Want a working 3d driver on Linux? Oh, install GCC and compile a kernel stub then. Then troubleshoot when your kernel upgrade kills the driver, because the devs are too dimwitted to implement a kernel ABI.
They're suiing samsung because samsung are taking the piss. No this isn't over an issue like "rounded rectangles" it is about multiple design features being cloned wholesale. Apple are doing just fine actually. They've never gone chasing the cheap end of the market, and will continue to put money in the bank selling to people who care about how the device integrates with the rest of their kit and what it feels like to use (quality materials vs plastic shit).
You can run / install third party apps. The thing is, no package manager is required, because the vast majority of OS X applications are self contained and simply drag/drop.
debatable. I went through massive issues (throttlegate) with the latitude E6500 series and got the run around for 6 months+ with no real solution. it was a design fault in the machine, and dell offered no solution. their support is OK so long as it is in the script. outside of that, good luck. we dumped them for HP over this issue and have had no issues with HP support. for a start, we've needed it about 5% as often due to more reliable hardware...
Whilst i agree with your sentiment: steam supports OS X just fine. As in, it is a content delivery platform and store. The actual content on steam is a separate issue, and this isn't valve's problem. If no one writes stuff for OS X (or Linux) don't expect the steam client to magically port everything to it.
Actually, they build custom motherboards, custom cases, trackpads, etc and use off the shelf components in those parts. The devil is in the details, and apple gets the details right.
I run Windows 7 enterprise in 2GB for plenty of toy VMs and it is not very slow. If your VM is very slow, your admin/vendor totally fucked up the spec of your VDI hardware, possibly skimped on storage IO or similar.
Whether or not you agree with what apple make or what they run on their machines or not, one thing is clear: they have the logistics sorted out.
The PC makers are firing wildly in all directions in an attempt to capture parts of every market, and in doing so are throwing away economies of scale - which lessens their ability to compete.
Newsflash: if i go to your website for a laptop, and there are more models than I can count on one hand or so, there is a problem. There's no need for it, and all this does is increase the R&D costs, manufacturing costs, etc. Apple can drive costs down because they sell large numbers of a small model count. They can build them with sturdy, quality chassis at this price point because of this, and the PC OEMs simply can't compete without killing their margins (and going broke). Or, they sell 40 different models of crap that no one would want.
HP: cut your model line down. Machines with/without GPU in 12" (ultrabook) and 15" form factors. A single workstation spec portable in 17" form factor with engineer spec GPU. 2 specs of desktop: generic end user class, and custom workstation spec. Shit-can everything else. The reduced model count will allow you to build that smaller model count at a higher quality with better margins.
Leave the massive diversification to specialty PC makers or build-your-own tweakers. There is no profit in it.
Especially, given that the US citizenry are all too eager to point to the constitution about their right to bear arms. Newsflash: this is the sort of thing your constitution gave you that right for.
Because of course all of your personal infromation is stored under your non-user account? Err... nope. Identity theft is far more useful these days than simply trying to own your machine. Who cares about owning the machine when they can own your personal data?
No they're not, they're intended to be used independent of corporate IT policy, and users like that. Including upper management. Apple haven't made any "fancy ui changes" since 2001 (and even the first version of OS X looks and works much like OS 9). The user interface paradigm has remained consistent. They have added things sure, but they are things that don't replace the way users know how to do stuff.
I know plenty of engineers who use apple devices for work. I've used my macbook pro heaps for work - it runs VMs just as well as anything else, can make better use of the single display when i'm not at my desk, and i've got unix scripting tools PLUS automator and applescript there if i need to automate things.
Those who call apple machines toys that are only good for leisure activity haven't really spent any significant time with them and attempted to actually get shit done efficiently.
The deal breaker for me is the apps. Yes, there are some good apps out there but plenty of them are buggy, unfinished, and change every other desktop release as people throw in the towel and give up rewriting for the new desktop UI flavor of the month.
