Maybe you live in some sort of utopia with universal wireless internet coverage. But most people don't. The irony is that widescale laptop deployments have pretty much killed the idea of "thin clients" and cemented the model of PC-centric computing.
Microsoft even tried introducing a "dumb terminal" RDP-based wireless tablet platform. It bombed because people simply did not want to be teathered to an access point.
There's also the fundemental issue of PC economics... Intel does the bulk of R&D (now even for Apple) and makes the bulk of the profits. Therefore bigger/faster CPUs are inevitable. The good news is that the process improvements that made this chip will also allow for super cheap low-end laptop platforms and various ultra-low voltage models. Someone will make your slow & cheap thin client.
Don't forget that the chip being reviewed is the performance version, and it still gets incredible battery life. There's also going to be Ultra Low Voltage models that run at 1.2Ghz or so. Given the right system, it's likely possible.
Until a couple years ago, Powerbooks came with an ADB-interface keyboard where Caps Lock couldn't be remapped. New models have a USB keyboard which suppoedly allows it. The actual capslock switch isn't mechanical (or hasn't been for a long time).
It's a pointless argument because, by in large, the legacy stuff is custom/vertical software that is very unlikely to ever have an open source replacement.
Well that's true -- the XUL system used in Firefox was originally designed so that AOL could make an advertising-enhanced version of Mozilla.
The MS ActiveDesktop thing spawned a bunch of junk that was little more than ad rotators. Probably one big reason the feature was forgotten about (much like Dashboard will be).
Well, that's nice, but currently it is not possible to write a Mac GUI applicaiton that addresses 64-bits. Mac Photoshop supports a max of 4GB. And your original comment made no sense because there's no fundemental difference between Finder and Photoshop.. they are both "applications".
Intel has something called "Next Generation Microarchitecture", but that's not coming out until later in 2006 (Mermon, etc). Yonah is just a rev on the existing Pentium-M chips, the single-core versions aren't really signifcantly better than stuff currently on the market -- it's just a convenient jumping point for Apple.
I'm skeptical that one nees an entirely new UI mechanism just to print addresses on envelopes. Seems like a utility would exist just fine outside of dashboard.
I mean, if the Dock and Finder are designed as well as everyone says, then you shouldn't need save a few seconds by using a special launcher for your Envelope-Printer-Utility. And if that special launcher is more useful than the Dock/Finder, then you ought to be able to use it to launch Microsoft Word and Photoshop.
Dashboard is modal interface that comes with it's own desktop and it's own dock, sitting on top of the regular ones. Really seems to me like something the Marketing Dept thought up with the only goal of looking K3WL, rather than by the HCI Designers with the goal of being integrated and useful.
. Internet Explorer is problematic because it has multiple zones with different security settings,
That's also true of Apple Safari & WebKit. IE has a special "no sandbox" zone for ActiveDesktop widgets, and Apple has a special "no sandbox" zone for Dashboard widgets.
Now, it could be impossible to "trick" Safari into the wrong zone, so this won't be a problem. But the overall architecture is nearly identical.
This is off topic, but it doesn't make sense that they switched to a 32bit chip FROM a 64bit chip
64-bit is currently a non-factor for the Mac market, and will be until OSX 10.5 comes out. Right now the OS is still primarily 32-bit only (Only Unix Deamons can run 64-bit), and every commercial application except one is 32-bit.
The thing that didn't make sense was hyping "64-bit" support on the G5 chips without the software to back it up. They probably regret that now, because even though the userbase is running on 32 bits they think they are running on 64.
"Next year, 50 percent of car (models) in the world will have PowerPCs," Mayer said.
So much the silly idea of Apple being the largest PPC customer.
frankly, with all of the growth opportunities that we have in front of us, it was not a good use of our resources to try to defend half a percent market share, which is how much desktop we have against Intel."
What do you or I know about margin? Apple's desktop CPUs require the latest tech and foundry improvements as well as continual R&D. The margin on 'old tech' embedded chips may well be much higher margin than 970.
No, that's the retardation. Index Server builds full-text content indexes, but the bu built-in Windows Find doesn't use them (or only uses them in a limited fashion). It was designed as a developer feature, there's some IIS samples that show you how to use it.
At 60$ it wasn't too bad, and I had a minimum (all that was needed, at least with the 7 series which I still think was *great*) support structure. Now, using FC4, RH gets ZERO money from me.
