Thursday, August 29, 2002
News
Aple Woos Wobbly Windows Users
Jobs does have something to shout about.
Newton's Return: A Hit And A Myth
The resurrection rumor has surfaced at least nine times since 1998, when Apple discontinued the device.
Opinion
Apple Struggles With Lame Ducks
Mac OS X is a winner, but Apple is hamstrung by slow chips and a 1970s business model.
Tech Turf Wars
Apple's products may only appeal to a narrow niche of PC buyers, but Apple at least seems to understand what the Mac faithful want.
Review
Video-Capture Cards
If you work with uncompressed video, these four professional cards can help you take Apple's Final Cut Pro to the next level.
Mac OS X Jaguar Update Needs Tweaking
People who should avoid Jaguar for a few weeks include those who need to access printers and scanners and customized Mac networks that might not be ready for the upgrade.
Mac OS X Upgrade Makes Robust Case For Making A Switch
The experience is less technical, more intuitive and overall more productive. This is ironic, since Mac OS X is based on Unix, the rugged operating system originally designed for supercomputers, servers and workstations.
The iMac-Like PC
The iMac itself, a graceful piece of art whose astonishingly thin screen floats in air on a gleaming chrome elbow, sells well enough. But whenever a Windows PC maker tries something similar, buyers stay away in droves.
Help For Help In Jaguar
First I got the spinning beach ball of death and had to force-quit Help. Then it degraded into a simple "Application unexpectedly quit" error whenever I tried to load Help.
Sidetrack
Great UI From Microsoft
There, got your attention, didn't it?
Doc Searls: It's veerry nice. Much more smooth and intiutive in a GUI way than I'm used to finding stuff from Microsoft.
Have pigs finally flew?
Jaguar Impressions
Rob McNair-Huff: Going forward, if you want to keep using the newest versions of software in the near future, you are going to need to plunk down $129 for a copy of Jaguar.
Meg Hourihan: I hold out hope that the outrage of Mac users everywhere will bring about [Happy Mac's] return, just as it did the last time they tried to remove Happy Mac, with the original launch of OS X.