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March 09, 2007

H.264 in every Mac?   Tweet

After eighteen months of happy Maccing, I've become a Mac maniac, and I'm never going to use anything else but OS X. That's the good news, at least for those who also use a Mac. The bad news is that one never knows when to upgrade.

I know that I'm going to swap my 20 inch G5 iMac for a brand new Intel powered 24 inch , but the big question is: when?

I'm not waiting for a 30 inch, because it wouldn't fit on my desk under the open stairs in the living.

But behind that bigger screen, a lot of hardware might always change very fast. There's always an Apple event or keynote dawning behind the horizon, and I've learned the bad way not to buy anything in the months before super seller Steve has left the stage.

Yet faster Intel chips, who knows an iMac with two dual core processors, quicker than the quickest Mac Pro.

My choice as well as my timing are even more difficult now that I've read that Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line.

At least, according to Robert X. Cringely: The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007.

Now what?

in Dutch at @ Dutch Cowboys

Posted: March 9, 2007 11:39 AM (207 words).  Tweet 

Leon Krijnen
Verslaggever bij BN DeStem. Schrijft over defensie, fotografie, mensen, de zaterdag column en doet de techblog Interface. Publiceert op DutchCowboys/Leon. Maakt ook een serie over mooie Brabantse café's. Op Krijnen.Com publiceert hij vanaf 1995 van alles wat. Rijdt racefiets of een van zijn oldtimers, Dorus Dream, of de ouwe trouwe W 180. Gek op Apple.
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