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New MacBook Pro, part 2

At the end of September I returned my work laptop (an old, almost dead Dell) to the office. With a battery life well under an hour and terrible performance it was almost unusable; I thought I would not miss it but I did. Within a couple of weeks I was looking at the...

New MacBook Pro, part 1

My daughter started at university last month and so the time had come to get her her own computer. Initial discussions began last year, focussed on whether she wanted both a notebook & desktop or only a laptop. On one hand you have portabaility but the pain of...

Anticipation

I have not posted recently, mainly because I have been sorting out some issues with the move of web hosts. That has caused more trouble than I would like but I think everything will be sorted soon, when it is I will post some of the details and learnings. However,...

Setting up new MacBook Pro

My daughter’s new MacBook Pro arrived yesterday so I have been setting it up for her. Compared to the first Mac that I set up, my own Mini two years’ ago, it was considerably more organised as I had made a list of things to do and software to install. The...

New Macbook Pro

My daughter needs a laptop for when she goes to University in the autumn. Her original idea was to get a Sony Vaio, primarily because it was in hot pink. I vetoed that and turned the conversation to more practical attributes such as ease of use, portability and so on....