Archer

I'll just hit up Up-To-Date next Sunday, after I get my receipt back from my uncle's home.

*notices that his receipt is missing*

It's going to be something that can be done this Monday. Aaaaaargh, Mountain Lion~

Said missing receipt might be a blessing in disguise.

there's been rumor that a 13" retina might be in line to come out along with an iMac upgrade either later this year, or more probably next year at this time. I felt this was a worthwhile upgrade, as my last laptop was an early 2008 MBP. besides, my older brother bought my old pro anyway (he doesn't really care bout latest or greatest as long as it works, which it does)

Music isn't as big of an issue with me I have all my iTunes music available on my iphone when I want it and I've gotten by with the desktop app for Spotify that lets me listen to any songs I want anyway. (since I have it on my desktop Mac too, it syncs up the iTunes playlists it gathered from iTunes as well.)

I've seen those 1:1 hacks, but honestly just using the highest scaling option is good enough for when I really need the real estate. I usually just keep it at the retina setting or the second option. as for space, I find 256 to be plenty for system/apps/current documents. I offload all irrelevant files to my mac pro when I'm not using them and I don't keep music or videos on it either. (media is what the external is for)

That being said this thing is fast, (even when running Win7 in VMware.

I must be the only person playing Skyrim at 24 FPS and find it good.

(Heh. I can crank up the texture resolution and actor/light fade safely, and still have my frame rate at least 20.)

As for Minecraft, though... *mind boggles* How fast is the ATi Radeon X900?

I find Firefox to be very awesome on OS X. Just like how it did on Windows. Chrome, I'm saving that for the space.

Not many people do puns anything, it's actually kinda refreshing xD

Just up the coast for you is further than going from the capital of England to the capital of Scotland here ):

Oh u so punny

I have an avatar now \o/ are you happy? :D

Admittedly it is takes a lot longer but london to glasgow isn't as far as sydney to brisbane x]

I guess I prefer doing some things the old way in the end, since I don't want to somehow get myself stuck for the times where I'm on someone else's Windows laptop.

I also left most, if not all of OS X's native gestures on, by the way.

Seems like Safari is made so that they could tick the "have browser" check box.

I'm now a very happy OS X user. No more spinning beach balls of doom, huh? (Safari likes to hang.)

I've always wondered whether gaming a long time with anemic GPUs (PS1 > GeForce 2 MX > Radeon 9250 > Radeon Xpress 1100 > DS) meant that I'm very tolerant to bad graphics and frame rate. My first real top-of-the-line GPU was a GeForce 9800 GTX+. xD It certainly meant smoking the spec sheets back then! For some reason, I also got something with a nonstandard design - most 9800s are dual-slot, while mine is single-slot. 60 FPS was awesome!

Ohhhhh yea now I get what you mean. Doesn't Australia have a huge empty desert type area in the middle of it?

Hey, I still remember being able to get away with a 120 GB drive on one of my old laptops.

Money for everything!

I suppose I'll have to reserve 60 GB of space on the Windows side anyway, seeing as games tend to be huge... and a bunch of school-related IDEs and stuff. They're huge.

Apple mice kind of sucks - I think I'll grab the old optical mice I have in my home and sacrifice one of my USB ports. Good thing I also have a hub ready. ;)

I'm having a bad case of programming burnout.

It's so fun to middle click everything now that I've got the middle click area down pat.

Time to tweak the trackpad to act like a Windows trackpad!

I guess I really don't like Safari, seeing as I switched to Firefox. Much better. No autocorrect might hurt a bit, though.

Hehe. It's cramped in there, and I guess I have to do some space planning.

What do you mean?

I think I'll have to settle for 60 / 60 for Boot Camp this Sunday. I have to do it then, seeing as I don't have any blank media.

I still remember when Intel graphics sucked. Not so with HD Graphics series - I actually can manage 20-30 FPS at native resolution in Skyrim for some reason if I'm playing at low.

Did PokéCommunity blow up on you?

Of course, when an OS crashes like no tomorrow, it's another problem entirely. (That's what happened with openSUSE and my old desktop)

Nuking Windows on the laptop means that OS X gets a chance to be used all the time, and in the week, it's a pretty awesome experience.

For some reason, the dragon wallpaper I've got on my Mac right now also clued me into color calibration issues.

I've gotten pretty used to how things work in the OS X environment at this point, and I've also installed the Windows 8 Release Preview on Parallels (bought via cheap bundle)... it works better than expected.

When it comes to playing games, would you go Parallels or Boot Camp? I've noticed negligible performance degradation, if any, at least in 2D graphics performance. You know it's a problem when Safari on OS X is relatively slower than IE10 on virtualization

(I've noticed that you seem to reply when you think it's feasible... right? So I'll just post a new VM anyway, seeing as you seem to be not responding.)

Seems like even regular PCs should use gamma of 2.2... ideally. I've already seen my share of messed-up monitors. These OEMs don't do the calibration right, huh?

I guess I like posting VMs over and over... xD

It's like the edit button never existed!

What about the other way around? OS X font rendering, while now way better than it used to be after tweaking (lines are not fuzzy anymore), I wonder whether there is such a thing as a font rasterizer replacer for OS X. I know some exist for Windows, but as for OS X... I think I'd like to see something that respects hinting (rule number 0: you need this unless your display is Retina-grade). Still, it is now closer to DirectWrite Windows 7 at this point.

Seems like according to my personal adjustments, the ideal gamma for my MacBook Air's screen isn't Mac Standard 2.2, but 2.0. o.O 2.2 goes too dark in the color ramps too early. Or maybe not. 2.2 seems to work for now...

The easiest way to make yourself used to a different OS, assuming that it is well-designed (Ubuntu isn't one), is to obliterate any other OSes to make sure that you're actually spending the time with the OS in question.

Oh right. I think we have the P thing here but as far as I know it just means that you've just passed and it gets taken off after so long. But I was told this when I was a kid so it could all just be one huge lie D: