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Maarten Hekkelman, the creator of the Pepper text editor that was one of the initial hits of Mac OS X, has decided to stop selling his software and stop any further development of the program. He states the following on his Web site:
End of story
I'm no longer taking orders for my software.
Thanks to all who supported me and my software over the last years. I had a great time, esp. in the beginning. However, recent changes in the various OS's and several not so nice experiences with less than honest 'clients' combined with negative feedback on my software have forced me to stop.
-Maarten Hekkelman
Thanks to MNJ reader Brian Caldwell for letting me know about this development... [Mac Net Journal]
8:30:23 AM 
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Writing in his GlennLog site, Seattle journalist Glenn Fleishman writes:
Speed the Fruit. Unfortunately, according to Rob Art Morgan who has tested this, the new PowerMacs from Apple that use DDR (double data rate) memory like its Xserve rank-mount unit cannot access the memory any faster than the cheaper and slower SDRAM found in the previous system arch. A controller limits the data rate to 1 Gbps, while DDR could work more than twice as fast. Unfortunately, this makes mincemeat of the architecture, as it bus/memory-bounds 2D and 3D graphics and rendering. In practical terms, my chart showing the Apple vs. Dell server comparison is now pointless: the new Macs can't compete with the same-price or cheaper Dells because the Macs are just as slow as the old Macs. You can boost the processor speed somewhat (jump to dual 1.25 GHz), but you can't extract nearly enough speed from the memory ... [GlennLog]
[Mac Net Journal]
10:04:28 PM
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