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June 23, 2003
Day One of Geekdom
Well, those of you in the Mac fold already know the news. Those of you that don't, well, let's put it this way - the new G5 systems from Apple are demonstrably faster than the fastest P4 or Dual-proc Xeon that money can buy. We've been waiting a long, long time for the next step past the G4, and Steve Jobs has delivered in spades.
Panther's looking really good, too - good enough that I may even consider partitioning my Powerbook and installing it when I get home. Makes me wish I'd brought my iPod with me after all, to use as a bootable drive. Heh. Apple ships a big predatory cat - Panther - this year. Microsoft is already falling back to 2004, and probably will slip to 2005, to ship their big... uhmm... cow - Longhorn.
And lots of smaller stuff, too. New iChat that supports videoconferencing, new firewire webcam (very spiff), Safari 1.0, Xcode (kick-ass development environment).
Having a great time, when all is said and done. Now if the damned WiFi would just work around here...
Posted by jim at June 23, 2003 05:17 PM