I stand corrected on the IPS panels. I assumed that since the iPhone and the iPad have IPS panels the Macbooks did as well. It's likely that the next generation will see IPS panels for the same price.
Compatibility? I switched from Windows to Mac with no issues and I use a crap load of software. I have Office 2008 installed. And on the rare occasion when I need to use the one piece of Windows software that isn't available for Mac I have VMWare. I found in most cases that the shareware programs for Macs to be superior to shareware for windows, because there is so much software for windows that is complete shit. I have Eclipse installed, I use Mercurial for source control, I have Photoshop CS4, Office 2008, VLC, Steam, Firefox, Chrome, various text editors, FTP/SSH clients, you name it. I make my living with my computer and I use it for about 12 hours every day and I have no compatibility issues at all, even though my file server is Windows and everyone else I work with is on Windows, and we are heavy users of Office. I will tell you that for a while we had a mix of Office 2003 and 2007. That's a big incompatibility problem. We also had some 64 bit and 32 bit windows machines and that also created compatibility problems, especially with print driver availability.
Personally I use Mac, WIndows and Linux and I have no compatibility issues. Please provide examples of these issues, because it sounds like you're spewing FUD. Also, why did you use a third Macbook if the first two were such shit?
I will, however, agree about the keyboards. I don't like them, which is why I plug my beloved Model-M keyboard into my Mac.
I've done countless comparisons of Macs to comparable Lenovo's, Dells, HPs, etc. For comparably equivalent machines, (sames size LED backlit IPS panel, same HD size and speed, same bus, memory, processor, bluetooth, camera, etc, etc) with comparable software (that generally means Win 7 Home Ultimate) Macs are, generally, 10% to 20% more, and not way overpriced.
Generally the Mac will have less ports, but has as compensation the large multi-touch track pad, the smaller mag safe power adapters, and that ultra-rigid unibody design.
I don't consider it overpriced, but it may be over spec'd.
I know the average Mac user doesn't actually know how to use a computer
as for this piece of GP AC weaksauce, the average Windows user doesn't know anymore about using a computer than the average Mac user. That's because they're, uh, average users. The person who actually knows how to really use a computer is in reality pretty rare - most people just learn (barely) how to use the software they need and do things by rote, and this isn't limited to Mac users. I see people double-clicking links in IE all the time...
It's easy in WIndows if you know what software to download, assuming that you know that you need to. On a Mac it's brain dead easy since the software is included.
Regardless, for me this sums it up
but many aren't as diligent as they should be.
This applies to a great many people in pretty much all areas of life.
Personally I haven't lost any data since the early 90's. I back up continuously, I manually back up selected files to another drive, I periodically burn current versions of my important stuff to DVD, and I make a full system back up to yet another drive that I keep with me in case my house burns down or someone steals my gear. My data is irreplaceable, and other than my dogs is my most valuable possession. If people are to ignorant / lazy to protect themselves, well, then, sucks being them if it all goes tits-up.
Titan will be taking on the Xfire name, with a focus towards ongoing innovation in the gaming space. The Xfire services will continue uninterrupted for its users. Xfire redefined how gamers communicate, Titan...
this is a deliberate choice on the cell phone makers, Paget said.
After having been told to do so by the carriers who were told to do so by the intelligence collecting agencies of various governments via their respective communications ministries no doubt.
As IE6 is absolutely not available on any new version of Windows
I'm running IE 6 on Windows 7. (Not because I want to) IE 6 is still available from Microsoft on MSDN and other channels. What I want to know is are we going to see the same thing with Corporate IT writing for IE9 and not web standards so in a few years we'll still be hacking sites to work on IE. I do a lot of testing in IE 8 and I've been playing with IE 9. Compared to current releases of, well, pretty much every browser IE still sucks, and sucks badly.
Yeah. I know I'm in the minority, but I use Office 2008 for the Mac and I like it. if they came out with Office apps for iOS, and it didn't suck I'd get it.
The very statement that it will be running a derivative of Win7 says that they are doomed from the start.
