Comments on: Apple Lust

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:59:40 +0000

heck…I’ve got an old 466mhz iBook, and it still does the trick, too!

By: Carole Nickerson

Carole Nickerson — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:10:00 +0000

I’ve got an IBM Thinkpad 600x with Windows 98. Does the job. lol…

By: Taoski

Taoski — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:59:25 +0000

All the Apple stuff looks yummy!

Can’t work out how to afford one though…..

Boo hoo…

By: Tim Houghton

Tim Houghton — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:55:03 +0000

Carl, PC dual core laptops cost as little as $1150 to more than $2000. The high-spec ones cost about the same as the MacBook. I compared a few prices, and drooled over my keyboard, here.

Must … resist … .urge … to … buy

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:09:51 +0000

oooh – congratulations pcunix – very jealous. Let us know how it goes!

By: pcunix

pcunix — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:00:19 +0000

Well, I ordered a MacBook immediately. Yes, I would have liked the price to be lower, but my iBook is three years old and showing its age. Besides, I write about Mac stuff quite often.. and if I need more excuses for my wife, I’m sure I can come up with something convincing.

Rumors say it may be a while before I actually have the thing in my hands, and of course there is the nagging fear of being an early adopter – this is new Intel and new Apple, so let’s hope it doesn’t make a mess..

But I’m looking forward to it.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:12:41 +0000

Hehe – I couldn’t face the download last night so I’ve not seen the latest Tiger yet.

I’m usually quite an early adopter, but (quite apart from the money factor) I’ll be holding off the intels for a little while longer.

I still love my little Powerbook!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:36:04 +0000

All the new Apple gear looks great! I new waiting to upgrade my iMac would pay off. I can’t wait to try out the new Intel iMacs.

I updated my Mac Blog with full information about all the new releases in case anyone is interested.

Now I’m off to run software update and get all that 10.4.4 goodness.

By: Chris Howard

Chris Howard — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:34:34 +0000

cubachi, don’t expect iWeb to compete with Ecto unless you host your blog on .Mac

This from the iWeb site:

“.Mac membership unlocks all iLife ’06 has to offer, including Photocasting support, one-click iWeb publishing, web hosting, and more.”

Ecto is a tool for serious bloggers supporting categories and tags. It is possible someone *may* write a plugin/extension for iWeb one day that lets them publish to other blog engines (eg Blogger, Wordpress, Drupal, Nucleus, Typepad etc etc), but don’t expect Apple to ever do it.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:25:35 +0000

no idea on iWeb – doesn’t look like it’d compare at all with ecto though. Different markets and even features at a glance. ecto for Mac is a seriously good tool.

By: cubchai

cubchai — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:22:20 +0000

All the while, I assume PowerBook will be more resistant to dirt as it is in gray colour.
Ecto vs iWeb, any comments?
I am just about to get ecto after I get my ebay refund. But now I get to know iWeb here.

By: orangeguru

orangeguru — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:21:10 +0000

iWeb! Gee, I can’t wait for a gazillion .mac.iblogs that look all the same. It’s like the deault kubrick theme from WordPress: it looks cool when it’s new, but when you see it everywhere … you get sick of it …

And finally …. Intel inside … I can only recommend all Mac users to leap ahead … ;-)

By: Julien Marchand

Julien Marchand — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:16:02 +0000

iWork and iLife can be bought right now through AppleStore and ships in 1-2 days. I don’t know when it will be available in retail stores, though.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:13:59 +0000

yeah my old ibook got dirty too – but so did my powerbook.

Now I’m on a powermac – I tend to wear them out pretty quick :-)

By: cubchai

cubchai — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:04:22 +0000

Darren are you on Mac platform?
Actually I feel regret buying this I-Book. bought it for nearly £800 upgraded to 1gb ram and bought an external hard disk. Hope the dual core future dual core I-Book does not come only in white color. My current I-Book has 2 palms stained on it. I am a dirty fellow?

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:05:14 +0000

Yeah my Tiger update appeared eventually.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:01:39 +0000

Oh boy – it’s playtime. Just as I (almost coincidentally) launched my revamped (OK, new) Apple blog :)

BTW Darren the OS X update has just shown up on my SW update – it wasn’t there an hour ago. Quicktime and iTunes also updating. Nice big download thank goodness for broadband!

By: sara

sara — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:07:36 +0000

I really was waiting for the intel ibooks beacuse they were going to be cheaper and hopefullty were going to come in black. But the new Macbook Pro is great but its way out of my limit when time pases and the prices drop then i will think about it.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:06:36 +0000

its the transitions that get a lot of people – that cube rotating etc….

yeah i cant wait for 3d graphs….I’ll be posting every second day with a graph here at ProBlogger – just because I can.

Anyone know when iWork and iLife will be in stores though???

By: Chris Howard

Chris Howard — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:43:48 +0000

Darren, ain’t it great when folks ask what you did your presentation in? I’ve also had that everytime I’ve done a presentation using Keynote. It’s the textures and backgrounds they notice most – the little things, the polish.

Wait til they see the new textured 3d graphs – they are absolutely stunning!