{"id":1786,"date":"2006-01-13T20:36:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T23:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1646"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:15:52","slug":"miscellaneous-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/13\/miscellaneous-tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple stock went up again, closing at $85.59. With this, Apple surpassed Dell in market cap ($72 billion). May not mean much, but some people were <a href=\"http:\/\/macdailynews.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/7899\/\">looking forward<\/a> to it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the new Intel Macs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osx86project.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=89&amp;Itemid=2\">have a file<\/a> called \/System\/Library\/Extensions\/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiebetech.com\/pressreleases\/firewireevolution.pdf\">2004 paper on FireWire<\/a> (pdf!) by WiebeTech&#8217;s CEO is making the rounds again. Basically, it makes the point that Apple bungled FW800 and that it will continue to be a niche market for some pro peripherals; it also says that the upcoming FW1600 and FW3200 won&#8217;t make it to market, as SATA and SATA II are lower-cost and faster. For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;ve personally seen only one FW800 drive and it wasn&#8217;t working at the time, although I have several FW400 peripherals and prefer them over the USB2.0 alternatives. So the missing FW800 on the new Macs is no hardship for me.<\/p>\n<p>Seems that the previously little-known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expresscard.org\/web\/site\/\">ExpressCard<\/a> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,4149,1472734,00.asp\">new generation PCCard\/PCMCIA\/Cardbus<\/a>. Its high speed bus interface would allow a MacBook Pro to have two FW800 or one SATA drives connected. Apparently it&#8217;s one more technology from the PC side that languished unused until Apple picked it up; for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/laptops\/the-first-expresscard-memory-card-readers-148241.php\">ExpressCard digital camera card readers<\/a> have just been announced. (This is the only type of PCCard I found useful in my PowerBook&#8230;) There are several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expresscard.org\/web\/do\/pub\/resourcedirectory\">more products<\/a> out; this should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Heh; did Steve Jobs really <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/cultofmac\/index.blog?entry_id=1385976\">cut some &#8220;very cool stuff&#8221;<\/a> from the keynote because of last-minute snags? That would explain that first hour which consisted mostly of what Brazilians call, very pithily, &#8220;filling sausages&#8221;&#8230; let&#8217;s see what the next few months will bring.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardmac.com\/news\/2006-01-12\/#4990\">blurry photo<\/a> of the iMac Core Duo&#8217;s innards. About what I expected; this certainly isn&#8217;t a standard Intel motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>More anon.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Apple\">Apple<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple stock went up again, closing at $85.59. With this, Apple surpassed Dell in market cap ($72 billion). May not mean much, but some people were looking forward to it. Apparently the new Intel Macs have a file called \/System\/Library\/Extensions\/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext. A 2004 paper on FireWire (pdf!) by WiebeTech&#8217;s CEO is making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-sO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}