by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 27, 2008 | Apple, Technology
Somewhere in the news coverage of Psystar’s countersuit against Apple today, I was reminded of the car analogy I use to help friends and family understand how to buy a computer. Under the hood of a car, everything is the same. There’s an engine, transmission, battery...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 16, 2008 | Apple, Technology
Atom-powered mini-tablet! This one was pretty hot! ZDNet reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel’s new Atom processor. According to lore, the elusive device is slightly larger than iPhone and...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Jan 14, 2008 | Apple
Steve Jobs’ keynote speech, that he is due to make on stage at the Moscone Centre in San Francicso on Tuesday 15th January, has apparently been leaked via Wikipedia. With highlights including a 16GB iPhone, details of the SDK for the device, a 13-inch 0.8-inch...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Dec 4, 2007 | Apple
Infoworld gives OS 10.5 a glowing review. No one is unhappy with Mac OS X Version 10.4, known as Tiger. OS X is not an application platform (I bristle at using the term “operating system” for OS X; I explain why below) that needed repair, speeding up, or...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 29, 2007 | Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Technology, Ubuntu
When shopping for a new computer, your mind is probably spinning with considerations: price, reliability, speed, software capabilities, security, and other specs. Perhaps the hardest part is choosing an operating system on which everything will run. To get a good idea...
by Manny J | Oct 26, 2007 | Apple, BSD, Dell, Linux, Microsoft, Technology
Is it time for Microsoft to abandon Vista and move on to something else? Maybe Microsoft should consider doing what Apple did and create an OS based on an existing UNIX based system (BSD, Linux, Amiga, etc…). Or maybe Microsoft should “move up the time table” of...