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The Wilderness Years: What's Missing From The Steve Jobs Movie
Desktop Dilemma: To Buy An iMac Or A Mac mini?
Preparing Your Mac For OS X 10.9 Mavericks
The Wilderness Years: What's Missing From The Steve Jobs Movie
Pixobebo's Kate MacKenzie says if you haven't seen Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in the Movie Jobs then you've probably read the headlines. Former Apple employees dissed the movie, critics, fans, and even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak alike contend its a bomb, and notes that the flick didn't make much money its first weekend out (although to be fair, neither did any other film with the misfortune to be released on the same weekend as the Oprah Winfrey juggernaut The Butler).
Like most reviewers, Ms. MacKenzie credits Ashton Kutcher with doing a decent job naling Steve Jobs's looks and mannerisms, but observes that like nearly every other piece on Jobs in film or in print over the past nearly 20 years it dropped the proverbial ball by ignoring what she calls Jobs's "Moses-like (http://bibletime.com/theory/history/moses/) wilderness years," ie: the interval during which Jobs got booted from the company he founded, created another company, NeXT, and bought and developed Pixar, before returning to lead Apple to the promised land.
Ms. Mackenzie notes that prior to the wilderness years, Jobs was a megalomaniac; brash, full of hubris, and of himself. After his return to Apple, Jobs was still Jobs, but more disciplined; arguably more mature.
So, what happened to Jobs during the 12 years from the time he was pushed out at Apple in 1985 to his return to glory in 1997? she asks, noting that whether in biography or movie, nobody bothers to spend much time examining Jobs's wilderness era, where he, like Moses, learned humility and discipline, two important skills that served him well during his second and final tenure leading Apple.
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Desktop Dilemma: To Buy An iMac Or A Mac mini?
Macworld UK's Mark Hattersley has posted an iMac vs Mac mini head-to-head to help you choose which is the best Apple desktop for you.
He notes that while there's no denying that the iMac has better technical specifications across the board - a faster CPU, better graphics card and more storage space on standard models, there are more input/output connections on the Mac mini than on the iMac, both having four USB 3.0 ports, but with the Mac mini you also get a FireWire 800 port and a built in HDMI connection (you need to use an Mini DisplayPort adaptor on the iMac).
Hattersley also points out that if you're a hardware upgrader. the Mac mini is certainly a friendlier Apple if youre looking to move from a standard hard drive to an SSD down the line, or boost the RAM, noting that iIf you buy an iMac (especially the 21.5inch model) then you're more likely to, or in some contexts will be obliged to be stuck using the specification the machine shipped with from then on, although this this should be balanced against the fact that the iMac has better specs to begin with, and the mini's video support can't be upgraded.
The Mac mini also doesn't come with a display, keyboard, or mouse, so you can freely choose (or have the option of scrounging or recycling from an older computer (Mac or PC) the peripherals that suit you best. Hattersley says that given that monitor prices have dropped so much lately, he finds it hard to reccomend buying an iMac over a Mac mini at the moment.
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Preparing Your Mac For OS X 10.9 Mavericks
mac.tutsplus.com's Johnny Winter has posted a thoroughgoing tutorial on what you will need to do to ensure that your Mac is ready for an upgrade from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, to OS X 10.9 Mavericks when Apple's next desktop OS is released come autumn.
Winter notes that with the imminent release of Mavericks, a little bit of planning now will make the transition trouble-free, and in the tutorial he shows how to check your hardware and software compatibility, reemphasizes the importance of backing up your data and, looked cmpares upgrades to clean installs.
He also advises that before you jump into Mavericks, you need to perform an audit of the software that you use on your Mac to ensure that it is all compatible, or can be upgraded, before you upgrade the operating system.
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