MacBook Pro, iWeb and Intel iMac
Ooh, look, new Apple stuff -
- MacBook Pro — new name, new processor. The flagship laptop gets the Intel Core Duo chip and with it a 4x speed hike. Also features FrontRow and a built-in iSight. No Intel-based 12-inch or 17-inch available yet.
- Intel-based iMac — featuring the Intel Core Duo chip, making it 2x faster than the G5 iMacs.
- iWeb — templated-based web publishing package, part of the new iLife 06 package.
Wowzer, really fancy one of those Apple MacBook Pro’s. My 17-inch G4 PB has been fantastic over the last few years but the G4 is really starting to show it’s age. I might hang fire a bit until more Universal apps appear. There’s always Rosetta to help out your existing apps, but you’re not really going to get the benefits of the Intel chip until more apps run native.
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago on 11th January 2006.
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Comments
A fine choice Robert - I’d be very interested to hear your impressions of it when it’s delivered.
Well it has arrived and I am looking at it in all its glory. Mighty fine machine.
Problem now is I am too busy to play with the machine for a good few days. I installed Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and once again I am pissed at the licences terms which these software giants impose on you. Your licence enables you to install and activate on two workstations. The problem is they have to be the same OS/Platform. Therefore I cannot have a version on Windows XP and then Mac OS/X.
Macromedia will allow me as a "one-off" to move the whole licence to OS/X which would mean I cannot use it my Windows PC. Difficult decision.
I am now hunting for a good HTML/XHTML/PHP/CSS2 editor on the Mac. Any ideas?
Robert Brown · www · 2 years, 7 months ago
I sympathise with you Robert - we got MX2004 at work a while ago and got stung by the restrictions too (perhaps Adobe will improve upon this?...).
There are plenty of great editors for OSX. You can’t go wrong with BBEdit (my editor of choice for the last 5 years or so). Textmate, skEdit and jEdit are also worth a look.
http://bbedit.com/
http://macromates.com/
http://www.jedit.org/
http://www.skti.org/skEdit.php
I am eagerly awaiting the delivery of a new iMac (intel version) and hope it will be here sometime next week.
I have been hanging on and hanging on deciding to buy one and always wanted a Mac. I just hope I have made the right decision.
It is certainly a thing of beauty.
I have Macromedia studio MX in Apple/Windows and I guess it will use Rosetta as the binary is not universal. I wonder how much slower it will be? 25%?
Berb Brown · www · 2 years, 7 months ago