Another warm day...

Yargh.

Death Valley. My studio is death valley. I've actually switched everything but the G5 and when I want music, the desk and amp off. The violin has been put elsewhere.

G5 has been running the fans a lot - hardware monitor reports 62.5º for the Memory Controller heatsink, which is pretty warm. I've been digging around for things online today after reading new posts re: iSync 2.1 and so forth, and have found that Apple have made the internal Bluetooth module - the one thing I was gutted not to have on my machine - available as an AASP upgrade. Which means for my out-of-warranty machine, a quick search on eBay. It apparently plugs into the motherboard beside the modem, but I've yet to see anything confirming that it can be done on a Rev. A G5.

Getting on better with the iPaq having discovered that my disappointment with the screen was entirely justified. VGA screen? Sure. Now lets run it at QVGA so it looks like any other Pocket PC. SE_VGA hacked it nicely and now, provided you have a handy magnifier, things use the full 640 x 480. Bloody hell, those are some tiny pixels. Something 'sort of inbetween' would be nice. I think that's another reason I like the Clie so much, it's 320 x 480 and small, but readable.

You know what I miss? My HP820. Subnotebook format, really light, battery lasted forever. Give me Windows Mobile 2003 on a Compaq Aero 8000 or HP820 machine, with the insane XScale CPU.