At $60, RedHat was barely covering their distribution costs.
RedHat wasn't selling $60 Linux because they thought it was a sound profit strategy -- they were burning through gazillions of venture capital trying to build an enterprise market. Once that market was created, the need for 'getting it out there' through the retail channel disappeared. Anyway, you weren't doing them any favors buy buying their boxed sets.
And this is one reason why Ubuntu is taking over
Ubuntu is similarlly burning through VC. Despite all their silly talk, either they figure out a profit strategy, or they fold.
What you Mac people consistently fail to grasp is that it is quite easy to trojan any computer system when the person is installing something they think they want. Most of the spyware/virus problem on Windows is the result of an intentional user action. And OSX does nothing to stop people from doing what they think they want to do.
Well, IM should be provided by the company, just as with email and telephones. That way they can manage it, both technically and in terms of policy. It's totally ridiclous that you need to go install AIM or Yahoo to communicate with your coworkers at most shops. You want to ask Fred down the hall about project status, and you find yourself clicking on "SuperBozo1975" in your "buddies" list.
Imagine if you got hired into a new job and the IT Guy came by and told you they didn't have an email server, so you should get a hotmail account and tell everyone your address. I'd probably start looking for a new job right away. But that's basically what they do with IM.
Actually, I think the point of the article is that they are NOT going where the money is
Check out the flyer from CompUSA in your Sunday paper. A bunch of shitty $400 computers that come with free shitty printers and AOL subscriptions. Buried in the middle is a tiny picture of a $1200 Mac. If there's any money in home/soho computing, you wouldn't know it by the advertising. Except for Apple and Alienware, it's all very low-profit trash.
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Maybe you live in some sort of utopia with universal wireless internet coverage. But most people don't. The irony is that widescale laptop deployments have pretty much killed the idea of "thin clients" and cemented the model of PC-centric computing.
... Intel does the bulk of R&D (now even for Apple) and makes the bulk of the profits. Therefore bigger/faster CPUs are inevitable. The good news is that the process improvements that made this chip will also allow for super cheap low-end laptop platforms and various ultra-low voltage models. Someone will make your slow & cheap thin client.
Microsoft even tried introducing a "dumb terminal" RDP-based wireless tablet platform. It bombed because people simply did not want to be teathered to an access point.
There's also the fundemental issue of PC economics
New Powerbooks announced next Tuesday.
New Powerbooks start shipping in March (R)(TM).
Don't forget that the chip being reviewed is the performance version, and it still gets incredible battery life. There's also going to be Ultra Low Voltage models that run at 1.2Ghz or so. Given the right system, it's likely possible.
I'm pretty sure that IE 5.0 for Windows 3.1 can.
Until a couple years ago, Powerbooks came with an ADB-interface keyboard where Caps Lock couldn't be remapped. New models have a USB keyboard which suppoedly allows it. The actual capslock switch isn't mechanical (or hasn't been for a long time).
> 98% of Linux software is open source
It's a pointless argument because, by in large, the legacy stuff is custom/vertical software that is very unlikely to ever have an open source replacement.
Nice idea, but the OS had to run on FAT for compatibilty reasons, so not feasible back when they invented the Registry.
Well that's true -- the XUL system used in Firefox was originally designed so that AOL could make an advertising-enhanced version of Mozilla.
The MS ActiveDesktop thing spawned a bunch of junk that was little more than ad rotators. Probably one big reason the feature was forgotten about (much like Dashboard will be).
Well, that's nice, but currently it is not possible to write a Mac GUI applicaiton that addresses 64-bits. Mac Photoshop supports a max of 4GB. And your original comment made no sense because there's no fundemental difference between Finder and Photoshop .. they are both "applications".
ActiveDesktop Widgets are not run by IE. They are seperate Windows processes. They just happen to share a library that handles HTML.
Intel has something called "Next Generation Microarchitecture", but that's not coming out until later in 2006 (Mermon, etc). Yonah is just a rev on the existing Pentium-M chips, the single-core versions aren't really signifcantly better than stuff currently on the market -- it's just a convenient jumping point for Apple.
I'm skeptical that one nees an entirely new UI mechanism just to print addresses on envelopes. Seems like a utility would exist just fine outside of dashboard.
