Tuesday, July 11, 2006

If the 120 GB drive that comes with the MacBook Pro option isn’t enough storage for you, then you need to upgrade to MCE’s MobileStor. With 8MB cache, a seek time of 12 ms, rotation rate of 5400 rpm, and a transfer rate (sustained) is 44 MB/s, with bursts up to 100 MB/s, this is no sissy drive! Since it is MCE’s Mercedes drive, it comes with a five year warranty. Again, since it is the Mercedes of MCE’s drives, it’ll cost you $300 before shipping and tax. Ouch. But hey, if you have the need for much feed, then get that priceless credit card out and start charging!

[Via Macminute]



Friday, June 30, 2006

Looks like Tigers latest update, 10.4.7, didn’t just fix the Firefox font rendering issue but also added a new preference to the trackpad. MacBook users got to see this great feature ahead of the cutting edge crew as those with the iBook replacement have been enjoying the feature since its release. But no longer, MacBook Pro users now can place two fingers on the trackpad and then click the button and, presto!, up comes a context sensitive menu as if you had just hit a right mouse button! Woo hoo! How great is this?

All you need to do is download the update and then go to System Preferences. Go to Keyboard & Mouse settings and select the Trackpad button. Enable the “Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click” check box and you’re set. After that, simply put two fingers on the trackpad and then click the button (while your two fingers are still on the pad) and there you go. This trick also works if you click the button first and then tap with your two fingers; however, if there is an applicable left mouse button event, this won’t work as the left action will happen. :)

Enjoy the new added trick for all y’all MacBook Pro users!