathy due to your predicament?-Innuendo (November 09, 2009, 10:29 AM)
Why not both?! My intent was to illustrate that it IS possible to install the latest Mac OS on a four year old Mac but that doing so doesn't exactly result in a great user experience. I'm pretty sure that my 6 year old XP machine will run Windows 7 just fine, though.I don't believe I have ever heard of a MacOS release that could be installed and run well on a 4 year old Mac.-Innuendo (November 08, 2009, 11:08 PM)
Oh, and I use the iTunes store sometimes. Otherwise I find iTunes to be way overkill for my "not an iPod" personal media player. Having it on my Mac at least prevents me from having to install iTunes on my PC while occasionally allowing me to see what I might want to buy on iTunes.-grapeshot (November 08, 2009, 06:58 PM)
Excellent post grapeshot.If your OS version is a couple of years old, you begin to find that new software won't work with it, forcing you to upgrade. In the Windows world, you can reasonably expect your OS to last you for the better part of a decade.
I hear that from Mac users once in a while and to me it's almost incomprehensible, I don't mean solely from a technical stand point but from a practical one.-rgdot (November 08, 2009, 06:35 PM)
It has trouble working with some of my peripherals, it occasionally doesn't want to find an external drive, and locks up a surprising amount, requiring a hard re-boot.-grapeshot (November 08, 2009, 06:15 PM)
A bit OTT, but I loved it.When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb (the English comedian playing a Mac) would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell (the English comedian playing the PC) effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.
And if powercuts are a problem where you live you probably should look into buying an uninterruptible power supply.-Innuendo (November 08, 2009, 10:02 AM)
even boot!
what can 'destroy' the registry? as i life in greece - the land of the powercuts- and that's enough. even before i was 'backing up' my pc's - i organized a ups!
-DFrench (November 08, 2009, 02:36 AM)
The second thing I tell them is if their circle of friends are computer-centric (discuss computers, software, the internet, etc. a lot) it might be best to buy what your friends have if you want to be included in all the conversations as if you are the odd man out you might feel like an outsider when these topics come up.-Innuendo (November 07, 2009, 10:20 AM)
Great newsletter, mouser and Darwin
I guess I spotted some errors that you obviously put in on purpose:
There are strange things going on in the section in bold here (taken from the third paragraph):The main thing I want to say is that we to hear from more of you about projects that you are working on-TucknDar (November 07, 2009, 12:58 AM)
The line was correct in the draft and I managed to delete "need to" from it 
I was using ME, which ran really well for me and I've never understood all the flak it got. Maybe I was the exception.-superboyac (November 06, 2009, 03:51 PM)
But I'll say this - I have OmniPage 16 Pro and have used it perhaps a handful of times in three years. I don't really even use PaperPort, beyond its fantastic SET tools to clean up scanned images. Having said that, OmniPage would be handy if you're not interested in scanning to PDF but want an editable document. Of course, you can do this with PDF Converter 6 now as it supports scanning directly to it...
Nobody knows exactly ?this would be come in handy, i guess..
-Contro (October 27, 2009, 06:20 PM)
• http://en.wikipedia...._of_Microsoft_Office-lanux128 (October 28, 2009, 09:09 AM)
May 31, 2001 Office XP (10.0) Word 2002, etc. Last version to support Windows 98/Me/NT 4.0. Improved support for working in restricted accounts under Windows 2000/XP.
Related article. (Sorry haven't been keeping up with the posts)
http://thinksimpleno...ate-limited-beliefs/-Paul Keith (October 26, 2009, 08:36 PM)
Wow...one more guy on the internet discovers that a brand new computer looks better, works better and has fewer problems than one that's five years old.
Hope Obama wasn't hoping on winning a Nobel two years in a row...this guy looks like he's got the inside track on next year's award.-Innuendo (October 27, 2009, 11:56 AM)
