The one about the Apple II is especially interesting.
Category: Apple
Susan Kare Selling Prints of Classic Icons
Susan Kare is offering signed prints of original Mac OS icons, including the Bomb, the Smiling Mac and even the Alert icon.
Prices are pretty reasonable, at least for the smaller sizes:
- 8.5” x 11” edition of 200: $89
- 17” x 22” edition of 200: $129
- 24” x 30” edition of 100: $349
- 30” x 40” edition of 100: $499
These prints will make great gifts for any hardcore Apple nerds in your life. Needless to say, I’m probably ordering the dogcow one for myself.1
New MacBook Pros and iMacs in 2011
This seems like a no-brainer. Why is this rumor even making the rounds?
The Multi-user iPad
The individual nature of the UI and user-model of the iPad seems so at odds to me with its form-factor, the share-ability of its screen technology and it’s emergent context of use that I can imagine something (much more elegant) than this coming from Apple in the near-future.
Of course, they may just want to sell us all one each…
[via Kottke]
On Influence
Shawn Blanc, on the Mac App Store:
This is how iOS is influencing OS X. Not by bringing a touch interface to our desktop monitors, but by bringing greater simplification to our operating systems.
Review: 27" LED Cinema Display
I used to be a notebook guy.
In college, I carried a Titanium PowerBook with everywhere I went. I upgraded to a MacBook Pro, which I used for years.
Now, I’m a desktop guy. We have a 24“ iMac at home, and at work, I use my 15” MacBook Pro in clamshell mode almost all the time. I had an older 23" Cinema Display at work, with an Apple Extended II keyboard and Magic Mouse1 hooked up as well.
Dvorak, on the iPad and Adults
I can’t imagine anyone under the age of 30 wanting an iPad. A PS3, Wii, GameBoy, or even a useful laptop maybe, but an iPad? Heck, most people will get a sweater no matter what they ask for.
Furthermore, I do not recall ever seeing anyone under 30 actually using an iPad. It seems to be an old person’s computer.
Am I wrong about this?
Yes, John, you are.
‘A Week of Air’
Patrick Rhone over at Minimal Mac:
The iPhone is my most mobile computer and the one that is with me anytime I’m awake and anywhere I am. The iPad is still the “everywhere else” machine. That said, here is how the MacBook Air fits in… I now have an option.
See, before, the iPad was an easy choice because the Black MacBook was becoming oh-so-not portable to me. If given the choice of which one to bring to a coffee shop or drag around to clients, the choice was easy. I was taking the light small one. I was taking the iPad. It was less about what was the most appropriate tool for the job at hand (and often either was fine) but the choice was purely driven by size and weight.
Michigan Ave. Apple Store
On iPad 2
In short, I think the transition from the original iPad to its successor will mimic the transition from the iPhone 3G to the 3GS, rather than the 2G to the 3G or the 3GS to the iPhone 4.
I think he’s right on the money, especially about this:
Though, honestly, Apple doesn’t really give a shit if you are aggrieved.
What a Shocker: Woz Has Fake White iPhone 4
Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac is reporting that the white iPhone 4 Woz showed off in a video with CNN is a fake. Here is what Woz wrote to an inquisitive 9 to 5 Mac reader:
This Chinese teen sold the white parts on the internet. I got in early (although the kid had already made $130K) and got my front and back plates and modified my iPhone 4.
Jobs CEO of Decade
As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, Steve Jobs has been named the CEO of the decade by MarketWatch. Calling him the “rock star of Corporate America“, Jobs was praised for resurrecting Apple, and driving it to the top of the heap in the technology sector. Had you invested $1000 in Apple stock at the end of 2000, it would now be worth $43,000.