That's why I wrote "We need matte display on smaller MBPs, not 17".
15" used to have the matte option. It was removed a while ago. Apple is going the wrong direction as far as I am concerned.
A lot of the unnecessary traffic delays at poorly regulated traffic lights could be completely circumvented by getting rid of lights and settings up roundabouts. Even through traffic slows down, it does not stop, and it automatically regulates itself.
Roundabout takes very little time to get used to, and it presents a consistent interface to drivers. First time I saw them in Italy many years ago during a business trip, I instantly fell in love with them. Since then I've seen them all over Europe. I think most drivers in my area (Silicon Valley) would love them, too, as everyone seems to be rather impatient (which is quite understandable with the unending traffic jams and poor timing of traffic lights contributing to the jams).
I am aware of 17" matte. However, as you will notice from earlier posts in this subthread, 17" is not an option for most road warriors as it cannot be effectively used on planes.
Apple doesn't offer MB with matte screens. That's the connection.
No, let's not rehash that discussion again. I will not compromise my eyes. I know many other people who won't. Clearly we are not an important enough market to Apple. So be it. It's only business.
You've proven your case, then. You are better off with the glossy screen. But you see, I am not asking that Apple switch from glossy to matte. I am simply asking for a choice, even if it costs a little extra.
I don't mean to be rude (I really don't), but is it unreasonable to expect one to read the title of the subthread? Perhaps even the first paragraph of a post one replies to?
I would suspect that if they sell enough of these 17 inch laptops with built-in batteries, they will use that as justification for doing the same on smaller units as well
That would be nice, but judging from the fact that they took away the matte screen option in the latest 15" MBPs, it seems to be going the wrong direction for business users.
A trip I took recently that was just less than 1,000 miles "as the crow flies" took me over 8 hours of real time. And I'm sure I'm not the only person with a laptop who has experienced this.
You are not the only one. I routinely travel 16+ hours. However, I find it easier to find an outlet to do a quick recharge during a layover, than I would opening a 17" laptop on a plane, unless I was traveling business class (and how many companies do that routinely these days?). So, I find the concepts of "road warrior" and 17" laptop to be less than ideally compatible. See my previous post for more on that.
Apple needs to look harder at the road warrior market. 17" is way too large for those folks (or should I say "us"?). 15" is borderline. We need matte display on smaller MBPs, not 17". Please don't tell me about properly designed workplace. When I am at my desk, I can connect to my real monitor. I need to use laptop screen when I am on the road, where I do not have control over ambient lighting. Reflective sucks, plain and simple, Apple fanboy protestations notwithstanding.
Best yet, design a 12" MBP with a video card supporting at least 1920x1200 external monitor and a field-replaceable hard drive. If you have to do 15", then make it something weird, like 1680x800, so that the monitor is wide but low, so it can be easily opened and used on a plane, where a lot of work is done. If you have no idea what I am talking about, please do not post "I have no idea what you're talking about" proving the obvious.
Replaceable battery would be nice, but I can live with a built-in if it is 8 hours, provided it can be quickly replaced (while you wait) at an Apple store by one of their techs.
One more proof that continuity is the key - resistance of many companies to "upgrade" to Vista from XP. If you introduce too many interruptions to business processes like Vista did with incompatibilities and other problems, the companies will rebuke you, even if you are Microsoft.
That may well be the case. I have been spared that so far.
BTW, I hope no one mistakes me for a fan of MS Office. It is an awful piece of crud. That, however, does not change the issues mentioned in previous posts.
Are you one of those people who tries to make a spreadsheet behave like a database? Or perhaps you read from your Powerpoint slides?
[More condescending drivel deleted]
Sorry, you have addressed not one of the points I made in the previous post, but instead you come back with irrelevant and unsubstantiated guesses about my work style. Clearly you know nothing about me or my work. You also have little understanding why certain applications are used. If you did, you wouldn't make laughable recommendations or use a straw man ("one guy") to prove your "points". And where the hell did you get the idea that I want HTML to look pixel-perfect? I don't even use HTML. Did you just spew years-worth of bile onto the screen all at the same time?
You need to listen to people more before you start preaching to them. I sure hope you don't work in IT.
Use the right tools for the right job, and use them properly.
Good god, man. What the hell are you talking about?
I seriously doubt you can find a more bare-bones minimalist than me when comes to tools. I only use what is necessary to get the job done. I still use vi as my primary writing tool on my laptop. But I also understand workflow requirements and dependencies for production of deliverables in training and publishing, having spent ~20 years in related functions. You might want to listen to people before you start spouting off condescending bs. You might accidently learn something.
