Just ranting ... if your busy, ignore this message. Ok, although Steam is already available for OSX, I still had to boot my MacBook to Windows so I can play multiplayer games with my son. The thing is, with OSX and "essential apps" + VirtualBox + BootCamp I was left with <5GB out of the 250GB built-in harddrive.
So the next thing I did was asked my wife to buy me a 500GB HD (pretty please) and fired-up youtube and replaced the standard HD. The replacement itself is pretty easy considering how hard it was to "upgrade" my Lenovo T61. The only problem is, the rubberized bottom of the MacBook is actually just a really thin coating to the actual metal. The problem with it is that if you are as clumsy as me, it would peel off and would not fit properly when you reassembled it. AAArrrrrggggghhhhHHHHHH (me pulling my hair) I should just have let my wife (who's sniggering when I showed her what happened) tinker with it. Now I'm really bothered because the really smooth and lovely MacBook now has a glaring defect. :-'( waaaahhhh. Still, my Mac now has 4GB RAM + 500GB hard disk. My boot camp is 160GB with a lot more room to spare for OSX. You know why this is cool? One of my boss (yes, I report to more than 1) wanted me to recomputed raw material consumption for a set of apparel style for the last 3 years. The style information was for 4,780 orders and I split it between these two machines: 1. MacBook 2.66GHz 4GB RAM Mac OSX 10.6.3 2. Lenovo T61 2.20GHz 3GB RAM Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit The machines are located here in the Philippines and the MS-SQL Database Servers are collocated in Hong Kong and accessed through VPN. The operation just retrieves data, compute and then generate I don't have exact details but the MacBook finished within the hour and the Lenovo finished in less than 2 hours (definitely over 1 hours). I didn't get memory consumption in the Mac but using Windows Task Manager, J was already using 300mb of data by the time Mac finished and was really slowing down. BTW, getting involved in a motorcycle accident and breaking my left collarbone really made my wife malleable to computer equipment upgrade <evil laugh> ... although I'm not recommending the broken collarbone. :P For some reason, my hint on getting a replacement for the helmet I cracked kept falling in deaf ears. Hmmmmm. :D LOL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
