 Monday, 30 June 2003
 WWDC notes
A nice geeky summary of the Apple announcements of last week: Developer Notes from WWDC 2003 [O'Reilly Network]
Oh, and next time someone says, "Well, I think Mac OS X is a cool operating system, but I don't really want to pay a premium price for the hardware to run it," pull this out of your back pocket.
You can buy a 2 GHz dual processor G5 that can hold up to 8 GB of memory with a Radeon 9600 Pro graphics card, 4X SuperDrive, high performance I/O, serial ATA hard drives, 133 MHz PCI slots, and full SMP to take advantage of those dual processors for $1,000 less than the equivalent Dell machine that doesn't fare as well in some of the benchmark tests. And this machine is built right here in the US.
...The hardware is robust, the operating system is evolving, the developer base is growing, and customers worth having are taking notice of Apple once again. I call it peanut brittle computing: You have "salt of the earth" Unix blended with the sweetness of GUI applications. My gosh, what a good time to be an Apple developer.
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You can buy a 2 GHz dual processor G5 that can hold up to 8 GB of memory with a Radeon 9600 Pro graphics card, 4X SuperDrive, high performance I/O, serial ATA hard drives, 133 MHz PCI slots, and full SMP to take advantage of those dual processors for $1,000 less than the equivalent Dell machine that doesn't fare as well in some of the benchmark tests.
A grand less is still US$3000, which is a pretty big chunk of change any way you slice it.
Sure; it's for people who can justify that much horsepower and all the extras. (If you don't need that much, just spend the $2000 for a single-processor G5+DVD burner+etc.+etc. Or buy a used dual G4 for even less. Or an iMac. There are plenty of options.)
I sure can't make a case for needing two 2GHz G5s (I'm still getting by with my 2.5-year-old 400MHz PowerBook G4, woo!), but it's nice to see that for once, it's possible to have serious Apple power at a way better price than their competition.
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