China Travel Etiquette Photos, Videos and More
I never even knew this was covered. But apparently, it’s a worldwide recall on Powerbooks that have this problem. I’ve been putting up with/ignoring this issue for about two years as the screen got progressively worse. (To this day, slowly, more spots are appearing.)
I guess I’ll try to get it fixed now (free) either in China or in the States. I wonder if that means I’ll get a brand new screen. That would be pretty bad ass.
-bob-
If you, your colleagues, or friends were wondering about the new Macbook glossy screens and their brightness compared to older PowerBook G4 models, here is a demonstration.
I took the picture with these camera settings and picked this photo (after taking 1/10 sec through 1/1000 sec) because it most accurately represented what the screens looked like in a natural environment. I then sampled the same spot on each screen and finally took a “Gray Scale Slider” brightness measurement in Fireworks 8.
-BOB-
PS - the test page was searching for “freestlyle.com” in Google and had Safari take up the whole screen, shot it in the dark on the Italian tripod at 1/25 f4.5
Who would have thought that extending your wireless network would be so rewarding?
Here is a picture of my mess upstairs (via built-in iSight), but that’s not the point. The point is, it’s full reception upstairs! I finally realized why the reception on the third floor is so strong (with the help of the second floor bridge) — it’s because the third floor isn’t made out of cement! We added it ourselves, it’s just wood and steel.
Okay this entry is boring to everyone except me.
-BOB-
It’s about the same deal as the parents’ house and in Kunming, but this is what I’m dealing with over here in China. Granted, it’s about 10x cheaper for internet than in the States. The DSL here is fast (enough), but when browsing international links (video blogs, YouTube pages, CNN, Yahoo, basically everything except for Google sites) its very, very slow. When browsing Chinese sites, it’s very fast.
ADSL Guide reports:
Result: Slow!
DSLreports (on a Chinese server) reports:
Result: Fast!
But they don’t take into account for the P2P, which averages over 100-200k/second downloads, or the mysterious 150k/sec uploading to the thompsonjazz.com server.
Bob
Is a terrible one. After installing Boot Camp and XP, I spent about 40 minutes trying to get Windows to find my wireless Airport connection. I finally gave up and started playing a game of Hearts (Michele is a real pain in the ass!) until I restarted in OSX after being assaulted with the “TAKE A TOUR OF WINDOWS XP!!!” / “YOUR COMPUTER MIGHT BE AT RISK!” pop-up dialogs.
Then I installed Parallels, which is basically Virtual PC 2. It’s a little bit faster, but then again so is this computer. Because it’s such a terrible OS, I doubt I will ever use XP unless I need a keygen or something.
Hopefully I’ll get some DSL in the new place, have it all rigged for wireless on all floors (cement houses are new for me — the norm in China — and tend to limit reception.)
bob
First, as HT flies home now, just wanted to say, great trip with Helen, perfect weather, amazing pictures, and a bunch of good conversations. We all had fun, and ate well.
Second, this is a screenshot of the how fast this sucker can rip a DVD (benchmark for speed). It was over 65 frames per second, compared to the G4 which averaged 10-18 FPS. Rosetta apps are basically the same as my old G4, so I’ll have to wait for programs like Final Cut, Adobe products, and Sibeius before I see the increase in speed. It’s interesting how some companies like Digidesign (Pro Tools) released a Universal Binary update for free within weeks of the new Intel chips, and other companies just aren’t there yet.
Third, good news, we should be able to move into our new house in the next week. It looks great, some small details to work out. I can’t wait to get in there and start producing.
Fourth, I’m downloading Bootcamp to see how Windows XP Pro will work on this computer. I hope this isn’t jst 10 GB of wasted space. And I also hope there is an unistaller.
Lastly, Hel and I took over a thousand pictures, so I’ll post a gallery soon, and make a movie with iMovie (my version of Final Cut Pro isn’t universal yet) to see the results on this MBP.
_BOB_
VIEW DEMO
