I agree with everything you said, except for the applecare. I think you are better off not plunking down applecare dough, you much better off just sending it in for a depot repair if your ram goes south. It's a roll of the dice. Of course, unless you spill your drink in the machine. If that's the case depot is too damn expensive and applecare won't cover it anyway.
All iMacs can act as an external display for another machine. I'm using two of them for that at the moment. A quick keyboard shortcut switches it from displaying it's own video to displaying the external video. It's called Target Display Mode if you want to google it.
If my memory serves me correct, target display mode only works on thunderbolt models.
The newer unibody models don't need a paint scraper/spatula. The chassis slides out. There is a "special" apple tool for service providers to slide it out, but it can be done by mere mortals. And there is a second hard drive kit available.
This was free speech WORKING. This was a whole bunch of people speaking out and saying that it's no more acceptable for CEOs to hold this kind of opinion on equal marriage as it would be for them to hold a similar opinion on interracial marriage.
let me consider that statement...
Free speech works by "a whole bunch of people" saying someone else's (ceo or otherwise) opinion (speech) is unacceptable "free" speech. My brain hurts!
I'm old enough to remember we've been down this road before with the boondoggle of the multi-one-plane-to-rule-them-all before. I'm not dissing the f-35, it's just that we've been through this before with similar results:
looks like every other news site. i will visit less. will have to scroll 3x as much to scan the posts. used to love the old school slashcode because it loaded fast and i could scan quick. that will be gone now. will visit the register more because let's face it, their writing is funnier anyway. but then again, i hate everything
FruitBoot. Boot your Mac direct from backend by the Bay. Or, diskless from the data center North Carolina, this is the Toothless FruitBoot. Not as attractive of an experience, but a more streamlined boot.
I was talking about this bill with my sharp-kneed girlfriend yesterday. Yea, about that, here's the insightful/non-geek response I got from her via email. I hope she doesn't sue me for copyright infringement for posting this:
It is infuriating that the govt. wants to protect us from illegally obtaining copyrighted info on line, but offers no real protection against our own personal information being collected and used by business.
Can I copyright my personal information: name, address, phone, IP, screen names, contacts, list of sites I visits, and all the other info numerous companies collect about me through my computer? I think not. Our personal information is everywhere, including that being stored by the govt., but if we want to read a book or copy a file containing copyrighted content we are criminals.
Can't it just be considered a fair trade? Business collects info about me, I collect copyrighted info owned by businesses. It's all a bit of collateral damage that is worth enduring for the sake of being able to use the internet. If we have to just accept the fact that use of the internet means giving up our privacy, why can't business just have to accept that there will be leakage of some copyrighted info?
Such bullshit. This issue is so important to every American's freedoms now and for the shaping of our future, but what are Americans hearing about as a hot topic today? Caffeinated alcoholic beverages making kids who are drinking them illegally sick, and too much salt in the soup.
THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA PROCEEDS AT BREAK-NECK SPEED!
I'm sure many will remember the comparisons of the screen shots and betas for Vista vs. OS X. It was remarkable how much Vista looked like OS X. In both feature (bloat) and GUI. Microsoft is as much, if not more, to blame for the feature comparison. Redmond continued to flaunt using Cupertino as their proxy R&D. When Microsoft finally shipped the goods, the comparisons it seems, were only skin deep.
Interesting that this post comes up today. I was watching Hulu this afternoon and just checked out amazon. I am also a subscriber to netflix and sometimes watch the streamers. However... and this is a big however... Netflix quality is just awful. I have to use a virtual machine to run windows just to watch the netflix streamers and the quality is just awful compared to hulu and amazon. I'm lucky if I can get "basic" streaming quality on netflix, however hulu and now amazon at full screen is more than acceptable while netflix is just a mess of pixels. WHy? My guess is the horrible windows media they force on us. Netflix needs to fix this NOW. So, ya. Netflix is a better bargain for the buck, but the quality is crap and having to either boot or run windows in a VM is just annoying and awful.
come on, lets be realistic. anyone who bought one of these is kinda crazy. If you have some technical knowledge, info on the the nets to install osx on a 'generic' box is free and available. You think business were gonna buy these? High end graphic, video or audio apple users? Nope. Everyone knew apple was gonna come down hard on pystar. the only real question was, why hadn't they done it already. Now you've got a 'collector's item.' And if you think that's true, I've got a couple of motorola 'starmax' systems I'd like you to bid on. Better off investing in vintage guitars. at least the 'programing' language stays the same, that is, unless you re-tune it.
I am completely sick of hearing about this thing. everyfarkingwhere you turn it's 'iphone-iphone-iphone' arghhhh. of course I might be singing a different tune if 1) I had a job and the economy was doing ok so I could afford one 2) knew someone i could actually make a phone call to. but oh how I do want to hold it's shinyness in my filty little hands and multi-touch it's glassy goodness. Unfortunately I have to buy groceries this month and pine for the days when I had a decent credit score.
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Things that make apple kit "worth" it.
Magsafe
Multi Touch Trackpad (no one else even comes close)
(maybe) nice industrial design (looks)
I think that's about it. Does that make it worth the soldered ram, non-standard ssde, etc... up to you.
I agree with everything you said, except for the applecare. I think you are better off not plunking down applecare dough, you much better off just sending it in for a depot repair if your ram goes south. It's a roll of the dice. Of course, unless you spill your drink in the machine. If that's the case depot is too damn expensive and applecare won't cover it anyway.
All iMacs can act as an external display for another machine. I'm using two of them for that at the moment. A quick keyboard shortcut switches it from displaying it's own video to displaying the external video. It's called Target Display Mode if you want to google it.
If my memory serves me correct, target display mode only works on thunderbolt models.
