urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight Your Home For Snappy Repartee 應龍 urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20060306.1357 2006-03-06T18:57:00 2006-03-06T18:57:00 2006-03-06T18:57:00 <CENTER> <IMG SRC="http://wiki.whitedactyl.com/wikiScript/images/6/67/Chaco.jpg" /> </CENTER> Meet <A HREF="http://wiki.whitedactyl.com/wiki/Chaco">Chaco</A> the newest member of the family. It's the new <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_mini">Mac mini</A> with an <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_Duo">Intel Core Duo</A> processor. I like the remote, it's a nice touch. There are only six buttons on it, as per typical <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer">Apple</A> design principles, but to skip through songs in iTunes or to play a DVD you really don't need any more than that. I don't like the fact that most vendors aren't shipping native Intel or Mac OS X Universal binaries yet. The emulation for <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC">PowerPC</A> is quite good, I've had not problem at all running older PowerPC binaries, but it is super slow. The <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation">Mozilla Foundation</A> isn't shipping universal binaries of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox">Firefox</A> or <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird">Thunderbird</A> yet, (wtf?) and I don't like <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino">Camino</A>, so I spent a few hours last night compiling Firefox as an native Intel binary. I can forget about running <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop">Photoshop</A> on it though. Until they start selling more powerful macs with Intel and <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems">Adobe</A> releases a native Intel version I will be utilizing my <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G5">G5</A> a great deal.