So the question is Mac or PC, and to be honist its not a hard question to answer, I am looking to replace my MacMini (mid 2007, Intel core duo 2GHz 1~Ggi Ram), With Loupie having a uni-body aluminum Macbook (not pro . October 2008 – June 2009), so that gives me an idea of how powerful the Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 with 2gig of ram is; and the answer is much more powerful than the Mid 2007 Mac Mini.

Looking at apples current line up, and knowing I was after a laptop, I set out to chart the two most important parts of this desision, Cost V Power. Cost I could get from Apple, meaning power was going to be slightly harder. thankfully OSX Daily had been there for me [1] allowing me to plot Price, against benchmark. According to the benchmark for Loupie’s mac her benchmark  is 2706 and my Mac Mini’s is 2593, both well below the lowest benchmark of the current pros of 3390.

While I still have a number of people I know at university, mostly through TermiSoc, it may be worth using the Apple Education store, as there should be no reson why I may accidently be able to order the machine at education store costs…

I am looking at going for the 15″ Macbook Pro as that offers the Largest benchmark jump, for least jump in pennys requiring removal from my pocket.

Against my 4211, and Mac Mini it stacks up as such:

So the next challange is finding some pennys.

The exhibit itself was in a small gallery on the basement level. along with the steam punk exhibit there was a work shop to learn how to make steam punk jewellery and an area where you could play with Maccano.

Apart from the size of the gallery, everything else was really cool. We went for lunch in the (well according to Laces) the Burning Baby, or as the rest of us called it The Eagle & Child. a small pub of No notability at all

The Eagle and Child was once a favourite watering hole of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. They often met for discussion (and argument) over a pint.

On the bar wall is a signed note to the landlord written in 1949 stating that J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis have drunk to his health. well we mostly stuck to one drink each.

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And because this site so often is devoid of new content I have decided to sign up both this site and PhilipMcGaw.com to the challenge. This all coming from some one who has posted about 5 times in the last 3 years, so please wish me luck.

Its Public AP i beleve runs in a VPN through your network to there servers, as such it totaly bypasses any of your network, making it imposible for a person conecting to it to get access to your network.

One anoying thing about them though, (reason that the Fon AP is not high on my prefered conection list) is that between the LAN port and its privert SSID is a Router, compleate with NAT and firewall, this stops me accessesing my own network in the open way i ushaly do.

Seth said yesterday that the One Year offer page had gone, and as such i dontated my invite to him. I think ben will be getting his soon, and then we should have a more technical autopsy of the free Router (including how to flash it and stop sharing your wi-fi).

we stayed with tim and carly for the weekend, on the sunday we braved the rain to go for a lazy forsum trip down the cost into the backwards lands of cornwall, to grab a pint at the famous Blue Peter Inn, for some inisplicable reson this provider of fine westcountry ales failes to provay a fine west country cider, so three pints of strongbow were ordered up, and a coke for the little ones we draged with us (thats you carley). and went for a wonder around the small village of Polperro.

when was the last time you could make a rain man, or rain angels, or rain ball fights,

I am not sure but Ben thinking that heavy rain and hail are better, well its just a lie pupetuated by a soft sothener. (Ruth’s INER-CITY London school was closed yesterday due to the snow)

1. It just works.

Windows XP SP2 just works, if it came pre installed chances are it works even better, just because Macs have a limited number of hardware configurations that they are delivered in, doesnt mean they just work, just means they know what drivers are required to wake up.

2. You can make amazing stuff.

Define amazing? Well iLife says “Make high-quality websites, photo books, DVDs, songs, slideshows, music CDs, calendars, cards, prints, podcasts, music videos, documentaries, and more.” ok, so Windows doesnt come with Office, and Publisher pre installed, (can you make a Make “high-quality website” with iLife? really?) but i can do some cool things, and some more with Vista.

3. Everything-ready.

“Mac is the only computer in the world that can run all the major operating systems, including Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Vista. With Software like Parallels or VMware you can even run them side by side” and you say i cant on a PC? if i wanted to get a Mac on my PC i can use PearPC. (Walktrough), Linux and VM-ware also come as options…

4. 114,000 Viruses? Not on a Mac.

Ok hands up the last time any sensable PC user got a virus, Rich? Dan? Seth? Ben? Ruth?, oh and while you are waiting for an answer free virus checker,

5. Still the most advanced OS.

ok, so i begrugingly say yes to this, but i am sure ben can tell me of something that will beat Mac OS (I still like the Cube program)

6. The latest Intel chips.

So can a PC, and the latest AMD chips.

