Rebecca Kanthor, a Mac user in the community, has a MacBook for sale. Here are the stats:
MacBook Intel Core Duo (2 GHz), 512 MB RAM, 2 MB Level 2 Cache. (There are no details yet regarding the hard drive size or the OS — enquire within for the details.)
Any potential buyers, please contact beimac at beimac dot com to link yourself up with the buyer. Thank you!
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Niu-bi! Niu-bi (aka David Blumenstein), our man from BeiMac New York, made it to town this meeting and showed off what a recent Mac convert (and at that, a complete Mac guy) was up to. Being on computers for 25 years and counting, he was there before the Mac, Twitter and $6.95 domains were all the rage. The guy behind david.com, niu-bi took just about everything apart — and his PowerBook story made him a Mac guy just four short years ago. In the meantime, he has gone fully Mac — and was obviously pleased to talk to BeiMac, the most revolutionary Mac group in this part of the World.
Niu-bi showed off some really niu-bi (ie cool) tricks in Terminal, Spaces, and a utility that has Time Machine thinking twice what it might be doing to your OS 10.5 Mac. His Terminal tricks got him to just about every last place he wanted to go on the big virtual world out there, and like your President, is a believer in Adium + Skype. To kick the meeting off, the entire audience greeted “President” Allan Yong (note the quotes), who hails from far away Canada. Allan was a familiar sight to many in 2007, when he frequented no less than five meetings.
Niu-bi’s demos spanned the whole meeting. In the meeting, he showed off how the Web — and email — looked in Terminal (pine and lynx for those familiar with the gear). At the end, he took questions, and unveiled his mass arsenal of online web presences — a true weapon of mass communication. (Only the President temporarily beat him with an account on Xiaonei, and a Jabber presence.)
Niu-bi then joined six more BeiMac folks for dinner — hotpot galore.
With 22 people present, BeiMac is honored to have been able to host niu-bi. Thanks to niu-bi for a great presentation!
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The February 2008 meting of the Beijing Macintosh User Group will take place on Saturday, February 23, 2008.
David Blumenstein (also known as niu-bi), the New York Liaison for the Beijing Macintosh User Group (as well as a Standing Committee Member at the BeiMac Union), will be in Beijing at the BeiMac meeting on February 23, 2008.
At the meeting, to be held from 3 PM through to 5:30 PM at the Hutong School (8 Shuangsi Hutong), the talk will cover:
• Internet trends and what’s really going on
• niu-bi’s conversion to Apple (and why all of China should be on Macs)
• Utilities and software on niu-bi’s Mac
• How to use the Apple Store as a virtual office space
• The power of Terminal
At the end, niu-bi will take “tons of questions” about anything technology-related, as well as offer a little non-Mac (but very 2008) commentary.
The talk will be in English with live translations in Chinese. To register for the event, send a text message to +86 13501082677 with your name and number coming, as well as “BM 20080223″ (eg John Doe 1 20080223).
The BeiMac website will be updated with news and information of the meetup in due time.
Time: 3 PM - 5:30 PM, Saturday, February 23, 2008
Place: Hutong School, 8 Shuangsi Hutong, Jiugulou Avenue, Beijing. Enter from Dashiqiao Hutong (do not enter from Shuangsi Hutong).
This meeting is free. The venue will have free drinks and wifi.
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There seems to be a minor problem at the main site (BeiMac.com), where we’re performing a WordPress reinstall. The old version seemed to have a posting error; unfortunately, upgrading it to version 2.3.3 just made things worse.
In the meantime, if you type in beimac.com, you may be in for a shock — where’s the “familiar’ BeiMac page? It’s here, as a kind of backup. We’ll get the main site working again soon — please bear with us. Thanks!
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