Comments on: Paging Robert Morgan

By: V M Respectable

V M Respectable — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:54:09 +0000

Dan Eran is betting an unspecified 802.11 means n. His reasoning seems convincing enough to me, though he has been (sort of half) wrong in predictions in the past, which when it happens is generally because Apple manages to introduce some item that no one had any reason to expect.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/21133BEF-61B4-40C1-A976-5C1360E60694.html

By: Macalope

Macalope — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:46:58 +0000

You’re right. That’s uncompressed HD stream.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:47:04 +0000

I beg to differ about the HD transfer rate quoted. Does this assume an awesomely compressed H.264 HD media file?
This is stupid to say, but the 640×480 movies appear to be in the 1-2GB range, which one could easily transfer wirelessly over 802.11b in far less time than the length of the movie. HD is I don’t now how much larger of course.
I do think some caching must be present, but a few GBs of flash might be enough.

I also find the use of the term “802.11 networking” to be revealing. They don’t even say .11G, which along with recent wireless non-support but functionality of .11A in the new Intels Macs could mean … I dunno.

By: Abe J

Abe J — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:54:13 +0000

While Julia might not be willing to marry them on the X86 platform, she’ll at least become familiar enough with them to seduce them and tempt them to leave “Roseanne” in the lurch as they launch themselves into an adulterous embrace that is definitely not “Roseanne”. “Even if they can’t have all of Julia on X86, they’ll take what they can get until they feel they’re both ready enough for a long term cross-platform commitment. They can ‘date’ on X86 until they become so entranced by Julia’s charms that they take the plunge and move in together on PPC/PPCP. Especially PPCP because Julia will let them bring what’s left in what will most surely be a ‘messy divorce’.”

Switch PPCP for x86 and you have what he discussed. It just took long enough that it was possible to do “fast enough” emulation.

By: Abe J

Abe J — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:51:31 +0000

Robert Morgan was the single most important, and prescient, Mac, and possibly industry, commentator of the last fifteen years. This is disregarding any pseudonymous cutlery we may remember, though I always had my pet theories about that.

“Convergence”…

By: JM

JM — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:47:25 +0000

I clearly remember Robert Morgan’s posts from that era. Too bad he is not posting. He had health problems back then, if I recall correctly. I was thinking about him earlier today. His vision took a long time coming, but finally it is on the horizon.

By: Yuda

Yuda — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:04:52 +0000

I finally had to ditch my indigo iBook last winter. It was a sad day.