Seems true enough, my desktop fell asleep, and instead of sitting down and letting it boot up. I left it to sleep quietly on the floor and grabbed my MBP. Since I’m putting in somewhere between 3-8 hours a day to learn Objective-C and the iPhone SDK, it makes more sense anyway. It is pretty hard to learn the Apple coding routine when you boot to Windows 7.
So, I’m sitting at school going through some tutorials and reading all things mac and notice my battery draining faster than the desired 7 hours on the 13″ MacBook Pro unibody. Yes, it was just because I had the screen on max brightness, the Wi-Fi was running, as was bluetooth [just because I can] and I was watching video while listening to my iTunes library. I was still there, without power umbilical for about 4 hours. Yah, my HP Tablet would have done one of the following: Died due to battery failure, or exploded due to over working.
So, everyone needs a break from studying… I play World of Warcraft. The only game I’ve ever played for more than an hour as an adult. It is a fun distraction, and brings me back to my youth when I played AD&D with 5-8 people around a large table with *GASP* pen and paper. Yah, I don’t know what those even look like now. Warcraft puts the MBP through the paces. If I turn everything down, I get anywhere from 22 frames per second up to a whopping 140 frames per second. But in all instances, the MBP heats up to the point where if you were doing this on a park bench and had it on naked thighs, you would be in the hospital with a nice third degree burn. At least, that is my perception of things. The case becomes so hot, you can’t help but warm yourself by the fire. Unfortunately, the place it heats up most [over the AWSD portion of the keyboard] is where you put your hands most often while playing WoW.
I paired my iPhone to my MBP as well… nothing happened. I’ll have to go back. I coded [with a tutorial] a ToDo list which will evolve now into what I wanted to fix a little issue I have, more on that if it develops. I say if, because although Obj-C is very straight forward in terms of how to code, you really have to know what is available to code. Otherwise you are just going to sit around coding “HELLO WORLD” type of basic software. I want more. I haven’t seen the inside of software in over 6 years though, so we’ll see how long this takes.
One last thing… EVERYTHING needs a cable/adapter/dongle/thingy. I can’t connect my monitor(s) from my Desktop without a cable [for one monitor] and I need a smart splitter for two, but there is no Mini-DisplayPort splitter for two monitors without paying something like $400. That isn’t going to happen. I want the Cinema Display 30″ but that comes in at $1500. I better find a job or start selling blood.
Day 5 is now here… I’ll post something if it is interesting to me, and I don’t know if it is interesting to anyone else. My first few months of blogger without telling anyone I blog is more an outlet for me than an inlet for readers.