Since MyMac.com Podcast 93 we learned a new world – Ubuntu. I thought I quickly let you all in on how you can testdrive Ubuntu Linux without installing a single file on your computer.
First of all let’s talk about Ubuntu. According to the Ubuntu Website the name means “humanity to others”.
It is a free, open source operating system based on Debian Linux and a release coming out every six month. Every release will be supported for 18 months to come, so it adds a bit of reliability to your Linux experience.
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Apple has been telling people for years that PowerPC is better than Intel processors, but then why are they moving to Intel Processors? Apple also showed people benchmarks that proved how much better the PowerPC was, or how the G5’s beat the PC’s, and now they’re telling us the exact opposite, and that Intel Macs are multiple times faster. They can’t both be true, can they? Well, yes. It isn’t just a marketing flim-flam, it really matters how you look at the problem, and this article will explain it all to you. (PDF Download Only)
In the first half of this article I looked back on some of Apple’s best offerings, including products as diverse as ClarisWorks and the PowerBook 500 series. One of the nice things about Apple in recent years has been that most of their products have been good, and some very good indeed. There really haven’t been any real turkeys, though a few have been flawed in some way, for example the noisy G4 PowerMacs. Others have been unsuccessful rather than bad, the G4 Cube being the classic example of this: a machine that while well designed and constructed simply didn’t have a large enough market to be a particularly profitable or long-lived product. The current iMac and iBook lines in particular include some of the most strikingly attractive consumer-level computers yet produced, yet tote enough power under the hood to be attractive to small office users too. They are, in short, great all-rounders that stack up well against comparably priced Windows PCs.
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Happy New Year to all you Mac lovers out there! I happen to believe that it will indeed be a very happy New Year for Apple and all Mac users. I am extremely excited about the Macintosh and its prospects for 1998, and it’s because of something that some people thought Apple should have gotten rid of a long time ago: its hardware line.
The title of this month’s article is inspired by a song by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, “Another Drinking Song.” The refrain of the song says: “What you call the disease / I call the remedy / What you’re callin’ the cause / I call the cure.” In Apple’s case, I feel those lyrics fit the situation of Apple’s hardware line very nicely.
More than once, many people have recommended that Apple abandon its hardware line and focus solely on selling the Mac OS, much like Microsoft sells Windows to PC companies. This would theoretically allow Apple to cut a tremendous amount of operating costs and focus on expanding the market share of the operating system itself, regardless of what brand of computer it runs on.
Hogwash.
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Pete’s FREE Speed Upgrade
Just can’t seem to scrape up that two, three, four or five hundred dollars to buy one of those fancy Macintosh accelerators, let alone a brand new PowerMac? Tired of the slow speed at which your 680×0 processor works? Feel like your productivity is going right down the toilet because of it? Does your neighbor own a Power Mac? Do you lay awake at night thinking of ways to steal it?
If you’re that much of a speed fanatic, but can’t afford the high dollar upgrade to PowerPC or even the price of an accelerator, you’re probably running your Mac’s system stripped to the bone; i.e., you have the minimum amount of extensions and control panels installed and your monitor is probably set to black and white. If this is the case, you’re going about this quest for speed in the wrong manner. In fact, you’re doing just the opposite of what you should be doing.
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Cover from My Mac Magazine #15, July 1996 by Mike Gorman
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