I was genuinely surprised when Apple dropped FireWire sync from the iPod nano. So much so that I almost returned mine when I first made the gruesome discovery. I thought for sure that FireWire would live forever in the bigger iPods and that it was just a casualty of the nano’s small size. Unfortunately, FireWire’s […]
Category: The Apple Core
Yesterday I discussed how a PowerBook could be improved using flash memory technology in place of fixed disks. Today I want to look at ways to improve the display. One obvious way to improve the screens of Apple’s PowerBooks and iBooks would be to further increase the available screen resolution. Another display technology that shows […]
It would be great if Apple seriously considered creating a diskless PowerBook. They should ditch the fixed disk (or Winchester) hard drive forever in favor of Flash or Non-Volatile Read Write Memory (NVRWM) in their portable offerings. The hand writing is on the wall. After trashing flash-based MP3 players for years in favor of the […]
Paul Murphy’s has an excellent blog entry on ZDNet yesterday that throws a cold bucket of water on the irrational optimism that Apple will launch a raft of successful Intel-based Macs in 2006. Quite a number of pundits have gone out and predicted the appearance of Intel based Powerbooks from Apple this January – but […]
You don’t have to travel to California or even to a movie theatre to get your fix of Pix. There’s a cool exhibition of Pixar art coming to New York’s Museum of Modern Art. MoMA New York is holding an exhibit of art from Pixar Animation Studios from December 14, 2005 to February 6, 2006. […]