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.”
They won't prevent users from throwing them from the room of a tall building either. But why buy a great computer and then destroy it?
No, attention to detail is the old Cube. When you put it to sleep, the LED on it would softly pulse (not blink). The LED on the sleeping Apple monitor pulsed too. Since the cable to the LCD monitor carried USB in addition to video, Apple used that to synchronize the pulses on the Cube and the monitor.
That is an insane level of attention to detail.
Why must you lie so blatantly? Haven't you been called on it enough already?
The new iMac has an ambient light sensor so the pulsing sleep light dims when the room is dark and brightens when room lights are on. Great if one has the computer in a dorm room so the sleep light is not illuminating the room like a lighthouse beacon.
Yeah, Apple boosted the speed without ballyhooing it... did it about two months ago.
Servers in the past were certainly not running Linux or Windows. Many were running flavors of Unix that predate Linux, old DEC and IBM O/S's, etc. If Mac and Linux computing is the extent of your experience and knowledge, you might be working for Geeks-on-Call.
Nice, detailed response. Sour grapes over what?
Posting something to tweak the Macheads is a big fuss. I wrote three lines and got six Macheads to respond, none with any depth or substance. It was worth the 60 seconds I put into writing the post.
As for checking my premises, well, all my doors are locked and windows are secure. What else should I be looking at.
My wife is VT alum and holds an MS in CS. The VT project is a joke among supercomputing experts, lasted at the top for a few months and could be accomplished much more cheaply using other items. Apple's role in large scale computing is about what it is in enterprise computing, next to nil.
You didn't offer any substantive response. Now, tell me what is life about...
Not getting your point. I understand that Unix predates Windows. The discussion was about Macs. What's the point of running Oracle on a Mac, or Sybase, or anything else. What's your point?
I stopped trying to argue the facts a long time ago, since the real PC acolytes seem to have no interest in them anyway. The arguments on both sides have become purely emotional. We might as well be talking about football or our favorite movies.
Of course UNIX predated Linux and for that matter Windows! and it was itself predate by other things but that was not the point of the post I was responding to, the point was 'its all MS'.
If Mac and Linux computing is the extent of your experience and knowledge, you might be working for Geeks-on-Call.
And if you think that all of the enterprise applications in the entire world run on Windows you could probably use a little help from a Geeks-on-Call service!
BTW I am very familiar with the Windows product line and am certified as an MCSE and MCDBA.
It will run faster
It will run more stable
It will not be subject to the registry creep that it is on the windows side
Its on a more secure platform
http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_tips_unix_oracle_compare.htm
Because Macs are UNIX, and therefore they have a long-standing lineage in the enterprise. As a brand Apple is only a fairly recent entry into the server market (I'm just going to forget OS 9 server), so they don't have a big marketshare yet.
What's the point of running Oracle on a Mac, or Sybase, or anything else.
It depends. With those specific examples, OS X is actually not too fast. But for serving in general, OS X does offer UNIX stability with easy adminstration, plus Apple's server hardware is quite good. They also only charge $500 for a 10-user license (W2K3 Server is $1K) and $1,000 for an unlimited user license (W2K3 Server is $3K+ for 25 users).
What's your point?
That Macs are fully enterprise-ready, both in the OS itself and the software available for it.
We're about to order a G5 quad, and am wondering if Apple will go to 2.7 or even 3.0 ghz in the next month or so...
Also, does anyone have experience with the Quadro 4500 card on the Mac? I understand it's drivers are poorly written so 3d apps can't take full advantage of them...
Ed
Ha ha!
Pot, kettle.
If you told me the sky was blue, I'd walk to the window and check for myself.
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