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Macs had viruses in the past. OS X hasn't had any yet.

OS X has had security holes, which could have allowed viruses threw it but Apple patches them rather quickly before any can actually spread.

Plus unlike Windows virus it actually takes a person who actually knows stuff to make an OS X virus.

Most Windows virus take advantage of easy to make Active X controls

VB Scripts in applications

and a bunch of other crap that Microsoft put in their OS During the 90's because they wanted to make sure their products could do more then their competitors and because no one cared about security

Now Apple OS X was redesigned with a 21 centrery mindset on security.

But as times goes on Apple is putting more and more features to the OS many of them are scary in security terms such as integration of iChat and and the other iApps the Automater and other things which could lead to security problems in the future.

The original rumor roundup

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2007/01/20070101180 909.shtml

Because blogs are a way to reach audiences that are not reached through traditional marketing outlets

Yeah, because Apple has a real problem "reaching audiences." I mean, who ever heard of an iPod? They seem to think that TV commercials and word-of-mouth alone will sell the things.

they increase the amount of feedback you receive from your customers, and they provide a way to mine your user base for ideas.

If only there were some website where Apple could gather user opinions and feedback.

-- Brian Boyko
-- Professional Blogger.

It shows.

Windows 2000 has successfully been installed with Bool Camp.

I'm a little skeptical of someone's numbers here. According to this article: http://www.macworld.co.uk/education/news/index.cfm ?newsid=16335 Apple is #1 in European education market. According to this they're #2 in the US: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/25/macs HP is a distant 3rd with Sony trailing... and Gateway is supposed to be #1 for college aged kids? Something just doesn't add up here. In terms of total market share Apple is slightly below Gateway (which I guess includes eMachines, right?): http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/10/20061019104 418.shtml So maybe Gateway(eMachines) is the over whelming choice of the non-college bound college age kids?

If Zune is the best they could come up with against the iPod - and this is the prime example of 'new fresh blood' - they are screwed.

#1 Zune is Clunky - the very opposite of the iPod smooth design.
#2 Zune is incompatible with basically every file type that came before for windows. Why kill your existing user base?
#3 Zune Underdelivers - compared to the abilities of the Zen Vision W or the iPod, there is no comparison.
#4 Pocket Dish TV beats them all.

Apple just has to release that Full Screen Touch Screen iPod, and Zune will get Zoomed.
But Dish Network already has the iPod beaten down.

This story is just another reason to hate patents. If the iPod's clickwheel could be used by other manufacturers, than everybody and Apple would need to offer -more- and thus, innovate, to make sure they keep their customers and sell their devices. (ok. maybe it's not the patent themselves the problem, but how long they are enforced. I feel 2 to 5 years should be enough...) Same for this MS patent which sound a little too much obvious technology to me.

And the off-topic part, Apple came up with an interesting yet-another-patent one for a configurable input system (patent screenshots included). In short: "The concept is based around adding physical/tactile controls over a touch-sensitive pad. By having such a modular system, an iPod or laptop could become even more multi-functional." As much as this patent is interesting and could help transform computers into something more versatile and useful, it's still a patent which impedes anyone else using the idea at the commercial level.

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/11/20061116133 114.shtml

I would think such a design would be a great chip for laptops, minis, iMacs and iTV!

Other people tried it and got different results. Of course, some people found mixed results. I guess you could, I don't know, try it and see if it helps?

Haven't read a single report where replacing the thermal paste didn't lower the temperature - only some (including your link) where the temperature didn't drop by much.

Has everyone forgotten this?

I don't think you'll hear much about Apple's Movie Store plans until the iTV is released next year. That's where their strategy is headed. I'd bet dollars to donuts they'll have tons of movies and TV content available when this sucker comes out. If not, they will within a year after all the movie studios start drooling over its success with TV show downloads.

Alternatively, I could just look back on this comment in a year's time and be laughing at myself for being so wrong...

