I got a new 20″ Intel iMac last week. It’s a 2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo and its crazy fast compared to my old PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz. As you may know if you’re a loyal reader of this blog that I like svnmark (compiling subversion) because it is a benchmark that directly shows how much productivity …

I’m in the market for a new Mac. If you’ve seen the svnmark times, you’ll see that my current PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz is already an order of magnitude slower than the current Intel models. The top of the lines are the Mac Pros, but I wonder if they’re a bit too much. Plus I don’t …

Earlier this year, I stumbled across a benchmark that would test how well the new Intel Macs compared against the PowerPC Macs. I’m going to call the benchmark svnmark because consists of compiling Subversion. The benchmark results showed that the new Intel Macs blew away the PPC Macs. Well, all but one: the Quad G5 …

OK so now that WWDC 2006 is over and I’ve unpacked all my liquids, gels, and lotions from my checked baggage, its time to check out (from whatever Apple has publicized of course) if my guesses came true or not. Actually, they weren’t really guesses, more of like “please, Apple, if you really love us …

The Mac we’ve all been waiting for, the one that completes the transition to Intel, was unveiled today at the WWDC 2006 Keynote by Steve Jobs himself. The Mac that was known as the PowerMac is now known as the Mac Pro, to go along with the MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro is a must …

Well WWDC is almost upon us! I arrived safely via JetBlue who was nice enough to move me before takeoff to a window seat in an exit row. As I looked out my window, I was surprised with branding on the engine. I guess that’s just in case I nod off, then wake up and …

Apple has started setting up for WWDC and the banner behind the registration booth has been set up. And artisan has posted a nice annotated picture of the WWDC banner on Flickr. Roll over the picture to see all the different icons or look at the list. I think the only thing that might be …

I’m not really good at making predictions, but since WWDC is just around the corner, why not… Plus Gus, Brent (twice actually) and Uli have some interesting ones. But instead of trying to look into industry trends, here’s just what I myself would like to see: New UI widgets, like: The entire bar that has …

IronCoder 0x10 will be soon upon us. It is a battle of wills between Mac programmers and it will run from July 21 to July 23. I’ll likely be sitting this one out yet again – working on WebnoteHappy 1.2 and all. But I’m sponsoring this competition by giving away WebnoteHappy licenses to contestants. There’s …

Last Saturday was a very Mac-filled day. In the afternoon, I went to the Washington Apple Pi (or the Pi for short) annual picnic. The Pi is my local user group where I get together with other Mac enthusiasts in the DC area. It was pretty enjoyable. Good folks and good food. We had a …