1 week of mac

Nothing much happened so far, tried all the iApps, photo booth, garage band and dashboard. Upgraded to Snow Leopard, then update to MacOS 10.6.1. Some learning curve moving from winXP/GNOME environment to MacOS. Finder and expose is way cool. Multi touch trackpad is easy to pick up and pretty much grown into me. Right click is something I need to get used to, without it. The colours on Safari and Firefox are slightly washout, due to color profiling. Keyboard layout. Last but not least, what are these ctrl, alt, cmd, shift keystrokes about?

So far, installed, firefox, MSN for Mac, Olympus Master 2, OpenOffice Aqua, some temperature widget, mind mapping freeware, openVPN.

Pet peeves - bought a sleeve and keyboard cover promo for $28 @ vivo. As the speaker is under the keyboard, the sound sound slightly muffled to the already mono sound. The sleeve does not fit.

Firmware 1.1 update on the PEN

Easiest way to update the E-P1 is with Olympus Master 2. Not sure if there is any other way for OpenSolaris or Linux users. Simply connect the camera to a mac with the USB cable. At this time, the PEN turn itself on and I select "storage" on the camera. On OM2, Select camera -> update camera/lens. And the rest is pretty much straight forward. To update the 2nd lens, replace the lens on the PEN and start all over again. As in, reconnect your USB cable...

“Olympus has released a firmware update for its E-P1 Micro Four Thirds camera. Version 1.1 improves the camera operation in Continuous AF mode (C-AF). The company has also posted firmware updates for the E-P1’s kit lenses: the M. Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 and the M. Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:2.8 pancake lens. The updates promise to improve the autofocus operation of both the lenses. Firmware updates can be downloaded via the Olympus Master/Studio software.”

source: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09091501olyep1firmware.asp

I cant tell the difference. Didnt have time for serious shooting. Anyway, good job! Looking forward for next update.

hello macbook pro...

my Dell inspiron m500 have served me well. Bought it for its size when netbook is not even a word yet. Arrived clean white and silver on jan 05. Have been my trusted workhorse. It traveled to LA n BKK before. Upgraded to a larger HDD last year hoping to last another 2 yrs. Now with a bad RAM, its going to cost $150+/Gb to replace, which just does not make any sense.

Had a tough time deciding a opensolaris-cum-linux regular notebook or a Macbook. Finally settled on macbook pro 13" for $1.9lk. Cost less than my then dell m500. Compared with other windows laptop of the same price range. Differentiating factor - design, engineering, 1066Mhz front side bus, backlit keyboard, snow leopard (64bit, OpenCL, UI). I have seen Peter Karlsson's macbook running opensolaris. Will set aside sometime to work on this.

At the meantime, my dell will stays with me to be "netbook'd". Need to set aside some time to try out moblin, ubuntu netbook remix and various lightweight opensolaris, MilaX, StormOS or even LXDE on opensolaris. This should be fun...