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Anyway, while I was waiting for it to pull in the whole setup from my backup drive (I could have yanked data directly from Mnemlith, too, but that would've saturated the house wireless and probably taken a whole lot longer), I decided on a name and drew it. Or maybe I sent out a call and found a willing djinn to inhabit it for a while, I dunno; I was pretty far in that majicqhkal state of mind while I waited for the estimated one and three-quarter hours that I think took more like two. Especially when my net wanderings while trying to decide on a name turned this up.
So, say hello to Tealfour. Hopefully she will be helpful in finishing the deck and getting Absinthe moving!
2010-10-26 02:05 pm (UTC)
I may go for a solid-state drive in my next system build (most likely next year).
2010-10-26 04:34 pm (UTC)
exoselfdata to be transmitted from the old shell to the new one, the longest wait I've had for anything so far has been about one minute when I ran the battery allll the way down and there was a palpable delay for 4G of RAM to get blasted to the SSD for hibernation. And when I plugged her back in and hit the power switch, she was ready to go again in seconds. The SSD makes things fast.I suspect I could have gotten a lot of the same speedup by just dropping ~$5-600 on a 256G SSD and replacing my old machine's drive, but...
2010-10-26 02:08 pm (UTC)
2010-10-26 04:49 pm (UTC)
The iFixit teardown of a new 11" suggests that it's pretty much nothing but batteries; the actual "computer" is a board that runs the width of the machine, from hinge to about halfway down the keyboard. Really, it looks a lot like the teardown I've seen of my phone - it's mostly battery and display.
2010-10-26 05:05 pm (UTC)
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2010-10-26 04:03 pm (UTC)
WTG on the additional RAM also. I look forward to seeing what you do with it. ^.^
2010-10-26 04:55 pm (UTC)
Normally I would've gotten the RAM later, but the Air completely sacrifices upgradability for weight and slimness; it's soldered to the logic board rather than socketed. Hopefully the next revision or two will fix this. Somehow. There's really not much room in there!
2010-10-26 05:49 pm (UTC)
I'm kind of curious, just how much RAM does it have? And now that I think of it, do Macs use reserved hard drive space when they run out of RAM like windows does, or does it just bop you on the nose and tell you to settle down?
2010-10-26 07:05 pm (UTC)
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2010-10-27 05:26 am (UTC)
You know how it is...
2010-10-26 08:53 pm (UTC)
Allah is said to have made the djinn from wind and fire. So we're all fulla hot air. =};-3
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2010-10-26 09:12 pm (UTC)
Re: You know how it is...
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