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Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac
Apple just announced new iMacs. They are aluminum and come in 20" (two models) and 24". There's a new view called "Events" in iPhoto that should make it easier to deal with large photo libraries. Apple's .Mac service is enhanced with .Mac Web Gallery, which integrates with the new iTunes and also the iPhone. It's a Web 2.0 app now. And iMovie is being replaced by a completely new app of the same name. Steve Jobs claimed that with it you can put together a 5-minute movie in 30 minutes, and he demo'ed that from the stage. iWeb, iDVD, and GarageBand get new features too. And .Mac subscribers get 10 GB of storage. Here is Engadget's blow-by-blow coverage, and Wired's.
So gushingly glad you made the effort to post that.
New iMac looks pretty sweet, though not yet convinced by that keyboard.
cmd-q.co.uk - some sort of stupid fucking internet bullshit
The event is going on for another hour still. They just added that they're updating iWork too. Damn, talk about jumping the gun.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
I checked apple.com and haven't seen any updates yet. I think this is the first time in years where a product announcement has been made and their website wasn't updated at the same exact moment. :^)
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not yet convinced by that keyboard.
You know, I was thinking the same thing.
A lot of people dislike the MacBook keyboards. They look nice, but the keys don't travel far enough for some people, which messes up the tactile feedback. And these new keyboards look very similar to the MacBook keyboards, plus they're extremely thin, which would also suggest a short travel distance for the keys.
But of course, until I check them out next week at the Apple store, it's all speculation.
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
I'm not really into all-in-ones at present since all I do is plug my screen into my tower, laptop, or mini at present.
HOWever - if Apple did manage to introduce something along the lines of this bit of fan-fic (with OS interface extensions to match), I'd be drooling, barking at the moon and standing in line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxa3zHdRxxA
Still, it's a nice update.
"On the morning of Steve Jobs's keynote presentation, the online Apple store grinds to a halt as Mac-heads set their browsers to refresh every 15 seconds."
(from the Apple Product Life Cycle)
The iMac will also come with a new Bluetooth keyboard that will look like this prototype./a
CATS/Diebold '08- All your vote are belong to us!
Can we wait until the press event is over before an article is posted about it? At present isn't there still a product on stage under black cloth? Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?
With their spreadsheet application and upgrade to Pages to include a word processor, it looks like Apple wants to establish an entire office productivity suite. I wonder if it will be a successor to WriteNow in the near future?
But is it backwards compatible with Web 1.0?
Some of us Luddites are a bit slow to upgrade.
D-nyd.
They also updated the Mac Mini.
"Didn't mention Mac mini today, how is it doing?"
Tim: "We're refreshing the Mac mini today."
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
Personally, I think short key travel is more ergonomic, although I'd prefer to see contoured keys (as on MBP and most other laptops) rather than the flat MacBook-style keys. After typing mostly on laptops for the last couple years, the long travel on desktop keyboards makes my hands hurt.
And I'll keep asking for it!
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
...this quote. "There are some people who still want to make DVDs" I guess these's a fringe movement of people who want to cater to the 100 million or so DVD players out there! ;)
Someone tell these people that DVD is soooooooooooo last year!
Other than that everything looked pretty solid.
Anyone got some video of the keynote?
From the mysterious future
In case someone's wondering, the Mac mini will be refreshed today. This was mentioned during their Q & A. But there was no mention of any specs.
Talk short. No long sentence. Simple words. Over soon. Screw verbs. Noun adjective. Adjective noun. Noun, noun, noun. And, articles! So, no prepositions. Adverbs bad. Baaaad adverbs, no-no-no. See Dick run. Run, Dick run!
I can explanate how to administrate your network. You must configurate and segmentate it, so it can computate.
(apologies in advance)
Do we really need that kind of visual, considering fanbois' well-documented oral fixation with everything Apple?
*ducks*
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Like the unpopular kid at the elementary school dance asking for a date.
The key is to keep asking until they feel sorry for you.
Is it just me or is the whole industrial brushed aluminum appearance of "modern" devices go against the entire concept of aesethics? I would have preferred that Apple keep the white and added black as a colour for the iMacs.
Nah. I'm more going "Hey Apple, I have $2000 for you if you make a laptop I want."
So it's more like trying to get a high-class prostitute.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
first quote: "What about AMD chips?"
.mac doesn't support HD Jobs goes- Well, we do support HD, well actually slightly less than HD- you know what I call not quite HD- NOT HD! Everything just seemed a little small fry.
Steve: "We use Intel chips"
hehehe, sounded a li'l like the intel chip implanted into his head kicked in there.
second, why is the imac so underpowered in the RAM department, I mean the specs in one of the pictures showed the iMacs, all the way up to the biggest $1800 version only has 1gig- with all the RAM you get in normal PCs now days (4gigabytes not unusual) is this not a little strange?
Finally, is it just me, or have they slighyl repackaged everything, made no huge advances, like for example, why did they bother to minimize a keyboard, which for someone like me, would just be annoying. iLife? It's had nothing added, they just repackaged every single feature, and when asked why
So no matter how much cash your throwing at this whore, she is still denying you... I think thats sadder than the kid at the high school dance:P
Just kidding with that bud:)
While I don't disagree with you for the most part, they have opened up lately.
Check out Newegg and Microcenter. You can buy Macs at both places. Dunno if there are others, I don't go looking to buy Macs typically.
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Yeah. I have a Macbook pro, almost a $3000 computer; and the keyboard is terrible. As is the one-button trackpad. I love OSX, but I'm afraid the physical design of the Mac keyboards is just pitiful, totally focused on looks and not usability. I've got a full-size Mac keyboard at my desktop on my Mac Mini, that's a much better keyboard — full numeric keypad, better key travel — but it still isn't even close to the best keyboards out there which have positive tactile feedback, illumination (though my MBP has KB illumination, which I appreciate), and ergonomic curves. Hey, but my Mac keyboard is white. [cough].
This is compounded by the OS's taking over all the function keys. For a *nix-based OS, this is a pretty inconvenient and poorly thought-out choice. And it isn't all that easy to get the FKeys to behave properly in a terminal; I'm not sure why, but some keys just don't want to come "unstuck" from the OS.
Oh well. There are some third-party Mac keyboards out there already; hopefully this latest back-to-the-chiclet-past effort from Apple will encourage others to make some really good Mac keyboards.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
If you want the same security, stability, and lack of choice in software you had on your Mac, you can run Linux!
But here's the best part...