Well, to be fair, iOS is a derivative of OS X, but when Microsoft says derivative of Windows, historically they have meant putting the full os on the device, replacing the mouse with a stylus, providing an on screen keyboard and leaving it at that. The concept of multiple windows and dragging them around on a tablet does not appeal to me. They need to fundamentally rethink the UI for a touch device. If they do that, and do it right they will be successful, if not, they will crash and burn just like every other time they've tried this exercise.
Personally, I like Apple products and I really like the interface on the iPad but I don't like the device itself. it's too heavy for comfortably reading a book, and it has that curved back so you can't lay it on a flat surface. If iPad version 2 adds a camera, has a higher res screen, weighs a little bit less, and adds the ability to have multiple user accounts so I can share the device with family members, I'll definitely buy one.
According to my father, who had to call me, very. Plus there could be 5, red, green, blue, red and white, then there's the yellow one that doesn't get used, and the orange one that might get used but goes over there on the audio side, and BTW someone stepped on the optical cable and cracked the fiber so it works intermittently, and the receiver passes through digital audio from some sources and not others, the TV has optical digital out but not coax digital, and the cable box has all the ports but the cable company has disabled some of them.
I guess that fits. Only a fool would claim to know that god exists, or to claim that they know god doesn't exist. Personally I see no evidence of god, but lack of evidence is not proof.
Under some definitions of religion, atheism certainly qualifies.
Perhaps, perhaps not. The problem is, mostly, how people with belief view those without. Most people that truly believe in their religion simply cannot fathom that someone cannot have belief, therefore they cast that lack of belief as an alternate belief, which is reinforced by those that evangelize atheism.
I try to explain it thusly:
A believer gets up in the morning and acknowledges the existence of God.
A radical atheist (Douglas Adam's definition) gets up in the morning and denies the existence of God.
Actually, I think you have no clue, and this post is basically a troll. First, I've had Cingular / AT&T since 2000 and I've no real complaints, I rarely drop a call and I can make a call in the middle of the desert on Interstate 10 and receive e-mail, and I only pay $70 a month for 2 phone numbers and one unlimited data plan. I've also had Sprint and Verizon (AirTouch) accounts. Of the three Sprint was by far the most unreliable. I would rate AT&T 8 out of 10 based on my personal experience (not what Steve Jobs tells me). Second if you can't tell the difference between user installed malware or a work and a virus then you really shouldn't be accusing others of ignorance. The only thing worse than a fanboy is an anti-fanboy troll such as yourself who makes assumptions about others colored by their own irrational bias and ignorance.
Where someone tries to explain the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and specific absorption rate to the city council. Probably a lot like trying to explain the internets in my phone to my 88 year old grandmother.
People can choose to take all things into consideration when making a purchase, or not. Look at the current "green" movement. People are buying things labeled as green even thought they cost more, don't offer any additional benefit to the user, in many cases probably work worse, and in reality don't really help the environment all that much.
Does it follow that if the servers are manufactured in the U. S. of A. there will be no people "with malicious intent" and thus the servers would surely be guaranteed safe?
No, it just means that instead of costing $2,000 it would cost $6,000, and availability would sometimes be spotty due to the unionized workers striking, although it's probably a little more likely that the bad-ass perpetrators might be arrested.
This is one of the things that irritates me about a lot of people; They will complain about the outsourcing of jobs and demand the lowest price all in one breath. Here's a clue for those clueless people - demanding the lowest price in a global economy ensures that those products will be manufactured where the cost of labor and material is lowest, and that ain't America or Western Europe.
The next time a WalMart shopper complains about job outsourcing, offer to show them the cause of the problem and hand them a mirror.
For my own part I do try to at least shop at smaller local business when I can, the local Ace instead of Lowe's for example, but it's almost impossible to avoid cheap imported products, and it's even more disheartening when the cheap $15 chinese tool is better than the $30 made in USA tool...
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I stand corrected on the IPS panels. I assumed that since the iPhone and the iPad have IPS panels the Macbooks did as well. It's likely that the next generation will see IPS panels for the same price.
