I’d venture to say the biggest fuss around Intel’s new Core Duo line of processors isn’t the processor itself but the device it’s living inside of: the Macintosh.
An early benchmark of the iMac 2.0 Ghz Core Duo (sorry, I can’t find the source story) put it around 1.8x faster than a full-on Power Mac G5. About in line with Apple’s 2x number. Considering this is the first generation MacIntel that’s a good, although not extraordinary, start.
Apple announced the new MacBook Pro based on the Intel Yonah processor. I’m looking forward to getting one of these new laptops and selling crap left and right on eBay to finance one.
What I really admire about Apple, more-so His Steveness, is conviction to the brand. He caters to no one whether it’s winning a philosophical argument about iPods sold at Wal-Mart and more recently not putting “Intel Inside” stickers on Mac equipment.
Critics feel Jobs’ will eventually slip-up and release a ho-hum product. But who cares? Mac users have been strong supporters of the platform through the worst of days (cough John Scully cough) so what’s to worry?
Besides, we’ve already seen Windows Vista and it’s been found wanting.
Most computer users buy the least expensive wireless router they can find, plug it in, never configure it, and they’re perfectly happy.
I, on the other hand, have more discerning needs. Belkin is evil so I’ve always paid a few more pesos and gone with a Linksys. The WRT54G is probably one of the best for configurability but the stock firmware lacks a number of useful features.
Since Linksys built the WRT54 series on an embedded Linux platform, we’ve got opportunities to rebuild it, make it better, faster. Just like the Bionic Man.
I’ve used the Sveasoft and DD-RT firmware with different results but one rises to the top in terms of reliability. View Full Article »
