Maintaining the iMac's girlish figure

alternateorg on March 1, 2001

An interesting and insightful view (scroll down to the bottom) on Apple’s limb-going-out-on new iMac cases:


Salomon Smith Barney analyst Richard Gardner doesn’t get it either. “We are concerned that these bold new patterns will appeal to a limited audience at a time when Apple needs to broaden its appeal.”

That “limited audience” of 8 to 17 year-olds, perhaps heavily female, just happens to be the future. And the future of the PC is what Apple seems to be wisely staying focused on.

Virtual PC for OS X

alternateorg on February 23, 2001

I noticed this story at MacNN.com about the new version of Virtual PC shipping soon after the launch of MacOS X. This is wonderful news… think about it… now I can run;


UNIX apps (apache, samba, emacs, etc)

LINUX apps (ports of X window environments KDE and GNOME are sure to follow)
Classic MacOS Apps (PhotoShop, GoLive, etc)
Carbon Apps (iTunes, all new apps, etc)
Cocoa/NeXT/OpenStep Apps (OmniWeb, Mail, WebObjects, Project Builder, etc.)
Win32 Apps through Virtual PC

and theoretically you could run BeOS Apps as well through Virtual PC.


….drool…. and all of this on a Ti PowerBook G4 on Airport sitting in the park across the street from home working remotely… ahhh.. it will happen soon.

iCube

alternateorg on February 23, 2001

I have nowhere else to vent this so here goes…

All you Mac heads bitching and whining about a 17″ iMac go buy a fucking $1299 cube and a $150 17″ VGA Monitor and voila… there ya go… and its even under the $1499 you would pay for an iMac SE (which obviously would be the price point of a 17″ iMac if it ever existed).

Remember the whole “monitorless imac” rumors??? I mean, what the fuck did those people think an unexpandable monitorless iMac was supposed to look like… a round bubbly thing …??? NO, its the CUBE DAMNIT!!!

Grrr… now, go buy it!

OSXmas

alternateorg on February 14, 2001

It must be Christmas time at Microsoft (or maybe they just borrowed a couple things from Apple)…


Notice the golden poppies and the rubber-ducky that kev was talking about…. I think this is purposely done in a subliminal manner by Microsnot to assure that the resemblance with MacOS X is spotted instantly… but, then again, maybe I’m just on crack.


Sources;
http://www.apple.com/macosx/usingosx/desktop.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/guide/newlook.asp
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Not without Quartz, it ain't

alternateorg on February 12, 2001

*Yawn*:


Enderle compares the Windows XP user interface to the Aqua interface in Apple Computer Inc.’s Mac OS X, which is due in March. Aqua has large rounded icons, myriad menu options, fluid application control and a turquoise color scheme. Windows XP should also be more user-friendly, modern-looking and showy than its predecessor.

“The capability is there to make it look like an Aqua clone,” Enderle said. “This is going to be a very Apple-like launch.”

Microsoft is getting nowhere near X unless they can develop something like Quartz.

Clever

alternateorg on February 12, 2001

The more I hear, the more I wish I was in ownership of a Mac. Microsoft is adding some fun new features to Windows XP. I can hardly wait.

“When you purchase Windows XP you will buy it at a low (cost) but will have to agree to pay each year,” he said.

How low is low?

Too bad it's a Nissan

alternateorg on February 7, 2001

Uhm. Okay. So some guy apparently took a PowerBook and mounted it in his Nissan Pathfinder in order to play MP3s and god-knows what else. He uses Airport to transfer the files between his house and car. He calls it the Pathintosh, and it has the Apple logo instead of a front-mounted license plate. Nice. The most disturbing part about the whole thing? ‘Factory steering wheel audio controls rewired to run scripts.’ WHAT THE FUCK? Now THAT’s ingenuity.

I would have put it in a BMW, and called it a ‘PBMW MG3.’ But that’s just me.