[9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

[9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

[John Barham]

I found this Engadget story amusing:

http://tinyurl.com/363ojs

Summary:  Since Apple's new MacBook Air doesn't include a CD/DVD
drive, they bundle a program to enable sharing of a disc drive from
another machine.  Apparently the (Mac) installer is 43 MB.  It would
be interesting to know why it needs to be so big when the equivalent
functionality in Plan 9 would take, what, 3 lines of shell script?
Might have been less work just to embed Inferno and be done with it!
;)

One wonders at what point the law of diminishing returns kicks in when
it comes to software...

  John

Re: [9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

[dave.l]

> One wonders at what point the law of diminishing returns kicks in when
> it comes to software...

It didn't kick in: it snuck in a while ago.

I'm writing this on a 2GHz 2 core machine with 2Gb RAM
and a stock OSX 10.4 install.

it _should_ fly like a sparrowhawk: it's more like a dodo.
I wonder how much "Leopard"(ha!) will "speed it up".
Oh joy.

DaveL

Re: [9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

[Pietro Gagliardi]

Question: are you running this natively/Boot Camp or on Q/Parallels/ 
VMware? If natively, how did you get it to work? I got stuck on

	ELCR: 0003

and it didn't go far. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo iMac running 10.4.10.

On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:18 PM, dave.l@mac.com wrote:

>> One wonders at what point the law of diminishing returns kicks in  
>> when
>> it comes to software...
>
> It didn't kick in: it snuck in a while ago.
>
> I'm writing this on a 2GHz 2 core machine with 2Gb RAM
> and a stock OSX 10.4 install.
>
> it _should_ fly like a sparrowhawk: it's more like a dodo.
> I wonder how much "Leopard"(ha!) will "speed it up".
> Oh joy.
>
> DaveL

Re: [9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

[Christopher Nielsen]

Actually, one of the first things I noticed about Leopard is that it
is noticeably faster than Tiger on the same hardware. YMMV.

On Jan 25, 2008 7:18 PM,  <dave.l@mac.com> wrote:
> > One wonders at what point the law of diminishing returns kicks in when
> > it comes to software...
>
> It didn't kick in: it snuck in a while ago.
>
> I'm writing this on a 2GHz 2 core machine with 2Gb RAM
> and a stock OSX 10.4 install.
>
> it _should_ fly like a sparrowhawk: it's more like a dodo.
> I wonder how much "Leopard"(ha!) will "speed it up".
> Oh joy.
>
> DaveL
>



-- 
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin