I was wondering how the new movies from the iTunes Store would work on the (now) "old" 5G iPod regarding the new resolution.

I've done some quick testing and can assure that the old 5G iPod with the updated firmware supports videos with larger resolutions than the older limits! I haven't tested extensively yet, but I managed to get an h.264 at 640x480@15FPS, captured from the iSight and exported with the new "Export for iPod" option.

I am now testing with Handbrake to see if full 640x480@30FPS h.264 is supported.

Will it be in English or Japanese? If it's in English, I might show up.

I've watched this ad. I believe it was on brazilian MTV. Altough the Think Different campaign was very limited here, there were some spots on TV and I'm almost sure this was one of them. There were others with the other people from the main Think Different ad. I remember the words from Ali, and I'm sure I never saw this footage if not in the Apple ad. So I guess the ads (there were others) were for oversears campaigns.

Today is Steve Job's birthday. How about some compliments instead? :)

Balazs:
Well, it can be a screenshot of a regular Linux boot displayed fullscreen on MacOS, for all it matters. But it's definitely not a PPC Linux boot. The two penguins indicate two cores/CPUs, which are unavailable in the G5 iMac.

Others:
The big deal is that Linux can be used as a bridge for running Windows in the new Intel Macs. Still, folks will always say "why run Windows on a Mac?" to which different people can give different answers.

Food for thought: Windows runs on the Linux version of VMware. The native BIOS is not even used, but an emulated Phoenix BIOS. Hours or days to have Windows running on the Intel iMac?

Can anyone test it in Keynote? I was under the impression that the remote send regular keypresses, so "next" would send "right", "previous", "left". It would be cool to use them in the new MacBook Pro to control presentations.

Watch out for software update.

Don't move Apple supplied apps, as software update depends on the correct location of such apps when updating them. If you move, be ready for all kinds of strange behavior, from having multiple versions of the same app to things much more dangerous.

I would like to know how to password protect the EFI settings of Intel based Macs as it's possible with Openfirmware. I searched for any info on the http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482 knowledge base article but it says nothing. I then provided feedback saying it should at least mention how to do it in Intel-based Macs.

Altough every copy of Intel VirtualPC sold would be a copy of Windows sold, every user of such system would also be running MacOS, and in doing so being able to compare MacOS to Windows, which could help the switch. New users would use Intel VirtualPC as a buffer to using Mac as its new platform. The user would be able to run Windows in (almost) full speed (minor performance penalty from hardware virtualization) using it as a safe device, but would probably be greatly satisfied with its Mac and MacOS. In the future, in his next computer, he would feel much more comfortable in chosing a Mac again, and if enough of its applications are available in native MacOS versions, he would dump VirtualPC. One new Mac only user, one less Windows only user.

VirtualPC makes sense with the performance penalty due to emulation ("you see, this Mac computers are sloooow"), but are too much a risk when can give you decent performance.

The good perspective is that creating a virtualization only software (as opposed to an emulation package) may be much simpler (for one thing, Core Duos have some nice hardware virtualization features previously found only on server CPUs), and many more companies may see this as a potential market. Anyone has doubt that VMWare is probably developing a MacOS X virtualization software as I write this?