Compatibility? I switched from Windows to Mac with no issues and I use a crap load of software. I have Office 2008 installed. And on the rare occasion when I need to use the one piece of Windows software that isn't available for Mac I have VMWare. I found in most cases that the shareware programs for Macs to be superior to shareware for windows, because there is so much software for windows that is complete shit. I have Eclipse installed, I use Mercurial for source control, I have Photoshop CS4, Office 2008, VLC, Steam, Firefox, Chrome, various text editors, FTP/SSH clients, you name it. I make my living with my computer and I use it for about 12 hours every day and I have no compatibility issues at all, even though my file server is Windows and everyone else I work with is on Windows, and we are heavy users of Office. I will tell you that for a while we had a mix of Office 2003 and 2007. That's a big incompatibility problem. We also had some 64 bit and 32 bit windows machines and that also created compatibility problems, especially with print driver availability.
Personally I use Mac, WIndows and Linux and I have no compatibility issues. Please provide examples of these issues, because it sounds like you're spewing FUD. Also, why did you use a third Macbook if the first two were such shit?
I will, however, agree about the keyboards. I don't like them, which is why I plug my beloved Model-M keyboard into my Mac.
I've done countless comparisons of Macs to comparable Lenovo's, Dells, HPs, etc. For comparably equivalent machines, (sames size LED backlit IPS panel, same HD size and speed, same bus, memory, processor, bluetooth, camera, etc, etc) with comparable software (that generally means Win 7 Home Ultimate) Macs are, generally, 10% to 20% more, and not way overpriced.
Generally the Mac will have less ports, but has as compensation the large multi-touch track pad, the smaller mag safe power adapters, and that ultra-rigid unibody design.
I don't consider it overpriced, but it may be over spec'd.
I know the average Mac user doesn't actually know how to use a computer
as for this piece of GP AC weaksauce, the average Windows user doesn't know anymore about using a computer than the average Mac user. That's because they're, uh, average users. The person who actually knows how to really use a computer is in reality pretty rare - most people just learn (barely) how to use the software they need and do things by rote, and this isn't limited to Mac users. I see people double-clicking links in IE all the time...
Pre-med student made Surgeon General of the US.
Especially the part where you get to toss a Nazi out the window for not having a ticket and escape in a bi-plane.
Here's a good demonstration of wave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxF9oz9Cu0
Meh for the average user, true. Nice to see RiM focusing back on business users without trying to introduce an "iPhone killer".
I had to.
No, you didn't.
negatory good buddy.
It's easy in WIndows if you know what software to download, assuming that you know that you need to. On a Mac it's brain dead easy since the software is included.
Regardless, for me this sums it up
but many aren't as diligent as they should be.
This applies to a great many people in pretty much all areas of life.
Personally I haven't lost any data since the early 90's. I back up continuously, I manually back up selected files to another drive, I periodically burn current versions of my important stuff to DVD, and I make a full system back up to yet another drive that I keep with me in case my house burns down or someone steals my gear. My data is irreplaceable, and other than my dogs is my most valuable possession. If people are to ignorant / lazy to protect themselves, well, then, sucks being them if it all goes tits-up.
Titan Gaming acquires Xfire.
August 2, 2010--Titan Gaming acquires Xfire.
Titan will be taking on the Xfire name, with a focus towards ongoing innovation in the gaming space. The Xfire services will continue uninterrupted for its users. Xfire redefined how gamers communicate, Titan...
this is a deliberate choice on the cell phone makers, Paget said.
After having been told to do so by the carriers who were told to do so by the intelligence collecting agencies of various governments via their respective communications ministries no doubt.
As IE6 is absolutely not available on any new version of Windows
I'm running IE 6 on Windows 7. (Not because I want to) IE 6 is still available from Microsoft on MSDN and other channels. What I want to know is are we going to see the same thing with Corporate IT writing for IE9 and not web standards so in a few years we'll still be hacking sites to work on IE. I do a lot of testing in IE 8 and I've been playing with IE 9. Compared to current releases of, well, pretty much every browser IE still sucks, and sucks badly.
Yeah. I know I'm in the minority, but I use Office 2008 for the Mac and I like it. if they came out with Office apps for iOS, and it didn't suck I'd get it.
The very statement that it will be running a derivative of Win7 says that they are doomed from the start.
