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Beware of the Leopard

Michael — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:44:56 +0000

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 of virtual desktops), “Time Machine” (ditto automated backup solution) and “Web Clips” in Dashboard (grab a specific area of a webpage, and turn it into a Dashboard widget). No doubt there will now be lots of speculation over the features they aren’t announcing.

I’m going to try sleeping again. I think the cup of strong tea I drank just before going to bed actually affected me. Weird.

Hoping for “…and another thing”

Michael — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:38:58 +0000

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. The screen’s simply too small to be able to enjoy it. 320 x 240 resolution? Ha! (But then, I thought the same about camera phones.) Spurred on by ThinkSecret’s articles on the announcement, I had been hoping for PowerMacs with dual-core G5s with IBM’s PowerPC 970MP chips, and updated PowerBooks. Perhaps they’ll turn up soon.

Too braindead to write more—an effect of staring at COBOL all day.

G&S: the Ring-Wraiths?

Michael — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:43:36 +0000

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 has announced a “special event” in San Jose in a week’s time, entitled One more thing…. My money’s on either dual-core PowerMacs, or something totally new. But perhaps something totally new would have been announced at a bigger event. I can’t wait to see what it is.