We don't have to beg for anything! In fact, they beg us to buy their products, because PC manufacturers actually have something called "competition"! What a novel concept!
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Am I the only one who thinks it's ironic that they've only recently completely done away with brushed metal in their user interfaces, in favor of a more plastic-y, smooth feel, but are now introducing brushed metal iMacs to replace their plastic-y, smooth-looking old ones?
I like the change, but...how? Some auto-negation bug in the intra-office memo software? "!brushed_metal = brushed_metal....SENT"
That's just THEIR loss (;
/hate/ the keyboard on the MacBook.
I'm waiting till the next OS X comes out, and then I'll probably get a new laptop. I might end up with a MacBook, but I'm really hoping there'll be a 13.3" MacBookPro. Cause I
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
It's a Web 2.0 app now
No it's not, because there's no such thing as a "version" of the Internet OR the World Wide Web.
Just because O'Reilly and a bunch of bloggers like it, doesn't mean you should use it.
Please help metamoderate.
... Or to powerfull."
But your integrated screen can still be to high!
This is what annoys me the most about the iMac and they didn't fix it. I'm using a 20" iMac at my current client and the screen is about 8-10cm to high for my tast. And you can only pivot it on the iMacs, not raise or lower it. I'd've thought they'd've fixed that with this release. Shame they didn't.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
There is humor in the fact that as I read your post, there is an ad at the top of the page for smalldog.com, a retailer which sells more than just ipods.
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But the more important announcement (IMHO) is iWork which now includes Numbers: http://www.apple.com/iwork/ Finally, I can get rid of Office.
"Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average." - A. W. Tozer
And a lot of people, on the other hand, love laptop keyboards in general for the very reasons you listed. Furthermore, a lot of people spend much of their young life with a laptop as their primary rig, so they're actually more used to it than a traditional keyboard. It's kind of a moot point. Some people will be excited by the keyboards. Some people will hate them. And for many, the keyboard will not have a large net effect on their purchasing decisions.
I do give them props for doing something different (or, if it's been done already, making it standard). I just wish they'd also have an option which brings ergonomics into play, even if it might end up looking like Gaudi made it.
Glossy screens have been scientifically proven to cause eyestrain, headaches and premature need for glasses because the eye keeps trying to focus between the two images.
Steve Jobs says "Customers prefer glossy screens" But this is a in Store poll or results from some sales from the ignorant young of the dangers of glossy screens.
Us OLDER longtime computer and CRT users know glossy screens cause eyestrain. In FACT a MacPoll Survey shows overwhelmingly that people choose MATTE SCREENS OVER GLOSSY.
So is Apple ripe for a lawsuit?
Polite mistake pointing-out: every instance of "to" in your above post should be "too." When you can replace the word with "overly", it has two Os.
The United States of America: We do what we must because we can.
50% more expensive? It's higher than that $700 for an additional 2GB of RAM (When I specced out the 24" version)? Maybe they need to use 'special' heatsinks like the Mac Pro. Considering this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 2E16820145177 is only $156, I'm guessing it must be something else.
Even laptops have drive bays and PC Card slots ya know, and there's no reason (not even looks) why iMacs couldn't have these features.
It's really not that bad. I'm using it right now. I like it more than my dell laptop keyboard. The thing I find is people think the keys are that much more spread out and it in turn messes up their typing. The reality is if you look at the very top of the keys on a typical keyboard, even a laptop (though the keys are much shorter profile), the "hat" of the key has as much of a gap as there are on macbook keyboards. The keys are much quieter, and offer me much more feedback than a regular laptop key. They also don't feel like they're going to pop right off like my dell laptop's keys.
Fry's Electronics, located all over Dallas and other regions of Texas sells macs and ipods of every type and variety. I believe the agreement here is that they stick with prices which are dictated by apple. No more, no less than exactly what Apple dictates. And I don't believe they can be serviced in the stores PC service department, but do offer the Apple Care program.
Have you compared them to the keys on a MacBookPro, though? Same keyboard I have on my current PB12. I love this thing's keyboard. Better than any laptop keyboard I've ever had.
Now if only it was ergonomic...
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
I've been considering a Mac desktop for a while, and now that a new one is out, perhaps I'll buy it.
One thing I need, though, is to be able to run Linux and OpenBSD in virtual machines on my desktop. Does anyone have any experience with how the new VMWare Fusion compares to VMWare Workstation? Is there any difference between the two (aside from the price, and that unity view for Windows, which does not affect me)? I mean, in terms of features and running other OSes?
Funny, I love mine, and previously I was a diehard Model M user.
Switch on right-click support in the System Preferences or use the Ctrl key.
Personally, I use Ctrl for right-click even when I'm using Linux on a system with a 4-button trackball.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
honestly the keyboard isn't the seller for me. I'll be ordering my first ever Mac computer tonight when i get home. I've been waiting since about April for them to update the iMac and now i will put my money where my mouth is...i sure hope the Apple tastes sweet.
I assume you'll be able to get something like this for the new iMacs...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Well, first, Apple isn't a monopoly. They have viable competitors in every market in which they compete, and insofar as that is the case, the behaviors you describe (which are called "vertical integration", or "anti-competitive practices" if and only if you already have a monopoly) aren't "brutal" so much as "a business and design choice".
They destroyed the Mac clone market and reseller market because those things were destroying Apple. At that time (the late 90's), Linux wasn't nearly as mature or widely-adopted as it is today and the destruction of Apple would have, as far as almost everyone could predict, led to a total Microsoft monopoly. Microsoft was already starting to displace commercial UNIX in some segments. Other companies had licenses to manufacture Apple hardware designs with Apple software, including the Apple ROM that (at the time) was necessary for the OS to run. Those license payments weren't enough to allow Apple to continue existing and developing their OS, so Apple refused to extend those licenses to future technology (the CHRP common hardware platform, Mac OS 8) and purchased back the licenses it had already granted.
The real question is whether it's acceptable to sell integrated systems that are capable of working together above and beyond the interoperability offered by open standards. When I look across the fence at the hardware support issues Linux and Windows are struggling with, I'm pretty happy with how green the grass is over here. And if I wasn't, I'm still perfectly able to get a new OS and new hardware. That's the difference between a monopoly and a competitor who offers a significantly different solution.
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Simple. You're assuming Slashdotters are FOSSies, rather than just adamant about not using crappy products.
.. well, ever.
