7:30pm – 10pm
Apple has officially announced a 17 inch model of the Intel processor powered MacBook Pro. Beyond a larger screen this model adds the following over the 15 inch version:
The cost is $2799, the same as a 15″ MacBook Pro upgraded to a 2.16GHz processor so this seems to be a pretty good deal relatively speaking.
According to this story in BusinessWeek, much of the recent boom in Apple hardware sales is coming from folks who previously used ‘other computer systems’.
Now might be a great time to extend ACAMUG membership invitations — and a great place might be your friendly neighborhood Apple store!
Rumor has it that Carolyn is really happy with the new version of Apple’s Pages word processor and tonight we’ll find out why and see what Mike’s learned using Keynote to create a presentation for a promotional video to be used in his dental office.
With any luck we’ll also have a bit to say and maybe show about Apple’s Boot Camp which allows you to install and boot Windows XP on an Intel Mac.
Presentation topics may change so be sure to verify on the day of the meeting. Got questions you’d like to have answered? Feel free to post them as comments before the meeting so the presenters have a chance to prepare.
You may or may not be aware of the fact that Apple recently released a software update it calls ‘Boot Camp’, which allows owners of Intel-based Macs to install and boot Windows XP, as well as boot to their original OS X partition. There are many, many rave reviews for Boot Camp, and more than a few cautionary tales of woe as well.
While Apple still maintains that they do not support beta software, which what Boot Camp has been classified as, they recently released a statement that they WILL honor the hardware warranty if your new ‘Intel inside’ Mac kicks the bucket after installing Boot Camp. That may not do you much good if your OS X partition heads south after installing Windows (as some have claimed happend to them), but at least if the absolute worst case scenario happens, your machine itself is covered.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball provides the most consistently intelligent and honest analysis of matters relating to Apple Computer (period, end of sentence.) Lately he’s been writing about the implications of Apple’s Boot Camp, the technology that allows dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP on Intel Macs, and once again his take is excellent:
And this follow-up tackles on a few other pundits’ views:
And the latest entry on the topic:
And while you’re there browse through the archives.