Tips From Tony Blog

I’ve been hearing about a new, super-big iMac coming out, but nobody said anything about a 24-inch model!

That’s one big, honkin’ screen, and it just so happens to be clearly viewable from any angle, comes with a remote control, has MUCH better graphics hardware than the smaller models, and easily supports full, 1080p High-Definition video. It doesn’t get any better than that, unless we start seeing some 42-inch iMacs sometime soon… One of those would fit RIGHT BETWEEN the two antique hammered-copper sconces that came with my 1918 Craftsman-Style Bungalow.

Multi-media center, anybody?

Nowadays, there are TV-tuners for the Mac that are very well-reviewed. However, there are no real standards for accessing live TV signals using Apple’s existing hardware and built-in Front Row software. I’m hoping that the Apple’s big “It’s Showtime!” event in San Francisco in six days will add more pieces to the TV-signal puzzle.

If they do, then your new 24″ iMac would definitely prefer to have the optional 500-gigabyte internal hard drive inside, to store your favorite shows just like a Tivo…

This is looking very good, and I’m jazzed… There are lots and lots of new techniques popping up to run Windows applications on an Intel Mac. I’ve been waiting for one that: - Doesn’t require a Mac user to re-start into a different, alien environment, and - Doesn’t force anybody to load Windows. The idea is to double-click on a Windows program and just run it alongside your Mac programs. This is highly important for folks such as realtors running “MLS” software that will ONLY run on a PC. Evidently, Crossover for the Mac is in the early, “beta” stage, but it’s getting some rave reviews already: I plan to be watching this one very closely.

I suspect that there will be businesses rising up to feed this need…

Here are some pictures, and here is the movie