I think it'd be a good idea for someone to do an actual test on the durability of the plastic. The nano is so small that you would be sticking it in places where you couldn't normally fit an iPod, so it's in a different environment than larger iPods are. I suspect if you did a fair test on both the nano and the larger iPods you would see that they are equally scratchable.
They could always make him work out and get bigger. Toby wasn't that big before he got his "super powers" and although he wasn't that big after he still made it more convincing.
But MS actually SELLS Windows as their main product, and Apple sells Macs(now really iPods) as their main product. It's not the same thing because Apple will not sell OS X for any general x86 computer.
You're lucky you have such a cheap rate for the cell data network. Rogers in Ontario, Canada charges $0.05 per KB!
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It's a little harder than that, but not much. You still also have to make sure you're linking against the 10.4u SDK otherwise I'm guessing it probably won't run on x86 Macs. It seems that XCode will let you select to compile for Intel without doing this, but in Apple's documentation it says you have to do it to create universal binaries.
It's been said that AMD couldn't supply enough chips for Apple's demands. Which if it's true then it's obvious why Apple wouldn't go with them. Intel just has so much more fabrication capacity.
Firemen don't drive their fire trucks around all day. Police here in Ontario are constantly passing people on the highways and even smaller roads where the speed limit is 80KM/hr. Most people do about 100KM/hr on the 80 roads and the cops still pass people without their lights on.
Oh, right haha. Now I look dumb. That's what I meant. I think you mixed them up too "The registry is a centralized database, while regedit data was in the individual applications.":)
That question has already been answered. This development version obviously doesn't have any kind of protections on it yet to make it only run on Apple hardware. Phil Shiller has already said that the final version will only run on Apple hardware and not any x86 computer.
This version will no doubt expire at the end of 2006 when you have to return the development machines to Apple.
There's nothing wrong with the PPC hardware shipping now and in the future. Apple will still be selling PPCs until some time in 2007. They will be supported for as long as Apple supports currently old PPC hardware. For example the pismo Powerbook. It got dropped for Tiger even though it's still PPC.
You can expect that any PPC stuff you buy now will be usable for that same lifetime as the pismo is. Next to go will probably be the B&W G3 with Leppard(OS X 10.5).
There's no reason NOT to buy an PPC stuff now as they will still be usable and fast for quite a while.
Most of the point of switching to the Mac is the OS, not the hardware. Why would you buy a Powerbook only to put Windows on it as the main OS? That makes no sense.
That is backwards though. In your example it would be getting the XBox OS to run on commodity PC hardware which as far as I know, no one has done.
There'll be nothing stopping someone from running Linux on an Intel CPU'd Mac just as there's nothing stopping it from running Windows on it. Windows doesn't do anything to try and stop you from running it on all but some certain hardware.
The next version of OS X called Leppard will run on current hardware. It's all there in the news. Support won't go away instantly and your Powerbook should remain usefull for a long long time.
Not plausible. Apple sells hardware as their main product not software. Also, Phil Schiller has said that OS X for Intel will only run on Apple computers so giving it away is not going to happen. The OS comes with the computer so in that sense you get it free.
If it was going to be typical working conditions on each platform then it would be OS X on the G5 and Windows on the x86.
I can probably safely say that more people do use Linux on x86 then do on PPC though. But Linux is still not the common OS on that platform just as it's not on PPC.
So I'd say that they should still use it on both if they really want to make it a real test.
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I think it'd be a good idea for someone to do an actual test on the durability of the plastic. The nano is so small that you would be sticking it in places where you couldn't normally fit an iPod, so it's in a different environment than larger iPods are. I suspect if you did a fair test on both the nano and the larger iPods you would see that they are equally scratchable.
They could always make him work out and get bigger. Toby wasn't that big before he got his "super powers" and although he wasn't that big after he still made it more convincing.
Does she strike you as a hard core comic book reader?
He'll get his ass kicked until the last 10 mins and then he'll magically be strong again and win.
If the DRM only serves to lock OS X to their hardware then I don't care at all either. It doesn't hurt any legitamate users in the slightest.
But MS actually SELLS Windows as their main product, and Apple sells Macs(now really iPods) as their main product. It's not the same thing because Apple will not sell OS X for any general x86 computer.
You're lucky you have such a cheap rate for the cell data network. Rogers in Ontario, Canada charges $0.05 per KB!
It's a little harder than that, but not much. You still also have to make sure you're linking against the 10.4u SDK otherwise I'm guessing it probably won't run on x86 Macs. It seems that XCode will let you select to compile for Intel without doing this, but in Apple's documentation it says you have to do it to create universal binaries.
"You might want to read Cringely's latest column on the Mac move as well. It's not as simple as Jobs made it out to be."
Because, we all know Cringely is never wrong.
It's been said that AMD couldn't supply enough chips for Apple's demands. Which if it's true then it's obvious why Apple wouldn't go with them. Intel just has so much more fabrication capacity.
Maybe for the short term, but by 2007 all Macs will be Intel from what Steve Jobs said.
Or just cut the cable to the GPS antenna.
Firemen don't drive their fire trucks around all day. Police here in Ontario are constantly passing people on the highways and even smaller roads where the speed limit is 80KM/hr. Most people do about 100KM/hr on the 80 roads and the cops still pass people without their lights on.
Oh, right haha. Now I look dumb. That's what I meant. I think you mixed them up too "The registry is a centralized database, while regedit data was in the individual applications." :)
Regedit is an OS 9 program for modifying resource forks.
That question has already been answered. This development version obviously doesn't have any kind of protections on it yet to make it only run on Apple hardware. Phil Shiller has already said that the final version will only run on Apple hardware and not any x86 computer.
This version will no doubt expire at the end of 2006 when you have to return the development machines to Apple.
There's nothing wrong with the PPC hardware shipping now and in the future. Apple will still be selling PPCs until some time in 2007. They will be supported for as long as Apple supports currently old PPC hardware. For example the pismo Powerbook. It got dropped for Tiger even though it's still PPC.
You can expect that any PPC stuff you buy now will be usable for that same lifetime as the pismo is. Next to go will probably be the B&W G3 with Leppard(OS X 10.5).
There's no reason NOT to buy an PPC stuff now as they will still be usable and fast for quite a while.
Most of the point of switching to the Mac is the OS, not the hardware. Why would you buy a Powerbook only to put Windows on it as the main OS? That makes no sense.
That is backwards though. In your example it would be getting the XBox OS to run on commodity PC hardware which as far as I know, no one has done.
There'll be nothing stopping someone from running Linux on an Intel CPU'd Mac just as there's nothing stopping it from running Windows on it. Windows doesn't do anything to try and stop you from running it on all but some certain hardware.
It's far off because there's going to be some ROM chip on the board like there is already on Macs that won't allow OS X to run on anything else.
The thing is that it might be a lot easier to emulate OS X now that there will be a binary for x86.
The next version of OS X called Leppard will run on current hardware. It's all there in the news. Support won't go away instantly and your Powerbook should remain usefull for a long long time.
Not plausible. Apple sells hardware as their main product not software. Also, Phil Schiller has said that OS X for Intel will only run on Apple computers so giving it away is not going to happen. The OS comes with the computer so in that sense you get it free.
WebCore hasn't been updated for the public with the changes to pass the test, so, no it must not use WebCore.
If it was going to be typical working conditions on each platform then it would be OS X on the G5 and Windows on the x86.
I can probably safely say that more people do use Linux on x86 then do on PPC though. But Linux is still not the common OS on that platform just as it's not on PPC.
So I'd say that they should still use it on both if they really want to make it a real test.
Just imagine the load times.