Linked List: June 10, 2005

Friday, 10 June 2005

JWZ Switches to an iMac ★: Jamie Zawinski has been waiting for stuff to “just work” on Linux for a long time, and he’s finally given up:

Remember last week, when I tried to buy exactly the same audio card that 99.99% of the world owns and convince Linux to be able to play two sounds at once? Yeah, turns out, that was the last straw. I bought an iMac, and now I play my music with iTunes.
Hannibal on the Apple-to-Intel Transition ★: Ars Technica’s Jon “Hannibal” Stokes speculates, convincingly, on how Apple’s Intel transition might play out: which chips in which Macs, the 64-bit strategy, and why they chose Intel instead of AMD.