Here is a cool PDF which allows you to build your own papercrafted Mac. Papercrafted models make for a great decoration of your desktop or flat or even car; they’re cheap, funny to look at, and can quickly be trashed without actually having a guilty conscience ;)

We’ve reported about the new Safe Sleep (Hibernate) features of Mac OS 10.4.3 before.
Safe-Sleep is a new features which saves your ram onto your harddisk, so that your Mac can – even after power-los – awake from sleep.
Now reader David wrote about a Preference Pane for Safe Sleep which he developed:

I’ve created a control panel for this. The basic functionality is implemented.
I’ve decided that it would be nice to be able to choose wheter the computer suspend just to RAM, or both RAM and DISK, or just to DISK. So I’ve started a control panel to enable just this. So far it has only the basic functionality imlemented.

The Preference Pane is still a tad basic, which means that it’s only available as a Xcode project, so you need to compile it yourself, and – additionally – modify some of the code so it fits your Mac.
So just like the Safe Sleep itself which one can only get to work if terminal savy, the installation of this Preference Pane expects a certain amount of technical knowledge, too.
However, I reckon that if you successfully managed to activate Safe Sleep, installing this Preference Pane shouldn’t be a problem at all for you.

Control Panel for Apple’s Safe Sleep Feature – David’s Blog

I’ve been ignoring all the news about Safe-Sleep so far as I always thought that it’d be new-powerbooks only, but seems I was wrong. Although Apple says that it’s a feature of the new powerbooks it’s actually a Software-Feature which comes with 10.4.3.

When using Safe-Sleep (in contrast to the normal sleep we Mac users know and love) your mac saves the contents of your ram to the harddrive, and then falls to a sleep-mode which doesn’t need any additional power. That’s great, for example, if battery power is limited.

Andrew Escobar has a guide that explains how to activate Safe Sleep using standard Apple Hardware (that is not-new Powerbooks or iBooks, and maybe even your Desktop) by applying some terminal voodoo

I’d love to try this with my G5, but I’ve got 2.5gigs of ram in here and I guess the process of writing 2.5gigs of ram to the disk everytime I set it to sleep can be quite frustrating. However, I’m gonna try this with my Powerbook, I’m using it frequently in conditions where Safe-Sleep would come in handy

How to Safe Sleep (Hibernate) Your Mac –
AndrewEscobar.com

Many have been waiting for it, and finally here it is. Barefeats compared the Quad G5 against the Dual G5

So before you shell these $3200 just to realize it’s only slightly faster than your current Dual 2700 setup, better check Barefeats for some realworld benchmarks.

Via TUAW

The rumour sites are currently on a great spin as more and more details regarding the seemingly soon-to-be-expected launch of an Intel-Based Apple product emerge.
While officially slated for release in July, more and more details appear which draw a release-date in January as possible – right in time for MacWorld.
Previously it has been speculated that the first Intel Mac would be the Mac Mini, but now Think Secret reports that they learned that the first Intel Mac is going to be the iBook. They claim that the sources behind this information are the very same who were responsible for past reports of the Mac mini and the iPod photo, too.

Additional information comes from The Apple Blog who found out that the current Java release from Apple already comes as a Universal Binary. So since Apple themselves started rolling out Universal Binaries now, it seems that an expected Intel Mac launch in January is most likely.
The Think Secret article claims additionaly that the iBook line will see additional models and a price-drop of up to $200 or more, to be competetive with the market.
I for one, can’t wait for it to be released.