Apple still doesn't have any real competition to the iPod. And each "iPod killer" that has come has also, well, gone. There's frankly no reason to believe Zune is any different, especially given the lackluster reviews and ho-hum reception.

And don't worry. Apple's next generation device (with wireless, and so on) is coming:

http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/90/apple-describes-new- interface-for-ipod
http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/10/20061026073 133.shtml

OS upgrades..(of) MacOS X have done surprisingly well in the recent past

Here's a picture of what it might look like: http://guides.macrumors.com/Image:Ipodvideo.jpg

The picture.

Suffice to say, even the slickest market campaign can't account alone for iPod's success; just look at the PS3 or Zune: you can't pull the wool over everyone's eyes all the time.

I agree. I was pretty gung-ho about getting a MBP until I read your comment. I was hesitant about dropping to 1680x1050 (which was the resolution I thought they were at 15") but seeing that I'd have to get a 17" to have that is just unacceptable.

Maybe with this mod, it would work, though:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=20775 1

Here's a snippet from the past that shows just how the community (at lest the one in the MacRumors message board) initially reacted to the news:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500

Some good, some scathing, all with a dash of Mac-fanboyism.

I am both a Mac user (g3 iBook) and a PC user (dude, I got a Dell).

And there is stuff in the wild against OS X:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060216005 401.shtml

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060216234 239.shtml

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup. jsp?docid=2006-021614-4006-99

It is rather weak, but out there.

I am both a Mac user (g3 iBook) and a PC user (dude, I got a Dell).

And there is stuff in the wild against OS X:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060216005 401.shtml

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060216234 239.shtml

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup. jsp?docid=2006-021614-4006-99

It is rather weak, but out there.

From http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=23896 1

I just modified some .kext files to tell when my mbp to kick in the fans and to run them a bit faster. Now my processor is 40f-50f cooler, and 5c-10c for all you out of the usa. Battery life is maybe 5min shorter, and the fans are not all that much louder.

50% cpu with modifications is the same as my idle temps before and 100% cpu with mods is like 50%cpu without mods.

Instructions are a few posts below the linked post.

For what it's worth, I believe that this was meant to be a feature in 10.3, but it got cut. As I recall, when Steve Jobs first announced the OS, there was a small blurb on the "Sneak Peek" page about a "Home on your iPod" feature. It was up for a month or so, then disappeared. Guess it's been in the pipeline for a while. Source.

This was actually once promised and even advertised as part of 10.3 "Panther" and then was inexplicably removed. Here was the marketing blurb:

Home away from home

Ever thought you could carry your home in the palm of your hands or in your pocket? You can. Panther's Home on iPod feature lets you store your home directory - files, folders, apps - on your iPod (or any FireWire hard drive) and take it with you wherever you go. When you find yourself near a Panther-equipped Mac, just plug in the iPod, log in, and you're "home," no matter where you happen to be. And when you return to your home computer, you can synchronize any changes you've made to your files by using File Sync, which automatically updates offline changes to your home directory.

Mac Rumors has some of the history.

I'm sorry, seems I was wrong, there are people starting making malware for MacOSX.

I guess MacOSX has become a more interesting target now.

Yes, and it runs very well (drivers for all major devices). Note that installing XP of any sort on the Mac Pro is a bit of an endeavor currently due to the need to slipstream drivers or you get 1/20th of the SATA performance. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=23190 1

... the last iPod Update was October 12, 2005 according to http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ and everyone is waiting for the new one?

I agree that Apple's margins aren't thin, but the Mac cult of cool still has only single digits in worldwide market share http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/06/20060601164 133.shtml/. While it may be enough to keep Apple in the personal computer space for a while, if the numbers don't go up it may not make good business sense for them to stay in that segment. However, they've been in the low single-digits for some time so it may not matter much to the business right now.

Why do Apple magically release bigger, faster, shinier versions of things right after I buy something?
 