Window management is not the problem any more. It's mostly a solved problem, and has been since the days of KDE 2 and Gnome 2 ish. Its the apps, and every time the UI changes they all need to be updated.
There are niches where commercial software development is a better fit for a particular application, and no application developer who wants to keep their sanity is going to develop for a system with no stable target platform.
The reason is shared libraries and high level programming languages. If you force everyone to spend 90% of their time hand tuning assembly, there is no time left to implement more powerful features.
RAM is cheap. Write most of your code in high level bloatware, optimize the inner loop where 90% of processing is spent and just wear the memory cost.
This is the trend since the dawn of computing and pining for the days of operating systems that run in 64k or less of RAM isn't going to bring them back. They're just too much of a bitch to develop for - and applications are what people use computers for.
Most of it was hyperbole and whinging from people scared of change, scared of doing what is required for improved security and other clueless fucks who just jumped on the bandwagon. Compared to XP, vista was a vast improvement, it just needed hardware and software to catch up.
No, its actually got 3x the battery life, less weight than the notebook, doesn't have some cheesy as shit feeling keyboard and doesn't run Windows. It has a library of software that is totally sandboxed with no DLL cross compatibility issues, no viruses, and transparent cloud backup. Lose your device? Log into a new one, job done.
You can navigate just as well as the XP start menu if you want. You don't need to type the WHOLE name, just a little part then pick from the list. The vista/7 start menu was a huge leap, and the fact that everyone else is copying it would tend to support that.
You can do things from the 7 start menu that aren't even possible in XP. Just because you're using a GUI it doesn't mean you are totally absolved from needing to do any keyboard input. Or we wouldn't have keyboards any more.
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Want a working 3d driver on Linux? Oh, install GCC and compile a kernel stub then. Then troubleshoot when your kernel upgrade kills the driver, because the devs are too dimwitted to implement a kernel ABI.
They're suiing samsung because samsung are taking the piss. No this isn't over an issue like "rounded rectangles" it is about multiple design features being cloned wholesale. Apple are doing just fine actually. They've never gone chasing the cheap end of the market, and will continue to put money in the bank selling to people who care about how the device integrates with the rest of their kit and what it feels like to use (quality materials vs plastic shit).
You can run / install third party apps. The thing is, no package manager is required, because the vast majority of OS X applications are self contained and simply drag/drop.
debatable. I went through massive issues (throttlegate) with the latitude E6500 series and got the run around for 6 months+ with no real solution. it was a design fault in the machine, and dell offered no solution. their support is OK so long as it is in the script. outside of that, good luck. we dumped them for HP over this issue and have had no issues with HP support. for a start, we've needed it about 5% as often due to more reliable hardware...
Whilst i agree with your sentiment: steam supports OS X just fine. As in, it is a content delivery platform and store. The actual content on steam is a separate issue, and this isn't valve's problem. If no one writes stuff for OS X (or Linux) don't expect the steam client to magically port everything to it.
Have you forgotten acer and packard bell?
Actually, they build custom motherboards, custom cases, trackpads, etc and use off the shelf components in those parts. The devil is in the details, and apple gets the details right.
I run Windows 7 enterprise in 2GB for plenty of toy VMs and it is not very slow. If your VM is very slow, your admin/vendor totally fucked up the spec of your VDI hardware, possibly skimped on storage IO or similar.
Whether or not you agree with what apple make or what they run on their machines or not, one thing is clear: they have the logistics sorted out.
The PC makers are firing wildly in all directions in an attempt to capture parts of every market, and in doing so are throwing away economies of scale - which lessens their ability to compete.
Newsflash: if i go to your website for a laptop, and there are more models than I can count on one hand or so, there is a problem. There's no need for it, and all this does is increase the R&D costs, manufacturing costs, etc. Apple can drive costs down because they sell large numbers of a small model count. They can build them with sturdy, quality chassis at this price point because of this, and the PC OEMs simply can't compete without killing their margins (and going broke). Or, they sell 40 different models of crap that no one would want.
