I think what Steve said is accurate in its context, but their advertising is very misleading. The 2x and 4x are taken out of their context and applied to broader terms of overall performance. They do not mention that 2x and 4x are related to specific benchmarks which do not directly translate to performance.
This is similar to MS claiming, in their install screens, that Windows XP will allow you to be more efficient, and that it is faster and more secure. They don't say what it is faster and more secure than. (Except "more than ever".)
Those stats are taken out of their context and are misleading.
Now, who can correctly classify me? I love PowerPC macs for their Firewire support (Booting, integration, etc.) and the multimedia capabilities of PowerPC. A quad G5 will be quite a beast for quite some time, in multimedia circles, I believe.
well, first of all, congrats on your story submission earlier today.
OK, so you didn't recognize Garage Band or Spotlight. Garage band allows amateur musicians and their fellow bandmates to plug in their instruments, play, sing and mix their own promo CDs for example. So if your passion is music, Apple has given you a way to realize your potential. MS on the other hand gives you the "Sound Recorder!!!" whooptie-do
Spotlight is an awesome search mechanism. MS's search can't compare to it, and I don't feel comfortable installing google's search right on my desktop (though they are kings of search).
What has MS released to help users reach their potential? XP SP2? 39 Crit updates? Firewall? Movie Maker? The laughing stock of the neighborhood.. Though I admit this is overly generalized and has exceptions, but it seems that in MS world you can only reach your potential if you aspire to be a leet secretary or an accountant.
Heck even Linux lets you run a web server without worrying about its security every two weeks.
And X-Box, as someone has pointed out is a media center only if illegally modded. X-Box 2 is one, once you consider buying the non-core version and the HD-DVD add-on drive. One can buy a TIVO for half that price.
Bill Gates is the Nostradamus of our lifetime. In his own words he has eliminated spam, brought speech and handwriting recognition to everyday computing, and has a solid foothold in our livingroom with their useful windows media center PCs.
Our potential truly is their passion.
Apple on the other hand just keeps releasing products that we can do nothing else with but use them... OS X, Garage Band, iTunes, Spotlight...
1. oh come on. who's gonna be using windows for 2 days and then say, hmm, let me try out this other OS on my machine? you can see how hard it is to switch people just from exploder to firefox. nobody would switch just because the OS is there.
2. which part of the hardware would appeal to windows users? the expensive part, or the part they paid premium on just because it came from apple. why would you buy an expensive box to run windows, when you can buy a cheap one?
What is the purpose of dual booting? In my college days, sure I had 5 OSs booting off the same drive, but that had nothing to do with needing to get work done. OS X is superior for Web surfing, Document creation, Multimedia and personal file and web serving. Now I know that there are legitimate uses for Windows (CAD, games, etc) but why would you want to dual boot? A cheap windows machine can be made by your local shop for 400 bucks.
Get a KVM switch and you've got two dedicated machines you can use at the same time.
Man, I'll be damned if I'll let you fall by the wayside. Don't worry about the old RDF... We all fell out of it, but we fell into a new, better (some would even say 2x, or 4x better RDF) This one was made by cool (performance per watt) intel dual core CPUs. And let me tell you, this new RDF is fantastic! It's the best RDF on the planet. Come, join us... You'll like it.
OK, let's do this one right from the start. Can we please call the new MacBook Pro a McBook, or McBook Pro. MacBook just doesn't roll off the tongue very nicely...
Wtf is this all about? I think this Taco guy, he's just trying to steal the thunder of the upcoming Macworld Keynote address by His Steveness Himself. 22 minutes and counting:)
Hell, don't feel bad. I've been here since 98 and I didn't know that either. I don't think I even filled out the web field for the one story I did manage to get accepted. I also thought it linked back to their profile, or email address.
Why not just do that? Link it back to their profile, instead of a webpage of their choosing?
