Weird. I run XBMC on a 2Ghz Core2Duo 1Gb RAM Intel GMA950-based MacMini with OSX 10.6 which also runs TED (scheduled torrent downloader) and Transmission (P2P client) and it XBMC outputs 1080p from an external USB drive just fine as well as downloading in the background. iStatPro tells me the CPU-usage never goes over 90% (1080p only). On a modern MacMini with 9400M GPU it'd probably never peak above 40% CPU usage.

Or perhaps because, as portable as HTML is, and as neat as the Mobile Safari is, it's still quicker, more convenient and friender to navigate a UI designed for a small screen multi-touch interface than a web browser.

Apparently slashtards don't realise this.

Uhh.. OS X? Aperture. Final Cut Pro. iTMS. iWorks. iLife. Logic Studio. Logic Express.

How are these Apple products digital prisons?

Woah, hyperbole alert. Apple veto flash on one platform, which has a small market share and this is supposed to "destroy" Adobe? Or are you referring to Aperture? Amazon? You mean iTMS competing with Amazon on music. I'm fairly certain Amazon would do just fine if they stopped selling online music entirely. Google? Huh? Google's core business remains search, which Apple doesn't do.

You've never heard of Paul Thurrrott ??

Like Apple, who are building in North Carolina.

The actual change log for 3.2.0 beta (http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30287) merely states:

> Experimental support for Mac OS X guests

There's nowt about running the OSX guest on Apple hardware but maybe this is stated somewhere else.

The PlayStation launched with a controller that only had the standard d-pad for directional movement, yet the Dual Analogue Controller introduced in 1997 was both popular and well supported.

Maybe there is some subtlety I'm missing by Havok is part of every PS3 and Xbox 360 SDK and plenty of Havok games were released on PS3 last year, check out the list from Havok themselves: http://www.havok.com/content/view/584/96

Windows makes use of unused RAM to cache code/data that past usage suggests the user makes common use of. If active programs or background threads need this RAM, this cache gets smaller as RAM is released. This sounds like a sensible use of otherwise-unused RAM to me.

Any idea why? I'd like to use the PS3 controller with the 360, likewise I have friends who'd like to do the opposite. Given there are more similarities than differences, the fact you can't is somewhat annoying.

Are you sure? I know the PS3 controller is bluetooth but as far as I know the 360 controller uses a proprietary wireless technology. Furthermore, just because something connects over bluetooth or USB that does not mean a standard bluetooth or USB profile is being used.

Damn right cos if you want to get more out of the PS3 you have to buy Sony HDDs, Sony memory and Sony bluetooth remote/headsets. Oh wait, no you don't, you can use anything you like.

I couldn't disagree more, I'm 6'2" with fairly big hands and the PlayStation controllers is way more comfortable, both for short and long-term play, than the 360 one. Though I guess if you have short thumbs for the thumbs sticks then it may be more of a problem.

I've had an iTouch since the 32Gb model came out and initially thought the same as you but any keyboard takes time to learn. Eventually (I didn't do much text input on the iTouch) I realised I could get on just fine without a physical keyboard. Now I'm faster typing on my 3GS than I was on my BlackBerry Pearl 8100.