Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
MacLibre | Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X
MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X. Its simple, intuitive with applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation on your Mac. There isn't much there yet; mostly some very popular apps but I expect more will follow.
I had done a similar comparison when the new Intel based iMacs were introduced.
From MacWorld New desktop machines leave no doubt about Mac’s price-competitiveness
If you caught the Mac Pro’s introduction during last week’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, you know that Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, punctuated his demo of the new high-end desktop by uttering the “D” word—Dell. Specifically, Schiller brought up Dell to compare its price to the standard 2.66GHz Mac Pro Quad’s $2,499 price tag. By Schiller’s math, a similarly configured Dell Precision 690 would run you $3,448—around $950 more than the Mac Pro.
Apple announced the final piece of it product transition from the PowerPC to Intel. The newer Mac are Apple's top of the line machines with dual Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors (that's four CPU cores!), supports up to 2TB of storage and very fast video engines from ATI and Nvidia. The Mac Pro keep the case of the older G5 PowerMac and offers build-to-order options for processors, graphic cards, memory, hard drives, optical drives etc. I am salivating over these fine machines.
