Yeah I loved my Amiga too but to be fair until the AGA machines came out you were limited to 16 colors at 640x400 or HAMs 4096(ish) colors at 320x200 which is why Macintosh ruled in publishing and Amiga did well in games and video. Amiga never really did have anything comparable to QuickDraw, Quicktime or Colorsync. There was an awful lot of innovation in software at Apple back then.
Have you ever started up an Adobe application? If you have you'll understand why you might want to close a document but keep the application running in case you need to use it again later.
My grandmother is 74 and gets along great on her iMac and she doesn't seem to know or care about the difference between quitting an app and closing a window. I just asked my girlfriend about it and she doesn't find it to be a difficult concept understand.
It doesn't tie up your phone line.
It's always on, no waiting to connect.
Emails arrive almost as soon as they are sent.
Grandma can send and receive pictures of the grandkids of reasonable quality in a reasonable amount of time.
Have you ever actually used the internet? How did you get here?
Abso-fuckin-lutely! For less than the cost of my quad core Mac Pro at work I built one dual core and two quad core Hackintoshes for home. If there was a decent mid-range headless Mac I'd have gladly paid the Apple premium but since they don't want to sell me one I'll build my own.
What exactly is wrong with using EFI? It's not 1981 anymore. Apple, IBM and Sun tried to show the way with Open Firmware but the rest of the industry was all too happy to stay in 1981. Then Intel came along with EFI and still these morons just won't let go of BIOS. Don't blame Apple for using a newer, better technology, blame the PC bottom feeders for being too cheap and lazy.
Sorry, I didn't realize you intended to just run it off the dvd. You can of course boot off most of those and run a few things like the terminal and some utilities. I don't see why someone with a lot of time on their hands couldn't put together a true live dvd but I think the main interest is in getting the OS installed to a bootable disk which I think is what Trespass was talking about. That is becoming a lot easier to do and may soon be a viable option for the kind the kind of people in the market for a new Macbook but put off by the removal of firewire. A Dell XPS M1330 is pretty close to the specs of the new Macbook but still has firewire.
What you're saying is probably pretty close to the truth but not offering a mid-range tower pretty seriously undermines any argument they have against people building their own.
Umm.. you can already run OSX on PC hardware *without* no stinkin' dongle!
Well, that is, if you don't mind pirating software. There are several hacked copies of the OSX Tiger and Leopard install DVDs floating about that allow you to install OSX on any reasonably modern PC. Google around for 'leo4all' or 'ideneb'. YMMV.
There's been no need to pirate OS X since about a week after Leopard was released for sale last year. The Brazil method had you run a script to create a single layer custom install DVD from the retail DVD. You'd still be breaking the EULA but that's hardly the same thing as stealing software.
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Yeah I loved my Amiga too but to be fair until the AGA machines came out you were limited to 16 colors at 640x400 or HAMs 4096(ish) colors at 320x200 which is why Macintosh ruled in publishing and Amiga did well in games and video. Amiga never really did have anything comparable to QuickDraw, Quicktime or Colorsync. There was an awful lot of innovation in software at Apple back then.
Have you ever started up an Adobe application? If you have you'll understand why you might want to close a document but keep the application running in case you need to use it again later.
My grandmother is 74 and gets along great on her iMac and she doesn't seem to know or care about the difference between quitting an app and closing a window. I just asked my girlfriend about it and she doesn't find it to be a difficult concept understand.
It doesn't tie up your phone line. It's always on, no waiting to connect. Emails arrive almost as soon as they are sent. Grandma can send and receive pictures of the grandkids of reasonable quality in a reasonable amount of time. Have you ever actually used the internet? How did you get here?
I think you mean the P-36 Hawk. The P-26 "Peashooter" was an earlier open cockpit, fixed gear fighter.
Have you tried America's Army?
Moof!
At least one.
Hackintosh.
Abso-fuckin-lutely! For less than the cost of my quad core Mac Pro at work I built one dual core and two quad core Hackintoshes for home. If there was a decent mid-range headless Mac I'd have gladly paid the Apple premium but since they don't want to sell me one I'll build my own.
What exactly is wrong with using EFI? It's not 1981 anymore. Apple, IBM and Sun tried to show the way with Open Firmware but the rest of the industry was all too happy to stay in 1981. Then Intel came along with EFI and still these morons just won't let go of BIOS. Don't blame Apple for using a newer, better technology, blame the PC bottom feeders for being too cheap and lazy.
This is what I meant, http://www.hbo.com/conchords/cast/index.html What did you mean?
Brett and Jermaine!
Please excuse me for being the pedantic asshole here but it's Bret and Jemaine.
Sorry, I didn't realize you intended to just run it off the dvd. You can of course boot off most of those and run a few things like the terminal and some utilities. I don't see why someone with a lot of time on their hands couldn't put together a true live dvd but I think the main interest is in getting the OS installed to a bootable disk which I think is what Trespass was talking about. That is becoming a lot easier to do and may soon be a viable option for the kind the kind of people in the market for a new Macbook but put off by the removal of firewire. A Dell XPS M1330 is pretty close to the specs of the new Macbook but still has firewire.
Too bad there are no OS X equivalents to the Knoppix DVD. They wouldn't be legal, but they would be useful.
Actually there are. They have funny names like Kalway, leo4all, iATKOS, etc...
What you're saying is probably pretty close to the truth but not offering a mid-range tower pretty seriously undermines any argument they have against people building their own.
Umm.. you can already run OSX on PC hardware *without* no stinkin' dongle!
Well, that is, if you don't mind pirating software. There are several hacked copies of the OSX Tiger and Leopard install DVDs floating about that allow you to install OSX on any reasonably modern PC. Google around for 'leo4all' or 'ideneb'. YMMV.
There's been no need to pirate OS X since about a week after Leopard was released for sale last year. The Brazil method had you run a script to create a single layer custom install DVD from the retail DVD. You'd still be breaking the EULA but that's hardly the same thing as stealing software.