Blake Patterson

I found a great link while doing my typical Sunday-morning coffee and comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup scanning. Tony at The Treasure Island Experiment threw up a post regarding his article entitled "Black and White Until It's Right", a bit of a walk down memory lane starting with the Apple II and heading towards today, but taking the scenic route through Steve's glory days at NeXT,...

Simon Matthews writes "As of 10:59 PM EST when I checked my email, apple has announced a 2 week delay in shippment of my BTO PBG4 - 500mhz. I ordered it only an hour after the announcement on Jan. 9th and now the estimated delivery date has been pushed to Feb 24.The apple customer care line has no further information than to say that, they were as suprised as I was when they recieved the email...

In a series of discussion postings trailing off of a recent Slashdot posting about the potential for OS X arriving on x86 hardware, user jkujawa laid down some interesting opinionease: "Apple has always, with a few notable exceptions, built first-rate hardware. With the combination of the PowerPC and OpenFirmware, modern Macs are, for all intents and purposes, low-end workstations, pretty much...

As seen on Slashdot, it seems that someone has finally written (albeit a really early version of) an ATA driver for the Apple Newton. Paul Guyot's work-in-progress is on its way to smoothly providing a way for NewtonOS 2.x users to use one of the now-super-abundnat ATA Flash cards with their devices, rather than having to use the rather difficult to find SRAM or Linear Flash cards. Quite a...

There's an article over at MacCentral that I just spotted that speaks of a potential problem with Apple's 17" Studio Displays. The issue with these Mitsubishi Diamondtron-based monitors is a single 'popping' or 'clicking' sound accompanying a rapid swelling and then a shrinking of the image on the screen, which normalizes over the following few seconds... It seems that users of...

I saw a link on PocketPCPassion.com (not a typical source of info for macrumors, granted) that seems pretty interesting. Apparently coffee-giant Starbucks and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver wireless internet access in Starbucks locations across the country, using MobilStar Network Corp's wireless broadband network. Interesting stuff. Does anyone know if this is the increasingly common...

Jeff writes "I recently saw a news article on a Yahoo page that spoke a "revolutionary" new invention that it code-named "Ginger." Weathly people such as Steve Jobs are investing millions of dollars into this new product. They say entire cities will be built around them, and they take only about 10min. to asemble with simple parts. If in doubt, check this out. Pretty interesting stuff. Our...

Just a quick link where you can watch MacWorld SF (9am PST, 12pm EST): http://stream.apple.akadns.net/keynote.html Pray for OS X final, everyone. Ok? ...

Jeff Grainbal writes "Apple will be releasing new Cubes at the MWSF on the 8th. The new models will include a base 500mhz G4 processor as well as a new 600 mhz G4 processor. Apparently, Apple is putting dual 600 mhz processors into the G4 lineup and can boost the Cubes which desperately need it. Furthermore, the G4 Powerbooks are not going to ship with the nVIDIA chips until, at the soonest,...

zzipp writes "Just last week, I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200 rpm 40.9GB Hard Drive at CompUSA. It's one of their new ATA-100 Drives. When installing it into my G4, I noticed the Maxtor label on the drive had the Apple logo on it, with a very Apple looking part number: YH03101H2J28A The Drive is model 54098U8 and it was manufactured in August, 2000. I can only deduce that this drive...

acidsteve writes "Check out the new PDA or otherwise known as Apple iPad at: http://www.sotrap.net/PDA.gif -- Have Fun." Interesting image. Highly suspect, of course. But we'd love to see something just like this, with the Newton's print recognizer on-board, of course! Still...I think I'll keep my fingers...

Apple Employee writes "The next version of MRJ for MacOS X will support Altivec acceleration and blow all other Java VMs AWAY. We expect that some Java apps running under the Altivec VM will be faster than non-Altivec optimized native apps. "...

Janis writes "Apple has a quick-and-dirty port of MacOS X to the TI/Sun UltraSparc processor! It is not officially sanctioned by management; it was done by a group of programmers over a few days. I had a chance to play with it the other day on a Sun Ultra workstation. Being a quick hack job, it has poor hardware support; for example, not graphics accelleration (Aqua runs REEEAAAL slow on an...

I was in for quite a pleasant surprise as I was making the last check of the ole' InBox before heading to sleep last night. A message sent to me as part of the MacDemos mailing list alerted me to a new demo for the Mac that has just been released by a group known as hAUjOBB. [See "What is a demo?" if needed.] Their new demo, Macrostrange is perhaps the most impressive (and "modern," buy...

Every bloodthirsty Mac users really owes it to him(or her)self to check out the latest on-line, multiplayer, bloodfest to come to the Mac platform: Rune. Created by HumanHead Studios and ported to the Mac by Westlake Interactive this "over-the-shoulder" perspective slasher uses the Unreal Tournament engine for a pretty incredible gameplay experience. Quite a memory hog though -- most users will ...

ZDNet News reports that Apple is expected to release MacOS X, not at January's San Fran Macworld Expo, but at the end of the Macworld Expo in Tokyo, on Feb. 24. This date is expected to be confirmed at the San Fran expo, however. Apparently, not too long after the official launch of OS X, Apple will release "Orient," an update to OS X that should iron out any significant remaining issues with...

Jake Sargent writes "TheMacMind.Com has an interesting interview up with Microsoft and its relationship with Macs and Apple computer. It covers the aquisition of Bungie, Office: Mac 2001, IE 5, MacWorld Expo, gaming, graphics, and much more. It's an interesting read. "...

Jeff Stys writes " Xicons.com, the leading source for Mac OS X icons, has launched Switcheroo!. Switcheroo! makes it easy to customize the Finder window toolbar in Mac OS X through an intuitive graphical user interface. Additional icon sets can be downloaded from the

daniell writes "Previously I heard many a statement that the G4 Cube could not ship with an ATI Radeon card, not only because Steve Jobs was very cross with ATI, but also because the Cube, without fans or more active cooling methods, would not handle the heat produced by the Radeon card. In fact, it was said that attempts had been made by buyers and the internal sensor for...

Dale Rodgie writes "Looks like Apple Australia has revealed a yet-to-be-released PowerBook G4 model on a brochure I received in today's mail (23rd Nov). It is a promo for the Power Macintosh G4 Dual Processor models. If you buy a G4 DP before December 17, you can win a PowerBook 400. The brochure has a RRP on the PowerBook of AUD$4,995. That is the same RRP as the current PowerBook G3/400...