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Posted on 01/11/2006 4:08:06 AM PST by Panerai
As readers digest all the announcements from Apple at Macworld San Francisco, we've noted a few interesting tidbits:
- Steve Jobs announced that Apple's entire product line will be transitioned to Intel in 2006. This is earlier than previously announced at WWDC 2005. Jobs notes that over the coming months we will hear announcements as each product line is transitioned. All by the end of this calendar year.
- MacBook Pro naming. Steve Jobs: "It's a new name because we're kinda done with 'Power' and because we want 'Mac' in the name of our products." This would imply that the MacBook name may not only replace the PowerBook but the iBook as well. Also raises some questions about the continued use of the "PowerMac" name.
- Phil Schiller maintains that Apple will not prevent users from booting Windows on the new machines, though no first hand reports whether or not this is easily accomplishable.
“That’s fine with us. We don’t mind,” Schiller said. “If there are people who love our hardware but are forced to put up with a Windows world, then that’s OK.”
Dull jobs like running enterprise applications for the entire world, something that Mac users wouldn't understand. Keifer (and Apple) might want to consider that Intel chips are in a lot of computers other than Windows PCs. And certainly you can do more things, including complex things, with the bounty of software available for a Windows PC. More drivel from the Jobs-lovers. Check the market share for Macs. Apple is a music player company that sells a few PCs. Having a convention about Macs is like having a soda convention for Tab.
My My My! Those grapes really taste sour, don't they?
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Hmm. Are you trying to convince people who use Macs to stop? What you wrote isn't going to do anything like that. Are you trying to convince Windows users not to switch? You seem awfully pleased with PCs to be worried about that. Are you annoyed because of a little marketing that gets under your skin? You seem to be raising an awful fuss over a "music player company that sells a few PCs".
You might want to check your premises.
some people just have to drop in on the macintosh threads to give us their viewpoints, which are inaccurate at best, stupid at worst. i doubt he's ever powered up a mac...
Apple isn't going to do anything to prevent running Windows on Mac hardware.
Someone will probably come up with a hack for dual booting and it won't take more than a couple of weeks from the first delivery of the Intel based Macs for it to appear.
More drivel from a Windoze-lovers. Go back to your sand box, until you can understand life...
VT Terascale...
Entire world eh? wow its only recently that MS has touched the majority of servers until now the back end of most business application has been running Linux.
And certainly you can do more things, including complex things, with the bounty of software available for a Windows PC.
I can do more with a Linux box than can be done with a windows box lets start with performance tuning the kernel while the system is running and without requiring a reboot.
Check the market share for Macs.
Oh yea because market share is an indication of the power or quality of a product /sarcasm
meowwwwwwwwww
Very impressive screenshot.
I just got a Mac Mini.Like it very much so far,but there`s a little learning curve after years of Windoze.
I have to keep re-installing Firefox every time I boot up.
By the way my mini shows more Ghz than was advertized.
Oracle, Sybase, directory services, SAN, Quark/Adobe (entire enterprise print production solutions), full J2EE/Tomcat for web apps, etc. Don't forget, it is UNIX, which was running enterprise applications before Microsoft was born.
Apple shipped a lot of them with a higher clock without advertising it.
Hmm. Just guessing here, but do you mean you're opening the Firefox "dmg" file every time? If so, what you want to do is copy the Firefox application to your hard disk. When you see the Firefox icon, instead of double-clicking it to run it, drag it to your desktop and you should see a window come up indicating that the Finder is copying it. When it finishes, you can keep Firefox on your desktop or move it to your Applications folder (or anywhere else you want).
Also, there's rarely a need to fully shut down. If you "sleep" instead of "shut down", the system will use very little power but will come back up instantly when you hit a key or click the mouse.
Attention to detail is what I like with Apple. A small, but very cool feature on the new MacBook is the magnetically connected power adaptor cord to prevent animals, kids, and other critters from accidentally snagging the cable and towing your laptop off the desk and onto the floor. Simple, neat. One of those items that when you see it you think, "why didn't I think of that"?!
My deep fryer has a magnetically-attached power cord. I wonder if that was the inspiration for Apple's new cable?
Sounds like a good idea, but for other reasons. One does not want to deep-fry the poor cat if it pulls on the power cable attached to the fryer!
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