I think I nearly forgot what “restarting” a PC means…My Mac switches on “instantly”, (faster than a TV perhaps?) which M$ promised with Vista which is a different story altogether. So, I wanted to download a tool that could let me know the uptime of my mac. Searching for that, I found that there was a built in command line program that does it. So I typed “uptime” on the terminal and this is what...

On of the most facinating, useful and equally powerful feature of Leopard, is Time Machine. I’ve been using Mac for over 3 months now and Time Machine for about 2 months. With this background, let me explain my usage rates. I had a lot of data in my PC. Close to 200 GB of data, which I migrated to my mac when I bought it. Took me about 2 days (or more?), and after a month or so, I purchased a new 1TB Western Digital hard drive for 179...

A month ago, I blogged about my first experience with my mac. As a sequel to it, in this post, I’ll blog about features that I think I miss as I migrate to Windows and things I miss if I migrate back to Windows… First thing I missed was… It’s close to a month with my mac and I’ve not restarted it. Yes! No updates, no patches, no crashes and absolutely no restarts. Infact, the system is as responsive as it was...

Whoa,What a huge headache I had with Windows Vista… If anyone could remember, I blogged about my experience with my Dell Inspiron/Windows Vista a year ago. As you might see, my first experience was not very satisfactory. My review was more of a rant about Vista. I could manage to push it through for about 15 months just because of Dell’s service (though not great at times like this one). I switched to mac primarily because of...