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The Road Warrior Mailbag - May 12, 2008

• PIsmo Purchase

• Restoring Files With Time Machine - Not

Mac Clones

Why Apple isn't worried about unauthorized Macs

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Part 5

Marc publishes a book

Are Silver-Zinc Batteries The Portable Power Breakthrough We’ve Been Hoping For?

ZPower (formerly Zinc Matrix Power) is poised to launch a line of rechargeable, silver-zinc batteries for mobile electronics, which it claims last significantly longer than traditional lithium-ion batteries, pose no overheating or fire hazard, and are kinder to the environment as a bonus

The Road Warrior Mailbag - May 5, 2008

• MacBook Air Thoughts
• MacBook Optical Drive Noise On Wakeup

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Part 4

Marc publishes a book

MacBook Air Revision B Wish List

It's closing in on four months since Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air at his Macworld Expo keynote, so it's reasonable to expect that the first Air revision is in the works

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Part 3

Marc publishes a book

From The Road Warrior Archive: TiBook vs. Cube As Portable Desktop Replacement

Back in February, 2001, I wrote this musing on the G4 Cube desktop as a potential notebook computer substitute. A few months later, I tried out the concept hands-on when I purchased a Cube. In the end, it didn't work for me, and I traded the lightly-used Cube for a year-old PowerBook

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Part 2

Marc publishes a book

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Part 1

Marc publishes a book

The Road Warrior Review: Wegener Media 8x SuperDrive Upgrade Kit For Pismo (and Lombard) PowerBooks

Recent price cuts make it an even better deal

Too Many Icons

User Interface is more than just pretty icons

From The Road Warrior Archive - PowerBooks And Subtlety

For this from The Archive selection I've chosen a real oldie - a musing on PowerBooks and subtlety published way back in June, 1999. At the time, the current PowerBook was the G3 Series Lombard (aka "Bronze Keyboard"), which was simultaneously the first Apple laptop with built-in USB and the last with an HDI-30 SCSI port before the changeover to FireWire that came with the PowerBook G3 Pismo in March, 2000. I got a particular kick out of revisiting my list of my list of features for the "ideal PowerBook," and which pretty closely anticipated and described the dual USB iBook which was nearly two years in the future at the time

Will Intel’s Atom And Montevina CPUs Usher In A New Era For Apple Notebooks?

Cooler running, faster performance, longer battery life, and an aluminum MacBook?