August 7, 2006

Mac Pro For Everyone, I Like The Displays

Filed under: techNews — admin @ 5:41 pm

Word is out, Apple shook the world once again at the WWDC. With the announcement of the fastest Mac ever, Apple has also given the world a peak at the next version of their Operating System (10.5) and it sure will be sweeeeeeet!

Before I go into what I really like, since it has barely been 6 months since my last Apple desktop purchase, which is the price reduction on the Apple displays, I’ll give you the suggested specs for the new all-might powerful Apple Computers:

Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors
4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD??RW/CD-RW)

If that’s not power, what is?

Ok, Now that the great hardware on the processing side has been mentioned, I’d like to elaborate on how happy I am to finally see a significant price-drop on the 30-inch Apple display. It was $2500 but now sold at $1999 brand new. Since I tend to like shopping the refurbished resellers, I can’t wait to see what the refurb price on these will be now. If the can get close enough to $1500, hell I might have to buy 2.

I’m still on my old 22″ Apple display, and it doesn’t match the style of my G5. So Apple if you’re listening, please put some 30-inch displays around $1500 on your store.

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WorldWide Developers Conference

Filed under: techNews — admin @ 1:21 pm

Never too many needles in a hay-stack when you’re talking about the WWDC for Apple Computer. There are many new things people expect or hint will be revealed today. The biggest rumors are that Apple will be flashing some new hardware (most likely with some significant speed increases), and giving the world a peak at Operating System 10.5 ##- codenamed Leopard.

Personally I’m looking forward to the evolution of the OS. While I wouldn’t mind seeing new machines from Apple, I just bought my current computer this past December and won’t be ready for an upgrade for quite some time. But, upgrading the OS is always crucial to me. I think a lot of the speed that Macintosh experiences is due to the fluidity of the OS.

So, hopefully I’ll be continuing with some insights into the news of the day: WWDC!

August 4, 2006

Web 2.0 and Phases

Filed under: techNews — admin @ 4:01 pm

Remember 1995? It was the year a lot of people were convinced the Internet was going to take over the world, or as a matter of fact maybe become the world. Companies were pouring billions of dollars into empty buckets with not bottoms. Even the Rolling Stones landed a nice lucrative contract from Microsoft to use a song for Windows 95. That was over a decade ago and as we all know the bottom that was never that completely fell out of corporate America and millions lost millions of dollars. Now, we have what everyone is calling web 2.0.

Web 2.0 seems to be software websites and languages oriented around experience and business practicality. Or maybe not, how is MySpace going to charge reasonable advertising rates on a site that is the most popular and have a demographic that’s very ambivelous to ads? At any rate, 2.0 ushers in a lot of interesting techniques and sense of community throughout the Internet ##- AJAX aside, there is tremendous potential for Web 2.0. Google is a corporate giant that has just leapt into the fray with aggressive drive, and more companies should do that. Falling behind at this juncture, now that so much has been learned from the web days of old, could be fatal.

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