Jamie Le Souef

Today I walked into the office with my cup of cha (family joke for Tea) and woke my trusty iMac from it’s slumber. I turned to my Windows PC and started that painful lump up as well. I then cast my attention to my iMac to find it had crashed!

This would have to be one the first time that I’ve been happy to see a computer crash as it proved that the iMac is not infallible, it’s not super human, it’s not prefect.

The great news is I’ve had this iMac now for 4 months and it has not crashed on me once. In contrast I re-installed Windows XP SP3 yesterday on my PC and it crashed within hours of a fresh install. It was most probably not the fault of Windows, rather some dodgy software install from a 3rd party - but non the less it crashed only hours after a fresh install.

How long has your Mac gone without a crash? I would love to hear

Update 04.09.08 : In case you are wondering, the program that now looks like snakes and ladders on the good ol’ Commodor 64 was the OS X Terminal.

Post Tags : Apple, iMac, Mac
Filed under Apple

The folks (or rather Jon Stockes) over Ars technica have a rather compling argument why Apple won’t be changin from Itel Chipsets anytime soon.

…the real development that makes this chipset rumor implausible to me is Nehalem. Intel’s Nehalem is due out at the end of this year, and if NVIDIA (or any other chipset maker) has a license for Intel’s new QuickPath interconnect I’m not aware of it. So Apple would have to switch right back to Intel chipsets for their upcoming Nehalem towers. And indeed, those towers could very well be the mysterious margin-reducing products that Apple referred to on their conference call.

Hit up the link below for the full article

Analysis: why Apple won’t drop Intel chipsets any time soon.

Post Tags : Apple, intel, OS X
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I normaly don’t weigh into the Mac vs PC debate all that much, unless it’s actualy worth while and meaningfull. But this i had to blog as i thought it was quite funny and clevor.

Mac vs PC - The climate edition

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Post Tags : Apple, Mac, Microsoft, OS X, PC, Windows
Filed under Apple, Microsoft