Kudos to Elwin Loomis for converting the Tengwar Cursive font for Mac. Too bad the other fonts are not available for Mac.
Otherwise, these fonts should provide great fun for those who are really into the Tolkien world...or those that think the Elvish script just looks cool...like me:)
I got my 12" PB in January of this year, and the power adapter died for some unknown reason. Thanks to Applecare, what would have cost me $180 cost me nothing. I have no experience with sending parts in, but the people at the physical Apple Stores are wonderful, and I had no problems getting my power adapter replaced. I have not yet gotten the full 3 year, but based on my experiences in the past 6 months, I am planning to do so this fall.
Actually, yes, this is true... I realized that this story is trying to compare two products that really aren't directly comparable. The Sony is for those who want the smaller, lighter notebook, while the powerbook is for those wanting a little more power, who don't mind the extra size and weight (which, 12" and 4.6 pounds is still light, but yes, i realize it does matter to some).
The P5000 is a good comparison...it still has the slower 900Mhz centrino, but has the nice ability to swap out the cdrw/dvd for a battery.
It really comes down to which OS you want to run...for my part, I like OS X much better than Linux or Windows. It has more polish than Linux and is easier to configure, while still letting those who want to play with the underlying darwin do so...which allows for all of the advantages that Linux already has over Windows. So the OS really is the deciding factor. I don't know what Fujitsu's support is like, but that's also another aspect at which Apple really shines.
That's probably because the Sony hardware is quite a bit nicer: 3 pounds vs. 4.6 pounds, 1280x768 screen vs. 1024x768 screen, PCMCIA slot vs. no PCMCIA slot, USB2 vs. no USB2. The difference in weight alone is a huge difference and should more than account for the price difference.
And with your 10.6" screen at 1280x768, are you going to be able to read anything? And the PCMCIA...what do you really need it for? Wireless...built in (on both machines). Bluetooth...built in on the powerbook, for those that use it. The USB2...yes, it's nice to have, but only if you can't find what you want using firewire, which is a better technology anyway (usb being cpu intensive, firewire not).
In addition to those points, you are forgetting the bigger harddrive on the powerbook...and the fact that and 867 G4 is definately faster than a 900 centrino.
If you really need less weight and possibly longer battery life, the sony is for you...oh, and remember that extra $400...
Red Hat may be the biggest player in the Linux market, but that doesn't make them like Microsoft. They have done very good business to get to the point they are, and this type of story seems to me like jealousy coming out.
Red Hat's products are completely opensource, with none of the activation crap that MS pulls. As Mr. Hogan said, how can they become like MS when everything they have is wide open. They can't. Unless Red Hat takes a turn for the worse and starts closing up and hiding code (which they can't do, they'd ruin their customer base), all of this is nonsense.
They have some great ideas ( here), and they have capitalized on them. Good for them.
This could be a great breakthrough. There are currently long lists for organ transplants, as there are not enough donors for the demand. However, it must be proven that this works, as they are working on. I wish them luck, this could be a wonderful thing.
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hmm, i only seem to be able to put 6GB on the dual Opteron board...and that's at ~$4000 w/one 160GB SATA...am i missing something?
Actually, gaim is like the trillian of linux (and it has been ported to Windows as well). BTW, Fire is the "trillian" of OS X.
Kudos to Elwin Loomis for converting the Tengwar Cursive font for Mac. Too bad the other fonts are not available for Mac.
:)
Otherwise, these fonts should provide great fun for those who are really into the Tolkien world...or those that think the Elvish script just looks cool...like me
I got my 12" PB in January of this year, and the power adapter died for some unknown reason. Thanks to Applecare, what would have cost me $180 cost me nothing. I have no experience with sending parts in, but the people at the physical Apple Stores are wonderful, and I had no problems getting my power adapter replaced. I have not yet gotten the full 3 year, but based on my experiences in the past 6 months, I am planning to do so this fall.
Actually, yes, this is true...
I realized that this story is trying to compare two products that really aren't directly comparable. The Sony is for those who want the smaller, lighter notebook, while the powerbook is for those wanting a little more power, who don't mind the extra size and weight (which, 12" and 4.6 pounds is still light, but yes, i realize it does matter to some).
The P5000 is a good comparison...it still has the slower 900Mhz centrino, but has the nice ability to swap out the cdrw/dvd for a battery.
It really comes down to which OS you want to run...for my part, I like OS X much better than Linux or Windows. It has more polish than Linux and is easier to configure, while still letting those who want to play with the underlying darwin do so...which allows for all of the advantages that Linux already has over Windows. So the OS really is the deciding factor. I don't know what Fujitsu's support is like, but that's also another aspect at which Apple really shines.
That's probably because the Sony hardware is quite a bit nicer: 3 pounds vs. 4.6 pounds, 1280x768 screen vs. 1024x768 screen, PCMCIA slot vs. no PCMCIA slot, USB2 vs. no USB2. The difference in weight alone is a huge difference and should more than account for the price difference.
And with your 10.6" screen at 1280x768, are you going to be able to read anything? And the PCMCIA...what do you really need it for? Wireless...built in (on both machines). Bluetooth...built in on the powerbook, for those that use it. The USB2...yes, it's nice to have, but only if you can't find what you want using firewire, which is a better technology anyway (usb being cpu intensive, firewire not).
In addition to those points, you are forgetting the bigger harddrive on the powerbook...and the fact that and 867 G4 is definately faster than a 900 centrino.
If you really need less weight and possibly longer battery life, the sony is for you...oh, and remember that extra $400...
Red Hat may be the biggest player in the Linux market, but that doesn't make them like Microsoft. They have done very good business to get to the point they are, and this type of story seems to me like jealousy coming out. Red Hat's products are completely opensource, with none of the activation crap that MS pulls. As Mr. Hogan said, how can they become like MS when everything they have is wide open. They can't. Unless Red Hat takes a turn for the worse and starts closing up and hiding code (which they can't do, they'd ruin their customer base), all of this is nonsense. They have some great ideas ( here), and they have capitalized on them. Good for them.
This could be a great breakthrough. There are currently long lists for organ transplants, as there are not enough donors for the demand.
However, it must be proven that this works, as they are working on. I wish them luck, this could be a wonderful thing.