From the monthly archives:

April 2006

Martin Stein’s Publishing Weblog

April 29, 2006

From Martin Stein’s Publishing Weblog, we get this great quote from Ballmer: Die WELT: But couldn’t you just buy a Mac without hesitation since Apple opened up their machines for Windows? Ballmer: No, we prefer real PCs. Short-sighted? Definitely. Wrong? Not entirely.

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And back again

April 28, 2006

After a long while basically using Windows-only, I finally caved in today and bought a new Mac. A new MacBook Pro, to be precise – the 2GHz version with lots of bells, whistles, and so on. Why go back to a Mac? First of all, because it’s also a Windows machine – thanks to its [...]

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Snigger

April 16, 2006

Todd Bishop: More Windows than some Mac users wanted This is either Steve Jobs’ worst nightmare or Bill Gates’ greatest dream: PC World reports that some Mac users who install Windows XP with Apple’s Boot Camp partitioning program have encountered a flaw that renders their machines unable to reboot in Mac OS X, leaving them [...]

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Apple PowerCD

April 16, 2006

Via Digg, some awesome Photos of the 1993 $499 PowerCD. Seems odd that Apple Corps didn’t try to sue them then – surely this was a music device too?

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The best way to run Windows on your Intel Mac?

April 7, 2006

Pete Wright raves about Parallels Workstation, the product that lets you run a full virtual Windows install on your Mac desktop: My first impressions: WOW! This thing is fast. It’s faster in a virtual machine than my aging Dell laptop at the office, and it feels faster than my Motion LE 1600 tablet… If you [...]

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Microsoft – the real winner from Boot Camp

April 7, 2006

Cringely: Just realize with me that the only company that truly benefits from Boot Camp is Microsoft, because they’ll get to sell a retail copy of Windows XP for every copy of Boot Camp and retail XP makes Microsoft about three times as much money as the OEM version. Microsoft LOVES Boot Camp and I [...]

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Why Boot Camp won’t make much difference

April 6, 2006

There’s several interesting posts appearing on Apple’s Boot Camp, which lets you dual-boot OS X and Windows XP. Kevin Briody, for example, posts a link to a TUAW post about how Boot Camp potentially gives a huge boost to educational establishments who can now buy one hardware platform to run both systems. There’s a couple [...]

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The Smartest Comment on the Whole Amazon Vs Microsoft Blogging Shizzle

April 2, 2006

Bynkii: Even worse, Shel talks about “The Wisdom of Crowds”. Shel, I’ll tell you now, the only consistent characteristic of a large group of humans is stupidity, perhaps followed closely by being easy to manipulate. Pet Rocks anyone? I’ve been following the threads on how Robert Scoble and Shel Israel got a bit of a [...]

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