Shen’s Blog

上星期從Mac-Pro訂購一套叫做Mac Mini Airport and Bluetooth Upgrade Kit。在網上找了很久，這間算是最便宜，$100有找。但郵費貴，起初以為會以速遞寄過來，還是等了五天，用的只不過是USPS Global Priority Mail。看了看郵費，他們足足收取我接近兩培價錢，真是心有不值。拆開貨件更令我氣﹔在網上見到這套組裝的照片其中都是包括一個AirPort Extreme Card模組及一 個Bluetooth模組，嵌入一片夾層電子版(Mezzanine board)上。
而放在我前面的是一個只得一件模組的配件，而且夾層電子版看上去亦有不 同。可安慰的是它仍然有兩絛天線。我便立即email要求解釋，以下是Mac-Pro的回復﹕
Yes the new version from apple is called the
combination card, it has both, when you install
it both will work (airport and bluetooth) others
have gotten concerned as well, Apple stopped
making the old one over a year ago. This combo
card also [...]

之前嗰Post講話試用MacOSX，畢竟有UNlX底，感覺唔錯。但喺個config咁渣，下一步就咁係upgrade部機啦﹔將512ram變做1G，嗰harddisk由跟廠嘅40G up到最少100G，DVD Combo drive　轉做8x　Superdrive，另外再加wireless 及bluetooth。夠薑嘅話燒粒resistor，將個cpu frequency 加快到1.4Ghz都可以。加加埋埋賣單預計三千多銀兩。買一部原裝二手1.4Ghz都差唔多呢嗰價﹔但DVD只喺4x，嗰harddisk都唔夠大。而且部舊機未必賣得出。都喺自己改好過，其實只不過喺我enjoy做呢樣嘢﹔部xbox變咗mediacentre都喺自己改，另外部vaio加咗bluetooth，零件喺網上訂噃嚟。所以今次難唔到我。喺尋晚買咗把油灰刀（Putty Knife），五蛟雞，嘗試打開個蓋。三兩吓手勢就打開咗。而家等埋其他物料就可開工。

Till now, my wordpress blogging system was hosted on a mac mini computer. Small enough, I left it sitting quietly on the book shelf in my room. I’m rather happy with it, the two technologies Apple and Linux combined together gave me a very reliable system. However, this satisfaction is broken by a poor quality [...]