Posts by ontheinside

Rosetta isn't emulation and it isn't an environment. lol. It's a system which intercepted PowerPC processor instructions and translated them on-the-fly to Intel instructions.

Quote: Originally Posted by lamewing What part of "some people only own one computer" doesn't make sense? If that one computer were the new Mac Mini, then HOW would they make such an install USB drive without a optical drive...

Quote: Originally Posted by lamewing Now people MUST buy a superdrive to install Windows with Bootcamp...or did Apple remove that as well? Um, no. Even MS has had Windows 7 USB install capability since 2009. Who wants to install...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider For the first time ever, Apple's new Mac mini models, released on Wednesday, lack an optical drive for CDs or DVDs, as the Mac maker continues to move away from physical formats like discs. Ok...

Quote: Originally Posted by steveH Cite? Apple's update page only lists required CPUs, the implication being that all Macs that shipped with those processors can run Lion as is. Which is not to say that maxing out memory wouldn't be...

Quote: Originally Posted by mcarling It doesn't take genius to figure out that Apple are moving to 4GB minimum for all new Macs and that 64GB is not very useable. This definitely is a "no sh!t Sherlock" article.

The vSphere 5 official stuff has confirmed what badtux said. This article raised everyone's hopes for nothing. It's just the first time vSphere has supported Apple Xserve hardware. Kind of late to the party. Very odd, considering it was...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider As AppleInsider exclusively reported a little less than a month ago, Apple management made a decision earlier this spring to freeze new Mac introductions, such as the new MacBook Airs, until the...

400MB/s is quite rubbish by today's standards. This is an odd article. It's as though it's something special. It's just an indication that the new Sandy Bridge chipsets include SATA 6Gbps. It's actually disappointing to see Apple only...

Golden Master! Not Gold Master (old fashioned CD term).