Karl-Peter Gottschalk: Hardware

Computer hardware, with an emphasis on the best.

Album Cover Artist Roger Dean On Macintoshes. - August 31, 2002

Here is an article about English artist Roger Dean, who designed the album covers for 1970s hippie band Yes. The article rather cutely is laid out using Mac OS X windows and a Photoshop 7 toolbar.
http://www.apple.com/uk/creative/rogerdean/

Pogue On The iMac-Like PCs. - August 30, 2002

Whenever WindowsWorld tries to rip-off an idea that first appears at Apple, they come up with something that the inhabitants of Bizarro would create. The New York Times&8217; David Pogue looks at two iMac imitators from Gateway and NEC.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/29/technology/circuits/29STAT.html?8cir

New Computer Speakers From Harman-Kardon. - August 29, 2002

Check out Harman-Kardon&8217;s new Creature speakers, that join their SoundSticks, Sonnet and Champagne computer speaker ranges.
http://www.harman-multimedia.com/

Gary Krakow of MSNBC Also Evaluates Jaguar. - August 29, 2002

&8220;I really like Apple&8217;s OS X. I think Apple has done a wonderful job of combining the best of their user-friendly operating system with powerful Unix-based underpinnings. But previous versions of OS X haven&8217;t been very helpful in allowing me to do work on the Microsoft network at my office. Apple says OS X Jaguar will change all that. I wanted to see if that was true.&8221;
http://www.msnbc.com/news/799225.asp

Charles Haddad on Jaguar. - August 29, 2002

&8220;The good old days are here again: The new version of OS X once more gives Macs clear superiority in operating systems,&8221; says Charless Haddad of BusinessWeek online.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc20020828_4318.htm

Ken Bereskin of Apple has a Weblog. - August 28, 2002

&8220;If you&8217;ve been wondering, I&8217;ve got the database with the 150+ features of Jaguar and will start posting a couple of them every day,&8221; he writes.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100676/

Jaguar Sells 100,000 Copies So Far. - August 28, 2002

News.com reports on the release of Jaguar in the United States, and quotes an Adelaide computer consultant. &8220;For me, 10.2 is like coming home to some features I really missed from OS 9,&8221; said James Rolevink, an Adelaide, South Australia, Apple dealer. &8220;I feel as though I have just bought a truckload of what would otherwise be really useful third party add-ons, but they are all an integral part of the OS.&8221; &160; &160; &160; Rolevink, who also is a computer sciences...
http://rss.com.com/2100-1040-955498.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

Oh, Bugger: 17-inch iMacs In Short Supply In US. - August 27, 2002

I hope this situation does not also apply in Australia!
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/desktopcomputers/2002-08-25-apple-imac_x...

AMD Fights The Good Fight. - August 24, 2002

Chipmaker AMD continues to fight against the misperception that higher processor chip frequencies somehow relate to faster processing. Apple suffers from the same misperceptions.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-954783.html

Jaguar Events In The States. - August 24, 2002

I dropped in to the Joondalup AppleCentre, to clap my eyes on a 17-inch SuperDrive iMac and Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), and to see what is said to be the biggest AppleCentre in Perth. The guy there told me he had already sold all his copies of Jaguar. It was pretty quiet though. &160; &160; &160; Here is a report from MacCentral on some of the Jaguar launch events in the United States.
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/24.jaguar.php