But the Apple II in the early '80s was 50% of the market. Sculley didn't even manage a halfway respectable holding pattern in terms of market share.
With a cash cow like the II that Apple could ride, they couldn't help but have some revenue growth in an industry expanding like the computer industry in the late '80s.
Sculley understood soft drinks - a mature industry. He had no idea what to do with a compuer company.
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Scrolling through web pages or large documents on a trackpad can challenge even the most nimble fingers. That's why every PowerBook G4 features a new trackpad with scrolling capability. Just drag two fingers over the trackpad to scroll vertically and horizontally or pan around any active window. Change this feature to suit your needs: Customize your trackpad settings or turn off scrolling completely via System Preferences.
I've used thinkpads - I have to plug a mouse in, that stupid eraser in the keyboard is useless.
But they could have done it right, and made a computer that was a continuation of the Apple II line, and had the advances of the Mac. The Apple IIgs proved it could be done. The Mac OS X transition followed very closely the pattern Apple established with the IIgs transition - provide a great new OS, with a compatibility box to run most of the old software.
No, what Apple did in the late '80s and early '90s was just plain stupid. The LC -//e card was too little, too late.
It took over 10 years for them to even begin to recover what they lost in the '80s.
Now, before anyone accuses me of being anti-Apple, I've had Apples continuously since 1982, I've never had a x86 as my primary computer. I got my first Mac in '92, and I've never considered leaving Apples because the alternative was such garbage, at least until Linux got a decent desktop.
But my IIgs is still fully functional.
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There were multiple versions. The one for the G3 (the last one Apple made) was a PCI card. There were also processor direct and NuBus cards for earlier machines.
That's because at that point in our past, we had a congress that realized that some things are more important than security.
One of them being the freedom to travel, not just for themselves, but for the people of the United States. It's too bad that today's congress has lost that perspective.
Multi monitor setups are only for people who are 'monitoring' stuff (like stockbrokers etc.) and for certain professionals (e.g. video editors etc.).. Besides that it's just another fad.
It's a fad that's been going on for 17 years now...
I used it more frequently with my PowerBook 160 than I do now - but it made life so much easier back then. I could have an 832x624 external screen for whatever I was working on, and use the internal 640x400 greyscale screen for the tools pallettes. But that was 10 years ago.
I don't feel so cramped at 1280x1024 - but I still occasionally hook up a second screen. Most of the time these days, the extra screens are used for the other computers on my desk. And I can always kick my old 19" CRT up to 1600x1200 - but it's a bit small for me.
Apple has excellent multiple display support - they've only been doing it since 1987. You plug it in. It just works.
If you want to change configuration, you can select a monitor for your menubar, and you can rearrange the monitors' relationships with each other. You can also set to a mirror mode. You can color calibrate the screens separately.
I think the most displays I've personally used on a Mac was 4 - but more are possible.
It looks nice - but I couldn't deal with working with that there - it's too busy.
Right now, I'm using Classic Aqua Blue. It's not as boring as the 50% grey I used in the old days (really black & white checkerboard, the PowerBook 140 didn't do greyscale) but it's pretty unobtrusive.
Griffin makes a variety of products, some are great, some are mediocre, some are terrible.
The iMic is great. For $40 you get sound input on a Mac that doesn't have a mic port. The iTrip is marginal. The FM signal is so weak that if your radio isn't excellent, the sound quality is much worse than a cassette adapter.
The iFire is just silly. If you want to hook up speakers to a Mac that doesn't have the amplifier for the Apple Pro Speakers, get other speakers. The pro speakers are not very good speakers anyway, and they're overpriced.
Now, I've never played with the sightlight - but I don't have an iSight, either. The little that I've played with iSights makes me think that they're pretty good cameras...
well, I'm reasonably sure that all the trucks chevy made in the '70s had that feature.
I've driven chevy trucks as old as '76 with power brakes and power steering, and if the power assist fails, it's still driveable. (and in a '76, you can be sure it's failed while I've been driving before.)
My current '95 tahoe still has the feature. The brake booster died a few years ago, and while a stop sometimes took two feet pressing the pedal, it was certainly stoppable.
It's also controllable with the engine off - so it works without the power steering.
I suspect that they've not removed these features from newer models.
A nightly reboot seems like a sledgehammer approach to me.
I've got a script that pings my upstream router every 10 minutes. If it misses a ping, it waits 30 seconds and tries again. 2 missed pings, and it power cycles my DSL router, using an activehome box and an x10 appliance module.
They don't talk price on their site, so it's a fair bet that it's expensive, but from the other things I've seen about it, it's a real product, and really for sale.
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Certainly not. They have the freedom to go out of business.
Just for the fun of it, I checked the repair cost.
If you've screwed up your logic board doing this, I would charge you $505.91 for the repair.
That price does include tax.
But the Apple II in the early '80s was 50% of the market. Sculley didn't even manage a halfway respectable holding pattern in terms of market share.
With a cash cow like the II that Apple could ride, they couldn't help but have some revenue growth in an industry expanding like the computer industry in the late '80s.
Sculley understood soft drinks - a mature industry. He had no idea what to do with a compuer company.
What about two fingers to scroll?
From Apple's PowerBook page:
Ready to Scroll Scrolling through web pages or large documents on a trackpad can challenge even the most nimble fingers. That's why every PowerBook G4 features a new trackpad with scrolling capability. Just drag two fingers over the trackpad to scroll vertically and horizontally or pan around any active window. Change this feature to suit your needs: Customize your trackpad settings or turn off scrolling completely via System Preferences.