I think all countries should be working on their own information exchange platforms. How do you think Dept. of Homeland Security would feel if all of their computers were running on a closed OS manufactured by China?
It's like outsorcing your whole communication infrastructure to a different country. Foreign countres would do well to consider switching all of their government computation to open source OSs, or developing their own. Firefox and OO are a good start though.
10 billion will help reduce the budget deficit of 8.1 trillion? Why do they even mention that as one of the reasons? Only 8000 sales like this, and we won't even have a deficit!
well, one nice thing about XServes is they can run spotlight on all your data. so if you're looking for something like, say "Barbara Streisend" or "Chupacabra" that you haven't accessed in 3 years it can pull it up immediately. Comodity stuff doesn't have anything that compares to spotlight preinstalled.
PHBs my friend, PHBs. They're the ones with money and power to make decisions, not the IT Guys. IT guys are there to do their masters bidding. You're still young, so think about business administration or management classes. IT will get you to mediocracy pretty fast, and that's it. Focus on telling people, not computers, what to do, and how to do it.
The NY City subway drivers union filed a complaint against whomever is hurling rocks at the moon, claiming they're just trying to biggyback on the success of their recent strike. Intelligent Rock Hurler was not available for comment. His coworkers who plot out the precise trajectories of rocks that result in these strikes also refused to talk to our reporters.
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PC for Allah!?
It is clear that the terrorist have indeed already won...
By the way, I didn't RTFA, does Allah use Mac or Winblows?
I reckon it's a nice Mac, and not a wimpy firewire hating Intel one, but a quad G5.
I think what Steve said is accurate in its context, but their advertising is very misleading. The 2x and 4x are taken out of their context and applied to broader terms of overall performance. They do not mention that 2x and 4x are related to specific benchmarks which do not directly translate to performance.
This is similar to MS claiming, in their install screens, that Windows XP will allow you to be more efficient, and that it is faster and more secure.
They don't say what it is faster and more secure than. (Except "more than ever".)
Those stats are taken out of their context and are misleading.
Now, who can correctly classify me?
I love PowerPC macs for their Firewire support (Booting, integration, etc.) and the multimedia capabilities of PowerPC.
A quad G5 will be quite a beast for quite some time, in multimedia circles, I believe.
Not only that. MS users *listen* to White Stripes, but we, we *get* the White Stripes.
That is definitely a ridiculous assumption!
That's right. Had spaghetti for dinner tonight.
Now if only you can learn to coach baseball you'd have all the makings of a great Highschool math and typing teacher!
well, first of all, congrats on your story submission earlier today.
OK, so you didn't recognize Garage Band or Spotlight. Garage band allows amateur musicians and their fellow bandmates to plug in their instruments, play, sing and mix their own promo CDs for example. So if your passion is music, Apple has given you a way to realize your potential.
MS on the other hand gives you the "Sound Recorder!!!" whooptie-do
Spotlight is an awesome search mechanism. MS's search can't compare to it, and I don't feel comfortable installing google's search right on my desktop (though they are kings of search).
What has MS released to help users reach their potential? XP SP2? 39 Crit updates? Firewall? Movie Maker? The laughing stock of the neighborhood..
Though I admit this is overly generalized and has exceptions, but it seems that in MS world you can only reach your potential if you aspire to be a leet secretary or an accountant.
Heck even Linux lets you run a web server without worrying about its security every two weeks.
And X-Box, as someone has pointed out is a media center only if illegally modded.
X-Box 2 is one, once you consider buying the non-core version and the HD-DVD add-on drive.
One can buy a TIVO for half that price.
Bill Gates is the Nostradamus of our lifetime.
In his own words he has eliminated spam, brought speech and handwriting recognition to everyday computing, and has a solid foothold in our livingroom with their useful windows media center PCs.
Our potential truly is their passion.
Apple on the other hand just keeps releasing products that we can do nothing else with but use them...
OS X, Garage Band, iTunes, Spotlight...
