Posted on October 9, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Some Apple retailers have already been given price lists for Apple’s upcoming laptops and that there are 12 price points ranging from $800 to $3100. Current laptops are said to have only have 8 retail price points: 3 Macbooks (starting at $1099), 3 Macbook Pros and 2 Macbooks.
How much would an $800 Apple [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Apple are screwing Windows users again. If this was Microsoft the outrage would be far greater! I’m reading lots of complaints about the new iTunes 8 update causing horrific problems on Windows machines, including widespread reports of STOP errors, aka the Blue Screen of Death. My colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has asked readers for reports and [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Somewhere in the news coverage of Psystar’s countersuit against Apple today, I was reminded of the car analogy I use to help friends and family understand how to buy a computer.
Under the hood of a car, everything is the same. There’s an engine, transmission, battery and some spark plus, belts and hoses. It doesn’t matter [...]
Filed under: Apple, Technology | Tagged: Apple, Benz, computer, countersuit, Kia, Mercedes, monopoly, psystar | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 19, 2008 by thegtapatriot
The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS’s diminishing importance.
Let’s connect a few dots:
• On Tuesday, Dell rolled out a new line of laptops and one [...]
Filed under: BSD, BeOS, Canada, Dell, Google, Linux, Microsoft, Netbooks, Novell, Open Source, Red Hat, Solaris, Technology, UNIX, Ubuntu | Tagged: Apple, Dell, Linux, Open Source, OS, Splashtop, windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 16, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Atom-powered mini-tablet! This one was pretty hot! ZDNet reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel’s new Atom processor. According to lore, the elusive device is slightly larger than iPhone and speculation that it could be the long-rumored Apple mini-tablet with a 720 x 480 [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Steve Jobs’ keynote speech, that he is due to make on stage at the Moscone Centre in San Francicso on Tuesday 15th January, has apparently been leaked via Wikipedia.
With highlights including a 16GB iPhone, details of the SDK for the device, a 13-inch 0.8-inch thick redesigned MacBook and direct YouTube for Apple TV, it would [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Infoworld gives OS 10.5 a glowing review. No one is unhappy with Mac OS X Version 10.4, known as Tiger. OS X is not an application platform (I bristle at using the term “operating system” for OS X; I explain why below) that needed repair, speeding up, or exterior renovation. Motivations for major upgrades of [...]
Filed under: Apple | Tagged: Apple, Apple Inc., BSD, Leopard, Mac OS, Operating System, OS, OS X, OSX, Tiger | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 24, 2007 by thegtapatriot
I wonder what would happen if Microsoft dropped the Windows NT core, making an about face, like Apple did years ago with BSD and adopted Sun’s “Open Solaris” as the core? No, I am not talking about the movie! Granted I am sure I could write an essay and make some comparisons. What if they [...]
Filed under: BSD, Microsoft, Open Source, Solaris, Technology | Tagged: Amiga, Apple, BeOS, Bill Gates, BSD, Java, Jonathan Schwartz, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Solaris, Microsoft Sun, Microsoft Vista, Open Solaris, Open Source, SPARC, Steve Jobs, Sun, Sun Microsystems, Web 2.0, Windows NT | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 29, 2007 by thegtapatriot
When shopping for a new computer, your mind is probably spinning with considerations: price, reliability, speed, software capabilities, security, and other specs. Perhaps the hardest part is choosing an operating system on which everything will run. To get a good idea of what capabilities Apple’s OSX Tiger/Leopard, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux have to offer, [...]
Filed under: Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Technology, Ubuntu | Tagged: Apple, Leopard, Linux, mac, Microsoft, OS X, OSX, Tiger, Ubuntu, Vista, windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 28, 2007 by thegtapatriot
“And with most of the OS focus this week being allocated to Mac OS X Leopard, it would be nice to take our attention away from that for a moment, and take a look at what the hypothetical Google OS would look like after the company declares war on Microsoft. This OS would take [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Is it time for Microsoft to abandon Vista and move on to something else? Maybe Microsoft should consider doing what Apple did and create an OS based on an existing UNIX based system (BSD, Linux, Amiga, etc…). Or maybe Microsoft should “move up the time table” of Windows 7, Min-Win or Microsoft Singularity and make [...]
Filed under: Apple, BSD, Dell, Linux, Microsoft, Technology | Tagged: 64-bit, Acer, Apple, BeOS, Bill Gates, BSD, Canonical, Canonicals Ubuntu, Dell, Free-BSD, Lenovo, Leopard, Linux, Linux OS, Longhorn, Longhorn reloaded, mac, ME, Microsoft, Microsoft Linux, Microsoft SUSE, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, Min-Win, Novell, OEM, Singularity, SP2, Steve Jobs, SUSE, Ubuntu, UNIX, Vista, Windows 7, Windows ME, Windows Seven, XP | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 24, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Vista Is Still Plagued by Incompatibilities. This is not good for the general “Microsoft PR” campaign. With Leopard being released and Linux looking better, Microsoft needs help fast. Albeit, some of the issues are directly Microsoft issues. Hardware and software manufacturers are just not up to speed. However regardless of the fact people are labeling [...]
Filed under: Microsoft, Technology | Tagged: Adobe, Apple, drivers, Hardware, Incompatibilities, Leopard, Linux, mac, Microsoft, PDF, Quicken, software, Vista, XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 23, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Here’s a question that I received from yesterday’s mail bag:
Apple’s a lot easier to understand when you stop looking at it as a religion and instead see it for what it is – a multi-billion dollar consumer electronics company
Now, I have checked and I’m pretty sure that this email isn’t from Steve Jobs, but it’s [...]
Filed under: Apple, Hardware, Linux, Microsoft, Technology | Tagged: , Apple, Boot camp, Hardware, iphone, ipod touch, ipods, Leopard, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, OEM, OS X, OSX, PC, religion, Steve Jobs, windows, Windows-based | Leave a Comment »