I don't like Microsoft because they make shit products and force them down our throats. I use them regularly, as I now have an XP laptop at my current job as a Unix SA. I am willing to pay for Microsoft products when I think they are worthwhile -- I have an XBox 360 Elite -- but usually they are not worth paying for. The XBox is the first Microsoft product I have bought
For my own computer, I am happy to pay the extra few bucks for an Apple product that does exactly what it is designed to do, and does it extremely well. It's just not worth hassling with a Linux desktop machine anymore. OS X has the Windows advantages of being "mainstream" and playing all that fancy DVD and audio content with no fuss, no muss, but without the disadvantages of being utter crap. I definitely spent more money on my Mac Pro than I needed to spend on a computer, but mostly that was me buying an overkill machine, and very little of it was the Apple tax. Of course, if they had a mid-range headless system, maybe I would have bought that instead... But the low-end laptops are very competitive with PC offerings, and to some of us it is worth paying money for stuff that works.
By the way, I register all of the shareware I use and enjoy in OS X, something that is far more true of the Mac community than the Windows community. Why? Because we feel the products are worth paying for, rather than Windows users who feel that they use what they use out of necessity, not choice.
I like the idea of free software, but I'm not devoting my life to the cause. If it works best, I'll use it. If not, I'll pay to use whatever works best. Unfortunately for Microsoft, it is almost never their product.
Apple shut down third party hardware. Non-Apple Mac stores are still around - heck Best Buy is starting to sell Macs now!
iWork uses XML to save files. The whole OS is laden with OSS sofware, including Bash and Apache and Ruby and Python and Perl. Chages to Webkit are published and synced back into other browsers. iPods can be used with all sorts of software, not just iTunes - why do you demand iTunes be able to work out of the box with other players?
I'm not sure I understand where the whole "brutal monopoly" idea comes from.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
One thing that bothers me is the decision to go with a glass screen. These screens, to me, are nothing more than a fad that help make the display look more impressive on the showroom floor. Once someone has to actually use them day-to-day glass screens are a huge distraction because of all the reflections and glare. This iMac is going to inspire a deluge of crappy glass-covered displays.
Seeing these new Macs, however, I can't help but wonder why in the hell PC makers don't actually start putting some damn effort into the manufacture and design of their machines. Instead they go for quick, cheap gimmicks like Dell and the goofy interchangeable color covers for their laptops. Even worse are the third party case manufacturers.
There are a million ideas out there for very elegant designs that could be just as impressive, if not more so, than anything Apple has designed. But instead what are we going to see? Dozens of crappy clones of the Apple design. Either that or half-hearted attempts that scream of cost-cutting over thoughtful design. Even Nintendo couldn't help but cloning the MacBook design with the DS and to a lesser extent the Wii.
Apple has nice design, but they are far from being the pinnacle of high design. If only other companies weren't cheap and unimaginative.
So, if I buy one of these now, does Apple do the right thing and give me the upgrade to 10.5 for free, since it's only a month or so away, or do they burn me hard and make me pay another $129 when it comes out (especially since iWork/iLife08 are supposed to be heavily drawing upon the 10.5 features)?
I'm familiar with the double tap and various prefs options for the trackpad, as well as the ctrl key. You still can't get the same functionality you can out of a proper two-button system. For instance, you can't click left... left+right... left while dragging; that's an often-used operation for repositioning area selections in my work, so there's no option but to hook up a two-button mouse when I'm doing graphics.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Apple is slowly phasing tactile response out of their input devices. Started with mice, then the iPhone, and now with keyboards. Soon, we will live in a polished world where nothing lets us know we touched it! I hope Apple never enters the sex industry.
Why bother.
Its funny noticing the parent poster's message being cowardly modded down as overrated.
The post, which is very true, as if MS did the things that Apple does, the SEC would be knocking on Redmond's doors in a heartbeat.
Fine examples of this are, OS X cannot be (legally) virtualized, nor can it run on any hardware other than Apple's PC hardware, whose only two differences between it and a generic white box PC are a logo, and a certificate in a TPM chip (Well, Apple's hardware if it were compared as a generic PC would be marked as woefully inadequate except for the hyper expensive Mac Pro). Or, Apple buying companies out that sell both Mac and Windows products, then dropping the Windows versions as an underhanded way to boost Mac sales.
If Microsoft forced their users to jump platforms and have all their older apps unable to run like Apple did with OS 9 and earlier apps on x86 Macs, people would be driving to Washington with pitchforks and torches.
Apple doesn't innovate much either. They find 1-2 cool things, then hype the hell out of them. For example, if it wasn't for Apple buying out NeXT, MacOS will still be crashing every 1-2 hours, because the machine would be dependent on every app passing a WaitNextEvent() call or else the machine would lock up.
MS is no angel, but at least they innovate and put stuff on the market, not just talk hype left and right.
I suppose it's healthier than obsessing over Paris Hilton, but it's still pretty pathetic.
Yeah. I have a Macbook pro, almost a $3000 computer; and the keyboard is terrible.
Uhm. You're talking about different keyboards. The MacBook Pro has a "normal" notebook keyboard, while the MacBook (without Pro) has the "new style" keyboard, which is very similar to the one being used in this new Apple keyboard, from the looks of it.
Am I the only one out there who thinks that the iMac's design has never been better than in its 1998-2001 (or so) version, before it started involving flat screens? I think it has never looked better than that, but that they couldn't keep it cause :
-They had to move on to a different design for the sake that it was a few years old because people don't like "old" stuff
-They had to put a flat screen in it because that's what people want
-They had to make it increasingly slimer and such because that's what people expect from futuristic computers
-Later they couldn't go back to it anyways so they have to move on into the forced design futurism
?
You just got troll'd!
If it's anything like the PowerBook keyboards (identical I suspect), then I agree, it's a really awful keyboard. I don't particularly care about travel (my favourite keyboard is the Logitech DiNovo), but the keys don't have that 'clicky' feel. And the right shift key is absolutely awful. You have to press it either dead centre, or really hard, for it to register.
Actually there's an up-side to this. When using X11 apps like OpenOffice and Gimp, the apps retain their Unix keystrokes (generally using Ctrl and Alt) while the X11 container app can use standard Mac keystrokes (predominantly using the Swedish campsite key). For example, Ctrl-Q to quit Gimp, and SwedishCampsite-Q to quit the container.
