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Wed - February 8, 2006

Wine CVS HEAD built on the iMac Core Duo

This is a build of the current HEAD of Wine with the appropriate patches applied for the iMac Core Duo. It doesn't run much but it runs some stuff if you want to see where they are at and are thinking of joining in.

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Fri - January 27, 2006

Apple Intel iMac 17" with benchmarks

I received my 17" iMac today in exchange for my Developers Transition Kit. This was perhaps the coolest deal I've seen for developers. I signed up with $1000 thinking I was leasing a $1500 machine for 1.5 years back in June. Instead it turns out I was buying a $1300 machine 7 months early.

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Tue - January 10, 2006

Apple MacBook Pro and the DTK

I finally had the ability to upgrade my Powerbook after waiting about 8 months too long. But it turns out that wasn't the only good news today.

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Mon - September 12, 2005

iPod Nano

I don't have anything interesting to say about this except that either I am getting old or this thing is pure science fiction.

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Sat - June 11, 2005

Will partnering with Intel give Apple a computer faster than a PC?

I can foresee a future where the best engineers at Intel move to the Apple project. Being able to start with a blank slate for x86 will probably be the most interesting job over there.

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Mon - June 6, 2005

Apple on Intel x86 wrap up

Apple has decided to switch their entire hardware lineup to x86 based CPUs from Intel (currently). This It looks like Apple has decided that they won't go bankrupt by going with option 2) from my blog entry yesterday.

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Sun - June 5, 2005

Apple and Intel, whats the real story?

It looks like there will be some announcement on Monday that relates to Apple and Intel. I've said in the past that there are only a few ways that Apple could ever switch to an Intel processor and I'd like to discuss the possibilities before the announcement.

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Wed - February 2, 2005

Switchers

I found irrefutable evidence that PC people are buying Mac Minis.

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Mon - January 31, 2005

Mike Matas has a cool trick

When I read his blog entry about making (i)Life Posters I decided I would give it a go.

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Tue - November 30, 2004

Sidetrack for your PowerBook

I opened up my Powerbook this morning and I couldn't use the trackpad to scroll. It felt like my computer was broken.

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Mon - October 11, 2004

Applescript to Merge Address Card entries

I just got a new toy, the IRIS II Business Card Reader but now I need to merge cards with previous entries.

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Fri - August 20, 2004

Why the backlash against Real over iPod compatibility?

A lot of people are wondering why there is any backlash at all to Real Networks from their reverse engineering of the Fairplay DRM system that Apple uses.

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Wed - July 14, 2004

How many iPod Minis were sold last quarter?

During Apple's quarterly conference call today with investors they refused to break out the numbers of iPod Minis vs the other iPods. Here is my best guess as to what that is based on the information they did give us.

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