Musings by Generator

My laptop, which is about six years old, has finally given up on life and the battery is dead. I have tried to get a new battery but as I suspected there are none available in South Africa nor do they make them any more. So I have to take the plunge and get a new laptop, even though I have a desktop at home, I just need to have a laptop when I travel and for home with email, as I use my desktop for development.

I have always been an Apple fan but just have not been able to afford them but now I might be able to. I have been looking at the MacBook Pro 13” (with 250 gig HDD, four gigs of memory), and the normal basic entry level MacBook (with 250 gig HDD, two gigs of memory), although I don’t like the white body, plus I like the option of taking the MacBook Pro with four gigs of memory instead of two.

but there are the same options in the PC laptop world, for a cheaper cost, which are big pluses for me, but those are really the only benefits I can think of, if I want better specifications then I will start looking at the same or higher prices than the MacBook and MacBook Pro. While I agree that for 16 grand, I cat get the MacBook Pro 13” with four gigs of memory and 250 gigs HDD, but for 16 grand I can get a seriously good PC laptop from Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba.

What still brings me back to paying the price of the MacBook and MacBook Pro is that it is an apple, so it is stable, the OS manages the resources much better than any PC laptop can and ever will while running Windows, and it’s an APPLE!

So I foresee myself having to find 16 grand somewhere in the near future to get a MacBook, cause they are fantastic machines and lets be honest, they do look really nice!

If you use an IPod, I am sure you have come across the following error, if you haven’t, you will.

If you keep syncing the album artwork as well, you may notice that the artwork displayed for the current song is incorrect. This happens when the artwork cache on the IPod gets corrupted. The only way I have managed to find that fixes this, is annoying but it works.

1. Connect your IPod to the pc/mac you use to sync it with.
2. once it shows up in ITunes, you must find the textbox "Sync album art" and uncheck it (I can’t remember exactly where it is). When you click apply, it should resync your IPod and you will have no album art.
3. Once the sync is complete (it took about a minute for my 30 gig library), go back and recheck this check box, and click apply. this will resync your art work again and it should all be correct.
4. Some people claim  that if you just restart the IPod (Menu + center button), it will fix the artwork, this is not so.

The general concensus is that this happens if you update more than one album’s artwork, this is rather annoying cause I normally add more than one album at a time to my IPod, and I do not want to have to keep, resetting my artwork cache on the IPod every time I add new music.

If anyone has a better solution to the problem, post a comment here.