Apple do get away with stuff others wouldn't because of their cool image right now. How about Microsoft launching a mobile phone a Linux user couldn't use, not even just for calling, because to work it required online activation through a special MS app not available on all platforms. That would have been a very interesting "discussion" on Slashdot :)
all those words are great and all but i'm still buying an imac
Other than that, the subject of this post answers any remaining salient points you made. The rest are mere trolling drivel.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
wow... iTunes doesn't sync with any MP3 player besides an iPod.
Damn! You mean iTunes only works on 80% of the music players out there? How limiting!
Where are you getting your assertions from? They're very far off the mark about brutal monopolies but fair enough... I've seen this in people too young to remember the last 15 years of computerdom. For everyone else, it's a given. Find some of the DOJ testimonials of what Microsoft did to countless other companies. These weren't Microsoft resellers doing a shitty job that got killed, these were either business "partners" or competitors with something Microsoft wanted. They wanted it so bad they went on a lawbreaking spree for years. There are also fairly large Apple resellers out there of a serious nature, just no Walmart types.
Most of the stuff on
right on.
My main keyboard is a Northgate (1989 vintage!), so I'm used to having quite a bit of key travel and positive feedback from the keys. Surprisingly enough, I find my MacBook Pro's keyboard to be very comfortable to use and can key with it just about as fast with it as I can with the Northgate.
I sympathize for your issue with the second button, but I don't think fixing it is worth making the experience worse for everyone who doesn't need that specific use case. Clicking left-left+right-lift while dragging seems... pathological :-)
Well, the downside is that applications like midnight commander become extremely difficult to use; you go to open the menus or fire off a command, and some OS function happens instead.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
But can is possibly blend?
Don't be crazy anymore!
"I hope Apple never enters the sex industry"
...but what the hell... I could always use a spare at the office.
I disagree. Entirely.
I'd be more than happy to wait in line for 6 hours so I can take home a stunningly beautiful iGirl that doesn't give me any feedback no matter how much I touch her, doesn't break when dropped, doesn't scratch easily, is good for up to 8 hours of activity (as long as I turn her wireless off), goes to sleep at the touch of a button and comes with a 2 year warranty.
For sure. Sign me up.
Of course, I'll probably regret it when they come out with a model next year that's a little bit lighter, and a little bit thinner...
I want to use the iMac for playing adventure games on, in Windows. The new iMac has an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro videocard. Does any one of you have experiences with this card? How good is it compared to other cards in its class? Although of course the highest number of frames/s is not very important in adventure games, I'd like to know how oldfashioned the video card in the iMac will be in three years' time.
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The best part, of course, is that the only time Jobs uses these crappy styles in his Keynote presentations is when the shows them off. Apple knows perfectly well about Tufte, but some of their customers are used to WordArt and might think Apple's stuff is inferior if they can't do the same ugly crap in the iWorks apps.
You do?
Apropos Intel, via Daringfireball.net:
One question that came from the audience wondered why Apple doesn't participate in the "Intel Inside" program, in which PC manufacturers affix the well-known labels to their computers."We like our own stickers better," Jobs said. "Don't get me wrong. We love working with Intel. We're proud to ship Intel products in Macs. They're screamers, and combined with our OS, we've tuned them well. It's just that everyone knows we use Intel processors. We'd rather not tell them about the product that's inside the box."
I'd say Numbers is the biggest news of the day, and because someone had to be OMGFIRSTTOSUBMIT, it's not even in this story.
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
Hmm - iTunes synched with my previous MP3 player which was a RIO 500.
I hope they don't listen to all the people bashing the MacBook Pro keyboard. I *love* mine, and don't want it to change. It's significantly better than any of the last 3 laptops I've had, and better than any other laptop keyboard I've ever used (at least if you only count reasonably sized laptops and not those DTR monstrosities). That goes for the trackpad too. The trackpad on the MBP is spectacular, and the one button issue becomes a non-issue very quickly. I'm not a fan of trackpads or single-button input devices in general, but I have grown to love the MBP trackpad over the last year.
As a point of reference, at home and at work I use a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard and a trackball (logitech marble mouse at work, Kensington Expert mouse at home).
Frag 'em all...
The primary reason that Apple ended it's retail agreements with stores like Circuit City and CompUSA is because they did not showcase the Mac the way Apple wanted it done. In fact, it's safe to say that the Mac was presented in a diminished capacity because most of the areas the Mac was in were in disarray or even in the store's least-prominent position (like behind a partition and facing the back wall in one instance).
So there was a bit of reasoning behind that decision, though there still are many other resellers that carry Apple products. The 'big box' stores just got the most press-time.
It continues to annoy me how folks assert that Apple nefariously 'killed' the clone market, when the clone market is what almost killed Apple. I claim self-defense, like cutting the head off of a python before it strangulates you. You claim what you wish.
There's plenty other defensive positions regarding the rest of your arguments, but I'm pretty sure that folks here can spot the inaccuracies in your arguments, so I won't bother.
You tout form factors and you tout using a USB/Firewire drive. I think that if you care about both, having your iMac thin and sexy and having greater than 1 drive worth of storage, that you too would want an extra HD bay in your iMac. Who wants an ugly, external firewire drive sitting next to your computer with wires and power supplies dangling around? Not to mention FW800 enclosures being $$$.
Somehow I think they would have plenty of space, at least on the 24" model, to support an extra drive bay, without a great increase in iMac thickness, or cost. Plus, do you really care that much if your desktop is 0.5 inches thicker?
Also, I see the preservation of all your digital stuff: photos, videos, music, documents, as being critical. You'll need redundant copies in order to rebuild corrupted data (a la ZFS), which requires 2 drives. Not to mention a backup system as well.
My wife hates the new look. She loves the white iMacs. Bring back the white or I'm not allowed to upgrade... :(
From what I've been told, there is a requirement that in order to sell Apple products at a store, the shop needs to be able to prove that they are able to move over $10,000 (or is it $100k) a month in Apple product. That is one of the primary reasons that one of our local computer stores doesn't carry Apple product, even though they would like to.
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Perhaps not great for gaming, but as a media PC even the older Intel mini could handle 1080p video.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple's UK website hasn't updated to show the new iMacs yet (either because there'll be a few-week delay in getting it over here or because the webmaster had already packed up and gone home).
But isn't the new machine just gorgeous?
The problem I have with propietary lock-ins is when they're badly made (think Vista). I really can't fault Macs in anything but the price, and that's why they're such an attractive option - they're functional and decorative, which is something Micro$oft seems not to have grasped the concept with yet (at least with Windows and certain horribly-designed personal music players).
