667

Like a bat out of hell, the new 667MHz Titanium Powerbooks clock in one megahertz faster than the Number of the Beast. That makes me want to KICK IT!

Grand Opening

Wouldn't it be grand if owners of Mac OS X could stop by their friendly local Apple Retail Store and pick up a FREE copy of the OS X 10.1 upgrade? That's exactly what happened on September 29, 2001, when Apple made available its free "Instant Up-to-Date" packages for Mac OS X 10.1. Dedicated Mac enthusiasts waited in lines longer than those for the premier of Phantom Menace, eager to get their hands on the revolutionary OS upgrade. And everyone knows that queue comes before X.

Seedy Audio

As destructive as it sounds, drag a disk to the trash and everything will be fine. Contrarily, Eject a disk in an older OS and you're left with an annoying ghost image on your desktop. Then when you try to do something that requires the ejected disk, you're stuck until you find that specific disk again. This can be a real pain if you have thousands of disks to chose from. Thank goodness for mp3! 

Thanks, Tova!

Mac Breaks

We've all had applications unexpectedly quit, so it only seems logical that "supplemental" applications would unexpectedly launch in their places. 

Thanks, Ben Grossmann, for the inspiration!

In the Process

If you are as impatient as me, you certainly have attempted to shut down the computer while it is already in the process of shutting down. The Mac responds politely by stating, "The command could not be completed because you have already chosen Shut Down or Restart. Wait until the computer finishes shutting down or restarting, quit all applications, and choose Shut Down or Restart again." I'm sure Steve Jobs reassures his stockholders using the same logic.