Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Beware of the Leopard

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

The WWDC coverage at Engadget is pretty good, with lots of pictures. Basically, we’ve got up to 3GHz dual dual-core Xeon (Woodcrest) Mac Pros, Xeon Xserves coming in a couple of months, and some info about what’s going to be in Leopard. Notably cool things under that last heading include: “Spaces” (a very polished-looking implementation [...]

Hoping for “…and another thing”

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Apple’s “one more thing…” gave us iTunes 6 (hot on the heels of iTunes 5), video-playing iPods, iTMS selling videos (what kind of quality, I wonder?) and a thinner iMac with “Front Row”, a remote control, built-in iSight and no modem. I’m disappointed. Partly because I don’t see the point of video on an iPod. [...]

G&S: the Ring-Wraiths?

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Reading Tom Holt’s The Portable Door, I came across this wonderful line (emphasis mine): Married sisters in Broitwich and unreliable cousins made much more sense in the cold light of morning than Gilbert and Sullivan bearing down on him like a brace of Nazgul. Intriguing news items on the Mac rss feeds this morning: Apple [...]