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Brief Thoughts on Apple’s WWDC 2011 Keynote

June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Not much to say, but…

  • Lion looks awesome and it’s downloadable for the same price of Snow Leopard… downside is, no physical media.
  • iOS 5 lives on the iPhone 3GS with better notification system than before. Finally, tabs on Safari on iPad! It seemed that iPhone has for the most part caught up with Android with the addition of OTA updates and wireless sync.
  • iCloud is free…

Otherwise, I am looking forward for Lion in July. Anyway, need to get excited with Nintendo’s E3 conference next, which is tomorrow!

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Pointless Flash Rant – Flash 10.1 still sucks

November 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment


Flash is becoming a never ending nightmare with high CPU usage and the laptop getting hot. Even with a i5, the laptop still manage to get very hot when I play a 360p Youtube Video. On top of that, 10.1 video acceleration was on and it didn’t do ANYTHING! The video still played really choppy.

There is no wonder why Apple doesn’t want to install Flash by default, it’s a piece of shit. Adobe insists that Flash does not cause a computer overheat and drain the battery quickly, they are dead wrong. Stop shafting the Mac and Linux users out there, because nobody is happy.

And yes, I use ClicktoFlash so I don’t have Flash Ads eat up my CPU and make my laptop a steaming hotplate.

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Macbook Pro (Mid 2010) Gaming Performance

November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment


It blows away the Late 2008 Macbook Pro overclock 3dmark06 score, 6361 by 349 points… without overclocking (besides the turbo boost). I will try it with the GPU overclock after class.

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New Laptop – Macbook Pro (Mid 2010)

November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

With some minor differences

Yesterday, my Late 2008 Macbook Pro, Fujibayashi Kyou was on its last legs after I went to lunch. Unfortunately, the nVidia Geforce 9600m GT I was using started to malfunction with the system freezing and part of the screen flashing while most of it remained black. When I placed the HD that came with the system, it froze at startup. I brought it to the Apple Store at Willowbrook and they offered me a replacement since I have three major repairs (excluding the wireless card). Now I got a current model Macbook Pro that has a:

  • Intel Core i5 520m Processor at 2.4Ghz. TurboBoost up to 2.99 GHz with 3MB L3 Cache.
  • 4GB DDR3 RAM at 1066 MHz
  • 320 GB Seagate 5400 RPM HD. This is taken out and replaced with the already used WD 500 GB Scorpio Blue 5400 RPM HD.
  • nVidia Geforce GT 330m with 256 MB GDDR3 RAM with on demand switchable Intel HD Graphics.
  • SD Card Slot
  • Sealed Battery that supposed to last 9 hours.

Overall, the system is more responsive than the old system considering that my old one has a Core 2 Duo Processor and 2GB of DDR3 RAM.

When I boot to the Mac OS X partition, it worked without messing with anything. With Windows 7, I didn’t have to reinstall, but I had to reinstall the BootCamp and nVidia Drivers. This is what I got for the Windows Experience Index.

Considering that I just got this computer yesterday, I haven’t tested the graphics or battery performance. I expect to post this later…

Hopefully this computer will give me less problems than the last one… and I did not name this one a tsundere since I know how that turned out. Instead, I named it Nanoha Takamachi from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha… Loli magical girls are cuter. :p

Lastly, this computer came with a drop-in disc for iLife 11… Sweet!

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Bad Experiences at the Genius Bar regarding my “tsundere” Laptop

October 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

As you know, I was having a lot of problems with my laptop I normally use, a Late 2008 Macbook Pro. Unfortunately, I had small problems like display and wireless problems that annoyed me. I had my computer fixed 4 times in the two years I had it (I have extended warranty). After I got it back, it was still blinking… I brought it back to Short Hill Apple Store again to try and get a replacement. This is where I got angry. The person who was taking care of me said “it’s like that” and “deal with it”. I don’t think the screen blinking randomly is normal. I never had that problem until I got my screen replaced for wireless and dust issues. I argued with him and he refused to replace my computer. I yelled at him, packed my computer and walked out of the store.

This is no way to treat a customer. If it was the dual graphics, the external display would have blink too, but it doesn’t. Don’t give me lies because “OMG APPLE IS PERFECT” because no product is 100% perfect. Sure some products break more often than others, but don’t deny its a trivial problem. Its still a problem. I plan to take it to a different Apple Store and hopefully it won’t end up in the same mess. If the person deny its a problem, I am going to ask for the manager. I have enough with this fun and games. I have been without my computer for a week and I had to use my old one that doesn’t have my information on it. So yeah, I’ll keep you updated.

And no, I’m not switching back to Windows… I had enough troubles with it when I used it for the last 13+ years.

Update: I went to the appointment and they say it would be addressed in a EFI firmware update… I let them take down some notes on it. Hopefully it fixes it… And nothing else breaks on it.