It was abundantly clear that he had that 'Doctor-ness' about him
He certainly does look weird, in a sickly, pervy way. Perhaps that will translate into an intriguing character, if they intend to write some episodes involving sex with corpses.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
Perhaps I should have been more detailed instead of just saying "training costs". It makes no difference whether the training comes from the IT department, or outside, or whether user have to train themselves. These are all training costs.
I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected.
Expected? Heh. Perhaps when you work for a union shop. In most companies you are simply expected to know how to use the program. Again, how you get retrained, doesn't matter. It is still a training cost. In a way, lost productivity is a "training-neglect" cost.
In addition, it reads and writes the 97-2003.DOC format just fine.
And that tells me you have never used Word for anything more than simple notes. You probably haven't used PowerPoint at all. I use both, extensively. Please don't tell me not to use Word to produce complex, multi-chapter documents. It's not my decision. The last time I attempted to open one of those documents in OpenOffice I laughed so hard, it cured me of any illusions.
Most companies cannot afford to start everything anew. Continuity is the key. There are repositories of thousands of documents that serve as a base to build more and more documents and presentations in the future. If you think someone will struggle for weeks or months converting all of that just to save a few hundred dollars in software costs, then I am sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
With the coming recession, I can see quite a few companies deciding to cut their costs and switch to OpenOffice.
Switching corporate standards causes temporary increase in costs due to retraining and document conversion. Such a move may be fine in good times, but it is counter intuitive during recession.
Clearly this is your attempt to hijack AC's hard-earned and richly deserved +1
Yeah, that must be it. Like a karma vampire, I move through the night and suck the life essence of the Anonymous Cowards. That must be why they are all so pale.
I enjoy helping other people out, but I'd rather not be plugging things in and restarting computers the rest of my life.
Then technical training might be perfect for you. However, you can't get there straight out of college. You have to pay your dues (get some experience) first. I think that as long as you know what your goal is, you can treat it as part of preparation and enjoy it, whether it is QA or tech support, or netadmin.
Technical trainers are sought after, reasonably well paid, travel (sometimes too much), mix with a lot of different people, and rarely get bored.
Sounds like something you would enjoy? Well, then start earning your stripes. It will be worth it.
Ditto every other kind of professional, from plumber to surgeon to architect to accountant.
My experience is the exact opposite, particularly when comes to a medical profession. It's like mafia, and no one dares speak ill of another 'made man', at least not on the record.
I worked for over a decade as an independent networking consultant, and some of the most daring statements I heard people make when criticizing someone else's design were of the kind "perhaps it is not the most ideal for your environment. Needs change quickly, and not everything can be foreseen". Being a loudmouth rarely buys you a lot of business. Even your clients don't want to see that. It's not in good taste, and then, there is always a possibility somewhere in their minds that if you speak that way of others, you may speak that way of them.
Bloody hell. Why does/. sometime mark posts as Anonymous when I am clearly logged in? Anyway, the above "Need to stop treating computer crime as separate" post is by 'hwyhobo'. I don't waste my time posting anonymously.
In today's world where primary storage and protection storage are well-defined, and where entire industry grew around it (examples: NetApp, Data Domain), one is hard-pressed to understand the reason for such a debacle. The reading of the note referred to in the article leads me to believe, unfortunately, that Journalspace's IT department did not understand the difference.
It is sometimes considered a bad form to say something bad about fellow techies. We prefer to look for 'outside' causes. Still, to learn and avoid the same problems in the future, one has to admit his mistakes first. This paragraph from the Journalspace's page:
The value of such a setup is that if one drive fails, the server keeps running, using the remaining drive. Since the remaining drive has a copy of the data on the other drive, the data is intact. The administrator simply replaces the drive that's gone bad, and the server is back to operating with two redundant drives.
Would this mean that iPhone (iTablet?) would also come out with a 9" model? If it could be plugged in, ran MacOS X, MS Office, and other apps, I would buy it in an iBlink (okay, mod me down, I couldn't help myself;).
It would be a true ultraportable for a road warrior. No, it wouldn't replace a laptop, but for many quick trips and presentations, it would be totally sufficient. For some presentations where two machines are required, it could save the need for the second laptop. It would make a difference when traveling.
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That's why I wrote "We need matte display on smaller MBPs, not 17". 15" used to have the matte option. It was removed a while ago. Apple is going the wrong direction as far as I am concerned.
