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  • Thanks for the information Fluffy. Looks like I will have to look into ADC Select Membership.
    in JDK 1.4 -- WHEN?!?! Comment by thalmrast June 2002
  • Thanks for the information AirSluf! Even though the dates they are talking about are farther out than I was hoping for, just hearing some sort of date is very reassuring. Do you have any idea on how to get early access to the JDK 1.4 that apparent…
    in JDK 1.4 -- WHEN?!?! Comment by thalmrast June 2002
  • JDK 1.4 adds a number of useful things like higher performance networking, perl-ish regular expressions, assertions, and various other things. JDK 1.4 also adds the ability to use the beta javac compiler which provides pre-release access to generic…
    in JDK 1.4 -- WHEN?!?! Comment by thalmrast June 2002
  • Toshiba has not released a 20GB drive in the 1.8" format with the same thickness as the 5GB and 10GB drives. As a poster above mentioned, they have released a 1.8" drive with a 20GB size, but it is 3mm thicker and would not fit into the iPod case. …
    in How long til the 20GB iPod? Comment by thalmrast May 2002
  • The current 800 TiBook is my ideal though if I had to be really picky and wanted my _perfect_ laptop, I'd use the following: 1. start with the current 60GB HD, 1GB RAM, 800 TiBook 2. add built-in bluetooth 3. add a second mouse button 4. s…
    in What's your ideal portable? Comment by thalmrast May 2002
  • MacWorld just released their new review of the PowerBook 800. They found that the PowerBook performed almost identically to the PowerMac 800:
    in When will we see a new PowerBook? Comment by thalmrast May 2002
  • I just got a new TiBook 800 with the 5400 60GB drive. It's REALLY nice. I previously owned a TiBook 500 which had been upgraded with a IBM 48GB 5400 drive. Compared to the old 500 Ti, the 800 Ti is: -about 70-80% faster compiling C++/Java code…
    in When will we see a new PowerBook? Comment by thalmrast May 2002
  • The Archos won't fit in my pocket. It's effectively useless for my needs. I don't know why people even compare the Archos and the iPod because they are in two different categories. The Archos is a portable MP3 player. The iPod is a _wearable_ MP…
    in new iPods Comment by thalmrast May 2002
  • The G5 is supposed to bring 64-bit computing to the table.
    in DDR on the Powermac in July: two possibilities Comment by thalmrast May 2002