And TBH, Macs will run quite a lot of stuff. They'll run most UNIX apps, they can dual-boot with Windows if you want and triple boot with Windows and Linux if you want. They automatically recognise and install most hardware without fail. They'll link up with your WiFi network, talk to Windows (even if Windows isn't in the mood to talk to it) and I fully expect that Leopard will be compatible with the upcoming iToaster element2.
Now, if I can find £900 to spare, as soon as Leopard appears I'll be scooting off to Southampton to buy one.
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
Have you considered OS X with X11 and KDE?
If you want both Aqua/OS X & KDE, that's the way to go, as it means nearly zero overhead for your Mac compared to some virtualisation or dual-boot solution. Don't forget that OS X is a full-blown Unix (bash Terminal, GNU Toolkit and all) that can easyly provide all the Linux goodies you want. It's even got this OSS project called Fink which offers a full apt-get (as in Debian Package Management) enviroment including a usefull GUI tool (Fink Commander) to operate it. Here's a post on KDE support in Fink
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the liberal bias eats at your brains, sooner rather than later.
If the keyboard isn't a seller for you, odds are you've never spent much time with an IBM "Model M" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M/ keyboard. People can get quite attached to them http://www.dansdata.com/ibmkeyboard.htm/.
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Ahh, you must have read my mind! If it weren't for your XP laptop at work, you could be me, in fact. Luckily, I need Unix-based computers for my SA job, so it's Macs right now.
Love this quote:
"I like the idea of free software, but I'm not devoting my life to the cause. If it works best, I'll use it. If not, I'll pay to use whatever works best. Unfortunately for Microsoft, it is almost never their product."
Right on the money (pun fully intended)!
where Mac users store their custom configuration and lisp functions?
I'm tempted by the new iLife bundle, but will ship with the Leopard upgrade when it's finally released? Or is iLife only included with Mac hardware?
You should get your keyboard looked at - none of mine have an issue with the right Shift key.
iTunes Compatible Players
Chances are that most USB MP3 players will work with iTunes if they follow the standards set for such devices. If you have an MP3 player give it a try and see if it works with iTunes, it probably will.
You might want to do a bit more research the next time you make false, blanket statements like that.
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Here in Chicago, MicroCenter is a full-feature Apple dealer. When I used to work on a dual G4, I bought my system, cinema display and all my gear there (at least the stuff I didn't buy online). Their sales staff in that part of the store are pretty knowledgeable too. And they don't have that look you find on employees at the Apple store. The only way I can explain it is that Margaret O'Conner in my grammar school had that look. She was Mary in the May Crowning two years in a row and thus felt that she was closer to God than the rest of us. Her mother used to cut the crust off her sandwiches and she lifted her pinkies when she'd eat them during lunch period.
For some reason, I think of her whenever I see the people who work at the Apple store. They look like someone cuts the crust off their sandwiches for them, and they're proud of it.
But anyway, if you want to buy Apple in Chicago and don't want to pay 18 bucks to park downtown (and get skeeved out by the people who work in the Apple Store), MicroCenter has a nice big parking lot, and there's a PetSmart next door so you can buy kibble for you ferret when you're done.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I know the answer to this one! I have been running the Fusion beta since the beginning, and bought it just before the release (which was this past weekend). I have tested Fusion with 64 and 32-bit versions of Linux and Windows and they all work flawlessly. I have also tested OpenBSD, Solaris, and even the Vmware image of the OLPC software and it's all been great. Fusion is based on Workstation 6, and the only glaring omission is that it doesn't have multiple snapshots; it can do a single snapshot but not the trees of snapshots like in Workstation.
I have not used Parallels as I am a big VMware fan (use Workstation and server at work) and can't compare between the two. I will say that if you are happy with VMware products for Linux or Windows, the Mac version is definitely in the same camp...it's been rock solid (even the first beta!) and performance is excellent on my MacBook Pro...I have a Solaris virtual machine running Oracle 10g that I use for development, with some tables having millions of rows, and performance is great (for a single developer).
no, worse, you have terribly bad taste.
"The XBox is the first Microsoft product I have bought .. well, ever."
You might want to get rid of that thing. I've heard the failure rate is 50% roughly. They run really hot. They're designed poorly. I saw a page where some Japanese design engineers analyzed it. They said it run 20degC over ambient room temp while most consumer electronics will be like 10degC. and IIRC they said if your ambient temp is 35degC about 95degF, that some parts of it can reach 100degC (212degF), add dust and enclosed spaces and undersized heatsinks and you end up with yet another crappy MS product that fails frequently. If you've been keeping up to date on PS3 news, things are looking really sweet over there. I wish I had a link to the article my friend showed me yesterday.
And regarding the rest of your Apple comments: I agree. I got the 24" iMac in January. It's very nice. I hate iTunes (thank you Cog!). IMHO Mac ain't perfect, but it blows the competition out of the water. I have Ubuntu running in a VMware session and that is pretty sweet too though! With USB Overdrive I'm able to use my Logitech MX-518 and have all the buttons assignable to useful functions. Yeah I find myself interested in supporting more shareware on the Mac, it is kind of weird like that. You don't feel like you're being held down by some thugs and raped by Steve Balmer while Bill Gates goes through your pockets looking for money/valuables. I think feeling more at ease has made me more incline to pay for apps that make my life easier.
and $599.00 for a Combo Drive and 2x512 of ram? with only a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo cpu. It is still a rip off as you can buy systems for less with the same cpu and a DVDRW drive.
The new versions seem to have a serious price drop compared to the previous ones. I mean, 20 and 24" screens (and they are nice) for 1200-2200. Sure, a white box you build yourself is going to be cheaper but this is a nicely designed system.
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The game.
Use Bluetooth. It would have been even more stylish. Maybe they want to sell upgrades, or maybe they don't want people thinking they can use the keyboard from fifteen feet away.
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Looks like to me it only supports old creative players (the Rio brand has been discontinued). So iTunes does sync with some mp3 players but if you were to buy a new MP3 player today it shouldn't work (according to the list)
There's also an Apple Store in Oak Brook for those in the burbs (and Fry's in Downers Grove).
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Wireless versions of the new keyboard (without USB ports) and the mighty mouse are available for about $150 total. See the Apple Store for details.
You won't get rid of me that easily. :) I've had several ALPS-switch keyboards in the (distant) past at work. I've had multiple Apple Extended Keyboards 2 at home. Well-designed laptop-style keyboards are more comfortable for me than all of the above... because of the short key travel. While you don't get a neato clack-clack sound typing is suddenly effortless.
