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MacBook? Or MacBook Pro?
Form factor? Or FireWire 800 and ExpressCard?
Weight? Or a real video chipset?
Crazy magneto latch? Or back-lit keyboard?
Black? Or aluminum?

Geez, it’s hard to decide. Probably I should save my money for now.

Goodbye old friend. I loved you dearly.

The replacement they hired is just no comparison:

I was hoping it would be true, and today I got to verify it: You can subscribe to a flickr RSS feed in iPhoto 6 and it will appear as a Photocast (large screenshot) just like any other Photocast. Unfortunately it’s only the small images you normally get with flickr feeds, but fortunately there are […]

Bill Bumgarner posted a link to a press release announcing a new Electric Sheep client (screen saver) for Mac OS X. I used to have an Electric Sheep screen saver for a while in my Linux days, and Bill says this new Mac OS X client is OpenGL based, so hopefully it won’t heat up […]

As mentioned in a previous thread, a number of Dashboard samples have been updated to incorporate the new built-in AppleClasses in 10.4.3:
Dashboard Sample Code
Fader, Stretcher, Scroller, and SampleRSS are all functionally unchanged, but are now hundreds of lines shorter. The new AppleScrollbar in particular is much easier to embed in your widget; have a […]

Yesterday I ordered a new Aluminum PowerBook G4 to replace my aging Titanium PowerBook, Skadi.
Finally I’ll have built-in Bluetooth, 802.11g, faster RAM, more than twice the MHz, DVD burning, optical audio out, a 7200 RPM hard drive, and a high resolution display! Wow.
While I’m talking about the new PowerBooks, does anyone have any idea which […]

This is clever. Linotype, one of the world’s leading typeface foundries, has released a professional font management utility for Mac OS X — and it’s free. They’re going to make money by selling their own fonts through the app, iTunes-style. In fact, judging by the screenshots, the app itself looks rather iTunes-like. However, it’s iTunes […]