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The iPhone SDK is already available (free):
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Kleiner, Perkins Caufield will invest $ 100,000,000 of venture capital in companies developing applications for iPhone and iPod touch:
http://www.kpcb.com/initiatives/ifund/index.html

Those are great news!

The iPhone simulator running on Leopard:

Using Safari from the iPhone simulator:

Watching photos from the iPhone simulator:

Your virtual iPhone is ready for you

Antonio, does the iPhone simulator work on WINDOWS, too?
Regards,
Otto

Otto,

No, it only runs on OSX.

But you can run OSX on a non-Mac computer, though it is not allowed by Apple licence. See www.osx86project.org

So in fact you just need to buy Leopard (129 euros) and have a compatible computer.

Just buy an iMac with a 24 inch screen. Then you can run OSX and Windows ... but not at the same time.

Tim,

Personally I own several Macs and compatible computers.

I do prefer compatible ones (PCs) as I can build and modify them myself.

When you buy a Mac you have no option to improve it. On a compatible computer there are lot of choices. Actually I use Core Quad and I get a superb performance.

Also I use three harddisks as I don't want to mix different operating systems partitions, as you can loose all your data. You can't do that with a standard Mac, unless you go for a US$ 3000 (or more) one.

I understand the problems. My wife uses a Mac at school so she has one at home, and a laptop to go back and forth. I bought her a new iPod for Christmas ( the touch screen one ) but it won't work on her iMac because it requires a newer MAC OS ... and that cannot be installed on the older iMac. "Older" means 3 years ! So, to use the new iPod, she has to install iTunes on one of my Windows machines ... and it works just fine !

I've gone through a similar situation with every Mac she owns. To be compatible with other Macs, she needs an OS upgrade which requires a new computer because you can't do simple upgrades on the iMac ( or earlier Mac's ).

Exactly, Tim, thats what I mean.

Now I can select the mobo (motherboard) that I want, the processor, the graphic card, the memory, the harddisks, the case, to build the exact machine that I want. I love to build my own computers

And I can upgrade them and repair them myself. Soon I will be going for a Core Extreme (eight cores) when prices go lower, and I'll just need to open the case and replace the processor, as I use the most modern mobos (for 60 euros only! Asus P5K-SE -this one is great!-). Five mins

On my computers I can run Windows (Vista, XP), OSX (Tiger, Leopard) and Linux (Ubuntu), all in the same machine, with no problems at all and with great performance.

TimStone wrote:Just buy an iMac with a 24 inch screen. Then you can run OSX and Windows ... but not at the same time.

My day to day computer is a Apple MacPro with OSX 10.5.2. I run Windows XP and Vista via Parallels on OSX. This way I can work on Wndows AND OSX together. Works SO nice!



Patrick[/b]

Antonio Linares wrote:Tim,
When you buy a Mac you have no option to improve it. On a compatible computer there are lot of choices.

But on non-Mac laptops there are not so many options either (IMHO) ...

Antonio Linares wrote: Actually I use Core Quad and I get a superb performance.

BTW, quad core mobile CPU is arriving ...
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=35

Core 2 Extreme QX9300 is expected to have a clock speed of 2.53GHz on a 1,066MHz FSB and it has no less than 12MB of L2 cache.
...
at US$1,038 each when ordered in quantities of 1,000 units a time, most people can only dream of owning one,

Regards, Roman