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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The Switchers Are Upon Us
Lots of people are crossing over from Windows now and it looks like it's the crème de la crème of lusers. Not that I'm not glad for Apple and Mac in general, but some things are just too much. I've recently started unsubscribing from some mailing lists because I just couldn't stand it anymore. I understand people that are new to a platform have questions, but RTFM! Don't they have Google on Windoze? Can't they just look up things before they ask? And how about checking the questions that had been asked-and answered-recently? </rant> But on a more serious note, I have been testing both Parallels and CrossOver on my DualCore and yes, they are nice tools, maybe one day they'll be as stable as VPC was (though hopefully not as slow), but I see another side of all this. Will the fact that winapps will be readily available to use on Mac not impede the market for native mac apps? A: If switchers can use their Win apps they might be less likely to support mac native apps. B: If win apps run on the mac, are developers still going to port their apps? C: What's going to happen if switchers use their crappy win apps on half-baked emulator software and it doesn't run? Will they conclude that the whole Mac platform is bad? Just some food for thoughts. (0) comments Monday, September 11, 2006
iVideo
So tomorrow is the big day? Rumor has it we'll get an Apple Video Store. I did check the Amazon one last week when it went online and you need a propriety software to watch what you download from them (and pay for) and, guess what, it's only available for Windoze XP. Bad move amazon, I was ready to give you some money just to try it out. (0) comments Wednesday, July 05, 2006
One fast little bugger
The Dual Core arrived yesterday and I transfered my stuff with the migration assistant (what a joy not to have to wade through endless folders). I was done in almost no time. The speed improvement is enormous, on the old mini a SETI work unit would take about 12 hours to be processed, the DC does it in 3, which comes out as 4x faster. Front Row looks great although I won't use it much on this machine but I'm looking forward to put it on the iMac. (0) comments Friday, June 30, 2006
AdSense
Trying out AdSense in connection with blogger. Looking forward to how that will work. Any money is welcome ;-) Btw. the Dual Core is in Miami, actually on it's way to here. Going into customs on Monday. (0) comments Sunday, June 25, 2006
Dual Core
I ordered this week a Mac mini Dual Core. Will be here hopefully end of next week. Looking forward to try out Parallels. (0) comments |
