Ray Fix's Profile

I think the AppleTV's value is directly proportional to the value of your iTunes library. If you have a large library, it's pretty awesome. My one reservation about AppleTV is the fact that it is an "always on" device that takes 18 Watts to drive. I wish there was a more elegant way to power it down (other than just pulling the plug which is what I currently do). That said, even when you are using it to watch movies it only consumes about 20 Watts. Pretty amazing. Compare that to the XBox360 which uses about 180 Watts. That's almost 10X the electricity cost (and CO2 emission). On the other hand, the XBox powers off cleanly and conveniently from the controller and there is virtually zero "vampire" power draw.

Hey guys. I thought Leopard was announced to be feature complete at WWDC2007. I think you have to admit that the whole sandboxed quicklook architecture is pretty cool. I hope it works well in practice because I think it has the potential to really change how people experience finding and sharing files. And for some wild speculation: With the initial schedules (before the iPhone delay) I suspect they were originally planning to release iLife/iWork '08 as Leopard only releases. However, when the delay happened they worked at back-porting pieces of Core Animation so they could release on Tiger. The silver lining of the leopard delay was that Tiger became slightly more capable than it would have been otherwise. Still the, the big difference is that on Leopard the APIs are available to 3rd party devs. I don't know how "Top Secret" this is but it is going to make a difference in terms of the quality of Native apps available. There will be a real reason to make a native port of your app to Mac OS X because it will just look awesome.

I think the new iMac is a brilliant consumer machine. I appreciate how the engineers focused on Cradle-to-Cradle design creating it with highly recyclable components. Further, although it might not have the performance of an hardcore gamer machine, it can nicely do the majority of what consumers want it to. Consider that an nVidea 7600 GT eats 213 Watts under load while the maximum power consumption of the entire 20" iMac is only 200 Watts. I would be interested to know what the average idle power consumption of one of these guys is but I am guessing it is far below even 100 Watts and well below 3 watts in sleep.

There is no such thing as perfection... you can always do better and I am sure the iPhone will get better over time via both software and hardware updates. That said iPhone 1.0 is an extremely compelling product and I am very happy to be able to own one. Mad props to all the people at Apple that made this thing come together so well.

There are a great set of new APIs for developers. Don't underestimate these. 3rd party Leopard apps are going to kick.

It's like this. Apple never really wanted to support the PC... but they had to in order to get mp3 marketshare. Even though they are committed to supporting PCs it must be frustrating as hell to them when some chinese manufacturer ships them a preformatted drive with a virus on it. Yes, they should have double checked the preformatted drives and they didn't. I think they are just being honest about how they feel, angry with the world (windows) and *more* angry with themselves.

I have a 30+ gb library including a couple hundred purchased from iTunes. No issues here.... seems to work well. The interface seems much more polished than before.

I attended the keynote and dozens of sessions following it. Apple is putting a ton of work into developer tools and system level frameworks for Leapard. Not only is the OS going to get better but so is 3rd party stuff. It is going to be great!