I've used thinkpads - I have to plug a mouse in, that stupid eraser in the keyboard is useless.
Um, that's not quite true. Mac OS X 10.3 won't install on a Mac that didn't ship with USB.
10.2 is supported on any Mac that shipped with a G3, except the original PowerBook G3 (the one that looks like a 3400, a.k.a. the Kanga.)
Yes, there is.
Here's one way.
Market it.
Somebody would buy it, you know they would. You might even be able to start a religious war over it.
But they could have done it right, and made a computer that was a continuation of the Apple II line, and had the advances of the Mac. The Apple IIgs proved it could be done. The Mac OS X transition followed very closely the pattern Apple established with the IIgs transition - provide a great new OS, with a compatibility box to run most of the old software.
//e card was too little, too late.
No, what Apple did in the late '80s and early '90s was just plain stupid. The LC -
It took over 10 years for them to even begin to recover what they lost in the '80s.
Now, before anyone accuses me of being anti-Apple, I've had Apples continuously since 1982, I've never had a x86 as my primary computer. I got my first Mac in '92, and I've never considered leaving Apples because the alternative was such garbage, at least until Linux got a decent desktop.
But my IIgs is still fully functional.
There were multiple versions. The one for the G3 (the last one Apple made) was a PCI card. There were also processor direct and NuBus cards for earlier machines.
I think you're beginning to get it.
That's because at that point in our past, we had a congress that realized that some things are more important than security.
One of them being the freedom to travel, not just for themselves, but for the people of the United States. It's too bad that today's congress has lost that perspective.
sometimes, you get an area code.
everything in the 865 area code is a free call for me.
Actually, software is still being published for the Apple II as late as 2005.
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Well, when I was in college...
Let's just say the dorm staff looks at you funny as you're loading the PDP-11 on the elevator. All 4 6-foot tall racks of it.
That room was henceforth referred to as the batcave by dorm staff.
He said "sane leader" - that pretty well excludes Shrubbie.
Multi monitor setups are only for people who are 'monitoring' stuff (like stockbrokers etc.) and for certain professionals (e.g. video editors etc.).. Besides that it's just another fad.
It's a fad that's been going on for 17 years now...
I used it more frequently with my PowerBook 160 than I do now - but it made life so much easier back then. I could have an 832x624 external screen for whatever I was working on, and use the internal 640x400 greyscale screen for the tools pallettes. But that was 10 years ago.
I don't feel so cramped at 1280x1024 - but I still occasionally hook up a second screen. Most of the time these days, the extra screens are used for the other computers on my desk. And I can always kick my old 19" CRT up to 1600x1200 - but it's a bit small for me.
Apple has excellent multiple display support - they've only been doing it since 1987. You plug it in. It just works.
If you want to change configuration, you can select a monitor for your menubar, and you can rearrange the monitors' relationships with each other. You can also set to a mirror mode. You can color calibrate the screens separately.
I think the most displays I've personally used on a Mac was 4 - but more are possible.
It looks nice - but I couldn't deal with working with that there - it's too busy.
Right now, I'm using Classic Aqua Blue. It's not as boring as the 50% grey I used in the old days (really black & white checkerboard, the PowerBook 140 didn't do greyscale) but it's pretty unobtrusive.
Griffin makes a variety of products, some are great, some are mediocre, some are terrible.
The iMic is great. For $40 you get sound input on a Mac that doesn't have a mic port. The iTrip is marginal. The FM signal is so weak that if your radio isn't excellent, the sound quality is much worse than a cassette adapter.
The iFire is just silly. If you want to hook up speakers to a Mac that doesn't have the amplifier for the Apple Pro Speakers, get other speakers. The pro speakers are not very good speakers anyway, and they're overpriced.
Now, I've never played with the sightlight - but I don't have an iSight, either. The little that I've played with iSights makes me think that they're pretty good cameras...
well, I'm reasonably sure that all the trucks chevy made in the '70s had that feature.
I've driven chevy trucks as old as '76 with power brakes and power steering, and if the power assist fails, it's still driveable. (and in a '76, you can be sure it's failed while I've been driving before.)
My current '95 tahoe still has the feature. The brake booster died a few years ago, and while a stop sometimes took two feet pressing the pedal, it was certainly stoppable.
It's also controllable with the engine off - so it works without the power steering.
I suspect that they've not removed these features from newer models.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on the dumb consumer argument in this case - because most dumb consumers have at least one geek friend.
And XP is a perfect example. I don't know of any end users who didn't get XP with their computer who actually paid for it.
Virtually everybody in the US at least knows somebody who knows somebody who can fix the copy protection for them.
No, please don't. It just looks informative - instead, it's wrong.
No LCD emits light, all color LCDs have to be backlit.
Cats ran for so long that some people don't even know it closed four years ago.
The Wintergarden currently has something called Mamma Mia.
A nightly reboot seems like a sledgehammer approach to me.
I've got a script that pings my upstream router every 10 minutes. If it misses a ping, it waits 30 seconds and tries again. 2 missed pings, and it power cycles my DSL router, using an activehome box and an x10 appliance module.
This company would seem to differ with you a bit.
They don't talk price on their site, so it's a fair bet that it's expensive, but from the other things I've seen about it, it's a real product, and really for sale.