HP: cut your model line down. Machines with/without GPU in 12" (ultrabook) and 15" form factors. A single workstation spec portable in 17" form factor with engineer spec GPU. 2 specs of desktop: generic end user class, and custom workstation spec. Shit-can everything else. The reduced model count will allow you to build that smaller model count at a higher quality with better margins.
Leave the massive diversification to specialty PC makers or build-your-own tweakers. There is no profit in it.
Especially, given that the US citizenry are all too eager to point to the constitution about their right to bear arms. Newsflash: this is the sort of thing your constitution gave you that right for.
lol. stating fact = troll :D
You don't need to be root to steal someone's shit.
Because of course all of your personal infromation is stored under your non-user account? Err... nope. Identity theft is far more useful these days than simply trying to own your machine. Who cares about owning the machine when they can own your personal data?
It's off by default in Linux as well.
To becoming relevant enough to malware authors.
It is not a current product. It is still available, but not supported.
No they're not, they're intended to be used independent of corporate IT policy, and users like that. Including upper management. Apple haven't made any "fancy ui changes" since 2001 (and even the first version of OS X looks and works much like OS 9). The user interface paradigm has remained consistent. They have added things sure, but they are things that don't replace the way users know how to do stuff.
I know plenty of engineers who use apple devices for work. I've used my macbook pro heaps for work - it runs VMs just as well as anything else, can make better use of the single display when i'm not at my desk, and i've got unix scripting tools PLUS automator and applescript there if i need to automate things.
Those who call apple machines toys that are only good for leisure activity haven't really spent any significant time with them and attempted to actually get shit done efficiently.
No BIOS, no DOS or Windows compatability layers. The amiga, mac and atari ST all used the same processor too, that didn't make them the same platform.
The deal breaker for me is the apps. Yes, there are some good apps out there but plenty of them are buggy, unfinished, and change every other desktop release as people throw in the towel and give up rewriting for the new desktop UI flavor of the month.
Window management is not the problem any more. It's mostly a solved problem, and has been since the days of KDE 2 and Gnome 2 ish. Its the apps, and every time the UI changes they all need to be updated.
There are niches where commercial software development is a better fit for a particular application, and no application developer who wants to keep their sanity is going to develop for a system with no stable target platform.
The reason is shared libraries and high level programming languages. If you force everyone to spend 90% of their time hand tuning assembly, there is no time left to implement more powerful features.
RAM is cheap. Write most of your code in high level bloatware, optimize the inner loop where 90% of processing is spent and just wear the memory cost.
This is the trend since the dawn of computing and pining for the days of operating systems that run in 64k or less of RAM isn't going to bring them back. They're just too much of a bitch to develop for - and applications are what people use computers for.
None of that Fortran runs on the WINDOWS platform.
+1 to that. 7 uses about 300mb less RAM than vista. That's about it. Performance if you have adequate memory is lineball.
Most of it was hyperbole and whinging from people scared of change, scared of doing what is required for improved security and other clueless fucks who just jumped on the bandwagon. Compared to XP, vista was a vast improvement, it just needed hardware and software to catch up.
No, its actually got 3x the battery life, less weight than the notebook, doesn't have some cheesy as shit feeling keyboard and doesn't run Windows. It has a library of software that is totally sandboxed with no DLL cross compatibility issues, no viruses, and transparent cloud backup. Lose your device? Log into a new one, job done.
You can navigate just as well as the XP start menu if you want. You don't need to type the WHOLE name, just a little part then pick from the list. The vista/7 start menu was a huge leap, and the fact that everyone else is copying it would tend to support that.
You can do things from the 7 start menu that aren't even possible in XP. Just because you're using a GUI it doesn't mean you are totally absolved from needing to do any keyboard input. Or we wouldn't have keyboards any more.