Because you don't study the buying guide. Unfortunately, in a non too informative manner, it usually tells you to wait.
 
Curse the continuous flow of new technology, and the insatiable curiousity of the human mind if you wish.

Not sure why...did'ja also know iTunes was someone else's product?

Why didn't they Sue Casady & Greene - makers of Soundjam MP?

http://ask.softonic.com/ie/9170/SoundJam_MP_Free
http://guides.macrumors.com/Image:ITunes1_vs_Sound JamMP.jpg

I purchased the full version right about when Apple bought it, bastardized the interface and gave it away free. Oh the horrors. It very quickly became a slick tool and I was happy with the results.

Nonethless...didn't WinAmp, and pretty much every MP3 and media player end up with the same basic style and layout?

(Big, slow moving target) + (well tuned harpoon) = beached whale meat (a fat settlement).

JB

So, in summary...

Apple pays Creative a one time fee of $100M to licence their patents.

Creative joins the 'Made for iPod' program making accessories for their competitor, Apple, who gets money for 'Made for iPod'.

Creative still HAS to defend it's patent against other competitors - that's the nature of patents - or licence it to them. If they do, Apple takes some of that money too. In a round-a-bout way, Apple is getting money back from it's competitors. Nice.

Creative have a much better case because Apple settled.

Creative still owns a valid patent. If Apple had won, there would be no patent so anyone could copy the Creative/Apple style interface.

Apple continues on as if nothing has happened. No long court case delaying sales. No injunctions to halt imports.

Explain to me why people think Apple lost here?

Creative knew it was about to get reamed by Microsoft's Zune which it's players aren't compatible with. They knew to get out of the market. Instead of legitimising Microsoft's offering, they've tied up with Apple. It might bug us that Apple have legitimised a bogus patent but it's otherwise very, very smart.

I have been using Parallels for quite some time on my MacBook Pro, in order to use a few apps on Windows ( installed Windows XP Professional on the VM ). It works like a charm, as fast, or at least almost as fast, as if I was to use a separate system for just Windows. I 've also installed Ubuntu today, which runs equally well. According to the rumors-mill, Parallels is getting 3D hardware acceleration soon which means, among other things, you will be able to run games on the VM, get better performance on the desktop and, once Vista comes out and Parallels provides support for EFI, you will get an accelerated desktop experience through Aero. I personally have no other use for Windows other than running one or two apps once in a while and playing games ( Mac OS X is just too good to fallback to Windows for anything else ).

Actually it seems there is good future for gaming on the Mac. Parallels is working on 3d acceleration as we speak. Sure it won't be as good as native, but others seem to be working on that too. http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/08/20060808153 337.shtml

I've found this site to be a valuable resource in understanding product cycles. To save you the time of clicking the link (although you should anyway, to at least bookmark it), it says it's been 85 days since the last update. While there's no historical data to base a buying recommendation on, the MacBook Pro has an average of 104 days in a cycle. Since the MacBook is a consumer model it was unlikely to be updated at WWDC, but my guess is that the new MacBook will show up close to the Merom, which Apple should be receiving in the first week of September. I would not be surprised to see MacBook and MacBook Pro updates at the same time in September.

Flamebait? Maybe, but the parent is right. (Especially the second to last one is egregiously bad, and Apple easily should have had to pay court costs to Something Awful.)

A more complete set of the promotional images is available at http://guides.macrumors.com/Leopard

New enclosure
Conroe in $1,500 Mac Pro
Woodcrest in $2,500 mid-range and $3,999 Quad
 
  details@macrumors

New enclosure

Conroe in $1,500 Mac Pro

Woodcrest in $2,500 mid-range and $3,999 Quad
 
  details@macrumors

New enclosure
Conroe in $1,500 Mac Pro
Woodcrest in $2,500 mid-range and $3,999 Quad

details@macrumors

Conroe in lowest end model @ $1500
Woodcrest in mid-range and quad model
1 gig of RAM across the board

@ macrumors

Unfortunately those waiting for "Mac OS X" to save them from Vista are going to be disappointed, as Leopard's original design was scrapped and replaced by a Vista based system over the last few months. This isn't bad news though, Vista is an excellent operating system and most of the complaints actually have to do with the fact the improvements are causing problems for old programs used to the old way of doing things. This will be less of a problem with Mac OS X, whose simplicity means that older programs will very easily fit in with the new world.

