Archived Links for April 2006

4.24	Macworld UK	NeXT step for Macs?, Macworld staff: Apple may soon sell the world’s leading multi- platform family of computers.
4.24	Apple Matters	April 24, 1984: Apple IIc Introduced; Earth Moves (Literally), Chris Seibold: What has 128K[h2] RAM, a mouse and the only use of platinum in the Apple II line? Why, the Apple IIc of course.
4.24	MacMegasite	MacBook Pro Gets Bigger, MacMagasite Staff: Apple today introduced a 17-inch MacBook Pro, in addition the current 15-inch model.
4.22	Mac Night Owl	Apple Continues to Make Money the Old Fashioned Way, Gene Steinberg: Depending on whose expectations you’ve followed, Apple exceeded them or didn’t quite meet them.
4.21	Apple Computer	Apple offers free Computer Take-Back Program, Apple Staff: Today, Apple announced an expansion of its successful recycling program, offering free computer take-back and recycling with the purchase of a new Macintosh system beginning in June.
4.21	Low End Mac	Bigger, Faster, More: You Need It All!, Ted Hodges: Hey everyone, someone is selling a great little setup on eBay. It would be perfect for light Web browsing.
4.20	MacNN	Jobs declines Wozniak book request, MacNN Staff: Apple’s Steve Jobs has backed out of writing a foreward for his former business partner and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s upcoming book. Jobs reportedly declined after reading portions of the book.
4.20	i, cringely	There May Be an End-run for Apple Around Windows After All, Robert X. Cringely: Apple has evidently reached the point where they need to trade claimed performance, -- typically based on floating-point operations that aren’t a part of much web or database service -- for real performance.
4.17	Macworld	Apple sued for patent infringement, Jim Dalrymple: Burst claims that Apple’s iTunes Music Store, iTunes software, the iPod devices and Apple’s QuickTime Streaming products are all affected by the patents.
4.17	Apple Matters	pril 17, 1977: Apple II Introduced, Chris Seibold: The specs seem laughable by today’s standards: 8 bit processor running at 1 MHz, 4K of RAM, and a not so speedy audio cassette interface. Wrap all that up in a low profile case with an integrated keyboard and you have the first iteration of the Apple II.
4.14	USA Today	Boot Camp will start exodus to Windows, Andrew Kantor: You know what? Boot Camp isn’t going to propel the Mac into the mainstream. If anything, it will get Mac users to switch to Windows.
4.13	PC World	Users Find Flaw in Boot Camp, Matthew Broersma: Some users report that Apple’s software has permanently turned their Macs into PCs.
4.13	Low End Mac	Heavily Used 12-Inch PowerBook on Last Legs, but What Next?, Adam Robert Guha: Since I’ve been here in Montreal, I’ve heard an array of compliments on my PowerBook, of all things. Ranging from ’that’s so tiny!’ to ’oh - it’s a Macintosh, very cool looking, how do you like it?’
4.12	PRNewswire	BMW Announces New Interface for iPod With Expanded Model Availability and Features, PRNewswire: Japan’s Aozora Bank Ltd. is planning to do something once unheard of in the business world: switch nearly all of its 2,300 desktop personal computers to Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh computers.
4.12	Apple Matters	Apple in Uncharted Territory, Apple in Uncharted Territory: Despite all the latest buzz about Windows booting on a Mac, Apple continues its steady infiltration of the computer, media, retail and lifestyle landscapes.
4.12	CBS 5 - San Francisco	Girl’s Letter To Apple Gets Legalese Reply, Anna Wernerf: You wouldn’t think a letter from a third-grader could change a company’s corporate practices. But that’s apparently exactly what happened after CBS 5 became interested in an unusual complaint from a viewer.
4.10	The Seattle Times	Q&A with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, John Boudreau: An in-depth Q&A interview with Apple’s other Steve talks about the founding of the company and the role of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as well as touches on their current relationship.
4.10	Macworld	Macworld roundtable: Assessing Boot Camp, Macworld Staff: The arrival of Boot Camp continues to send shock waves across the Mac community, as Mac users try to make sense of the Apple-made utility that will let Intel based Macs boot directly into Windows.
