Apple’s iPod Nano Targets the Flip

Apple once again has activated its classic strategy: Let someone else validate the market and then they’ll come in and take over, with innovative, usually better products promoted by what might be the world’s best consumer marketing machine. And it usually works, the magic of Steve Jobs and team is what enabled Apple to destroy Sony’s traditional hold over the personal music player (remember the Walkman?) and the recording company monopolies in one go.

The iPod becomes a video recorder

And now Apple has declared war on the Flip. The pricing the new video-enabled Nano ($149) makes it cheaper than the Flip ($179). But would consumers “flip out” over the new Nano?

Mac OSx Leopard VM running on my IBM T61 with Vista

have been giving alot of thought lately to moving to a Mac as a primary development platform, leaving behind my 12+ year associated with Windows and even my more recent Linux influx. I think the best ever Windows go to with XP..Vista has yet to impress, and maybe finding this as an excuse I decided to play around with the MAC OS, without standing for hours at an Apple store with someone store guy bugging me. After a few days of tinkering, here is the result: Using pcwiz’s VM release, I have a fully operational Leopard VM running on my Windows Vista laptop. (Yes, Leopard VM ON Vista, not XP/Vista ON a Macbook)

This works well if you want to demo/play with the OS but is slow and you will not get any of the performance benefits of a real Mac. I did this to see if the usability is as credible as the hype says it is.

disclaimers : This is a test I did for educational purposes only. Buy a Mac OS Leopard license , or a Mac box if you plan to use a similar technique for daily work in a commercial environment.

Windows XP to stay on…

Despite what the high-ups at MS may want, MS users have made it clear : We still want XP.  Hence, Microsoft will keep an OEM option to customers so that they can get Windows XP when they buy a new machine, well beyond the original deadline to June 30th 2008. So if you want to stick to a legal copy of XP , then get it NOW….

Smart move by MS. Give customers what they want, Vista has nice bells and whistes, but not enough to make me move. I had to get it cause my IBM T61 came with it…so now…

I have Vista. You dont want Vista. You want XP..if you’re going to hang on to Windows..and I need to move to a Mac !