New Apple iMac Arrives The latest edition to the growing home computing center is an Apple iMac (Intel E7600 Core 2 Duo/8Gb RAM/1Tb HD/21.5"), which I promptly setup to use Boot Camp with Windows 7 as the default OS. This makes a great Family Room machine, in Windows or MacOS (despite missing HDMI port), and doubles as the iPhone development platform. What is more interesting is the purchase survey, which I took today. Apple New Purchase Survey Going though the questions it became clear that there...

I finally installed the Apple iPod Touch 3.0 software update and, to my surprise, my iPod has been greatly improved. I chose the word surprise because Apple has disappointed me (and the rest of the world) twice in the past, and I made the assumption they would disappoint again. You see, the iPod Touch is a nice little computer, disguised as a music player, with WiFi built-in. You would certainly expect it to be able to: Sync music with no wires Download audio and video podcasts from the internet...

The Apple IPod is a great device. So good, that there are no less than 8 of them in my house (3 iPod touch, 1 old nano, 2 new nanos, a shuffle, and a mini). Apple iTunes software really stinks. It takes a quite a bit of bad network programming code to use up 41% of my CPUs while downloading two podcasts over a mere 1Mb/s internet connection. Each morning when I fire up iTunes, nearly half of my computer power is sucked up doing what? Waiting for the remote server to send more bytes? Drawing progress...