No More Updates

I keep checking the software update from time to time hoping…

1, An update that fix the screen flickering problem.
Recently it keep happening back on my Macbook again, although it has been sometimes that it doesn’t happen B ut it’s annoying you know?
2, USB ports giving me a headache.
My mouse doesn’t seems to work so perfect nowadays too. After wake up my Macbook from sleep mode, the mouse red LED light underneath it gone! I have to re-plugin my mouse again.
3, Airport doesn’t work like charm anymore.
To tell you the truth, it’s been quite a while my Airport doesn’t work well, especially when we just changed a new wireless modem. I like to use wireless compare to ethernet which messing up with the Macbook left sidebar Well, I used only the adapter, the mouse and a speaker, any edition to the sidebar cause a mess! It doesn’t matter how much engraved plaques trophies has Apple win now, it’s about the software quality!

So… Where is Apple update coming? Anyway, it’s might be that the launching of Leopard is the death of Tiger

More RAM

Just came back from PC Fair, this is the first time for 2008 and I manage to get something from there.

Yes, 1GB memory stick for two It’s been quite sometimes I’m planning to get one, but the price was way high then. Well, until recently when I wanted to get it, it costed only RM74 per stick and since PC Fair was near, so I waited for the week and get for only RM58 per stick, and I was directbuy from the Kingston reseller. Heh… I wonder why I didn’t count the transportation and the walking in the crowd situation.

Now with 2GB memory I think I can less worry about the lack of memory on my Macbook when I run most my Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effect and Flash).

Battery Or Not

Many people advice me not to use battery with adaptor plugged. But since I’m using the “hottest” and the more advance laptop (MacBook) so I give it a test! And it’s a stupid plan to take…

It’s not like I’m a gold cufflinks kind of people, I can’t afford another battery for sure, obviously the power of this battery is really unstable now. Of course it can’t be used for 3 hours, not even a sharp 2 hours, sometimes it works very well, sometimes it run only for an hour plus, it’s a 16 months old machine so far, I’m going to do some observation on the screen and keyboard now…

Macbook Upper Casing

Today, the postman surprise me with this big ass box. I almost forgot about this item after a week time.

It’s all the way from US, PowerbookMedic, a Mac specialty I found out months ago when doing some market research, and take the chance to order a piece of crap I’ve ruined

There are one receipt, one advertisement paper in A4 and the truly Macbook upper case The smell, the clean look of it, it’s just gives me the day!

All I have to do is to unscrewed a few screws and done, you don’t need to take out the RAM or hard disk like shown in most assembly guide though, it’s just wasting time The reason I change because…

This machine is obviously very very fragile, needs a lot of attention either something like that, or the casing, because it get scratches so easily. Anyway, I have a new Macbook now!

Photoshop Speed Test

Remember I was talking about Photoshop loading speed? Well, in this world of internet which I reckon it as a “World of intelligence”, people tend to test out Photoshop speed together

So, it works like this…

1, Open a new document with 8×10 inches in 300dpi resolution
2, Add noise filter on it, apply it as Uniform, Monochromatic and 400%
3, Add Radial blur filter as 100, Zoom, Best in quality
4, Press enter on Radial blur and start counting.

It took me 3 minutes 7 seconds to apply the Radial blur, which I consider as slow like shit! I can’t believe I’m holding my pen and stop watch on my hands for 3 minutes just for this sake! Honestly I don’t expect that kind of speed though, the average speed was 50 seconds, but my Macbook with Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz and 1GB DDR2 RAM running so God damn slow recording 3 minutes while those with Pentium 4 2.8GHz and also 1GB DDR2 RAM could make it on 1 minute?! Damn, there must be something wrong with my laptop!