Somehow I can’t get that excited that about the iPod HiFi, when my daughter has the equivalent of an iPod > brain interface:
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Yes, I want a MacBook Pro. Yes, the name sucks. “PowerBook” was such a strong brand - and it came about long before the CPU had “power” in it, so why drop it now?
Update; Unsanity agrees.
Jim Roepcke took me to task for my previous comment about dual-booting an Intel-based Mac with Windows. I said:
Would make my life easier as a developer.
Jim responded:
Easier? How? Easier as in, don’t need to port your app to Mac OS X now?
Dual-boot is a dual-edged sword. The Mac could effectively be dead for gaming. Why would anyone spend the money to port a game to the Mac now when you can just say “install Windows”. Anyone who’s spent enough money on a Mac good enough to run new games on is probably not going to flinch at spending the money to install Windows to play games.
Ditto for plenty of other Windows apps.
Jim makes a good point, though in my case I was referring to the fact that it would be convenient for testing web apps on Windows. However, on an Intel-based Mac, a product like VMWare would run Windows with near-native performance, so dual booting becomes a non-starter.
I do wonder sometimes what second- and third-order consequences this “switch” of Apple’s will have…
Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC:
That, in a nutshell, is why this is a dark day for Apple. It’s yet another little thing that Macs used to do, if not always better, then at least differently than Windows PCs. Macs are now slightly less special.
Preach it, John.
I’m hopeful, but melancholy at the same time. Goodbye, PowerPC.
Oh cool! Apple has open sourced the complete WebKit underpinning the Safari web browser.
“As some of you may have heard at WWDC Monday, the Safari team is proud to announce that we are making significant changes in the way we operate, and these changes start today.
- webkit.opendarwin.org, the new web site for WebKit, WebCore and JavaScriptCore.
- Full CVS access to WebCore and JavaScriptCore, our frameworks based on khtml and kjs. This repository includes the complete history of the project, so all patches past and present can be viewed.
- WebKit, the Objective-C API that wraps WebCore, is also being open sourced. It is in the same CVS repository.
(Via Surfin’ Safari.)
|Dave Winer| said he was going to have an exclusive after the SteveNote.
The announcement is over at 2PM Eastern, now the bits the others don’t have: 1. Apple is not going into the software business, their operating system will not run on other vendor’s hardware. So you won’t be running the Mac OS on Dell, HP or IBM, for example. and 2. While Windows is not explicitly supported, they won’t do anything to prevent Windows from running on their hardware. #
Well, 1. I think anyone putting 2 minutes thought into the idea knew this would be the case, so it’s not really news, and 2. news.com beat Dave to the punch by… at least 8 minutes. ;-)
Like the rest of the Apple/Mac world, I’m waiting for the WWDC SteveNote. What will His Steveness, Dark Lord of the Black Turtleneck unveil? How many Bothans have died to bring us the Apple/Intel rumors? Will the sacrifice be in vain?
UPDATE: IT’S ALL TRUE. WOW.