4.07	Mac Slash	Windows on Macintel a Nightmare or Blessing?, Adobe’s Transition Challenge, Quad-core Intel CPUs in 2007, and More, Mac Slash Staff: In Windows: The New Classic, Gruber describes the Microsoft OS as a compatibility layer ghetto, such as the old OS 9.
4.07	Low End Mac	Apple Joins ’Win on Mac’ Army with Boot Camp, Alan Zisman: Apple has weighed in on the Windows on Mac movement. Too late to win the $14,000 prize money awarded in March, but in typical Apple style much more elegantly and after keeping their efforts secret.
4.06	The Motley Fool	More Pigs Over Cupertino, Tim Beyers: Hide the children, folks. Judgment Day is upon us, and pigs are doing loop-de-loops over Cupertino. Apple announces that it would allow users of its newest systems to run both Windows and Mac OS X.
4.05	Apple Computer	Apple Introduces Boot Camp, Apple Staff: CUPERTINO, California - April 5, 2006 - Apple today introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP.
4.05	Apple Matters	What will Apple look like by 2010?, Chris Howard: Well, Apple is 30. Thirty years in the IT industry is 10 or so lifetimes. Who knows where Apple will be in 30 years, but an interesting hypothesis is where it will be in one more lifetime.
4.04	Apple Matters	What Apple Can Learn from Skittles and Windows XP, Chris Seibold: There are a significant number of Mac fans walking around in a state of perpetual befuddlement over the lack of Mac advertising in general and OS X in particular.
4.03	Macworld	30 best Apple products? Arguments welcome, Jason Snell: Now, you might be wondering what scientific approach we used to come up with this list. A scientific poll? A complex serious of evaluations involving a 10-point scale in multiple categories?
4.03	Apple Matters	Does the Mac Lineup Need a Makeover?, James R. Stoup: Like any business, Apple finds it necessary to periodically refresh its image, sometimes with big jumps in its designs.
4.03	Macworld	Cure for empty .avi movies, Christopher Breen: If [a movie] is encoded with the DivX codec (and most .avi movies you find on the web these days are), the movie appears as you describe when you try to play it in QuickTime Play-sound but no video.
4.03	The Joy of Tech	Adventures of the Homebake Club: Re-creating the Smithsonian Apple I, ... in cake!, Anonymous Geek: ...following the birthday tradition, we decided to bake something, but as this is Apple’s 30th birthday, (quite an achievement), we knew it would have to be something insanely great.
4.03	MacNewsWorld	What if Microsoft Bought Apple?, Rob Enderle: I spent a lot of time last week reading the Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) employee blogs and apparently there is some reasonably strong feeling among many folks who work there that the wrong Steve is running the company.
4.03	MacNN	Apple’s trust grows, iPod disconnect, MacNN Staff: Bose, Dell, Sony, Panasonic, and Hewlett-Packard are the technology brands that score the highest with US consumers, while Apple and TiVo were among the only brands to achieve an increase in consumer trust.
3.31	Apple Matters	Uses of Apple Trademark in Dispute: Just Another Day in Court for the Forbidden Fruit, Darcy Richardson: A judge in London this week will hear out the quarrel between Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Corps, which is owned by Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, and the estate of George Harrison.
3.30	Low End Mac	Windows on Macintel a Nightmare or Blessing?, Adobe’s Transition Challenge, Quad-core Intel CPUs in 2007, and More, Knight and Moore: Most of this week’s Macintel news is about Windows XP running on the new Apple hardware, including some benchmarks. Users are already questioning the wisdom of this.
3.29	Apple Matters	Why My Mac is Not My Favorite Computer, Chris Howard: My favorite computer is not a Mac. There I’ve said it.
3.27	MacMegasite	A look at the MacBook Pro, Submitted by Mike: I received my new 2.0 GHz MacBook Pro last Friday as a replacement for my 1.5 GHz 15 inch PowerBook G4.