The Apple Core: Apple Endorses Windows XP Booting
with Boot Camp

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 07 April 2006 12:18:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

boot-camp-beta Apple has released a public beta of a product they're calling Boot Camp that will let you dual boot an Intel-based Mac into Windows XP. According to the public beta Web site "Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy (of Windows)... Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don't have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them."

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Posted by jasonogrady at April 5, 2006 01:01 PM

My Take
Ah, 'tis a sad day when Apple's stock price goes up based on the news that Mac hardware will now run Windows. I was hoping that this would never happen, to be completely honest. I don't WANT people to run Windows on their Mac's. You want to run Windows, GET A PC! Windows (and Microsoft) are a true blight on the face of computing. If business in general is not capable of realizing that they've embraced a flawed, unreliable, untrustworthy piece of shit... FUCK 'EM! They deserve to pay for the systems they've invested in. It's not like they couldn't pull their collective heads from their asses and do something different. They CHOOSE not to. They CHOOSE to continue on the path they've chosen for themselves, because it' really IS something they've "invested" in. OK, fine. Keep funding your investment. Those of us who are smart enough to realize that Microsoft is NOT the way to go, need not cater to your stupidity.
I sincerely hope that those that DO choose to use this new "Boot Camp" technology, do so only to bridge the gap until such time as they are completely able to rid themselves of Windows and Microsoft all together.

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Intel iBook in Shipping in June

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 07 April 2006 12:15:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

ibook AFX News Limited claims that Asustek Computer Inc has secured an Apple Computer contract for "iBook notebook personal computers".

According to their sources, Apple has secured approximately 1.2 million units initially. The laptops are said to be powered by Intel processors and are equipped with 13.3" displays. Apple will reportedly start selling the new iBooks in June.

Apple has been rumored to introduce a 13" Intel iBook. One early report claimed the new iBook would use a significantly different enclosure. Other speculation has suggested that the new Intel iBooks would be called MacBooks.

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iPod Update Offers Maximum Volume Setting

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 07 April 2006 12:05:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

by Geoff Duncan <geoff@tidbits.com>

iPod Video Apple has released a software update which, along with fixing a handful of bugs, enables users to set a maximum volume limit for their iPods. The 28 MB update supports both Mac OS X and Windows XP/2000, but applies only to Apple's fifth-generation video-capable iPods and the iPod nano.

After installing the update, users can configure a maximum volume setting for their iPod: once set, the iPod displays a padlock icon when it reaches the configured top volume. Users can assign a password-like combination to the setting, which will enable parents and others to set a maximum volume that another user of that iPod won't be able to exceed. Apple has also published a set of informational guidelines about sound levels and iPod use.

The update comes amid growing concerns that high music volumes from iPods and other portable music devices may be contributing to hearing loss, particularly for folks who use the devices for extended periods of time. iPods (and most other digital music players) aren't necessarily any louder than other consumer electronics devices with headphones, but users tend to listen to iPods in noisy environments, and crank up the volume to drown out the noise around them. The noisier the environment, the louder they want their music, and the greater the potential for hearing loss.

Apple is currently facing a lawsuit over claims of hearing loss caused by iPod use, and French concerns over hearing loss caused Apple to alter the design of iPods sold in France to lower their maximum audio output.

My Take
In an effort to protect stupid people the world over from hurting themselves, Apple has released a "fix" for the iPod that allows the user to set a maximum volume level on their iPod. I think they should've just told the folks involved in the volume lawsuit to go piss in the wind. I'm tired of lawyers getting fat off of ridiculous lawsuits, and people looking to score a lottery at the expense of a company, or the rest of us, by doing stupid things. If you don't have the brains to figure out that your iPod is too loud, then you deserve to go deaf. Well... at least now Apple can say that they've offered a solution for those who are too dumb to help themselves, thus eliminating any further retarded lawsuits about this particular "problem".

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Mac OS X 10.4.6 Released

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 07 April 2006 12:04:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

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Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update (Intel, PPC). This update fixes general operating system issues and contains all recent Apple security patches.

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Nondestructively Resizing Volumes

post from Mac Geekery - Get your geek on. on 07 April 2006 10:45:13 AM. © Mac Geekery - Get your geek on.

The recent release of 10.4.6 brought about a new feature required for Boot Camp to do its magic - nondestructively resizing volumes. Apple updated the diskutil tool by adding the resizeVolume verb. Let's have a little fun, shall we? I have a 100GB USB drive, but I really want it partitioned into three volumes. The following is highly suspected to be functional only on Intel Macs.

The Finder doesn't really like you toying with diskutil on your own. If at any point the realities of the file system aren't reflected in the Finder, refresh disk arbitration with disktool -r and things should become sane again. When messing with partition tables, though, it's sometimes necessary to unmount, eject, and reattach the drive to get things properly refreshed.

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The Apple Blog on ABC News

post from The Apple Blog on 07 April 2006 10:07:25 AM. © The Apple Blog

Seems we just can’t get out of the news. Today ABC News published an article that included a few words by yours truly. “For someone who’s hesitant to make the switch to Mac and OS X, this is just another reason to make it more attractive,” said Josh Pigford, chief editor of TheAppleBlog.com. “Now it’s [...]

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Beige Hardware and Boot Camp Implications

post from Mac Geekery - Get your geek on. on 07 April 2006 05:00:20 AM. © Mac Geekery - Get your geek on.

I'm all about throwing more fuel on the fire, but many would tell you that I'm not good at starting a fire of my own. Apparently, I buy diesel by the truckload and keep leaving the matches at home. Last month, the codepoet posited his position on Apple selling OS X for Beige Hardware and had a lot of good reasons for why he felt they won't. Others have given their reasons for why they think it's in Apple's future. No one on either side of the issue seems to remember one key fact, though.

Most computer buyers don't spend a single dollar on their computer after the initial purchase.

It's a fact you can live by. Ask around your family and poll some friends. You'll find a few geeks, nerds, and some not-so-nerdy and not-so-geeky who will buy a shareware program here and there, or a cable from time to time, but as a rule people do not spend much money on existing hardware.

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Third-Day Thoughts on Boot Camp

It's not the end of the world.

I've read around the web for the past day or so, as well as on several of the mailing lists I read, and I see some very pessimistic viewpoints of this release and especially the announcement that this will be a part of Leopard. Some are saying that it could ease the transition to Windows because companies would say "well, you can dual-boot, can't you?" and then not release software for the Mac. Others are saying it's the first step into Apple using Windows as a desktop OS. Still others think Apple's turning into a Dell and will start to ship dual-boot machines out of the factory.

Mac Software is Safe

Anyone that reiterates the first argument has likely never worked for a software company before. You don't have the clout – ever – to force a consumer to change operating systems to run your program. Adobe will not make designers flip to Windows to run one program and then flip back to run another (be it theirs or someone else's). Aspyr will not be ditching the game-porting business. Apple is simply not going to lose application ground to Windows because ? Apple is not really competing with Microsoft with this move.

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Virtualization and Microsoft Office

With the Mac-web in a tizzy about Boot Camp (and also the very interesting Virtualization software Parallels Workstation released shortly thereafter), a question again comes to mind that I’ve been wondering about for a while, but which recent events make all the more relevant. A few weeks ago Microsoft released an interesting video (warning: Windows [...]

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