Update 2: Yesterday my dedicated GPU, nVidia Geforce 9600m GT stopped working normally and causes my computer to lock up at boot or cause graphical glitches. Since I had three major repairs with the screen and logic board, they offered me a replacement with the current model that have a Core i5 which I am using right now. I will write about the new laptop later with unboxing photos. I need to call up Applecare to get the remaining warranty I have left.

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The Tsundere Laptop

October 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I hardly had any issues with my Apple products since my Late 2006 Macbook Pro (Tohno Minagi) is still holding up along with my iPhone and my iPad. However, my Late 2008 Macbook Pro named Fujibayashi Kyou is being a bit tsun tsun lately. I had these issues after I brought the laptop two years ago:

  • Screen defect (bright dot). Was replaced with another screen
  • Wireless card issues (Wireless networks frequently dropped), replaced by another Airport Card. Still happening
  • Dust under screen, more wifi problems. Screen and wireless card replaced yet again. Wireless issues went away.

Did not cost me anything since I have extended warranty.

After I got my screen and wireless card replaced, now the whole screen blinks for a second with the integrated graphics mode. This would happen sporadically and it could become very annoying. Also, it was something that never happened to me before. Yet again, I brought the computer back for more repairs for those issues including the weak hinge. Now Apple is going to replace the logic board, screen and wireless card to see if that fix the problem. If I get it back and it still have the same issues or the problems get even worse, I am going to demand a replacement… and next time, I will not name it after a tsundere since you know what happens… Hell breaks loose.

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Thoughts on iPhone 4

June 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

After looking at the liveblogging of the WWDC 2010 Keynote, the new phone looks nice, but I don’t need it. It has the same exact 3G support, but with a better screen, faster processor, a bit better battery, front facing camera and a gyroscope… nothing I really need since I only use my 32GB iPhone 3GS for listening to music, browsing the web, update Twitter/Melative, watch Youtube Video and illegally tether my iPhone via Wifi to my Macbook Pro and iPad ($20 tether charge is a ripoff and its not unlimited). Until my phone breaks, I will keep using my current phone… and if it breaks, I probably get an unlocked Android device so I won’t lose my Unlimited data plan… If I switch services, which I doubt, I will probably get an Android device too unless they have the iPhone…

Can’t wait for iOS 4… and the jailbreak for it. :p

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iPhone 3G and Android

May 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

After one hour on Kubuntu trying to get the thing running, I got this:

Yep, that is Android on a iPhone 3G 8GB I hardly ever use since I have a iPhone 3GS 32GB, but… it’s rendered useless. Why? See below:

That is fucking bullshit. I can’t even go online when I am connected to my wireless router. Even the IPs are right, so yeah… Android on the iPhone fails until they get the internet to work.

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May 16, 2010 By 5 Comments

So bored

Now I have nothing to do… beside watch Anime and wait for my Wifi iPad 16GB model which I will use for next semester. I went to the Apple Store to reserve one since they are all sold out! I played around with the iPad and the screen looks gorgeous. Text was sharp and colors were vibrant. I want to test out how light novels will read, which I will import via epub, the web browsing experience and blogging with it with the WordPress Web Interface and the iPad Application. It looks better than any shitty netbook I seen…

Can’t wait… supposed to come this week… hopefully. Once I played with it, I will share my experiences with it.

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On Steve Job's Open Letter on Adobe Flash

April 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Read Here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Although I don’t worship Apple or think that Steve Jobs is always right with the closed system on the iPhone that I need to Jailbreak just so I can load whatever apps I want, he does bring up a good point about Flash. Flash is becoming redundant in the web. Why? There are better solutions out there. People used to use Flash just to get drop down menus, but now that can be achieved with Javascript and CSS, there is no need to use Flash. H264 video plays better on HTML5 than Flash on Mac OS X considering how much Adobe neglected the Flash Player for so long. This have been the same case with Flash on Linux, working like a pile of shit while the Windows version work like it should. Not everyone wants to use Windows as their OS of choice and people want a alternative. Shoving all the improvements over for the Windows version of Flash is alienating other users to have a properly functioning Flash player. Because of the instability and performance problem, I had to install Click2Flash to prevent Flash from loading. It also allowed me to play youtube videos without needing to use Flash.

I can’t say that Apple’s App Store is a closed system, but despite Flash can be used on any platform, it is still a closed system. You can’t use other programs to make Flash movies, only the program Adobe provides developers and once developers use it, they lock the developers in, with no other alternative to use if they decide they want to use something else. HTML5, Javascript, CSS, Webkit is open… Flash isn’t despite what Adobe says. If they open sourced Flash, then it would be a different story, but that isn’t the case.

Flash is the past… not the future. Now more and more websites are switching to HTML5 for video or building native apps to play these videos without Flash. Flash is pointless on a touch screen phone because Flash is designed for a mouse and keyboard. Also, it will cause further instability because of Adobe’s track record and suck up all the battery life because of those Flash ads.

Adobe needs to give up on exerting the power for Flash. Flash is antiqued technology that needs to go. The web will be better off without Flash…

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