From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V11 #4 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Friday, January 13 2006 Volume 11 : Number 004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MacWorld - SF [Bill Roberts ] Re: MacWorld - SF [Paxety Pages ] Re: MacWorld - SF [Bill Roberts ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:31:55 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: MacWorld - SF It's funny because for years Apple poo-pooed Intel chips in favor of Motorola and then later the PowerPC chips. Apparently the RISC chips can just do so much. Quoting "Leslie O." : > > > > I believe Apple is now turning to Intel chips. > > Hilarious. > > Why is it hilarious? > Anybody griping all 1997-style about the chip change > (probably .000005% of users, right?) clearly needs to > get with the times, right? :-) > > I saw (linked on my blog) the SF Gate vid with the > nerdiest men I've ever seen-- and I know from nerdy-- > whining about the weight. Like a whole new chip wasn't > enough. I wanted to slap them! Computer people are > silly. ;-) > > Granted, my time working in Mac media has probably > rendered me Way Past Over It. ;-P The last couple > years I've been a mere civilian, as long as I have my > OS and my purty machines, I'm happy. :-) > > More about the chips from Apple: > http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/intelcoreduo.html > I can see a MacBook alongside a keyboard setup, eh? > (LOL) > > > -- Leslie O. > www.basiaweb.com > > > "The truth hurts... luckily for America, I'm a masochist." > --Stephen Colbert > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:39:49 -0500 From: Paxety Pages Subject: Re: MacWorld - SF Well, the real question, and perhaps Basia and Danny are asking it too, is whether Apple will make available a version of OS X for non-Apple Intel machines. Supposedly there's already a hack available for download from somewhere. Also interesting is Jobs assertions that the new Intel Macs are faster than the old Macs - forgetting, it seems, all his years of claiming that the Macs were faster than Intel machines. Ain't marketing wonderful un abrazo, Juan Barry wrote: > >> I believe Apple is now turning to Intel chips. Hilarious. > > > Yes they are, at least partially. I've seen a few stories about it > online already. Big news for sure. Maybe Microsoft will come with a > Linux OS too. > > > Barry > > "Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path > and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:31:55 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: MacWorld - SF It's funny because for years Apple poo-pooed Intel chips in favor of Motorola and then later the PowerPC chips. Apparently the RISC chips can just do so much. Quoting "Leslie O." : > > > > I believe Apple is now turning to Intel chips. > > Hilarious. > > Why is it hilarious? > Anybody griping all 1997-style about the chip change > (probably .000005% of users, right?) clearly needs to > get with the times, right? :-) > > I saw (linked on my blog) the SF Gate vid with the > nerdiest men I've ever seen-- and I know from nerdy-- > whining about the weight. Like a whole new chip wasn't > enough. I wanted to slap them! Computer people are > silly. ;-) > > Granted, my time working in Mac media has probably > rendered me Way Past Over It. ;-P The last couple > years I've been a mere civilian, as long as I have my > OS and my purty machines, I'm happy. :-) > > More about the chips from Apple: > http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/intelcoreduo.html > I can see a MacBook alongside a keyboard setup, eh? > (LOL) > > > -- Leslie O. > www.basiaweb.com > > > "The truth hurts... luckily for America, I'm a masochist." > --Stephen Colbert > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V11 #4 **************************