A lot of the unnecessary traffic delays at poorly regulated traffic lights could be completely circumvented by getting rid of lights and settings up roundabouts. Even through traffic slows down, it does not stop, and it automatically regulates itself.
Roundabout takes very little time to get used to, and it presents a consistent interface to drivers. First time I saw them in Italy many years ago during a business trip, I instantly fell in love with them. Since then I've seen them all over Europe. I think most drivers in my area (Silicon Valley) would love them, too, as everyone seems to be rather impatient (which is quite understandable with the unending traffic jams and poor timing of traffic lights contributing to the jams).
I am aware of 17" matte. However, as you will notice from earlier posts in this subthread, 17" is not an option for most road warriors as it cannot be effectively used on planes.
Apple doesn't offer MB with matte screens. That's the connection.
No, let's not rehash that discussion again. I will not compromise my eyes. I know many other people who won't. Clearly we are not an important enough market to Apple. So be it. It's only business.
You've proven your case, then. You are better off with the glossy screen. But you see, I am not asking that Apple switch from glossy to matte. I am simply asking for a choice, even if it costs a little extra.
I don't mean to be rude (I really don't), but is it unreasonable to expect one to read the title of the subthread? Perhaps even the first paragraph of a post one replies to?
And then it gets modded "+1"?
Seriously, you post-process on your laptop?
You did notice, btw, that I was talking about business road warriors, didn't you?
I would hardly consider it a business laptop, and a road warrior's laptop in particular:
It may be a cool fashion-statement device, but business-oriented travel laptop it is not.
I would suspect that if they sell enough of these 17 inch laptops with built-in batteries, they will use that as justification for doing the same on smaller units as well
That would be nice, but judging from the fact that they took away the matte screen option in the latest 15" MBPs, it seems to be going the wrong direction for business users.
A trip I took recently that was just less than 1,000 miles "as the crow flies" took me over 8 hours of real time. And I'm sure I'm not the only person with a laptop who has experienced this.
You are not the only one. I routinely travel 16+ hours. However, I find it easier to find an outlet to do a quick recharge during a layover, than I would opening a 17" laptop on a plane, unless I was traveling business class (and how many companies do that routinely these days?). So, I find the concepts of "road warrior" and 17" laptop to be less than ideally compatible. See my previous post for more on that.
Apple needs to look harder at the road warrior market. 17" is way too large for those folks (or should I say "us"?). 15" is borderline. We need matte display on smaller MBPs, not 17". Please don't tell me about properly designed workplace. When I am at my desk, I can connect to my real monitor. I need to use laptop screen when I am on the road, where I do not have control over ambient lighting. Reflective sucks, plain and simple, Apple fanboy protestations notwithstanding.
Best yet, design a 12" MBP with a video card supporting at least 1920x1200 external monitor and a field-replaceable hard drive. If you have to do 15", then make it something weird, like 1680x800, so that the monitor is wide but low, so it can be easily opened and used on a plane, where a lot of work is done. If you have no idea what I am talking about, please do not post "I have no idea what you're talking about" proving the obvious.
Replaceable battery would be nice, but I can live with a built-in if it is 8 hours, provided it can be quickly replaced (while you wait) at an Apple store by one of their techs.
One more proof that continuity is the key - resistance of many companies to "upgrade" to Vista from XP. If you introduce too many interruptions to business processes like Vista did with incompatibilities and other problems, the companies will rebuke you, even if you are Microsoft.
That may well be the case. I have been spared that so far. BTW, I hope no one mistakes me for a fan of MS Office. It is an awful piece of crud. That, however, does not change the issues mentioned in previous posts.
Are you one of those people who tries to make a spreadsheet behave like a database? Or perhaps you read from your Powerpoint slides?
[More condescending drivel deleted]
Sorry, you have addressed not one of the points I made in the previous post, but instead you come back with irrelevant and unsubstantiated guesses about my work style. Clearly you know nothing about me or my work. You also have little understanding why certain applications are used. If you did, you wouldn't make laughable recommendations or use a straw man ("one guy") to prove your "points". And where the hell did you get the idea that I want HTML to look pixel-perfect? I don't even use HTML. Did you just spew years-worth of bile onto the screen all at the same time?
You need to listen to people more before you start preaching to them. I sure hope you don't work in IT.
Use the right tools for the right job, and use them properly.
Good god, man. What the hell are you talking about?
I seriously doubt you can find a more bare-bones minimalist than me when comes to tools. I only use what is necessary to get the job done. I still use vi as my primary writing tool on my laptop. But I also understand workflow requirements and dependencies for production of deliverables in training and publishing, having spent ~20 years in related functions. You might want to listen to people before you start spouting off condescending bs. You might accidently learn something.
