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Mon - September 4, 2006

Crossover (WINE) vs. Parallels vs. Bootcamp

Another entrant has joined the race to capture the dollars of those who wish to run Windows software on their Intel Macs. Codeweavers has now released a beta of Crossover Mac which is a repackaging of WINE with additional compatibility modifications and more user friendly tools.

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Tue - August 8, 2006

Giving away ideas for free

Ok, now that I've seen the upteenth idea I had years ago finally implemented after long last I've decided I'm just going to put them on my blog if I don't plan on ever doing anything about it. Also, it turns out execution is about 99% of the work, so this really is just a token gesture.

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Mon - May 8, 2006

Apple iBook/MacBook speculation

The rumor mill is in high gear on the announcement tomorrow. Just for fun I think I'll mix them all together and see what I get.

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Sat - April 29, 2006

ZFS coming to Mac OS X?

ZFS, Sun's ultimate single machine file system, may be coming to Mac OS X sooner rather than later. At least that what a message on the ZFS mailing list would have you believe.

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Thu - April 27, 2006

Use PPC VPN & PPC Flip4Mac on your Intel MacBook Pro or iMac

One of the things missing from the MacBook Pro was the ability to play WMV3 files in Safari and connect to my companies VPN through their browser plugin.

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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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