The real reason for the Vista delay is an event that occurred on so-called Red Tuesday, the day the delay was announced, which was written up by an Apple Insider in the famous MacRumors forums. I quote the post below in full. My comments are at the end.

The board meeting

So it's Tuesday morning at Apple. The boardroom is having another meeting about the future of the Macintosh. They're perusing the feedback over the unofficial port of Windows to the Mac, and considering the consequences. There's a whole bunch of things on the agenda. OS development is hard, and it's expensive. Their competitors, Sony and Lenevo, doesn't need to do it, and they're doing pretty well all in all. Plus, there's the whole break up plan. When Apple separates into Apple Macintosh Inc and iTunes Corp, how attractive will Apple Macintosh be as a take-over target? The whole move to Intel will be for naught if it hasn't made Dell and friends just a little more excited and comfortable they could fit the Macintosh into their lines.

Apple has some little development projects on the boil and has for some time. To begin with, it's pretty much completely reimplemented the Carbon APIs under Windows. Indeed, that's how iTunes and Quicktime are implemented. But, interestingly, so are the Cocoa APIs. They're all there, Apple never stopped developing them, even after it nixed WebObjects for that platform. It's also in need of certain features that would help it with the future. Apple has no "managed code" environment - it supported Java to a certain extent, but Cocoa never was a perfect fit for that. Apple's progress with .NET, unofficially, under Windows and OS X, is coming along surprisingly well.

As time has gone on, the notion of switching to Windows as the base platform really has gotten more and more plausable. There are still roadblocks, Apple needs Microsoft to provide them with a little more customizability of the UI. A switch to Windows without providing the essential Macintosh experience just wouldn't do. But, well, .NET, and Aero, are Microsoft's attempts to break with the past. Perhaps an OS built upon these APIs could, with Microsoft's help, look entirely like a Mac environment - with the right code, obviously. You don't want a Dell user flipping a registry switch and getting a Mac.

It's clear that whatever happens, OS X is doomed. Postings by MacRumors alumni arguing that the porting of Windows to the Mac spells disaster are read out, and largely agreed with. But the question then is - does Apple continue to pour money into OS X, or could Gates and Ballmer be ameanable to making the modifications needed to make Windows Vista the next Macintosh OS?

The phone call

Jobs picks up the phone and calls Gates. There's a brief discussion, and then the phone's put down. A few minutes later, the phone rings. It's Ballmer, Gates, and Allchin.

"We think we can do it, Steve" says Bill Gates. "I mean, this is a major thing for us. It's a coup, and I know you know we're thinking it. So we're going to help in any way we can."

Allchin interjects: "Funnily enough, from our end, the code's largely there. We need a bit more time. WinFS needs some work - we'd put it on hold, but if you're going to want Spotlight on this OS, we'll need to finish it. Sticking menus at the top of the screen and reorderi

FUD, FUD, FUD. I'm not a Mac user and even I found it trivially easy to find info on this.

• http://forum.onmac.net/archive/index.php/t-875.htm l: "Just bought the game today, runs great! I've got it running in the higher range for graphics ect. also. MacBook Pro 2.16GHz 100GB 7200rpm 1GB RAM ATI x1600 Overclocked to 430/470"; "With the exception of any shadowing effects, all effects maxed, resolution set to 1280 720, x1600 OC'd to 470/470, Bloom Lighting I am able to acheive 40 FPS out in the world and 60 SOLID FPS when inside a dungeon or building."
• http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3149424
• http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=21912 4
• http://digg.com/gaming_news/Video_of_Elder_Scrolls _IV:_Oblivion_running_on_a_Macbook_Pro

Now that Apple have acknowledged this pro^H^H^H issue, is it ok to believe in it now?