I mean, if the Dock and Finder are designed as well as everyone says, then you shouldn't need save a few seconds by using a special launcher for your Envelope-Printer-Utility. And if that special launcher is more useful than the Dock/Finder, then you ought to be able to use it to launch Microsoft Word and Photoshop.
Dashboard is modal interface that comes with it's own desktop and it's own dock, sitting on top of the regular ones. Really seems to me like something the Marketing Dept thought up with the only goal of looking K3WL, rather than by the HCI Designers with the goal of being integrated and useful.
. Internet Explorer is problematic because it has multiple zones with different security settings,
That's also true of Apple Safari & WebKit. IE has a special "no sandbox" zone for ActiveDesktop widgets, and Apple has a special "no sandbox" zone for Dashboard widgets.
Now, it could be impossible to "trick" Safari into the wrong zone, so this won't be a problem. But the overall architecture is nearly identical.
Your comment makes no sense. Anyway, the next version of Photoshop will be shipping for 64-bit Windows, but Mac will be 32-bit only.
No, Yonah is IA32 only, which is sorta the point of this discussion.
Sure, it's technically possible. It would just involve buying inferior laptop chips for a feature that virtually none of their users care about.
This is off topic, but it doesn't make sense that they switched to a 32bit chip FROM a 64bit chip
64-bit is currently a non-factor for the Mac market, and will be until OSX 10.5 comes out. Right now the OS is still primarily 32-bit only (Only Unix Deamons can run 64-bit), and every commercial application except one is 32-bit.
The thing that didn't make sense was hyping "64-bit" support on the G5 chips without the software to back it up. They probably regret that now, because even though the userbase is running on 32 bits they think they are running on 64.
"Next year, 50 percent of car (models) in the world will have PowerPCs," Mayer said.
So much the silly idea of Apple being the largest PPC customer.
frankly, with all of the growth opportunities that we have in front of us, it was not a good use of our resources to try to defend half a percent market share, which is how much desktop we have against Intel."
What do you or I know about margin? Apple's desktop CPUs require the latest tech and foundry improvements as well as continual R&D. The margin on 'old tech' embedded chips may well be much higher margin than 970.
No, that's the retardation. Index Server builds full-text content indexes, but the bu built-in Windows Find doesn't use them (or only uses them in a limited fashion). It was designed as a developer feature, there's some IIS samples that show you how to use it.
I believe the largest market for PowerPC is automotive -- there's quite a few cars that ship with three or four PPC CPUs in them.
At 60$ it wasn't too bad, and I had a minimum (all that was needed, at least with the 7 series which I still think was *great*) support structure. Now, using FC4, RH gets ZERO money from me.
At $60, RedHat was barely covering their distribution costs.
RedHat wasn't selling $60 Linux because they thought it was a sound profit strategy -- they were burning through gazillions of venture capital trying to build an enterprise market. Once that market was created, the need for 'getting it out there' through the retail channel disappeared. Anyway, you weren't doing them any favors buy buying their boxed sets.
And this is one reason why Ubuntu is taking over
Ubuntu is similarlly burning through VC. Despite all their silly talk, either they figure out a profit strategy, or they fold.
> It only takes one person to figure it out,
Exactly what happened with the Windows version.
What you Mac people consistently fail to grasp is that it is quite easy to trojan any computer system when the person is installing something they think they want. Most of the spyware/virus problem on Windows is the result of an intentional user action. And OSX does nothing to stop people from doing what they think they want to do.
Well, IM should be provided by the company, just as with email and telephones. That way they can manage it, both technically and in terms of policy. It's totally ridiclous that you need to go install AIM or Yahoo to communicate with your coworkers at most shops. You want to ask Fred down the hall about project status, and you find yourself clicking on "SuperBozo1975" in your "buddies" list.
Imagine if you got hired into a new job and the IT Guy came by and told you they didn't have an email server, so you should get a hotmail account and tell everyone your address. I'd probably start looking for a new job right away. But that's basically what they do with IM.
Actually, I think the point of the article is that they are NOT going where the money is
Check out the flyer from CompUSA in your Sunday paper. A bunch of shitty $400 computers that come with free shitty printers and AOL subscriptions. Buried in the middle is a tiny picture of a $1200 Mac. If there's any money in home/soho computing, you wouldn't know it by the advertising. Except for Apple and Alienware, it's all very low-profit trash.