Karl-Peter Gottschalk: Hardware

Computer hardware, with an emphasis on the best.

Tim O'Reilly on Unix To Mac Switchers. - August 23, 2002

Tim O&8217;Reilly has some things to say about Switchers, this time from Linux and other Unixen to Mac OS X. When Mac OS X was on the horizon, the people who were most excited about it, and understood what the real implications were, were the kinds of geeks who read SlashDot. &160; &160; &160; The non-geeks, let&8217;s call them freaks as they are the ones on the artier end of the equation, either failed to understand what X was at all, or could not see what all the fuss was about, and still.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/21/switch.html

Apple and Its Second Emmy: It IS a Brave New World. - August 22, 2002

&8220;Final Cut Pro has democratized professional video editing by bringing the capabilities of a $50,000 editing bay to everyone for under $1,000,&8221; said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. &8220;We are honored and excited to be receiving Apple&8217;s second Emmy Award.&8221; &160; &160; &160; Final Cut Pro running on Macintosh computers has changed everything in the film world, and has radically lowered the barriers to entry into filmmaking.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/08/emmy/

Windows World Being Sued Over Performance Of Pentium 4. - August 18, 2002

Hah! One in the eye for Intel, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard. &8220;Plaintiffs in the case claim that the chipmaker and PC manufacturers marketed the Pentium 4 deceptively, and that the Pentium 4 itself is slower and less powerful than the Pentium III or AMD&8217;s Athlon processor.&8221;&160; &160; &160; At least Apple&8217;s products get better each version, hardware and software. Intel&8217;s and Microsoft&8217;s just get worse.
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/17.p4.php

Microsoft's Dedication To Mediocrity. - August 16, 2002

Dedication, or lust, for mediocrity. Now there is something I know well. &160; &160; &160; Charles Haddad writes in for BusinessWeek Online that: &8220;Microsoft has long been the big grizzly of the software industry, lacerating any competitors who dared to cross its path. But now it has become ensnared in a trap of its own making. And in its efforts to escape, it may end up gnawing off its own foot. That could create the first real opportunity in 15 years for Apple to take share in the...
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc20020814_0119.htm

New PowerMacs and eMacs. - August 14, 2002

All of Apple&8217;s high-end PowerMac mini-tower computers are now dual-processor machines. The consumer entry-level eMac range has now gained a SuperDrive model. The LCD iMacs have dropped in price again.
http://www.apple.com/