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ATPM 11.07 / July 2005 Volume 11, Number 7 About This Particular Macintosh: About the personal computing experience.TM ATPM 11.07 1 Cover Cover Art Copyright c 2005 Grant Osborne1. We need new cover art each month. Write2 to us! 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Please contact us at [email protected] for more information. 1http://www.barebones.com/1900 2http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=atpm 3http://www.atpm.com/about/support.shtml 4http://www.paypal.com/xclick/[email protected] 5http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/T18F4IYZD196OK ATPM 11.07 4 Sponsors Welcome by Robert Paul Leitao, [email protected] Welcome to the July edition of About This Particular the power. Using what’s called “universal binaries,” Macintosh! In just a few days, mission Deep Impact developers can prepare Mac OS X applications for may provide clues to the origins of the universe. The both PowerPC and Intel chips. project is one only NASA could design. Think about it: a man-made spacecraft is racing across the cos- The Big Lie? mos on a course to collide with a comet the size of Two years ago Steve Jobs promised the WWDC audi- Manhattan on Independence Day in order to create ence that Apple would soon release a 3 GHz G5. Un- a crater the size of the stadium that sits at One Pa- fortunately, IBM’s G5 chip development lagged be- triot Place. It’s a star-spangled kind of thing that hind expectations. It wasn’t that Steve Jobs lied; his may give July 4th fireworks a whole new meaning. plans for faster Macs ended up being denied. Apple NASA is looking for celestial clues to the beginnings will continue to release PowerPC-based G5 comput- of Earth. ers until the transition to Intel chips is complete. Deep Impact is scheduled to complete its fiery mission less than a month after Apple Computer Color My World set off some fireworks of its own. Think about it: Or at least color my iPod. Responding to several the renegades of the PC industry who inspired us to months of product speculation, in late June Apple an- Think Different may be creating a deep impact of nounced its first color-screen iPods that aren’t called their own by abandoning an 11-year chip partnership “iPod photo.” Of course, this product release hasn’t with their first nemesis, to set the company on a squelched more speculation. Mac users are a surly collision course with its one of its first developer lot! Many now speculate Apple will eventually re- partners and recent 11-year nemesis. The first battle lease a video iPod no matter the size of the iPod’s of the operating systems has long been over, but the small screen. In the meantime, the color iPods are second big battle may be about to begin. The switch ideal for viewing photos and will display album art- to Intel may come six months from now, but the work in their original hues. clues to Apple’s product planning may take several The new color iPods come in 20 and 60 GB va- more months to unearth. rieties and will carry as many as 25,000 photos. For those of us who use an iPod to color our world with The Intel on Intel music, the new iPods add a bit of visual panache to To the surprise of only a few people in the WWDC au- our songs. dience, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announced in early June that Mac OS X has been compiled over Color My Radio the years for both the PowerPC and the Intel chip In announcing the color iPods, Apple also announced architectures. What surprised some people in the au- the release of iTunes 4.9. The newest version of dience is the announcement that Apple will be mi- iTunes supports podcasting, a word that has quickly grating the Macintosh to the Intel chip architecture entered the American vernacular. Podcasting has beginning in 2006 with the transition mostly com- been called “TiVo for radio.” It allows iPod users plete by the end of 2007. To the surprise of just to download pre-recorded content through iTunes to about everyone in the audience, the computer used their iPods and listen to the content at their conve- by Mr. Jobs during the keynote address was an Intel nience. iTunes supports subscription arrangements, computer running Mac OS X. allowing users to “subscribe” and automatically download new podcasts as they become available. The Big Why? With the new color iPods adding color to one’s Why would Apple transition from the PowerPC to music, the array of audio content available through Intel chips? In the words of Mr. Jobs, it comes down podcasts adds a bit of “color” to what’s available on to power consumption in relation to performance. In the “radio.” other words, future Intel chips offer more punch for ATPM 11.07 5 Welcome When Does a Leopard Get its Spots? Segments: Love at First iBook Actually, that should read “When does Leopard get Does technology push us apart or bring us together? its spot in the Apple product line?” The answer: late It all depends on how you use it and whether you are 2006 or early 2007.