I’ve always prided myself on being fairly quick to adopt new technologies on the web, but have lagged behind when it comes to podcasting. While I had some doubts regarding it’s popularity and future, my main fear was that it would simply become time and resource strain. After a long period of reflection and discussion with some friends, I’ve decided to start producing a podcast covering the music and music industry of Hawai’i. The first show should hit the podosphere this Sunday.
The Intel is coming!
As always, Scott offers his unique insight into the impending violation of the Macintosh motherboard by Intel chips. I actually chatted with a buddy via iChat as he was using one of the Intel-powered Macs running at WWDC, and he was blown away by the performance. Actually, Scott’s right – it’s just a chip. All the end user cares about is cost and performance. Developers who do machine code might get religious about the chipset choice, but most who program in higher-level languages probably won’t care much one way or the other.
WWDC: Freedom of architecture
Like many Macintosh afficionados, I’ve been following the developments at Apple’s World-Wide Developer Conference as reported in the blogosphere. It’s funny that the most talked about development is Apple’s impending move away from Motorola’s PowerPC chips to Intel’s x86 chips. The possibility has been discussed for years, and for that reason many did not believe the rumors until they were actually confirmed by Steve Jobs. He finally acknowledged what had also been rumored for years – that Apple had been secretly running OS X on an x86 chipset since Mac OS X 10.0 shipped. My favorite quote is from my…