Also I recently bought a new MacBook battery. Am I supposed to include this in my inventory list for my forum signature or is this still ok?

15" MacBook Pro
2Ghz Core Duo
2GB 533Mhz DDR2 RAM
128MB Video RAM
100GB Seagate Momentus 7200.1 HD


Also I need guidance on which items should be in bold.

Syncing audio and video isn't a trivial problem by any means...back when I was playing around with DVD ripping using tools that processed the audio and video independently, I had a lot of trouble getting things to sync back up at the end -- and that was using files that came from the exact same source material at the beginning (so you'd think it would be easy to do). The best method I ever found was, if you know they're supposed to be the same length, to paste the video on top of the audio track and have Quicktime scale the video's length to make it even. Even then, this was iffy.

These 'commentary tracks' are going to have to be careful to state pretty explicitly which version of the movie they're designed to work with, because they're not always the same. Even if two movies are listed as being the same, there can be subtle changes (say, the length of the black between the studio logo and the beginning of the film, etc.) that would cause an audio track to get desynced.

I think the best solution would be to produce audio tracks that had some kind of timecode awareness (the MPEG GOP timecode) and/or chapter markers to stay in sync. The easier method is simply to use elapsed time (which on a Mac can be grabbed with AppleScript), but I'm not sure how much I'd trust that.

Are there any good Open Source / Open Format audio formats that include support for metadata tracks running along with the audio? (So that you could easily transmit audio + timecode?) All the formats I can think of are proprietary studio stuff. I guess the poor man's way to do it would be to distribute an audio file (say an MP3) and then have a text file along with it, which cross-referenced the timecode inside the audio file -- the MPEG frames or something -- to the timecode of the video. A suitably designed player could take the audio, video, and metadata file, and keep everything together.

Or the really ugly way would just be to distribute a stereo audio file, with the commentary in mono on one channel, and regular SMPTE timecode in the other channel. If you can find a way to equate SMPTE timecode to the GOP timecode that's part of the DVD video stream, you're set.

Clumsy wording by the marketing department at best, and Microsoft should either follow through with free VPC for Mac users or a coupon and clarification. If people were pissed enough, they could bring consumer protection litigation in California - but I'm not sure about other states. Luckily, (for Microsoft) I don't think most Mac users heard about this.

However, it would seem to jive with this tidbit of information leaked last month by the Taiwanese press:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/06/20060615101 812.shtml

Don't forget the MacBook "mooing" issue a few people are having.
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We all know Apple's entry level hardware isn't fast enough to play the latest games. The mini & MacBook only have a GMA950 which is about the same performance as Radeon 9200. However I do think Apple might the option of getting into handheld gaming with the next generation Ipod.
All the rumors are showing a full touch screen video ipod (some faked, others not -who knows??) http://guides.macrumors.com/Gallery_of_Apple_Leaks _and_Prototypes with possible talk of bluetooth/some other wifi-ness. Now it's you have played with Nintendo DS, you know that some great games exist - ones that are fun to play due to the touch screen. Itunes would make a great delivery method, bluetooth could make multi-player standard. - Could Apple do it? Would the hardware be useful?? Chip based decoding mp4/mp4/AAC is a little different than providing a GBA..

If you trust this guy, eventually.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=20427 6

Yup, here's a thread of the guy saying he was interviewed by CNN:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=19746 9

This is the same "virus" that we talked about in February. link 1, link 2. The CNN (AP, really) article mentions Benjamin Daines as finding it. MacRumors forum post from Benjamin Daines dated Feb 13 whining about how he was duped by someone posting a link to said trojan. We've gone over this before. This is nothing new. Must be a slow news day at AP...