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Opera's All-Out Bid to Build the Best Browser
Apple's Almost Netbook
G4 'Book vs. Hackintosh Netbook: Which Makes More Sense?
Whatever Happened To The Email App?
Steve Jobs' Big Night At The Oscars
Upgrade your original 1984 Macintosh to run OS X Snow Leopard
Apple, Microsoft Warming Up To Each Other
Google Chrome OS 'Business' Edition To Arrive In 2011
The Future of Windows
Opera's All-Out Bid to Build the Best Browser
Betanews's Scott M. Fulton, III reports:
Opera 10.5 has a completely renewed chassis and much more horsepower in the engine, but some work remaining to be done with the upholstery. Still, Opera is back in the hunt. In terms of computational speed, Opera is not yet the fastest, but it is disarmingly close. In graphics performance, it zips past the rest of the field at warp speed....
The main JavaScript processor engine, dubbed Carakan, is to the interpreter in Opera 10.1 what the Macintosh II was to the Apple II.... not to upgrade is about as sensible as hanging onto a 1975 Toyota Celica rather than accept a free 2010 Camry.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/69484.html
Apple's Almost Netbook
Low End Mac's John Hatchett says:
....Mr. Mike, our in-house computer repairman, feels that because Apple is marketing a separate keyboard with an attached dock for the iPad, it is admitting that the virtual keyboard will not work for extended typing. I don't know. I want to see if I can use the virtual keyboard to type a column, so I am reserving my thoughts on the usability of the iPad until I can use one.....
If - and I say if - I can bring the old PowerBook back, I will have the Holy Grail of the Mac universe: a Mac netbook....
Long before the current Windows netbook craze, Apple made a subcompact notebook computer that measures 10.9" x 8.6" x 1.18" and weighs 4.6 lb.
LEM Editor/Publisher Dan Knight adds:
There is no strict definition for a netbook. Although the first netbook had a tiny 8.9" x 6.5" footprint, a minuscule 7" display, and weighed just two pounds, netbooks have become larger over the years to accommodate bigger displays, higher capacity batteries, and more useful - closer to standard size - keyboards. Nowadays a netbook is more likely to have a 10.1" display, a 10.3" x 7.2" footprint, and weigh 2.5 to 3.0 lb. Netbooks are typified as being small, light, cheap, having shrunken keyboards, having no provision for an internal optical drive, and using single-core CPUs at clock speeds (typically 1.6 GHz) that nobody would choose for a real notebook.
In terms of size, the 12" PowerBook comes close. In terms of weight, not hardly. It also has a full sized keyboard, a more practical screen size, and was not designed to be cheap - prices started at $1,500. CPU speeds were only a step behind the 15" PowerBook, although by today's standards even the fastest 12" PowerBook can barely keep up with a $300 netbook in overall processing power.
To read more, click here.
http://lowendmac.com/ed/hatchett/10jh/apples-almost-netbook.html
G4 'Book vs. Hackintosh Netbook: Which Makes More Sense?
Low End Mac's Alan Zisman says:
Low End Mac recently published some articles looking at netbooks running Mac OS X. I described my experiences - at first frustrating, but ultimately successful (and surprisingly easy) "hackintoshing" a Dell Mini 9. Allison Payne followed up with her experience putting OS X onto a Lenovo S10 - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Dan Bashur took a different tack, looking at a used 14" iBook and suggesting it was better to "buy a Mac for less" than hack a netbook.
Along with my "hackintoshed" Mini 9, I've also got a G4 iBook, the original 12" model running at 800 MHz.....
Let's try to compare the two....
In some respects, comparing any 7-year-old model - in this case the iBook G4 - with any 2-year-old computer - the Dell Mini 9 - is not really fair. But in many ways, these two models are similar.....
Which Is the Better Choice? .... which is a more usable computer?
For the full report visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/zisman/10az/g4-book-vs-netbook.html
Whatever Happened To The Email App?
The Register's Andrew Orlowski asks:
Is the email program dead? Did the whole world just migrate away from Hotmail over to Facebook when we weren't looking? Does anyone else care?
Weirdly, the answer seems to be yes, yes, and no. Email has never gone away, and its advantages are unique: but the email client seems to be going the way of the Gopher....
And what a sorry landscape we have before us.
For the full commentary, visit:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/the_great_email_client_mystery/
Steve Jobs' Big Night At The Oscars
Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says:
Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar triumph for the "Hurt Locker" may be the headline in Monday's papers, but for Apple fans the big news Sunday evening was Steve Jobs' appearance on the red carpet in a tuxedo.
For the full report, visit here:
http://bit.ly/9qn6K1
Upgrade your original 1984 Macintosh to run OS X Snow Leopard
gmjhoweInstructables says:
Upgrade your original 1984 Macintosh to run OS X Snow Leopard.
The original Macintosh took the the world by storm with its small form factor, and above standard speeds. This project aims to show you how to upgrade your original 1984 macintosh to the specification of a modern day machine.
The original Macintosh had an 8mhz processor, my upgrades will boost it to a speed 200x faster than that. Giving us enough speed to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
My main objectives were.
-Do not alter, cut, deform, change, or break the original Mac in anyway, I wanted to be able to return it to its original state if I chose to.
- Not to let myself cut costs on the project just to make it more 'amazinger' (cheap instructables are great, but we do see a lot of 'wow make an awesome uber computer for like $10 dollars yeah'. This was an epic project, I cut costs where I could, and used recycled parts, but I spared no expense in making this the best I could. This 1984 Macintosh deserved no less......
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/b2hBwU
Apple, Microsoft Warming Up To Each Other
The Seattle Times' Brier Dudley reports:
You don't often hear Microsoft's Steve Ballmer gushing about Apple, but he was sure being nice to his Cupertino, Calif., rival last week. Microsoft and Apple are reportedly close to adding Bing search to the iPhone, and Ballmer's praise of Apple's App Store may be another sign that the companies' frosty relationship is thawing.
For the full report, visit here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011285362_brier08.html
Google Chrome OS 'Business' Edition To Arrive In 2011
ZNet blogger Rachel King reports:
The first version of Google Chrome OS isn't even out yet, and there's already talk of additional editions as Google will be releasing a "business" version of Google Chrome OS next year.
For the full report, visit here:
http://bit.ly/92XSQ6
The Future of Windows
Technologizer's David Worthington (and twenty-eight Windows watchers say):
How can Microsoft keep Windows relevant? We asked journalists, technologists, and former Microsoft employees that simple question, and got an array of answers.....
Technologizer asked some of the industry's big brains about what Microsoft needs to do to keep its operating system relevant in the years to come. Their advice ranges from merely simplifying the interface to borrowing ideas from other Microsoft products such as the Xbox to giving the OS a complete reboot. Here's what they (and we) have to say......
For the full report, visit here:
http://technologizer.com/2010/03/08/future-windows/
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