MacBook Pro::Be quite or go home!

I’m relatively happy with my new MacBook Pro. I haven’t upgraded from the standard 512MB of RAM yet, so it is actually quite slow; the 2GB of RAM should be here soon and I expect that to allow the 4X performance increase to shine…

My first impression of the MacBook Pro, however, is that it [...]

Detecting PowerPC applications on Intel Macs

I just found that Activity Monitor is showing the Kind column in the list of currently running processes:

This makes it easy to detect all applications currently running under Rosetta emulator:

Open Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities) Sort by Kind column

Intel iMac - First Impressions

After a few weeks of waiting for MacBook Pro, I decided to cancel the order and go with the new iMac instead. I will still use the PowerBook G4 on the road but iMac is becoming my primary computer now. Intel iMac is my first desktop in 5 years and the first impressions are positive [...]