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PD Tweaker
Hey Will!
If you have the cash, I'd definitely recommend the MacBook. It's quite simply the best machine I've ever used or owned. You get a lot of value for your dollar. I'll post more about it hopefully later this week.
Thanks for the links about PD Tweaker. I did know about it and I was waffling on whether to give it a try. So far Parallels has been running really well. I've been pushing this MacBook to it's limits with all the applications I run at the same time and it hasn't slowed to a crawl. Note I did upgrade it to 2 gig. I think if I didn't have 2 gig I'd definitely try the PD Tweaker but honestly PD Tweaker is a hack and it kind of scares me.
For now I'm going to try and get along without it and wait for Parallels to release an update (they know about the issue).
As for my data synchronizing adventures... I was using iFolder for synchronizing my personal files and it was working fairly well until I got this MacBook. There is an issue with Mono on Intel Macs that (as far as I know) hasn't been resolved yet. iFolder is pretty nice once you have it running but it requires a webserver that acts as the data repository. It's pretty nice to be able to access your files from a browser if you are away from your computer. You can find out more about it in my earlier posts on this site.
For my calendar and todo data I push out my information to iCal files which any iCal compatible email client can subscribe to via my webserver. Apple's iCal has a limitation with this though. It does not support read/write subscribing to an iCal file. So currently you can either push out your data to an iCal file or read in data from an iCal file. Not both. So if I want to use another email client on another machine and subscribe to that iCal file I can't modify my data and expect those changes to magically show up in iCal. Sigh.
Now if gCalendar supported subscribing to iCal files that would be cool. That'd be a free web view of my calendar information. I know I can import it manually but who wants to do that all the time?
That sucks about your iBook! I really love mine but I've sadly outgrown it. It was a great machine for getting me up to speed with OS X. It served me well. Hey you want a used G3 iBook for parts? :)