Sunday, October 13, 2002
News
IBM Server Chip Seen Slimmed Down For Apple Macs
IBM Monday announced a microchip for personal computers that will crunch data in chunks twice as big as the current standard and is expected by industry watchers to be used by Apple.
The Latest Audio Gear For Mac-Based Music Studios
The Audio Engineering Society Convention in Los Angeles spotlights the newest pro-oriented hardware and software, with lots of goodies coming for Mac OS X.
Opinion
Wanted: MS Mac Chief
Want to apply for the most thankless job in the world?
Review
Apple Scores With Able Server Hardware And Software
The Xserve is an impressive server with a multitude of potential uses, excellent ease of use, plenty of storage, and a software configuration that allows for an unlimited number of connections—all at a truly reasonable price.
Sidetrack
DO WHAT I MEAN Whoever says our computers are already fast enough are not looking far ahead. Sure, if you just using current applications to read e-mail and surf the web, then you probably do not need to upgrade your computer ever. But, what if you do want the next generation of e-mail applications that is really the vision of a personal digital assistant? What if you want the computer to truly understand you?
YOU WANT THIS JOB? Rob Helm: It's just not at the moment a great career move to be running the Mac unit.
RANDOM STUFF All of the music industry's top remix producers uses Macintosh G4 computers.
Wintel
The PC's New Tricks
The PC world is in a funk. Consumers don't want new machines, businesses aren't upgrading, and Michael Dell is grabbing all the profits. So what's a rival PC maker to do? Sell new software, build new devices—and pray that innovation brings customers back. Soon.
Microsoft's Software Snoops
Today, Microsoft has a small team of real, trained anthropologists who visit the homes of regular people and study them at their computers, just as they would an indigenous tribe in the Australian outback.