Well, to be fair, iOS is a derivative of OS X, but when Microsoft says derivative of Windows, historically they have meant putting the full os on the device, replacing the mouse with a stylus, providing an on screen keyboard and leaving it at that. The concept of multiple windows and dragging them around on a tablet does not appeal to me. They need to fundamentally rethink the UI for a touch device. If they do that, and do it right they will be successful, if not, they will crash and burn just like every other time they've tried this exercise.
Personally, I like Apple products and I really like the interface on the iPad but I don't like the device itself. it's too heavy for comfortably reading a book, and it has that curved back so you can't lay it on a flat surface. If iPad version 2 adds a camera, has a higher res screen, weighs a little bit less, and adds the ability to have multiple user accounts so I can share the device with family members, I'll definitely buy one.
Well, then you need the launching lasers on the moon to provide supplemental thrust.
According to my father, who had to call me, very. Plus there could be 5, red, green, blue, red and white, then there's the yellow one that doesn't get used, and the orange one that might get used but goes over there on the audio side, and BTW someone stepped on the optical cable and cracked the fiber so it works intermittently, and the receiver passes through digital audio from some sources and not others, the TV has optical digital out but not coax digital, and the cable box has all the ports but the cable company has disabled some of them.
So, not hard at all, really
That there isn't a way to moderate an entire post as flamebait.
I guess that fits. Only a fool would claim to know that god exists, or to claim that they know god doesn't exist. Personally I see no evidence of god, but lack of evidence is not proof.
Now that right has been given you to a law. It shows that you did not have the right to mod it till it was explicity granted.
This is a logical fallacy if I've ever seen one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy
Under some definitions of religion, atheism certainly qualifies.
Perhaps, perhaps not. The problem is, mostly, how people with belief view those without. Most people that truly believe in their religion simply cannot fathom that someone cannot have belief, therefore they cast that lack of belief as an alternate belief, which is reinforced by those that evangelize atheism.
I try to explain it thusly:
A believer gets up in the morning and acknowledges the existence of God.
A radical atheist (Douglas Adam's definition) gets up in the morning and denies the existence of God.
I just get up in the morning.
Actually, I think you have no clue, and this post is basically a troll. First, I've had Cingular / AT&T since 2000 and I've no real complaints, I rarely drop a call and I can make a call in the middle of the desert on Interstate 10 and receive e-mail, and I only pay $70 a month for 2 phone numbers and one unlimited data plan. I've also had Sprint and Verizon (AirTouch) accounts. Of the three Sprint was by far the most unreliable. I would rate AT&T 8 out of 10 based on my personal experience (not what Steve Jobs tells me). Second if you can't tell the difference between user installed malware or a work and a virus then you really shouldn't be accusing others of ignorance. The only thing worse than a fanboy is an anti-fanboy troll such as yourself who makes assumptions about others colored by their own irrational bias and ignorance.
Where someone tries to explain the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and specific absorption rate to the city council. Probably a lot like trying to explain the internets in my phone to my 88 year old grandmother.
People can choose to take all things into consideration when making a purchase, or not. Look at the current "green" movement. People are buying things labeled as green even thought they cost more, don't offer any additional benefit to the user, in many cases probably work worse, and in reality don't really help the environment all that much.
Does it follow that if the servers are manufactured in the U. S. of A. there will be no people "with malicious intent" and thus the servers would surely be guaranteed safe?
No, it just means that instead of costing $2,000 it would cost $6,000, and availability would sometimes be spotty due to the unionized workers striking, although it's probably a little more likely that the bad-ass perpetrators might be arrested.
This is one of the things that irritates me about a lot of people; They will complain about the outsourcing of jobs and demand the lowest price all in one breath. Here's a clue for those clueless people - demanding the lowest price in a global economy ensures that those products will be manufactured where the cost of labor and material is lowest, and that ain't America or Western Europe.
The next time a WalMart shopper complains about job outsourcing, offer to show them the cause of the problem and hand them a mirror.
For my own part I do try to at least shop at smaller local business when I can, the local Ace instead of Lowe's for example, but it's almost impossible to avoid cheap imported products, and it's even more disheartening when the cheap $15 chinese tool is better than the $30 made in USA tool...