Now I know what to do with this!
1. oh come on. who's gonna be using windows for 2 days and then say, hmm, let me try out this other OS on my machine? you can see how hard it is to switch people just from exploder to firefox. nobody would switch just because the OS is there.
2. which part of the hardware would appeal to windows users? the expensive part, or the part they paid premium on just because it came from apple. why would you buy an expensive box to run windows, when you can buy a cheap one?
What is the purpose of dual booting? In my college days, sure I had 5 OSs booting off the same drive, but that had nothing to do with needing to get work done.
OS X is superior for Web surfing, Document creation, Multimedia and personal file and web serving.
Now I know that there are legitimate uses for Windows (CAD, games, etc) but why would you want to dual boot? A cheap windows machine can be made by your local shop for 400 bucks.
Get a KVM switch and you've got two dedicated machines you can use at the same time.
Man, I'll be damned if I'll let you fall by the wayside.
Don't worry about the old RDF... We all fell out of it, but we fell into a new, better (some would even say 2x, or 4x better RDF) This one was made by cool (performance per watt) intel dual core CPUs. And let me tell you, this new RDF is fantastic! It's the best RDF on the planet.
Come, join us... You'll like it.
OK, let's do this one right from the start. Can we please call the new MacBook Pro a McBook, or McBook Pro.
MacBook just doesn't roll off the tongue very nicely...
On may ask where else can you buy an all-in-one unit with dual core CPU and a built in firewire camera for 1300 bucks?
That's pretty cheap.
Wtf is this all about? I think this Taco guy, he's just trying to steal the thunder of the upcoming Macworld Keynote address by His Steveness Himself.
22 minutes and counting:)
Hell, don't feel bad. I've been here since 98 and I didn't know that either. I don't think I even filled out the web field for the one story I did manage to get accepted.
I also thought it linked back to their profile, or email address.
Why not just do that? Link it back to their profile, instead of a webpage of their choosing?
Good karma's easy to come by. Doesn't pretty much anyone who's half-way a serious poster have excellent karma?
One thing that seems nice about Lightroom is that right now it only requires a 1GHz G4. Aperture on the other hand needs at least a powerbook 1.25 G4.
Are you for real?
whom I think where still humans
You think!!? What the fuck else could they have been? Monkeys? lizzards? Angels?
And on top of that, you bash *niX OSs.
Classic makings of a troll. Very nicely done. Pay attention newbie moderators.
I think all countries should be working on their own information exchange platforms.
How do you think Dept. of Homeland Security would feel if all of their computers were running on a closed OS manufactured by China?
It's like outsorcing your whole communication infrastructure to a different country.
Foreign countres would do well to consider switching all of their government computation to open source OSs, or developing their own. Firefox and OO are a good start though.
10 billion will help reduce the budget deficit of 8.1 trillion? Why do they even mention that as one of the reasons?
Only 8000 sales like this, and we won't even have a deficit!
well, one nice thing about XServes is they can run spotlight on all your data. so if you're looking for something like, say "Barbara Streisend" or "Chupacabra" that you haven't accessed in 3 years it can pull it up immediately. Comodity stuff doesn't have anything that compares to spotlight preinstalled.
PHBs my friend, PHBs. They're the ones with money and power to make decisions, not the IT Guys. IT guys are there to do their masters bidding.
You're still young, so think about business administration or management classes. IT will get you to mediocracy pretty fast, and that's it. Focus on telling people, not computers, what to do, and how to do it.
OK, why does every link to the patch link to the same Handler's Diary page?
Where can one download the patch?
Thx.
The NY City subway drivers union filed a complaint against whomever is hurling rocks at the moon, claiming they're just trying to biggyback on the success of their recent strike.
Intelligent Rock Hurler was not available for comment. His coworkers who plot out the precise trajectories of rocks that result in these strikes also refused to talk to our reporters.
you need not install linux. just use one of the live distributions.