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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Talk about your erratic posting! Another long spell offline and I'm trying to get back on the bloghorse again.
Loads happening here. Moved House. Jamie's got a new school. Anna's getting ready for pre-school nursery - it's all go I tell you.
Holidays coming up - we're off to Florida soon - and all hoping that the great weather in Scotland is mirrored over there (in fact, FL today is 88F - feels like 93F) :-o
And what of my beloved Apple - they've been busy too after launching the Intel Macs. Not for Apple the "bing, bong, bong, bing" of Intel Inside - oh no. They're happy to cut the rip out of PCs by stereotyping the Mac and PC in their most recent Get a Mac ads.
It's a little dangerous to compartmentalise both sides of the computer market, although I'm sure that more Apple users align with the company's vision of them, than perhaps our PC cousins do with their representation.
Clearly 'PC' is really a crack at Windows and Microsoft rather than Dell or Hewlett Packard, but Apple's always been about being the underdog. I hope it doesn't backfire given that the target for Appleites seems to be Windows virtualisation on the Mac. Not the "separate-system constant-restarting" of Boot Camp, currently being shipped by Apple in MacOS 10.4 (Tiger). But more the "open-Windows-apps-and-Mac-apps-side-by-side" type virtualisation like Wine.
I toyed with the idea of switching a while ago - but glad I didn't. Looks like the cross-platform game is beginning to hot up.
.: posted by Ali 4:26 PM
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