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I was poking around Crucial’s web site to see if I could use my iBook G3’s RAM (PC133 SODIMM) in my iMac (which freston is always telling me is an iBook in a different costume).

The answer appears to be yes. But can anyone tell me what the difference between these three products is (besides a dollar or two)?

I’ve noticed this with other RAM vendors too: market segmentation (differentiated pricing for the same product) based on how you discover the product. Mac users are usually charged more; at Crucial the prices seem to be semi-random.

Apple’s marketing hasn’t been this suggestive since the SE/30.

From: toddt@...
To: ...@dsandler.org
Subject: I love it when Apple talks dirty to me

Seen at http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html:

"Adventure in Every Port"

TT

Fig. 1: Front Row. Boop-bip!

How does the new iMac’s remote control thingy work? I’d have guessed BlueTooth, but it has a slab of shiny black plastic on one end, which screams IR. Where’s the IR transceiver on the iMac base unit? (Did Apple somehow use the iSight, now built in to the iMac’s bezel, to detect IR pulses?) And how soon before Front Row becomes the Apple TiVo? (With the ability to buy TV shows from the iTunes Music Store, it arguably already is.)

Nobody was surprised about the Video iPod and the availability of music videos for purchase on iTunes. What surprises me is that Apple negotiated with Disney to sell episodes (and, yes, entire seasons) of ABC shows on the iTunes video store. Apple’s website is slammed at the moment—

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—so it’s hard to see exactly what the offerings are (just last season’s Lost? this season as well? tonight’s episode?). Time will tell. (Update: Looks like so far they only have Season 2, through last week: pic. Update 2: they have all of Season 1.) I’d love it if other networks would sign on; that way I wouldn’t have to fork over a huge amount of cash for a second TiVo to watch conflicting shows, but instead spend a couple bucks per episode of (for example) Everybody Hates Chris.