'Speculation' Category
Macworld 2008 Highlights
I usually have a privacy law seminar on Tuesdays, but by random chance it was cancelled today. So a friend and I drove up to San Francisco to take part in the madness. We arrived at about 10:15, and waited 45 minutes for the expo hall doors to open. Then we waited in this cattle [...]
Great MacWorld Expectations
I don’t know what Steve Jobs will unveil at the MacWworld keynote on Tuesday morning. Nobody else knows either, but there are plenty of predictions. It’s a fun game. Will he roll out a subnotebook? Will a successor to the ill-famed Newton appear? What’s all this “Air” business about? Will iTunes be free, like air? [...]
New Mac Pro Ahead of MacWorld
The new Mac Pro looks absurdly powerful, and it may be the machine designers, video professionals, architects and the like have been wanting. But it says something about the dominance of the laptop market that this serious update to the Mac Pro has been relegated to announcement before the MacWorld expo.
Of course this was also [...]Why the Voice of Reason is Missing the Plot
I’ve seen more than enough Mac v. Windows flamefests over the years. In fact, you could call me a connoisseur. There are several types of Mac v. Windows debates, ranging from Dueling Idiots (”PC users are mindless drones!” v. “MAC users are fags!”) to Geeks Counting Coup (”I custom built a box with an overclocked [...]
The “Subnotebook” from Apple: One Rumor Becomes Many
You’ve likely seen one or more reports that the long-rumored Apple “subnotebook” will be unveiled in January at the Macworld conference. It is worth remembering that all of these reports stem from one AppleInsider article. This “hall of mirrors” effect is common, particularly in the Mac blogosphere. But it’s easy to forget that sometimes one [...]