Apple-Related Geek News

A few interesting articles I've come across this morning on Apple:

Apple Is Bigger Than Dell

"Apple's value is now greater than Dell's. Of course, even more exciting is that the trajectory of our favourite company is clearly on the rise, while Dell seems poised to merely continue in its sideways trend."

Signs Point To Apple Cellular Company

Pointing at the latest trademark applications for "Mobile Me" and the abandonment by Motorola, the article concludes, "Getting into the cellular services business is easier these days, thanks to the likes of Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Cingular, and their support for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO). An MVNO is a company that leases bandwidth, infrastructure, and time from a carrier and then rebrands and resells it. The best-known MVNO in the US is arguably Virgin Mobile, which also operates on Sprint's network."

In-Depth Intel Switch Docs

Apple Developer Connection has opened a new section on their site, the Developer Transition Resource Center. It contains links to Universal Binary Programming Guidelines, and information about the Intel Core Duo chips. Of particular note to those who troubleshoot Macs and can't go without their trusty firewire diagnostic tools, is information on disk partitions: "The standard disk partition format on an Intel-based Macintosh computer differs from the disk partition format of a PowerPC-based Macintosh computer. By default, internal hard drives on Intel-based Macintosh computers use the GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme and external drives use the Apple Partition Map (APM) partition scheme. To create an external USB or FireWire disk that can boot an Intel-based Macintosh computer, select the GPT disk partition scheme option using Apple Disk Utility." Looks like that FireWire drive I carry around is going to need to have separate partitions on it now. And what do these APM and GPT changes mean for things like Spotlight Metadata? It's going to be an interesting, that's for sure.

Posted by flow Frazao on January 15, 2006 at 11:47 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink