Not that this is in any way indicative of the average person, but personally I bought my Powerbook because the hardware was the best I could get for the money. MacOS X had a role to play as well of course.
I might not have bought a laptop at all had it not been for Apple hardware. So to keep me as a future customer hardware R&D would still be important. But of course that's just me. YMMV.
Pardon me, but I don't think anyone (in their right mind) has ever claimed that. What's great about open source is that bugs are fixed early (under ideal circumstances) and keeping up to date means a secure system. As secure as things get anyway.
Disabling services you don't need is a good way of making sure most updates aren't necessary. This is the case with most linux/bsd distros, OS X - and recently Windows too (SP2 onwards).
But updates aren't a bad thing. They are a good thing.
To me Studio Ghibli has replaced Disney. I used to love Disney stuff back in the day, but somewhere along the road the magic was just lost. I figured I was just growing up. Then along comes Ghibli with amazing movies like Totoro no Tonari, Sen to Chihiro, Mononoke, Kiki, Laputa and throws me right back where I was. A child all over again. And it feels good. The Ghibli universe (or rather universes, since every universe is more or less unique) is just pure magic.
Pixar does a good job of capturing some of the same magic. I very much enjoyed The Incredibles, Monster Inc. and so on.
But what about Disney? Well, I did actually like Treasure Planet. Perhaps because I loved the original story and had it on audio casette, so I knew it by heart. But Disney managed to visualise it and retell it in a totally different way - but were still true to the spirit of the story. That's the only Disney story I've really enjoyed in recent years. Brother Bear was ok, but not exactly spectacular story-wise - though I did love the animation.
It seems to me, that Disney is like Apple were in the years before Jobs came back. A chicken running around without its head. I guess they can make a comeback some day. In fact I sort of hope they do, even if we have Studio Ghibli and Pixar to fill the void.
Nope. That Mac Business Unit at Microsoft representative was on-stage during the presentation of x86 MacOS X. They are fully committed to supporting MacOS on Intel.
It's most likely not "any" x86 machine, but rather those that Darwin already runs on. Whether it's a intentional or not, it's still good marketing though.
As someone who hasn't had the time to actually learn a modern programming language, Apple's new Automator makes it very easy for me to make simple programs (scripts/macros) without even touching the keyboard except when I have to type in the name of the.. uhm.. automatron.. when saving it. It's certainly much more productive for me currently than having to sit down and figure out AppleScript.
For word processing I tend to prefer a keyboard though...
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Not that this is in any way indicative of the average person, but personally I bought my Powerbook because the hardware was the best I could get for the money. MacOS X had a role to play as well of course.
I might not have bought a laptop at all had it not been for Apple hardware. So to keep me as a future customer hardware R&D would still be important. But of course that's just me. YMMV.
Pardon me, but I don't think anyone (in their right mind) has ever claimed that. What's great about open source is that bugs are fixed early (under ideal circumstances) and keeping up to date means a secure system. As secure as things get anyway. Disabling services you don't need is a good way of making sure most updates aren't necessary. This is the case with most linux/bsd distros, OS X - and recently Windows too (SP2 onwards). But updates aren't a bad thing. They are a good thing.
To me Studio Ghibli has replaced Disney. I used to love Disney stuff back in the day, but somewhere along the road the magic was just lost. I figured I was just growing up. Then along comes Ghibli with amazing movies like Totoro no Tonari, Sen to Chihiro, Mononoke, Kiki, Laputa and throws me right back where I was. A child all over again. And it feels good. The Ghibli universe (or rather universes, since every universe is more or less unique) is just pure magic. Pixar does a good job of capturing some of the same magic. I very much enjoyed The Incredibles, Monster Inc. and so on. But what about Disney? Well, I did actually like Treasure Planet. Perhaps because I loved the original story and had it on audio casette, so I knew it by heart. But Disney managed to visualise it and retell it in a totally different way - but were still true to the spirit of the story. That's the only Disney story I've really enjoyed in recent years. Brother Bear was ok, but not exactly spectacular story-wise - though I did love the animation. It seems to me, that Disney is like Apple were in the years before Jobs came back. A chicken running around without its head. I guess they can make a comeback some day. In fact I sort of hope they do, even if we have Studio Ghibli and Pixar to fill the void.
Nope. That Mac Business Unit at Microsoft representative was on-stage during the presentation of x86 MacOS X. They are fully committed to supporting MacOS on Intel.
It's most likely not "any" x86 machine, but rather those that Darwin already runs on. Whether it's a intentional or not, it's still good marketing though.
I'm sure Basilisk will be ported very quickly. It's already available for OS X today and lets you run 68k MacOS versions. It's free too.
As someone who hasn't had the time to actually learn a modern programming language, Apple's new Automator makes it very easy for me to make simple programs (scripts/macros) without even touching the keyboard except when I have to type in the name of the .. uhm.. automatron .. when saving it. It's certainly much more productive for me currently than having to sit down and figure out AppleScript.
For word processing I tend to prefer a keyboard though...