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Axiotron finally ships Modbook OS X tablet {Engadget}
Jan 1st 2008 12:11PM They're not going to be sued, because it uses components from an actual MacBook, and isn't in violation of any legal, licensing, or any other provisions. Nice try.
IBM gearing up to lay off over 100000 American employees? {Engadget}
May 5th 2007 5:00PM "Not suprising though, when you think that most of u.s. nuclear technology and production is now owned by mitsubishi of Japan."
Of course that's utterly false, but people will no doubt believe it.
*Sigh*
iPhone Will Not Allow User Installable Applications {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jan 9th 2007 11:01PM I highly doubt this is correct.
First of all, I'd bet nearly anything that this phone is NOT running a "full" version of "Mac OS X", which is one of the first things this post claims the attendant said, so that already casts doubt in my mind on anything else he says, especially since every other smart phone/device lets you install apps.
First, Apple refers to the OS as "OS X". Apple NEVER refers to Mac OS X as "OS X" in printed marketing materials; always as "Mac OS X". This is the only place an OS is carefully referred to in printed specifications as "OS X". I think "OS X" is shorthand for the stripped down/embedded/whatever you want to call it version of Mac OS X that may indeed share much of the same features and functionality as the full Mac OS X, and more of a marketing term to get people to understand, "Hey, this is 'OS X', and features the look and feel you've come to expect from Mac OS X."
Second, I know people were imagining just dragging Terminal, Photoshop, Office, and all manner of crap to this phone. Um, no. That's not the way it would be able to work. This is not a full Macintosh computer in the sense that people who are assuming that are thinking of. Now, could nearly any application be written for this, and might it be very similar to writing conventional Mac OS X applications? Sure. Might there even be some crossover? Sure. Hell, maybe widgets will work nearly as-is. But I simply cannot imagine a device in the smartphone/PDA/"next generation communicator" class not letting the user install apps. It defies logic.
We should probably wait and see what the truth is instead of starting off a firestorm of speculation.
Regards,
Dave Schroeder
University of Wisconsin - Madison
das@doit.wisc.edu
http://das.doit.wisc.edu/
The Lockdown: Locked, but not secure (Part I) {Engadget}
Aug 24th 2006 4:03PM Medeco's response:
http://www.medeco.com/about/whats_new/pr/bump.html
Apple initiates Macbook Pro battery recall program {Engadget}
Jul 31st 2006 9:26AM I must revise my previous post: I just spent a few minutes talking with Christopher Price about the battery issue, and it turns out my post was out of context. I didn't realize that Apple had gone on record against Christopher's initial coverage about the battery. For better or worse, Apple doesn't acknowledge problems (and therefore, "there is no problem") until it identifies the problem and has a solution in place. Perhaps a better model would be to at least acknowledge known problems under some circumstances, and give note that there is a fix in the works. But with a vendor like Apple (as opposed to vendors with massive volume like Dell), that could also equate to the sales on that particular product dying in the meantime. It's a double-edged sword, from both perspectives. In any event, I retract my previous comments...pcsintel.com's coverage has been good on this topic, now that I've seen the followups.
XP on MacTel: game over? {Engadget}
Mar 14th 2006 10:15AM Even if this one isn't real, Amit Singh from IBM and kernelthread.com (slashdotted 16 times for excellent technical articles on various bits of internals of Apple hardware and Mac OS X) has his own legacy boot solution as well. From a rejected submission elsewhere:
It appears that Amit Singh of IBM Almaden Research Center, of kernelthread.com and author of Mac OS X Internals, has devised a method to allow legacy, or BIOS-based, booting on Intel-based Macs, which they're calling "BAMBIOS". This means operating systems that currently only support legacy booting, such as many Linux distributions that don't yet support EFI, or things like Windows XP and the forthcoming Windows Vista (the 32-bit version of which will lack EFI support), will now be able to run on Intel-based Macs without modification (and completely legally).
So even if narf2006's solution isn't real, Amit's solution most certainly is, since he has a great deal of credibility. One way or another, we'll all be able to boot Windows directly on our Intel-based Macs.
Also, I just spoke with Colin Nederkoorn (the guy running the contest) moments ago, and narf2006's solution has NOT been submitted to him yet. He said that narf2006 said he's "cleaning it up" and will be submitting it "later this week". So, no one, including Colin, has actually seen this solution working yet. Also, he apparently hasn't been in communication with Amit on the BAMBIOS solution as yet...
Palm Treo 800p coming March 15? {Engadget}
Feb 2nd 2006 12:35PM "does treo 800p also use WM5?"
...
The "p" is for "Palm". Like the "w" in 700w is for "Windows".
Apple's Intel iMac gets nakey {Engadget}
Jan 15th 2006 4:59PM Yes, it is an Intel 945 Series chipset, and an Intel 82801GBM is also present:
http://appleintelfaq.com/#18
Mac OS X updates disable or damage PowerBooks? {Engadget}
Dec 28th 2005 12:44PM #38: No, this firmware "thingy" is most likely NOT the problem in your case. What is likely is that you installed bad RAM.
Mac OS X updates disable or damage PowerBooks? {Engadget}
Dec 28th 2005 12:27PM What happens to you folks with "dead" RAM slots if you try:
1. Resetting the NVRAM in Open Firmware:
- Hold command-option-O-F (that's the letter O) at boot, and continue holding until a white screen with black text appears
- Issue the commands:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
(The last command here causes a reboot)
OR
2. Resetting the Power Management Unit (it's a long shot, but it's worth a try since it's easy:
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449#faq11
It would be interesting to see if the RAM slot is magically reenabled, becuase I highly, highly doubt that the RAM slot is "fried". No, let me rephrase: that is DEFINITELY not happening. Additionally, given the amount of PowerBooks we have going through here, this must be an extremely isolated issue, because I haven't seen this happen yet. And lastly, all of the machines in question are all under warranty, so even if something did happen, just get it fixed instead of complaining about it...
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