Well now there will be no more reason for Robert to hound me to use a Pee-Cee instead of a Mac. By the way I got a new Mac...an iMac G5 17inch running at 2Ghz. My aging G4 tower was crashing under intensive video rendering likely due to all the 3rd party upgrades I stuck inside it. The good news is I was able to trade in the old machine for $500 credit towards the $1400 new machine. A much better solution than simplying putting the old machine in a closet to gather dust (my past solution). By the way if anyone is in the market for an excellent 20 inch sony trinitron monitor (flat screen, not flat panel) I have one available for the trading block. Otherwise I'm giving it a shot on ebay.
Anyway, looks like the next Mac I buy in a few years will be a "Mac-tel" box.
Also, 3 cheers for Huskers clinching the Super-Regional. Hopefully G-Tech can follow suit tonight.
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From Mac Rumors...
Monday, June 6th 2005
Who would have thought....despite healthy but apparently unwarranted skepticism, the vast majority of Mac (and indeed Tech) pundits were wrong and CNet was right. Bloody hell, even Dvorak was right for once!
Hell has frozen over; but there is a lot of potential for amazing things along this new road we have suddenly found ourselves on. Once the shock wears off (which it still hasn't), we'll be posting on a very frequent schedule for the foreseeable future as efforts are made to begin to see what this means for the Mac community....check back often. You'll be glad you did, because as change is in the wind for the Mac, so too is change in the wind for Mac OS Rumors....
Next version of Mac OS X will be "Leopard," and will focus largely on the transition to Intel/x86. As Apple seeks to commoditize many aspects of its hardware, Leopard will focus on unique features including an extremely graphically-rich user interface revamp leveraging the meta-data technology (aka Spotlight) introduced in Tiger.
Apple has adapted Transitive's QuickTransit code morphing engine, as rumored, and will deliver it to developers as "Rosetta" which allows PowerPC binaries to run on Intel with reasonable performance. A developer kit with a 3.6GHz P4 Intel-based "Mac," OS X 10.4.1 for Intel, and Rosetta will begin shipping in two weeks.
Well folks, the big news we've all been waiting on has hit: Steve says that IBM hasn't delivered on its promises, no 3GHz and no portable-friendly G5's....and starting a year from now, Apple will begin shipping Macs with Intel processors. The transition to Intel will be completed in 2007, according to Mr. Jobs....
Tiger is completely ready to run on Intel, and is being demonstrated right now on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4.
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