It would be great if Apple seriously considered creating a diskless PowerBook. They should ditch the fixed disk (or Winchester) hard drive forever in favor of Flash or Non-Volatile Read Write Memory (NVRWM) in their portable offerings. The hand writing is on the wall. After trashing flash-based MP3 players for years in favor of the […]
Month: December 2005
Paul Murphy’s has an excellent blog entry on ZDNet yesterday that throws a cold bucket of water on the irrational optimism that Apple will launch a raft of successful Intel-based Macs in 2006. Quite a number of pundits have gone out and predicted the appearance of Intel based Powerbooks from Apple this January – but […]
Analysts don’t always know what they are talking about, but the rumors last week that Apple will launch a portable based on an Intel chip got me thinking that it may be Apple’s consumer laptop — the iBook. After all Apple needs to start weaning itself off of the G4 chips and what better product […]
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More FiOS Fodder – Battlefront TV
There are some big discussions currently going on in the state of New Jersey where Verizon is working to get legislation through that would allow them to compete in the television space, something they’re not permitted to do yet in the garden state. Verizon’s television service would be carried on Verizon’s new high-speed fiber-optic broadband […]
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VNC Control of a Mac With Tiger
Most people don’t realize that VNC support is built right into Tiger. If this sounds over your head VNC is a desktop sharing system which uses the rfb (Remote FrameBuffer) protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard presses and mouse clicks from one computer to another relaying the screen updates back in […]