I have to ask… Why on earth does Google install Chrome where it does? On my system, it is installed in:C:\Documents and Settings\wmiller\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome and drops it’s own auto updater in a VERSIONED directory under that. WTH? Application Data is, not surprisingly, where a User’s application data is supposed to live – not an application itself – and an updater like that should be downloaded either into the same directory as the application or into the temp directory. Nice app sprawl, Google. Thanks.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
I largely use Macs now… My iMac at home, a MacBook Pro at the office, and another Mac Mini tucked back on my desk at the office for a lightweight VMware system for testing. In general, I like each of these systems a lot. But if there was one thing I could ask Steve for about the hardware in particular, this would be it. Please, for the love of all that is good, will someone at Apple create a DOCKING STATION or a PORT REPLICATOR for the MacBook Pro/MacBook? When I am at the office, even with a sweet 21″ Apple Cinema there, and all of my peripherals plugged into it. I have to plug in the AGP, USB, and Firewire from the Cinema to the MBP, and then plug in the power cord – on the opposite side from each other. Leaving the office is the same exercise in reverse… it’s just kludgy, and “un-Apple”. It’s a minor thing, but a reminder that Apple is still stuck in their consumer past. Laptops in business need port replicators/docking stations. It just makes life easier for a portable that truly gets used everywhere.
Ah – so I’m in San Diego until the middle of next week. After running around quite insanely for much of last week – we’ve left Austin and headed to San Diego for a big announcement. Hope to catch a little R&R too – we’ll see.