I'm still not sure how well I'll deal with flat keys, though. My laptop is a MBP with contoured keys. My very limited experience typing on MacBooks has been a little disconcerting because of the flat keys. I don't know if I'd get used to it.
They've got wireless and wired versions. The wireless ones look even MORE like Macbook keyboards.
You *like* lugging those big heavy jujubes with their absolutely horrible screens (a huge step back from the Trinitron screens Apple previously used) around?
It's not about style, it's about the CRT iMacs being a dead end.
How does making your keyboard radically thinner *not* bring ergonomics into play?
IIRC, a lot of typers' wrist problems can be largely a result of the unnatural angle people need to turn their wrists to type on a raised keyboard without lifting their wrists off the desk. Simply not raising the keyboard off the desk in the first place ought to be at least as effective a solution as those wrist-rest pads that people sell, and is far more elegant imho.
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Anyway, select songs (even from an intelligent playlist that limits storage size) and drag to mounted player. How much easier can it get - apart from using an iPod?
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Does the power supply die after 300 uses and have to be sent back in to Apple for a week while it is replaced at a paltry cost of $100?
Get rid of the bloody GMA950 and put something in there with decent OpenGL support.
Just bumping the processor to Core 2 Duo doesn't cut it. That's not the bottleneck. That's not what you need to speed up.
That keyboard looks like the Macbook keyboard.
It's certainly less ergonomic than the previous model... you put skinny keyboards in laptops because you need to save space, not because they're actually *good*. Every new laptop I've used has had a skinnier keyboard and it's been more painful to work on. I can't use the Macbook Pro keyboard at all... fifteen minutes and I'm in pain.
At least you're not stuck with them, like you are with a laptop.
I think you're stretching on the RAM, though. They have 2GB installed but you can upgrade them all to 4GB... for less than Apple would charge.
So, if Apple enters the sex business, there will be utilities for “iGirl” that will make her produce sounds upon contact? Not sure about others here, but I dislike fakers.
Why bother.
BTW. I tried out Vista on my MBP for a few months before and after the official release but I decided that I needed the harddrive space for my media and opted to recombine the partitions into one OS X partition.
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The keyboard, on the other hand, is incredible. The key travel is impressive for the limited space, and the action is akin to the old IBM Model M--there is no uncertainty when a key has been pressed. The only drawback is that I can no longer tolerate standard keyboards--anything other than the flat, responsive MacBook keyboard, and I feel like I'm typing on a bowl of jello... coated with molasses... (with the one exception of my mini Cherry keyboard).
Just my thoughts. I have no reason to get a new iMac, but the keyboard is a must!
like the wired one, really dislike that they ditched the numeric keypad on the wireless and what's that with changing the order of the f keys, it's meant to be display, volume, keybard dim and EXPOSE on the 2 last ones, not like f3!
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iLife '08, iWork '08, and iMac '08. Oh, and all Mac computers now run exclusively on 64-bit processors. Let's square that year!
Yes, we all know the one button trackpads are the last bastion of the one button defenders in the Mac world, now that Apple has caved and added extra buttons on their Mighty Mouse. One of these days, they may even make a human interface device made to work with human hands instead of impressing human eyes, not that I'm holding my breath.
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I started using the VMWare Fusion beta a few weeks ago so I could run FreeBSD and Window XP. It runs very smoothly, the Unity feature is very well done, and it autodetects any Boot Camp partitions you have and lets you run them as VMs. I can't compare it to Workstation, so I'm afraid I may be wasting your time with this reply, but I can say I really do like Fusion.
I've been a long time user of VMWare Workstation and have recently purchased Fusion (and I was using the betas). Fusion is a solid product if you want to just run an OS.
If, however, you want the advanced features of VMWare Workstation--multiple snapshots, simulated LANs with simulated packet loss, cheap clones, etc.--you will be disappointed with Fusion.
A lot of people don't need the features in VMWare Workstation. If you just need to "run Linux / OpenBSD / Solaris in Mac OS X" it's a slam dunk. If you need more, you're currently screwed. I personally hope that VMWare will make a workstation version for the Mac with all the whistles and bells. I'll pay for it.
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Macs come with clustering built in. Under the Sharing preference pane, you can enable XGrid. Any XGrid capable apps will automatically send data packets to it for processing. All Apple machines and OSes ship with an XGrid capable app. XCode will use XGrid for compiling.
Ditto. My MPB and before it my AlBook and TiBook all had the best keyboards I've ever used on a notebook, and I think I prefer them to most desktop keyboards too. And the trackpad only has one problem... that stupid button. Can we get rid of that and use the space for more trackpad? ;)
I think the poster was talking about the MacBook with the new style keyboard though. I don't like it as much as my MPB keyboard, but it's not horrendous either.
What's your stance on "this web site doesn't work with anything except IE"?
I thought so.
lol I agree, more specifically with your last sentence. However, Microsoft's "revolutionary technology" is normally 'old news' as well. It's rare for a big company to come out with tons of new features that weren't already implemented (maybe even partially) in some way elsewhere.
Surprised you haven't gotten -113132 troll/flamebait, I'll probably get it instead. Wait, let me save myself.. uhm... I've got nude pics of M Shuttleworth, and the list of available packages in Synaptic makes me so dam randy. +31337 informative!!
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Do you work for Microsoft or are you just an unfunny troll? I've read some of your post history and it's almost constantly about praising Microsoft for this and that. And now you're saying we don't talk about Microsoft often enough. Sigh... why am I even bothering... any retard can see that you have an agenda going here.
I just bought a MacBook a few weeks ago, and I was really worried about the keyboard, but I love it. It's hard as a rock. You can pound away at it and it has no flex at all.
I'm sorry, but the old iMac with the double-shot plastic looked clean and high-tech and expensive. The color scheme and plastic look like a Dell. I mean, Dells do look pretty good nowadays, so it's not like it's hideous, but it's definitely not up to Apple's design standards.
They're talking a *MacBook* keyboard, not a MBP - the two are fundamentally different. I prefer the MBP keyboard to the MB's myself.
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...oh, wait a minute - he already does.
You nailed it. I still have this Windows machine, but I recently bought a MacBook and I have to say: that is a nice OS. It's like Linux if Linux worked right, but with mainstream software support. The ability to have a bootable Windows partition (for games) or to be able to run that partition as a virtual machine (I use VMware Fusion) means that platforms basically don't apply to me anymore.
