Dave The Mobile Warrior

Yes, there really is a Dave the Mobile Warrior.  He's one of the most brilliant individuals on this planet.  But like most American youth today, he has yet to reach his true potential.  I'm working on that.  Rather, I'm working to make sure he works on it so I can be rich.  Dave just needs to find something to focus on.  Yes, he's that brilliant.

Anyway, he's going on a cruise in June and I've asked him to provide Onxo and On Apple with video feeds if possible but definitely pictures.  More importantly, his mobile experience.

We've discussed about what mobile gears he'll bring along with him and what'll happen if he runs into trouble.  Dave the Mobile Warrior laughed when I mentioned trouble.  He's counting on it!  MacWind, iPhone, and a new Luminix camera are all that he's bringing for now.

What do you think?  Is that enough?  Will the cruise have wifi access so that he won't be cut off from his Slingboxes and media files?  How's he going to deal with the pirates?

Stay tuned!

Mobile Tip To Extend Battery For MacWind (Maybe Other Netbooks and OS's)

This tip came from Dave the Mobile Warrior.

A poster who turned his Wind netbook into a MacWind offered readers at the MSI Wind forum some pointers on how to extend the battery life for their Winds. Well, that's just one of the tips he offer.

• Time Synchronization
• Battery Life - CPU Throttling
• Ext Monitor
• Audio
• Scaling resolutions for applications.

Some of this doesn't necessarily apply to folks who run OS X on their Atom-based netbooks. I encourage you to take a look. Maybe you know a thing or two that you can share with the rest of us.

Link: MSI Wind.net

MacWind: Macbook Mini

I took the day off to catch up on some work, tutoring, and eventually visited Dave the Mobile Warrior to get what I've been waiting a whole week for:  my MSI Wind.

More specifically, I have been waiting for my MacWind, the first Macbook mini (its unofficial status be damned) and it has been worth every moment so far.

I had previous said that I was going to get a new Mac.  And true enough, I have.  I love the long battery life, the bright screen (my poor poor old Powerbook G4), and with only 1GB, it purrrrrrs...

 That piece of paper is actually a a couple of Apple logo stickers that came with the copy of Leopard that I bought.  Guess what I'm going to do with it?

There you go.  I will post more updates on my experience with the MB nano, or MacWind, both names are interchangeable.  It's pretty awesome.  And I was able to get this on the cheap.  If you remember last week, I was recommended by Dave to share with everyone the Live.com deal.

I have to say I am very satisfied, again so far.  And we tried it with the iChat and it works great.  The only issue is the mic doesn't work.  As far as I know, that is the only issue I'm sure some enterprising mobile warrior will resolve.

In any case, I'm once again very mobile with each 6-hour battery life.