7. No hunting for drivers.

See “it just works” My Windows XP SP2 and Vista Unlimited RC2 pc dont ask me for drivers, they have all the drivers to get them to work, some times, i use Driver CD’s but thats only because they are better drivers on the CD. Digital Camera, PDA, USB mass storage, all included, SATA drivers for a SATA card, well they were in the box.

8. Design that turns heads.

its in my room, under my desk, My Keyboard VDU, and Mouse are on the desk, my server is on the shelf in my desk, and if i had a Mac i would give it the same amount of deskspace….. Its out of my way, hiding….

9. Instant video chats.

I dont have Video Chats… and Skippy Cam is awating fixing, so not high on my buying points for a computer

10. More fun with photos.

…wtf?… ok, so i want to do cool presintation things with photos, i guess photoshop elements, or google picassa?

11. Hollywood-style movies.

Windows XP SP1 and SP2 come with Windows Movie maker 1 and 2 respectfuly, and vista RC2 as well.

12. One-click websites.

with only one mouse button, right clicking may be a two handed job, but i dont see how this is a good point? with all the free serveses out there, and all the 12 year olds making websites, do we need this as well?

13. Amazing podcasts.

I can podcast from a PC as well, i have chosen not to yet.

14. Rock star tunemaking.

I can make music from a PC as well, i have chosen not to yet.

15. Awesome out of the box.

Define Awesome?

And there we have it, My Personal Computer is a Personal Computer. and a Mac is also a Personal Computer.

And a Quick Question for Rich (or any other Mac users out there):- Do Macs come with a Word Processor already installed? (simmaler or better than MSWorks.)

Protect your freedom!

Help spread the word, and take part in maintaing your freedom to use digital media as you wish to!

If you are down in Plymouth See what TermiSoc have Planned and join in if you can! or Check out Defective by Design’s site

Oh and another part of the action is, this googlebomb:- DRM

• 17% are scared of links
• 17% of Windows users curse it
• And one that ben wont like:-
• 4% of Linux users selected Bill Gates as their hero
• And Loupie got 71%

Anyway if you are one of the strange people who checks out my blog, Check the Planet out as well!

Images are now on [CamCrew Here](http://camcrew.co.uk/gallerys/Plymouth/2006-01-25%20-%20Wednesday%20-%20Student%20Involment%20Night/index.html) Enjoy!

So, if you don’t keep a vast archive of every email you’ve ever sent or
received, and you want to laugh at Tim just one more time, you can visit
http://termisoc.org/pipermail/termilist/ for a complete collection.

so if your after a quick laugh at [Tim](http://tim.termisoc.org) have a wonder along to [here](http://termisoc.org/pipermail/termilist/2005-November/thread.html) and look for any line sufexed tim at termisoc.org

The idea of putting the Temisoc.org logo in was rejected due to the dificulty level, and because this would be most of the workers first pumpkin, so instead the Retro Pumpkin face was chosen as a easy to acheive design,

Who knows, tommorow may make a Termisoc.org pumpkin now we have exsperance, we will use the logo so wonderfuly modeled by [Ben](http://benalee.co.uk)

1. Thou shall [backup, backup BACKUP.](http://skippy.org.uk/hard-drives-2/)
2. Thou shalt not make thy password be “password”.
3. Thou shalt not adopt early or install version 1.0.
4. Thou shalt use a firewall.
5. Thou shalt not steal thy neibor’s bandwidth.. and get caught.
6. Thou shalt not covet thy neibor’s toys. Instead, buy a newer model and one-up him.
7. Thou shalt not open unkown email attachments, nor reply to SPAM, nor C.C. jokes to your entire address book.
8. Remember the Slacketh Days. Six days shalt thou slack and do all thy surfing.
9. Don’t be Evil.
10. Thou shalt not curse at thy computer when thy problem lies with its user

the company who ?provide? the software soulution are called [Uniservity](http://www.uniservity.com/club_homepage.asp?clubid=7804),

but what is slightly disconserting about there software solution is the lack of any form of Photogallery software, and that every site made using there layout is fixed to the same physical layout, and does not allow for changing screen size, or for changes in the size of the infomation contained in the center pane.

Side note if you look at there [contact page](http://www.uniservity.com/displaypage.asp?pageid=13343), they havent got a clue what out of there own windows look like, St Pauls cathedral, and the Melenium bridge are in london, not reading, Espeshaly since there [offices](http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=471000&Y=174000&width=500&height=300&gride=471470&gridn=173734&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=pc&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=RG11LX&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=0&in.x=8&in.y=6&scale=25000) are NOT in the [Tate Modern](http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/)