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Apple Unveils New Macbook
Several readers have written in to mention that Apple has released the new Macbook on their site. Yahoo! has details from the press release: "With prices starting at just $1,099, the MacBook lineup includes three models: a 1.83 GHz and 2.0 GHz MacBook in a newly designed, sleek white enclosure and a 2.0 GHz MacBook in a stunning new black enclosure. The new MacBook offers performance up to five times faster than the iBook and up to four times faster than the 12-inch PowerBook with a completely new system architecture including a 667 MHz front-side bus and 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory expandable to 2GB."
... since all of my most important files from my PC just disappeared.
of course I meant "thinks" not "things", sometimes I wish Slashdot had an edit feature.
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore
Complaining is a way to show disappointment at something considered subpar. If no one complained, then you might assume that everything is fine and dandy, but that just isn't the case.
I should know. It happens to me once every few days. Most likely explanation? Hardware failure. I play games a lot, causing the fans to go full blast, and crashes generally follow that.
Most likely explanation for the BSODs on XP? A combination of two: hardware failures, as with OS X, and (to a much lesser extent) viruses. Viruses don't exist for the Mac for the most part because it's difficult to get a virus to spread when 95% of the computers it would "hit" are incapable of passing it on.
Can we cut out the BSOD BS? Both Macs and PCs are, these days, more or less equally vulnerable to them. 99% of BSODs are almost certainly caused by hardware issues, such as corrupted RAM.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
There are complaints about Windows because it exists - why else all these reports about trojans/viruses when they hit? It's not always user error but poor design (the registry is either the poorest idea ever implemented or a mediocre idea implement most poorly).
It's great that you don't have problems, but I tried to secure her computer and much of what I do is defeated - did you know that you can try to disable services like automatic update among others that are considered either dangerous or resource hogs and that manual updates cease to work? I didn't but after disabling some of the worst (considered) services, Windows wouldn't update period. Not to mention that it needs internet explorer to update online. With ActiveX turned on:/
Security practices indeed.
[quote]Sure, if you are a regular "end user" who doesn't want to learn how to responsibly use their computer, you should have all these things installed on your system. If you actually know what you're doing with Windows, you don't need any of these things.[/quote]
That's the thing, I know computers, but I don't want to have to get a damn book or take a class - it should come secure by default. But it's bogus that "responsible" use defends you against anything - browsing websites can install things without a confirmation. Or installing software that's shareware.
I believe that it was shown that it takes more Windows Administrators to administrate the same (X) number of windows computers than Linux administrators to administer X number of Linux boxes - that says something.
But a computer os, like the computer itself, is a tool, nothing else, and if the tool gets in my way - I toss it aside.
He wants his spaces to resonate. Maybe he needs an interior decorator.
... hmmm, I don't wanna go any further.
Or an interior vibrator? And maybe he's a she, or has a good she friend, or
Infuriate left and right