And yeah, my Xbox 360 is a damn nice product. It's more Mac-like in the way that it just works, and works well. It's part of the reason I bought a Mac. I enjoy games on the Xbox (with an HDTV) so much I didn't feel chained to Windows anymore and could start moving to the Mac. Kind of ironic. MS's great work on the Xbox lost them my OS business.
Sir, I'm afraid your geek card has just been revoked. Please acquire a Model M or equivalent, and you will be allowed to apply for the geek club again.
Sorry, your geek card has also been revoked. You should know that there is no equilivent to the Model M.
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I guess that would be the top secret Leopard features left out in WWDC 06 keynote.
fucking astroturfer. the 360 may be flakey hardware but it doesnt make the PS3 any less shit
Apple has announced a HW RAID card fro both the Mac Pro and Xserve. I see specs of 304MB/s how do they do this? This is incredible performance ! !
non-Apple stores that sell Macs... like Best Buy? Microcenter? CompUSA? there are also still tons of little indie stores.
hell, Philadelphia itself doesn't have an Apple store, though the city is surrounded with a few. we don't really need one because we have some really good Apple authorized resellers (like springboardmedia.com). i'm sure the city will get one eventually, but there is no hurry.
Also, I see the preservation of all your digital stuff: photos, videos, music, documents, as being critical. You'll need redundant copies in order to rebuild corrupted data (a la ZFS), which requires 2 drives. Not to mention a backup system as well.
If you've been paying attention to Apple's product development, you already know the plan for backup - external USB drive hooked to Airport Express, acting as a Time Machine repository for all your macs when Leopard is released. Pretty nice and better to keep the backup at least slightly physically seperated from the primary anyway (offsite is always better of course).
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I assume this is sarcasm? With the tremendous amount of physical real estate that the button takes up, there's no reason why splitting it into two would make things worse for virtually any user. I've been using the two-button "right click" for nearly a year now and do it instinctively, but still think that a right button would be significantly more effective, and less limiting (I do occasionally need right-click+drag, or right-click+very very quick move)
How would enabling a true right-button support make the experience worse for anyone? Make the trackpad support two buttons the same way the Mighty Mouse does. If you enable right-click as a preference, then the right side of the button is a right-click, if you don't then the whole button acts as one button.
Tada, you've made life better for people who like 2-button mice and you have not hurt the 1-button mouse people in the slightest!
ummm .... same design new manufacture. That is I think an "equivalent". My Model M, manufactured Nov. 6, 1989, is showing no signs of wear -- not even worn off letters. I doubt I'll ever have to replace it but just in case I do, it is good to know that equivalents are being made. What would be super cool, would be a bluetooth Model M, that just might convince me to buy a new one.
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YES Computers is the perfect example of why "friendly local Apple stores" are dying out.
10 years ago YES sold mostly Macs, printers, etc. There'd be one rack of accessories in the corner. Now, 90% of the place is laptop bags, wrist rests, iPod cases, $100 software, etc. Low price, high margin stuff.
Most independent Apple stores are becoming accessory shops. Apple's squeezing their independent resellers from the bottom. Time when you'd pay $7000 for a IIfx is long gone. The official Apple Stores have the attractive displays, highly trained employees, consistent service, and most of all, inventory that tends to make customers stick with them over time, and of course at the same prices as the local guys.
Wrists killing you? Not in 2 weeks. Learn Dvorak.
It hurts the one-button people because we like having one big button. No matter where my finger is on the trackpad, click with my thumb, and it's a left-click. I hate using two-button trackpads. If I want a second, third, fourth, etc., button then I use an external mouse.
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I wouldn't say that for sure. Those are the ones that Apple has tested and definitely work, they are probably on the list because Apple had a partnership with those companies and had a reason to test them. I would give a device a try to see if it works with iTunes before I write it off. If it is a USB device and it mounts as a USB drive it has a good chance of working.
If it doesn't work then you can always use something like the freeware SyncTunes which is supposed to work well.
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Get rid of the bloody GMA950 and put something in there with decent OpenGL support. Just bumping the processor to Core 2 Duo doesn't cut it. That's not the bottleneck. That's not what you need to speed up.
Why? Not every machine needs to be equipped for higher end gaming. There are probably more people out there that need an inexpensive general purpose machine and the Mini serves that role quite nicely.
Who cares if it's bigger? The last version was bigger than this version, and it was small. Do you people actually use your computers, or do you stand over them wanking while measuring them with a micrometer?
(I personally use Macs because they have an OS that just works, without viruses. I just want a computer, and to suggest I should buy a Mac Pro to get standard, expected features that come in computers that cost ten times less is outrageous.)
Mine retails for $2300-2400 directly from Apple with the 3-year Apple Protection Plan (support+warranty), whereas an Alienware laptop with the exact same specifications (Core2Duo 2.33Ghz, 2GB Dual-channel DDR2, 120GB SATA, 8x DVD+/-RW DL Drive, 15.4-inch widescreen) and a 3-year warranty was priced direct from Alienware at $3300. The only difference with the Alienware was the video card (They offered an nVidia Go7600 which is comparable to my MRadeon x1600), and the hard drive in the Alienware was 40GB larger.
If you ever bother to touch a Mac (based on your blind prejudice towards Windows, I'm guessing you never will) you'll instantly see why people are drawn to them. I'm a Windows/Linux aficionado and have been for ten years before I switched to a Mac (two weeks ago) and I don't regret the move at all.
The Mighty Mouse does not have "extra buttons." By default, it works just like the "old" one-button Apple mouse.
Also, if you think the one-button mouse is about "impressing human eyes," you are mistaken. I'm not going to repeat the reasons why the one-button mouse is a good idea, but as a Windows developer, it's painfully obvious to me that the one-button mouse forces developers to create better interfaces.
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With the tremendous amount of physical real estate that the button takes up, there's no reason why splitting it into two would make things worse for virtually any user.I take it you've never done phone support, then. In my opinion, the second mouse button is one of the single worst physical interfaces ever invented for computers. Your main input device has two unlabelled buttons which can only be discerned by whether they are on the right or on the left of the device? This is just stupid. An astonishing number of people aren't even capable of reliably telling you which side right is, and which side left is (as I find out time and time again when telling somebody where to drive - "to the right. no, the other right").
Not to mention the bad influence the right mouse button has on UI design.
