Way to go Apple! From my comment at OSNews:

What seems to be the hidden story in these Q3 results is how incredibly well the Intel switch is going at this point. Apple sold the highest number of Macs in a quarter since 2000, yet the desktop sales went DOWN, due to people waiting for new Power Macs and Xserves. The notebooks counted for 798,000 units — giving Apple a new U.S. notebook marketshare of 12%. Whoa! And that’s with Macbooks still ramping up production.

Fast forward a couple of quarters with the Intel desktop line complete and the Macbook + Pro lineup going gangbusters. I think we’ll easily get to 1.5 million Macs soon. Then what? 2 million? It’s not out of the question.

Apple’s going for the jugular in the PC world with this Intel switch. The pundits who predicted the demise of the Mac and Apple’s shift to consumer music + video products were wrong. Dead wrong. Dude, who cares about Dell?

Just when I thought Apple bashing was finally fading away from general computer industry discourse, some dude publishes an editorial on OSNews.com that is fancinating in its extreme bias, misleading premise, and un-factual conclusions.

Read my rebuttal here and let me know what your thoughts are. I fully admit I’m an Apple fan (I first switched in 2001 and haven’t looked back), but I think any reasonable person has to admit Apple’s doing well these days and Mac marketshare is slowly but surely growing. That someone would go out of their way to state that Apple’s marketshare is in fact shrinking and its business model is an endangered species — contrasted to the notion that Dell and Microsoft are in the prime of their lives — is mystifying to me.

‘Tis the night before Tuesday, and all through my brain, I’m hoping tomorrow brings joy and not pain!

Ugh. Leaving aside for a moment my horrible poetry skills, I’d like to tell you how excited I am about the new MacBooks that Apple is about to release. It’s not certain tomorrow is the day, but it’s certainly going to be with the next couple of weeks according to just about everyone’s prediction. The reason I’m so excited about this is because the iBook is the coolest little notebook around (I use my iBook G4 constantly and love it to pieces) — except for the fact that it is just too underpowered by today’s standards. Plus the matte (and IMHO dull) white finish and thick, kiddie case are starting to get long in the tooth. The MacBook will likely sport a sleeker, sexier case, and will most certainly boast a dramatically faster architecture. Plus with the prospect of using Windows via dual-booting and virtualization at near-native speeds when it’s time to do some boring office task or play the odd game or two, the whole package makes me salivate. I haven’t been this excited about a new Mac coming out since the Mac mini debuted in January of 2005.

If we’re really, really lucky, we might even see a price drop. Who knows? At any rate, the iBook has had a good, long run, and I love mine dearly — but it’s time for a big change. Apple, don’t fail us now!

Wow, I just found out about this. SketchUp, a cool 3D sketching and modeling tool “for the rest of us” that I played around with at Macworld this January, was recently bought by Google and is now available for free! (There’s still a Pro version for sale though.) Unfortunately, the Mac version isn’t out yet, but hopefully that won’t be long in coming.

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If you’ve ever wondered how OS X launches an executable and what format an OS X executable is in, you’ll want to read this. It’s kind of surreal to read it in the middle of the night after a two-hour-long coding marathon. Kids, don’t try this at home….

After much time of languish and neglect, Camino is back, and back with a vengence. I’m posting this using the new Camino 1.0 browser for Mac OS X, and I’m extremely impressed. It has all the nice Gecko-y rendering power, yet has a simple Safari-like Cocoa interface and nice Cocoa-style widgets for the HTML forms. It’s fast, seems stable, and has everything I need…except inline spell checking. But I think they’re working on that.

If you’re an OS X user, I highly recommend checking out Camino. It might make you switch from Firefox and Safari all in one go!