The newer unibody models don't need a paint scraper/spatula. The chassis slides out. There is a "special" apple tool for service providers to slide it out, but it can be done by mere mortals. And there is a second hard drive kit available.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/I...
Been there done that...
The Day After Roswell - Colonel Philip J. Corso
"I want to remind you that Russia is one of the most powerful nuclear nations. This is a reality, not just words."
"Our words are backed by nuclear weapons!"
Pottie's been playing too much Civ.
don't know why more people don't use it. hell of a lot easier than touch screen keyboard. On my Nexus 4 works at about 90-95 percent accuracy.
This was free speech WORKING. This was a whole bunch of people speaking out and saying that it's no more acceptable for CEOs to hold this kind of opinion on equal marriage as it would be for them to hold a similar opinion on interracial marriage.
let me consider that statement...
Free speech works by "a whole bunch of people" saying someone else's (ceo or otherwise) opinion (speech) is unacceptable "free" speech. My brain hurts!
where's my damn mod points when I need them! Mod this up! The most sane post in this thread!
I'm old enough to remember we've been down this road before with the boondoggle of the multi-one-plane-to-rule-them-all before. I'm not dissing the f-35, it's just that we've been through this before with similar results:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
here's the pdf --> http://www.mrebookclub.com/book/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich.pdf
Jaron Lanier: “Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.”
the sr72 already exists or lockheed martin wants the press and public buzz for funding.
looks like every other news site. i will visit less. will have to scroll 3x as much to scan the posts. used to love the old school slashcode because it loaded fast and i could scan quick. that will be gone now. will visit the register more because let's face it, their writing is funnier anyway. but then again, i hate everything
It would make it rank higher organically with search engines.
THIS! Two guys with pressure cookers shut down a major american city, innocent American's were deprived of their 4th Amendment rights (just as one example, stripped naked guy) Endless pictures of paramilitary police and armored personell carriers roaming the streets of Boston Door to door searches by police that essentially are indistinguishable from military without search warrants brandishing firearms ... You tell me who won? It certainly isn't the American citizen.
FruitBoot. Boot your Mac direct from backend by the Bay. Or, diskless from the data center North Carolina, this is the Toothless FruitBoot. Not as attractive of an experience, but a more streamlined boot.
I was talking about this bill with my sharp-kneed girlfriend yesterday. Yea, about that, here's the insightful/non-geek response I got from her via email. I hope she doesn't sue me for copyright infringement for posting this:
It is infuriating that the govt. wants to protect us from illegally obtaining copyrighted info on line, but offers no real protection against our own personal information being collected and used by business.
Can I copyright my personal information: name, address, phone, IP, screen names, contacts, list of sites I visits, and all the other info numerous companies collect about me through my computer? I think not. Our personal information is everywhere, including that being stored by the govt., but if we want to read a book or copy a file containing copyrighted content we are criminals.
Can't it just be considered a fair trade? Business collects info about me, I collect copyrighted info owned by businesses. It's all a bit of collateral damage that is worth enduring for the sake of being able to use the internet. If we have to just accept the fact that use of the internet means giving up our privacy, why can't business just have to accept that there will be leakage of some copyrighted info?
Such bullshit. This issue is so important to every American's freedoms now and for the shaping of our future, but what are Americans hearing about as a hot topic today? Caffeinated alcoholic beverages making kids who are drinking them illegally sick, and too much salt in the soup.
THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA PROCEEDS AT BREAK-NECK SPEED!
I'm sure many will remember the comparisons of the screen shots and betas for Vista vs. OS X. It was remarkable how much Vista looked like OS X. In both feature (bloat) and GUI. Microsoft is as much, if not more, to blame for the feature comparison. Redmond continued to flaunt using Cupertino as their proxy R&D. When Microsoft finally shipped the goods, the comparisons it seems, were only skin deep.
Interesting that this post comes up today. I was watching Hulu this afternoon and just checked out amazon. I am also a subscriber to netflix and sometimes watch the streamers. However... and this is a big however... Netflix quality is just awful. I have to use a virtual machine to run windows just to watch the netflix streamers and the quality is just awful compared to hulu and amazon. I'm lucky if I can get "basic" streaming quality on netflix, however hulu and now amazon at full screen is more than acceptable while netflix is just a mess of pixels. WHy? My guess is the horrible windows media they force on us. Netflix needs to fix this NOW. So, ya. Netflix is a better bargain for the buck, but the quality is crap and having to either boot or run windows in a VM is just annoying and awful.
My guess is that Fox paid him a bunch of dough for this to come out as news just before the release of the X Files.
come on, lets be realistic. anyone who bought one of these is kinda crazy. If you have some technical knowledge, info on the the nets to install osx on a 'generic' box is free and available. You think business were gonna buy these? High end graphic, video or audio apple users? Nope. Everyone knew apple was gonna come down hard on pystar. the only real question was, why hadn't they done it already. Now you've got a 'collector's item.' And if you think that's true, I've got a couple of motorola 'starmax' systems I'd like you to bid on. Better off investing in vintage guitars. at least the 'programing' language stays the same, that is, unless you re-tune it.
They'll get mine when the peel it from my cold dead fingers....
moses
I am completely sick of hearing about this thing. everyfarkingwhere you turn it's 'iphone-iphone-iphone' arghhhh. of course I might be singing a different tune if 1) I had a job and the economy was doing ok so I could afford one 2) knew someone i could actually make a phone call to. but oh how I do want to hold it's shinyness in my filty little hands and multi-touch it's glassy goodness. Unfortunately I have to buy groceries this month and pine for the days when I had a decent credit score.
But all of the links, including the "how to submit your music" link, return 404 errors. Sounds like they really got it together over there.