Apple pretty much suprised everyone today by announcing new iBooks with the G4 processor! With this announcement, the G3 processor no longer features in any of Apple’s product lines..and is officially obsolete! Despite owning a G3-based iBook, I do welcome the move to G4: after all, sooo many of Apple’s own applications applications built into OS X run so much better with Altivec, so it doesn’t make sense to sell a “crippled” product. While on the subject of “crippled”, it…
After getting tired of my palms sweating all over my oh-so-white iBook, I finally decided to get myself a Speedball. Speedball comprises a pair of cool shiny plastic half-domes which, if you put together, will form what looks like a ball (duh). But seriously, this invented-by-Singaporeans product is not only relatively inexpensive at S$18.90, but it’s also quite useful for increasing convection cooling on a computer notebook and (more importantly for me) also elevates the notebook so that your neck,…