Saturday, January 19, 2008

Macbook Air

Was reading reviews about MacBook Air and came across some very interesting one-liners on it

"It’s an expensive, disposable toy"
"Apple: Macbook Air inspires laptop Anorexia"
"Steve made a machine for himself, as ever."

Read some interesting stuff at
http://cultofmac.com/

What does GM stand for?

External beta testing is usually followed by GM build testing and subsequent release. So what is GM in the beta parlance? My project had been in the GM phase for quite a time. However I didn't bother to google for it throughout. Yesterday while reading an interview of an indie developer (Read Sweater), I read about Leopard's Golden Master not being released to Mac developers for testing before official release! And it was then, that I realised what the acronym GM meant. To confirm, I googled for the term which explained:

GM, or Gold Master, is what software is called when it has completed all phases of testing and is ready to be released to the general public

Ref:
http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=infocenter&loc=betaglossary#G12