I've been using the two-button "right click" for nearly a year now and do it instinctively, but still think that a right button would be significantly more effective, and less limiting (I do occasionally need right-click+drag, or right-click+very very quick move)Yes, as I've said, it would be, but it would still make it worse for the majority of all users.
The "Mighty Mouse tech for trackpad button" idea is a good one. I'd support that.
Why? Not every machine needs to be equipped for higher end gaming.
The GMA950 hurts any 3d application, and any application that pushes the limits on RAM - and not only because it eats 64M of real memory. It's not just third-party software (let alone games) that exceed the limits of what the GMA950 can do, Apple's own software uses 3d effects all over the place, so it's got to load their software OpenGL to cover for the shortcomings of the GPU regardless. And it's going to be using more and more of them over time.
I mean the original Mini's GPU was marginal, and Tiger required more than it could handle mere months after it was released... and *it* was more capable than the GMA950. It's only because they could afford to waste CPU power to inefficiently cover for the Intel GPU that they got away with it in the first place.
If you look at the photos of the keyboard available at http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html, you'll see that the F-keys have been remapped. F3 has what looks like an Expose "All Windows" icon (normally, F9) on it, and F4 definitely has a Dashboard icon (normally F12) on it. Volume controls have been moved to F10-F12 from their "old" location above the numeric keypad, and in their place are now F16-F19. Also, F7-F9 are now rew/play+pause/ff buttons, presumably for iTunes.
That's all nice and dandy, but I wonder how does it interoperates with factory settings in Mac OS X. I mean, if I install Mac OS X from scratch and look at System Preferences, Expose All Windows will be F9 and Dashboard will be F12 by default. Of course, it's perfectly possible that there are "secret" key codes for those somewhere, and this new keyboard emits those...
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Out of interest, did you even read the post you replied to?
They suggested leaving the trackpad as one physical button, but with the ability to determine which side of the button is being pressed, and to default to left-click for everything.
To summarise: you would have one button, that acted as a left-click no matter how/where you pressed it. (Anyone who wants a right-click would enabled it in the system preferences.)
Is this solution (i.e. the existing behaviour) not good enough for you?
It's bollocks anyway - I used to use iTunes to sync with AeroPlayer on my Palm.
Where is the mention of Open Standards (ODF and OOXML) or Open Source Software. Oh wait, this is an anti-M$ site... 5 Years from now, everyone will be complaining how monopolistic and evil Apple is :)
I was surprised when I walked into a Best Buy a few weeks ago and found Macs, not just iPods, on sale there. They have a huge eye-catching display you can see from the front of the store (even though the macs are near the back), too.
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The Best Buy on the Evanston side of Howard St carries Macs now, too. Petsmart's another few blocks north, but there's a Target and a Jewel next door.
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There's a button on the trackpad on the MacBook? Oh, yeah, there it is... Dude. Tap to click. Get with the program. It's in your system preferences. Turn it on and use it for a few minutes, you'll forget all about the mouse button on the trackpad.
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Hmm, only 45% more.
Not everyone likes the Model M either. I've got one in the cupboard, but I prefer a split ergo keyboard. MS Natural 4000 in use these days. The old IBM had fabulous tactile feedback, but my wrists feel better with a split keyboard... and I like to have dedicated buttons for volume control.
Wow, that's really interesting! And it seems to be true. Here's a picture, and here's a discussion.
Some people claim that it's legal to do so with a special permit. One possible reason for his doing so might be that his license plates get stolen by fanboys as souvenirs if he leaves them on. Another might be that you can't find out where celebrities live if you can't get their license plate numbers.
Are you talking about searching for text within a document when you say a feature which Win 95 had and Apple tout as new? Sometimes these messages can be difficult to de-convolute.
Search for text within a document was in pre OS X version of the Macintosh OS. Spotlight made it better but it was already there. I can't find a reference to when it came in but it was pre Sherlock as well. There was no index, you just sent it to search inside documents. In those days I had a 40 mb drive so there weren't many docs on there. It took a while but it worked.
Here is the oldest reference I can find to this kind of technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSearch but that was not what I was using. This did use an index, as did Sherlock.
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Most of the Apple resellers killed themselves by being incompetent. Those that didn't are still around. New ones even crop up now and then, like Best Buy.
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Just go into your dashboard and expose preferences and unmap all the f-key mappings.
Easy.
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Funny, when I plugged mine in it acted like a four button mouse with a scroll nub. Maybe I have a different kind of Mac.
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There's a couple Apple stores in Chicago besides the downtown one on Michigan Ave. There's one in Skokie and another in Oak Brook.
Control-click = right click.
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a two button mouse just makes that click one keypress less. and i like that.
Sure there are ways to do almost everything in context menus in some other way, but i like all my commands in the reach of one hand.
oh, in a completly un-suss way of course
There's a System Preference which controls the touch-sensitive "second button." It's turned off by default. Squeezing and "nub-clicking" is turned on, I think.
If you plugged your mouse in and it defaulted to active touch-sensitive buttons, I would guess you probably changed that setting earlier.
I've been using Pages and it's got all the structural problems of Word, with no nesting and primitive directly-manipulated layout. Apple would be better off, I think, making HTML a primary target of the editor rather than trying to mimic the structure of Word documents. Is the new version any better?
They could do that, or they could do even better and do exactly what they've done with two finger clicking.
What you're describing requires you moving your hand unduly. What they've done requires only the slightest change in movement. Better.
I did read the comment ... after I replied. Busted!
Actually, they already have something similar. There is an option on the Macbook Pro to "Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click".
The GP post is a good idea as well. I definitely stand corrected.
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This is slightly OT, but since you seem to prefer laptop style keyboards (as do I), do you have any recommendations as a good desktop keyboard with laptop style keys? Kensington makes a few that, from what I remember, feel very similar to my iBook's keyboard. Any knowledge or advice on those?
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor."
Troll, huh? That's what happens as time passes. Parasitic capitalists like Bill Gates (and countless others) will forever be known as a generous philanthropist. Anyone old enough to remember him building his fortunes, however, will recall the brutality and reckless disregard for others which brought him into prominence.
To be precise, Skokie and Oak Brook aren't really in Chicago. Close, but not in.
There are those of us who, living in a great city, make a point of not visiting the suburbs unless there is a need so pressing we cannot escape it.
Buying a USB cable for my iPod is not such a need. As long as there is an internet that takes my credit cards, I will not willingly visit the suburbs.
You are welcome on my lawn.
What? Mods don't give bonus points to corporate shills?
A pity it's an AC. I was hoping to expand my foes list