Apple iBooks announcement on the iPad

Apple ibooks announcement on the ipad via ZDNet

At an Apple press event, CEO Steve Jobs shows off the company’s new iBooks app. Users can now browse, read reviews, read a sample excerpt, or just buy books-and the book downloads to a virtual “book shelf.” The software has the support of five of the largest publishers, including Simon & Schuster. (from ZDNet…)

This could be a lot of fun…

A Long Road Back

Not counting a PowerCenter clone, the last Apple computer I bought for myself ran OS 7.1 and looked like this… Google Image Search PowerBook 140

Ten years later, I’m having a wee of a time setting up my new MacBook Pro.

Why a decade between Macs? Don’t promise Copland and deliver System 7.5. Remember “Conflict Catcher”? All water under the bridge.

Today, ironically, was about Windows. I created a Boot Camp partition running Windows Vista with full Aero. A great environment to demo Ript. I can also use VM Ware Fusion to run that partition as a virtual machine within OS X.

MacBook Pro on Chair