There are already two applications necessary for syncing with an iPod: iTunes (for music) and iSync (for calendar/address book). iSync would be a better candidate for photo syncing IMHO because it's function is well... syncing (and not organizing).
All the four macs I've bought had no OS pre-installed: a PowerMac G3 (Blue & White), an iBook (the original model) and two PowerBook G4's. Perhaps it's only in Europe, as with those machines, there were diffent sets of restore disks for different localizations (English, Dutch, French). Note that all those machines shipped with Mac OS = 9 and only the last one also contained Mac OS X. When I booted the machine, I got a prompt in a large set of languages to either insert the restore disks or the install disks.
Mac OS X 10.3 allows you to opt to not install iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iCal,... if you don't want to. This can be selected in the install screen of Mac OS X (use custom install). My mac at work has no i-stuff installed except iCal and iSync. And a mac is delivered without any OS installed (there is just one large empty partition). The box contains two CD sets: one disk image containing everything and regular install CD's.
Just hold the Option key pressed while booting up (if you're using a "new-world" mac; i.e. a mac since about 2000). You'll get a nice boot device selector which also supports Linux. Note that Mac OS 9 and OS X have to be installed on separate partitions.
This is why I prefer the approach that NeXT made with NeXTstep 3: NeXT links. Just as the Subscribe/Publish method of Macintosh System 7, you could "publish" some data which is stored in a special file. Another application could then "subscribe" to that "publication". The subscribing application put a preview of the publication in its view. When the user double clicks on that preview, it's shown in the application that created it. This is much more consistent than the, from the UI point of view, monolithical structure of OLE/COM/COM+/DNA/whatever "integration" and allows to easily share such "publications" between different clients, even between different users.
Blizzard released the PC and Mac versions of Diablo II at almost the same time (only one month difference). The expansion pack "Lord of Destruction" was released as a PC/Mac hybrid (thus at the same time). So they already have at least this habit for quite some time:-)
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There are already two applications necessary for syncing with an iPod: iTunes (for music) and iSync (for calendar/address book). iSync would be a better candidate for photo syncing IMHO because it's function is well... syncing (and not organizing).
Actually, Fast User Switching works fast on a non-QE machine like the Pismo and the B&W G3. You just don't have the "rotating cube" effect.
All the four macs I've bought had no OS pre-installed: a PowerMac G3 (Blue & White), an iBook (the original model) and two PowerBook G4's. Perhaps it's only in Europe, as with those machines, there were diffent sets of restore disks for different localizations (English, Dutch, French). Note that all those machines shipped with Mac OS = 9 and only the last one also contained Mac OS X. When I booted the machine, I got a prompt in a large set of languages to either insert the restore disks or the install disks.
Mac OS X 10.3 allows you to opt to not install iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iCal,... if you don't want to. This can be selected in the install screen of Mac OS X (use custom install). My mac at work has no i-stuff installed except iCal and iSync. And a mac is delivered without any OS installed (there is just one large empty partition). The box contains two CD sets: one disk image containing everything and regular install CD's.
Just hold the Option key pressed while booting up (if you're using a "new-world" mac; i.e. a mac since about 2000). You'll get a nice boot device selector which also supports Linux. Note that Mac OS 9 and OS X have to be installed on separate partitions.
This is why I prefer the approach that NeXT made with NeXTstep 3: NeXT links. Just as the Subscribe/Publish method of Macintosh System 7, you could "publish" some data which is stored in a special file. Another application could then "subscribe" to that "publication". The subscribing application put a preview of the publication in its view. When the user double clicks on that preview, it's shown in the application that created it. This is much more consistent than the, from the UI point of view, monolithical structure of OLE/COM/COM+/DNA/whatever "integration" and allows to easily share such "publications" between different clients, even between different users.
Blizzard released the PC and Mac versions of Diablo II at almost the same time (only one month difference). The expansion pack "Lord of Destruction" was released as a PC/Mac hybrid (thus at the same time). So they already have at least this habit for quite some time :-)