It was abundantly clear that he had that 'Doctor-ness' about him
He certainly does look weird, in a sickly, pervy way. Perhaps that will translate into an intriguing character, if they intend to write some episodes involving sex with corpses.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
Perhaps I should have been more detailed instead of just saying "training costs". It makes no difference whether the training comes from the IT department, or outside, or whether user have to train themselves. These are all training costs.
I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected.
Expected? Heh. Perhaps when you work for a union shop. In most companies you are simply expected to know how to use the program. Again, how you get retrained, doesn't matter. It is still a training cost. In a way, lost productivity is a "training-neglect" cost.
In addition, it reads and writes the 97-2003 .DOC format just fine.
And that tells me you have never used Word for anything more than simple notes. You probably haven't used PowerPoint at all. I use both, extensively. Please don't tell me not to use Word to produce complex, multi-chapter documents. It's not my decision. The last time I attempted to open one of those documents in OpenOffice I laughed so hard, it cured me of any illusions.
Most companies cannot afford to start everything anew. Continuity is the key. There are repositories of thousands of documents that serve as a base to build more and more documents and presentations in the future. If you think someone will struggle for weeks or months converting all of that just to save a few hundred dollars in software costs, then I am sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
With the coming recession, I can see quite a few companies deciding to cut their costs and switch to OpenOffice.
Switching corporate standards causes temporary increase in costs due to retraining and document conversion. Such a move may be fine in good times, but it is counter intuitive during recession.
Clearly this is your attempt to hijack AC's hard-earned and richly deserved +1
Yeah, that must be it. Like a karma vampire, I move through the night and suck the life essence of the Anonymous Cowards. That must be why they are all so pale.
;)
I enjoy helping other people out, but I'd rather not be plugging things in and restarting computers the rest of my life.
Then technical training might be perfect for you. However, you can't get there straight out of college. You have to pay your dues (get some experience) first. I think that as long as you know what your goal is, you can treat it as part of preparation and enjoy it, whether it is QA or tech support, or netadmin.
Technical trainers are sought after, reasonably well paid, travel (sometimes too much), mix with a lot of different people, and rarely get bored.
Sounds like something you would enjoy? Well, then start earning your stripes. It will be worth it.
Ditto every other kind of professional, from plumber to surgeon to architect to accountant.
My experience is the exact opposite, particularly when comes to a medical profession. It's like mafia, and no one dares speak ill of another 'made man', at least not on the record.
I worked for over a decade as an independent networking consultant, and some of the most daring statements I heard people make when criticizing someone else's design were of the kind "perhaps it is not the most ideal for your environment. Needs change quickly, and not everything can be foreseen". Being a loudmouth rarely buys you a lot of business. Even your clients don't want to see that. It's not in good taste, and then, there is always a possibility somewhere in their minds that if you speak that way of others, you may speak that way of them.
Windows 7 has been widely distributed through torrents
Does that qualify as a distributed virus attack?
Bloody hell. Why does /. sometime mark posts as Anonymous when I am clearly logged in? Anyway, the above "Need to stop treating computer crime as separate" post is by 'hwyhobo'. I don't waste my time posting anonymously.
In today's world where primary storage and protection storage are well-defined, and where entire industry grew around it (examples: NetApp, Data Domain), one is hard-pressed to understand the reason for such a debacle. The reading of the note referred to in the article leads me to believe, unfortunately, that Journalspace's IT department did not understand the difference.
It is sometimes considered a bad form to say something bad about fellow techies. We prefer to look for 'outside' causes. Still, to learn and avoid the same problems in the future, one has to admit his mistakes first. This paragraph from the Journalspace's page:
The value of such a setup is that if one drive fails, the server keeps running, using the remaining drive. Since the remaining drive has a copy of the data on the other drive, the data is intact. The administrator simply replaces the drive that's gone bad, and the server is back to operating with two redundant drives.
makes me believe there is a denial going on.
Would this mean that iPhone (iTablet?) would also come out with a 9" model? If it could be plugged in, ran MacOS X, MS Office, and other apps, I would buy it in an iBlink (okay, mod me down, I couldn't help myself ;).
It would be a true ultraportable for a road warrior. No, it wouldn't replace a laptop, but for many quick trips and presentations, it would be totally sufficient. For some presentations where two machines are required, it could save the need for the second laptop. It would make a difference when traveling.
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