November 2005 Archives

   Finally, after some time, I've ended up with a Apple Newton 2100 and it is quite nice. I got it relatively cheap, I suppose. On the other hand, it has some cosmetic problems. For instance, the case is in bad shape, not horrible, but not that great. Operations-wise things are just fine. It runs well, and speedy.
   About the case, I knew it was going to bad. That is why I've decided to clean it up and paint it some other color. I was thinking either black or white (like this mod). I already posses the instructions for carefully taking the Newton apart, piece by piece. From what I've read, it isn't hard but I'll have to be careful doing it.
   I was planning on doing a overclock on it while I was painting the outside. It required a little bit of soldering and a few parts. I've decided not to do this, though. No real need to. It seems more than fast enough for me.
I'll post again when I get some results on...

   I updated my B&W G3 to the latest OS version, 10.4.3, today. So far, things are running quite smoothly. In fact, Quartz Extreme-wise things are a bit smoother than they were. Ever since I updated to 10.4, Expose has been 'choppy'. Not as bad as no-Quartz-Extreme-choppy, but choppier than it was under 10.3.9.

   Sadly, all was not as good. The new 'live verification' feature of Disk Utility (allows the verfication of the boot volume while running off of it) froze up my computer. It didn't panic or anything but it pretty much froze. I haven't tried again as of yet. I might later on. Of course, that's far from actually being able to repair it while running OS X off of the drive. Having to boot from the install disk is a bother I don't usually bother with. Of course, there aren't any errors found when I do actually bother to. So, no loss there.

   News from the interweb says that the x86 variant of OS X in now inline with the PowerPC version.