The Macbook Is Working Right Again

The goofy headphone port problem, the red led of death, where when you remove a headphone, sometimes it switches to digital out for no apparent reason, that problem is gone. I've been using this thing for a few days since the last system update, and it appears fixed. I had often remarked that the problem went away after a reboot, so it seemed to be a software problem. Also, my Macbook can connect to the network again, oh frabjous day. It is really a pain to have to dump everything on the nfs server because the Macbook won't smb connect to anything. The most recent system update appears to have fixed that as well.

I have a good feeling about Snow Leopard. It is supposed to seriously reduce the footprint of the OS by jettisoning the PPC code, sorry all you diehards, I feel your pain. However, for us users of Intel Macs, it should really help with performance and stability to not have the extra code path. For starters, it requires a completely separate development team to do the PPC code. Also, over time, Apple has been improving optimization for Intel hardware at the expense of any other platform. Now, they can completely quit worrying about another platform, allowing greater optimization.

Here's hoping there will be fewer 'I paid $1500 for this pile' days in my future.