Apollo Alpha now available.
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.
After reading more of those “hot macbook pro” postings I decided to do a little experimenting. I started off by firing up the MacBook Pro and then my Compaq notebook. After letting them run for a few minutes I noticed both the Mac and PC were running at around 100 degrees (f).
In this basic comparison I found that the Mac and PC run equally hot and thus have nothing to worry about.
Update 1
Note: the fan in the Compaq is louder at the moment, but the Macbook also isn’t silent.
Update 2
the case on the MacBook Pro makes it hotter to the touch, but I can understand it being a metal casing.
Here is the screengrabs from the Mac and the PC notebooks about 20 minutes after I started them up.
Taken from iStatPro (widget)
From “SpeedFan”
As the title states there is a new addition to the Macs I own. Please welcome the MacBook Pro, which you may have noticed if you visited my Flickr Page in the last couple of days.
I decided to go for the 2.66ghz with 2gb of ram for video editing and the ability to run Parallels on it with no slowdowns.
So far it is performing insanely well, I have my software loaded on it and the heat problems everyone speaks of have not been an issue to me. It does get warm, but then again why wouldn’t it in a metal casing? The most important application to download is iAlertU which informs you via sounds when your MacBook/Pro has decided to wonder into someone elses hands. It also snaps a photo and emails it to you when the alarm is tripped.
My favorite SSH application for Windows was spotted on the hit Fox show Prison Break. Michael Scofield, Sara Tancredy and Lincoln Burrows were huddled around a PC laptop listening to an audio recording and when the program was closed I noticed the putty icon sitting on the desktop.
I don’t use Putty as often now that my main machine is a Mac, but when in Windows I always use it.
Yesterday PhotoshopCafe announced the finalists from the Design Challenge. To help promote the contetst I developed a little Flash app that sites atop the forum which randomly displays an entry. The user can rollOver the image and an overlay is displayed showing who created that piece.
The winners are to be announced soon and I will post back when they are.
