building maps in java9
rzwitserloot posted in programming on September 13th, 2006

Wherein I reveal a neat little tool to create list/set/map literals for java 1.5, inspired by Erling’s comment (4th comment) from my previous article.
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Macbook Mini take II2
rzwitserloot posted in apple on September 26th, 2006

Remember my prediction of the macbook mini?

I mentioned that in order for it to be really small and fairly cheap, not including a DVD or CD player of any kind would help reduce costs and make a 10″ casing design feasible. Offering movies as part of iTunes is pretty much a pre-requisite before the optical drive could be ditched, but iTunes just launched the very service, so that’s one part of the puzzle in place.

The other part is this nifty device. A 32GB solid state disk. whoo, still very expensive but if that ever drops into the 150 bucks range, the notebook can seriously reduce the size of the battery, reduce RAM and CPU speeds (an SSHDD boosts speed by being much faster compared to an ordinary HDD), thoroughly reduce battery size, and combining all those things, reduce the size and power of the fans.

Then again, apple has plenty of experience with tiny harddrives given their iPod line, so maybe going as far as including a solid state disk is overkill.