Comments on: Turn Your iPod into a Portable Windows XP Computer http://svenontech.com/2007/03/09/turn-your-ipod-into-a-portable-windows-xp-computer/ The technology resource you can't resist! Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:25:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Computer Expert http://svenontech.com/2007/03/09/turn-your-ipod-into-a-portable-windows-xp-computer/#comment-115631 Computer Expert Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:30:09 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/03/09/turn-your-ipod-into-a-portable-windows-xp-computer/#comment-115631 It would be nice if this software worked with Macs. But you have to give MojoPac their props! This is a cool virtualization software application! It would be nice if this software worked with Macs. But you have to give MojoPac their props! This is a cool virtualization software application!

]]> By: zahadum http://svenontech.com/2007/03/09/turn-your-ipod-into-a-portable-windows-xp-computer/#comment-97504 zahadum Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:23:32 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/03/09/turn-your-ipod-into-a-portable-windows-xp-computer/#comment-97504 requests to the vendor (ringcube) for a mac version has basically been ignored ... they have had 6 months to get this going with zero results ... not a promising sign about the engineering skills! which is extra bad for mac users because the 'portable home directory' concept was supposed to have been in the Tiger featrure set but was dropped by apple! :-( ..... and it's status in leopard is still MIA unless it is one of the 'secrets' that steve jobs **promised** would make leopard sizzle (so far, there aint much to write 'home' about! as it were). in the mac case there are special considerations for the use of an ipod as home directory ... like Netboot, Rendezvous (zeroconfig), iSync, dotMac etc etc but MOST GLARINGLY absent is the explanation of how the HEAT issue is addressed when an ipod is used as a mass storage device -- when i use a 1G firewiire ipod as a /bootable/ device (for troubleshooting), theat baby is almost glowing red-hot! (yes, bootable is clearly different than a user directory). it is so sad that mac users must surrender their hopes to (windows!) third-parties in order to get back all the fit & finish that apple used to be famous for but which it seems incapable of maintaining anymore! (recall: the loss usb bootability on ppc os/x; or the loss of of our sweet, sweet bootable RAM-discs as a side-effect of the otherwise slick change from old-world ROM ofw). it would be really _USEFUL_ if web sites would EXPLICITLY incorporate mac status as part of their style guides / check list when otherwise recycling press releases as 'news' .... by this i mean haveing a (cusyomizeable) template that is automatically emailed back to every PR announcement so that all the MISSING details can be simply & quickly restored in the final blurb published on the web site ... this suggestion goes betong just the mac issue! requests to the vendor (ringcube) for a mac version has basically been ignored …

they have had 6 months to get this going with zero results …

not a promising sign about the engineering skills!

which is extra bad for mac users because the ‘portable home directory’ concept was supposed to have been in the Tiger featrure set but was dropped by apple! :-( ….. and it’s status in leopard is still MIA unless it is one of the ’secrets’ that steve jobs **promised** would make leopard sizzle (so far, there aint much to write ‘home’ about! as it were).

in the mac case there are special considerations for the use of an ipod as home directory … like Netboot, Rendezvous (zeroconfig), iSync, dotMac etc etc

but MOST GLARINGLY absent is the explanation of how the HEAT issue is addressed when an ipod is used as a mass storage device — when i use a 1G firewiire ipod as a /bootable/ device (for troubleshooting), theat baby is almost glowing red-hot! (yes, bootable is clearly different than a user directory).

it is so sad that mac users must surrender their hopes to (windows!) third-parties in order to get back all the fit & finish that apple used to be famous for but which it seems incapable of maintaining anymore! (recall: the loss usb bootability on ppc os/x; or the loss of of our sweet, sweet bootable RAM-discs as a side-effect of the otherwise slick change from old-world ROM ofw).

it would be really _USEFUL_ if web sites would EXPLICITLY incorporate mac status as part of their style guides / check list when otherwise recycling press releases as ‘news’ …. by this i mean haveing a (cusyomizeable) template that is automatically emailed back to every PR announcement so that all the MISSING details can be simply & quickly restored in the final blurb published on the web site … this suggestion goes betong just the mac issue!

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