Since I’ve installed Leopard, I’ve noticed all the bells and whistles people keep talking about, but one part I haven’t heard anything about is the much-improved printing facilities that Leopard introduced. In Tiger, the printer setup was buried in the Utilities folder, but now in Leopard it’s in plain sight in the System Preferences, and it is much easier to use now.
Instead of …
Either I have liquid cooling (and liquid meaning liquid nitrogen) or my stats are off. Usually it’s the opposite — 128 degrees positive. Dunno how accurate any of that is.
The MacBook does get really hot, though.
And, yes, that is iStat Menus.
Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a weird “throttling” effect on my Internet traffic. I’m on Qwest’s “Fastest” home DSL, and after I start up my BitTorrent downloading and uploading, it fluctuates. Every once in a while it will rapidly descend to 0 kb/s, and the connection goes dead, essentially. I can’t download, upload, surf the web, ping servers, and so on.
Then, after around 5 seconds or so, it ascends back to normal, and …
The time has come. Today, I had to delete the album art off my iPod to free up enough space to update it with my new music. Now, I have 591 MB free, but that won’t last me long, and on top of that I really liked having the album art there. Now, my Now Playing screen just looks lonely. Just text. I had been putting off buying a new iPod, waiting for the next …
My new promise: come OS X 10.5 Leopard, I shall be buying a Mac, most likely an iMac. I think it’s time for a change.
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