Patrick's Soapbox

To the surprise of probably nobody the WWDC keynote revealed some new gear: Mac Pro, using the Xeon "woodcrest" processors. Surprise surprise. One base config though... but all dual processor, dual core. Nice. Xserve, same. (The Xserve now has graphics...

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Ok, so Apple went and released the MacBook. Much like the rumours it is indeed a 13.3" widescreen, which is fine. It runs at 1280x800, also fine. Has either a 1.83GHz Core Duo or a 2GHz model, nice. Available in...

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So MacBU went and released another update for Office 2004 - bringing us to 11.2.3. Why should you care about this update? Just like 11.2 most of the love is heading towards Entourage (which I'm totally cool with by the...

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It arrived! I thought it would never happen, but of course as soon as I spent the money it did. That's alright, except for two days after it arrived the hard drive died. So Monday after it was repaired I...

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I've just finished reading Nick Bradbury On Piracy and Part II. Now obviously I've never made software worthy of being released and paid for, so I can't really talk about this from a creators point of view. I have actually...

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I'm just thinking about mobiles, as I do. I'm thinking about Telecom, mainly because I will be at my flat for another year, and would like to be able to say, make voice calls at home. But I also have...

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As I just passed on a message it occurred to me that the phrase 'MP3' has become so, well, language that it feels awkward describing digital music in any other way. "Oh yeah just listening to some AAC's" or "oh...

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NEC are set to release an iMac look-a-like, however unlike the iMac it's ugly, only has a CD-rom drive, uses a mobile CPU (which I guess you could call the G4 now, but not really). Sony are also doing something...

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