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    Televised Lecture on Mac, OS X and Unix

    The University of Washington Television site has an interesting lecture on the origins of OS X and general Mac history given by Bud Tribble of Apple. It's slightly out of date (2003) and deals with Jaguar rather than Panther but I found it very interesting and thought I would pass it on to...
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    Powerbook refresh rates

    Does anyone know why the 12" Powerbook is limited to a 75Hz refresh rate when driving an external monitor at 1600x1200? As far as I can see, the Geforce 420 Go supports rates up to 100Hz at this resolution in other laptops. Is this a software limitation in OS X? My monitor supports 85Hz...
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    Powerbook 12 and Sony MicroVault

    A simple and annoying problem - everytime I plug the new MicroVault into the powerbook, the powerbook dies - screen goes black and I have to reboot. Any ideas? MicroVault is USB 2.0 and works in my PC and my iMac DV (10.1) no problems, just the powerbook fails. If I boot up with it in...
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    Improving type anti-aliasing in Jaguar

    I have just moved from a Dell XP notebook to a 12" Powerbook and in almost every respect I have made the right decision. But the text antialiasing!!!! What has Apple done - do they use LCDs in Cupertino? From staring too close to my Safari page I see green and red tinges so they are using...
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