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Thursday, August 29, 2002Apple Stuff
I'm an Apple watcher. At one point, I wanted to replace my Dell laptop with a TiBook and Mac OS X in a bad way... I'm a Windows guy who has had to live in a Unix world, a BSD-ish OS with real apps running on sexy hardware had serious appeal. Apple lost the sale over one little thing: no Terminal Services client. On the road I could live without Visual Studio, but not being able to log into my servers was a deal stopper.
Microsoft finally released one last month, but now I have little need and no budget for a new laptop. Someday...
Anyways, here's a bunch of Apple stuff that has been clogging my aggregator.
Tom Negrino: Apple's going to sell a lot more iPods in the next quarter. New Windows version of the iPod has a much higher sales ranking on Amazon than the Mac version. Steve didn't wait for the Windows iPod. I want one, but I already have an MK I Nomad Jukebox (crappy), Dell-badged Rio Receiver (mediocre), and two Rio Cars (excellent). [via Scripting News]
O'Reilly: Mac OS X Switcher Stories. Linux may be the big loser.
John Gruber: Unix Switchers. Commentary on above. In other words, from a Mac users’s perspective, Mac OS X still has rough edges; from a Linux user’s, it’s the Hope diamond. Mac OS X is clearly the world’s best desktop Unix — unfortunately, that isn’t saying much.
NFN: Cult of the Mac -- Is Anyone Switching?
osOpinion: This Cat Roars. In part, the tale of a user who tried to switch to Linux from Windows, reverted back, and now has moved to OS X.Slashdot: Apple releases security update for Jaguar. That was fast.
CNET: Apple gives break to multi-Mac homes. $199 for up to five Macs in a single household.
DDN: Jaguar Upgrade Journal. List of post-install steps for MySQL, PHP, Apache, etc.
Dan Gilmor: OS X Jaguar -- Early Impressions.
MacInTouch: Reader Reports on Jaguar.
Dive Into Mark: 101 Jaguar Links.New Power Macs: Dual 867MHz, 1.0GHz, or 1.25GHz CPUs, DDR SDRAM, SuperDrive and 167MHz bus on GHz systems, 2MB L3 cache on the 1.25GHz. $1699, $2499, $3299. Covered by: CNET, Slashdot, Ars Technica
Slashdot: New Power Macs have crippled DDR?CNET: Mac OS X gets an AOL Update. Now includes Gecko.
Apple uses DMCA to halt use of iDVD with non-Apple drives: Over at Ars, one reader suggested that this may be illegal tying. Covered by: Ars Technica, CNET, Slashdot.
Wired: Apple's Newton Just Won't Drop [via MNJ]
Wired: Newton's Return: A Hit and a Myth [via MNJ]The Register: Sony, Apple make phone dream team
NY Times: Apple's Chief in the Risky Land of Handhelds
Slashdot: Apple iPhone Rumors Resurface
