It would seem, atleast according to the picture above, that Best Buy is now distributing PowerBooks with Windows 98 preinstalled.
It says on the product description page that Tiger is preinstalled…but I think that’s just a typo.
I’ve been waiting for Windows 98 to be available on PowerBooks for ages and my dream has finally [...]
In his latest infinite-loop entry, Om Malik tells us how he managed to sync his Nokia Phone with Yahoo and iSync. Yahoo doesn’t provide facilities for synchronizing your Mac to their service. They use Intellisync, and that’s Windows-only, as far as i can tell. Om is basically using his phone to “bridge” Yahoo and Mac. [...]
I just connected my iPod to load a bunch of new songs and video content from my PowerBook and noticed something that probably should be changed in a future iTunes update.
The status message of the upload read “Updating songs on iPod” yet it was in the middle of uploading video content. With iPods now [...]
I’ve had the conversation a few times already. I’m sure many of you have as well. “Do I get a first revision Intel Mac, or do I wait until the hype dies, and bugs are worked out of the hardware/software?”
A day or so after The Keynote a couple weeks back, my good friend called me [...]
It’s official, folks…
Retuers reports that Disney is set to purchase Pixar.
Fortunately, it looks like the top honchos from Pixar, including Steve Jobs, are now controlling the animation department and the entire company, and the previous leaders of Disney Animation have been moved or fired. This is strangely like the takeover of Apple by the Next [...]
I feel like I’m drowning in photo applications lately - anyone else feeling the pressure on their chest also?
There’s been Aperture (though I haven’t sprung for that one just yet) in recent weeks/months, Adobe’s new Lightroom beta, iPhoto ‘06, and now I’ve got a copy of iView Media Pro 3 that I’m starting a [...]
If you don’t normally listen to TWiT (This Week in Tech), then you might do well by the latest episode, just posted today (the 16th of January). The commentators comment on the crappy name “MacBook Pro”, the fast speed of the new iPhoto, Intel chips in Macs, and Roz Ho’s terrible performance, along with a [...]
Om Malik is offering a more in-depth perspective of this event being mused about on Slashdot, and Nicholas Carr’s blog among a few places:
Perhaps the “commoditized” technology trend is being slowly replaced by “using commoditized technology to create a compelling user experience” trend? [ Read ]
Om Malik and Nicholas Carr offer interesting counterpoints to the [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion on the battery life of the new MacBook Pro, but really, we’re already getting a good deal from what is a first generation laptop from Apple.
There is a review of Free/Open Source browsers available for Mac OS X in the latest issue of Free Software Magazine.
I’d heard various complaints about the MacBook Pros not having a PCMCIA PC Card slot, further confirmed by Dan Lurie’s “mini” review, which also mentioned the MacBook Pro however sporting an “ExpressCard” slot.
It turns out ExpressCard™ is an industry standard developed by PCMCIA to
carry forward the benefits of ‘plug-in’ I/O cards to the next [...]
The current iChat systems requirement prevent a PowerBook user to host a 3-person Video conference. We can participate in one, we simply can’t host one. One G4 processor just isn’t enough for that.
I’m now wondering whether it’s possible for a MacBook Pro user to host an iChat Video conference with 3 people.
Has somebody tried it? [...]
One of the changes Apple made to .Mac in the wake of Tuesday’s keynote may have been overlooked by most people, but it’s a nice one all the same for those of us in the Mac community who aren’t lucky enough to have their day job use Macs. Apple has built a web front-end for [...]
My post-MWSF 2006 elation didn’t last long. Within a couple of hours of the PowerBook…MacBook Pro…ugh…announcement, I - like many others, both of the Mac faithful and not - was lamenting on Steve’s choice of name. It really does suck. I want to dwell on it, but I sense that to do so would be [...]
Be careful when you buy you new laptop or iMac that you don’t spend too much on Apple-sourced RAM.
A look back at Steve Jobs’s keynote presentation at MacWorld Expo San Francisco on 10 January 2006.
“MacBook Pro”. Are you kidding me?! Also, $2000 base price?!
…. with only 512 MB of RAM, 80 GB HD, and 128 MB VRAM video card? This is weird.
The offerings from HP and Dell can very well compete on spec, so this isn’t very good.
C’mon, Jobs! What kind of name is that?? “MacBook Pro”… it’ll make [...]
Dan Lurie is in there. If all goes well, we’ll be relaying updates from him in real-time. Stay tuned to this post. The Keynote starts at 9am Pacific Time. Please forgive the dust as i set things up
For Text Coverage, jump to here. Note that there’s a good chance that our blog system [...]
As with most live Apple events, The Apple Blog will do our best to give you live coverage of MWSF today. Tune in at 9AM PST today The Apple Blog for the coverage.
It’s my impression - from various reading around the internets - that of the many new features that came with Tiger, Spotlight hasn’t lived up to the hype it initially generated.
While my filing habits have slipped slightly, I still don’t use Spotlight as much as I expected I would almost a year later. Spotlight [...]
