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'Perfect Storm' of Mac Sales on the Horizon?
fkx writes to mention an eWeek article suggesting that, finally, the PC-using public is going to 'get' the Mac. According to the article, the new advertising, increased functionality of OSX, and Intel-based machines are all raising the profile of Apple's machines to new heights. From the article: "However, this cycle isn't your usual processor upgrade cycle that comes every time Intel or Advanced Micro Devices tweaks a process. This is a major shift that affects all parts of the Mac customer-developer-vendor ecology. Longtime Apple watchers can count two earlier events of similar magnitude. The first such transition occurred in March 1994 with the arrival of the PowerPC architecture. The Motorola 680x0 architecture that had served the Mac platform for a decade was quickly supplanted by a set of new, more powerful machines. "
The medium IS the message...
The message is buy a macintosh...
The only TPM equipped machine that is shipping with the TPM ENABLED by default, completely contrary to the specification. For those of you that can read a chip spec please feel free to go to TCG and read up on the chip and what it does. Enlightenment is a fine thing. One of the most interesting things to note is that in all specs the DEFAULT setting recommended is disabled. By shipping the TPM enabled, it implies remote ownership. This means, although you have a macintosh in your possession, you don't actually 'own' it, Apple does. But we all trust Apple with all of our data, don't we?
Interesting that there's a 'perfect storm' with a media confluence supporting the uptake of Apple equipment, yet the equipment is not HIPAA nor PIPEDA compliant, in that there has been a complete lack of disclosure of the presence of the chip. Check their system specs to find out.
Isn't it more interesting to note that Microsoft is unable for the first time in more than a decade to release an OS?
Transitive trust for everyone!
if I claimed I was emperor just because some watery tart lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
Last Saturday night, I was in a coffee shop in Wicker Park, a hip neighborhood in Chicago. I spotted half a dozen folks using Mac laptops, but not a single Windows machine. In over 20 years of using PCs, I'd never seen that before!