As a follow up to The Last PowerBooks Have Plenty of Life Left, I would like to elaborate on the least productive (but greatest diversionary) use of your late model Aluminum PowerBook G4. That, of course, would be the simple act of gaming....

In the later years of the PowerPC, there were quite a few impressive ports and releases of games that will simply blow you away (even by today's standards) when running on the heavy hitting G4 processors of any 2005 Aluminum PowerBook G4.

There's a thread at Apple's Discussion Boards about an issue that's bothering a number of users. Specifically, the current model 17" MacBook Pros seem to be experiencing hard drive lag.....

Virtualization is one of the most useful features of current computing hardware, allowing you to run multiple operating systems at once on a computer at near-native speeds. Despite its benefits, one of the big problems is that while many people have Windows software, they do not want to pay extra for running it on their Macs

Could Apple offer its own branded search, to compete with Google, Bing/Yahoo! and every other search engine available through a browser?....

The idea gets its latest traction because Apple has recently ejected Google CEO Eric Schmidt from its board.

SD memory cards capable of reading and writing data at speeds faster than current cards should be available in less than a year, Toshiba said on Tuesday.

We all have our little pet annoyances when it comes to other people's comments. Fixed expressions or comment styles that annoy the living daylights out of you.

"My 2 cents"

"I recently ditched Windows and..."

"80% of users use only 20% of the functionality"

"I'm not a fanboy..."

A lack of punctuation

A lack of paragraphs

Staccato comments

"What's the point of this operating system?"

"I have a MAC." - Please, for the love of the gods: the correct abbreviation of "Macintosh" is "Mac"

"Why is this on OSNews?"

Many Mac users likely haven t even opened this application before, and those that have were probably scared off by all the numbers and confusing words. I certainly was. But if you understand how it works and what it can be used for, Activity Monitor can be a great way of keeping an eye on what s going on inside your computer.

This how-to will explain all the ins and outs of Activity Monitor, and how to get the most out of it. It will also give you some tips on how to speed up your computer a bit.

Adam Wrzeski notes a piece up at Create Digital Music by musician Kim Cascone (artist's bio) on switching from Apple to Linux for audio production....

Even after Google chief executive Eric Schmidt stepped down from the Apple Board of Directors due to anticompetitive concerns, both companies remain under scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission because of another commonality.

Arthur Levinson, former CEO of Genentech, serves on the boards of both Apple and Google. If federal scrutiny continues, he may be forced to resign from one of his positions in order to satisfy the FTC.

The US Federal Trade Commission is continuing to probe whether overlapping board seats between Google and Apple might somehow stifle market competition, despite the fact that Eric Schmidt has now resigned.

Notebook players originally expected demand for ultra-thin notebooks to heat up in July and August of 2009, but the Windows 7 upgrade coupon promotion is stimulating limited demand while first-tier makers such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell will not enter the market until September. As a result consumers are still taking a wait and see attitude, according to industry sources.

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