Died 8 months after I bought it ( http://www.nerd-out.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2828 4 ). The picture quality was crap, the construction was cheap and crappy. I bought an Apex something-or-other for my brother for Xmas last year, and it's now dead (got him a LiteOn LVD-2001 for this christmas). 2/2. I've got 0 interest in buying another Apex product.
Hard drive failing could prevent going into OpenFirmware depending on the nature of the failure. If the drive is failing POST (or whatever the mac equiv. is) it could cause real issues.
The only way to rule out the drive is to remove and it see if problems persist. Then you've got more definitive direction to the nature of the problem.
Of course, the laptop being 1 week old you won't want to violate any warranty by opening it. But in the meanwhile you've got no basis to call them condescending pricks when you can't/haven't refuted what they've stated.
Methodology behind troubleshooting.. the biggest learning loss brought about by the Point-N-Click computer era.. *sigh*
Actually, X11 isn't a default when doing a fresh install (nor an upgrade unless you upgrade w/ a previous X11). You have to click Customize and select it from the available packages. It *is* a default on new hardware with 10.3 pre-installed though.
Heh, 'computer guy'.. I got a call this weekend from an ex-girlfriend (she's now married) while I was at the beach with my current girlfriend (of 6'ish years) asking for me to help phone-fix her laptop which she purchased *after* we broke up (so not even a hint of sentimental value).. running Windows 98 (original Compaq install).. and she called around 10:40 p.m...
In retrospect, I wish I wasn't as courteous as I was in trying to tell her 'no thanks':'(
This is exactly why I switched back in mid 2001. I got tired of fixing/tweaking/maintaining/correcting/etc/etc/etc and not creating (imaging/digital art).
Uh, I think your confusing bandwidth speed/rate caps with transfer caps. The article/comments are about limited transfers (500MB/month or something, etc), not restriction on net traffic 'speed'.
Speed caps for home use, not a big deal. Transfer caps, that's another story.
OS9 didn't have a CLI to exploit and no built-in remote admin features, it wasn't really multi-user oriented, and most importantly it didn't use null-terminated strings (meaning no buffer overflows).
[quote]Apple still suffers from the same problem that Apple has always had: they face no competition on building good hardware, and I have no choice but to get my hardware from them (assuming, of course, that I want their OS!) [/quote]
Are you nuts? (Seriously!)
Apple's competition = Joe Schmoe with $400, a fairly computer literate son/daughter & Pricewatch.com.
98% of Apple owners shop Apple because for them it's a better product. The remaining 2% are admittedly-whacked-out Zealots, but the fact remains that the hardware is good because competition from $400+pricewatch.com dictates that it must be.
Unless they've done something drastically different to their 'video mirroring', it's also an extended desktop. I've got a 1ghz 17" iMac that is only supposed to do mirroring, yet allows extended desktop. Same thing with my gf's 15" TI Powerbook which was also labeled as mirroring.
I imagine it's a small fubar like the Superdrive allowing DVD-RW, but it's only labeled as DVD-R.:o?
runs on NT4 (sp1 iirc) because their to afraid to apply patches for fear of major system failure (2k+ employees). The risk of trying to fix what's been so long mismanaged.. forgotten.. poorly designed.. is just to great.
benchmarks between these systems using 2Gb of memory rather than 1gb. It's been found that the dual G5, when upgraded to 2Gb (or more) of ram, actually performs around 3-6x faster than with less memory.
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$50ish cheaper, unlimited expansion :up:
(and I'm an ipod+mac user)
Entourage is horrible.
It's buggy and quite unstable for common tasks (the GUI seems as if it wasn't heavily stress-tested) and it doesn't support Exchange servers/networks.
Died 8 months after I bought it ( http://www.nerd-out.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2828 4 ). The picture quality was crap, the construction was cheap and crappy. I bought an Apex something-or-other for my brother for Xmas last year, and it's now dead (got him a LiteOn LVD-2001 for this christmas). 2/2. I've got 0 interest in buying another Apex product.
Heh.. that was exactly my first thought too..
Hard drive failing could prevent going into OpenFirmware depending on the nature of the failure. If the drive is failing POST (or whatever the mac equiv. is) it could cause real issues.
The only way to rule out the drive is to remove and it see if problems persist. Then you've got more definitive direction to the nature of the problem.
Of course, the laptop being 1 week old you won't want to violate any warranty by opening it. But in the meanwhile you've got no basis to call them condescending pricks when you can't/haven't refuted what they've stated.
Methodology behind troubleshooting.. the biggest learning loss brought about by the Point-N-Click computer era.. *sigh*
Actually, X11 isn't a default when doing a fresh install (nor an upgrade unless you upgrade w/ a previous X11). You have to click Customize and select it from the available packages. It *is* a default on new hardware with 10.3 pre-installed though.
Heh, 'computer guy'.. I got a call this weekend from an ex-girlfriend (she's now married) while I was at the beach with my current girlfriend (of 6'ish years) asking for me to help phone-fix her laptop which she purchased *after* we broke up (so not even a hint of sentimental value).. running Windows 98 (original Compaq install).. and she called around 10:40 p.m. ..
:'(
In retrospect, I wish I wasn't as courteous as I was in trying to tell her 'no thanks'
This is exactly why I switched back in mid 2001. I got tired of fixing/tweaking/maintaining/correcting/etc/etc/etc and not creating (imaging/digital art).
Sorry to nitpick even further, but LOTR (all of it) was 6 books released in 3 volumes.
Uh, I think your confusing bandwidth speed/rate caps with transfer caps. The article/comments are about limited transfers (500MB/month or something, etc), not restriction on net traffic 'speed'.
Speed caps for home use, not a big deal. Transfer caps, that's another story.
oops..
it was secure because it was pretty much air tight to the probing outside world.
OS9 didn't have a CLI to exploit and no built-in remote admin features, it wasn't really multi-user oriented, and most importantly it didn't use null-terminated strings (meaning no buffer overflows).
It was secure
[quote]Apple still suffers from the same problem that Apple has always had: they face no competition on building good hardware, and I have no choice but to get my hardware from them (assuming, of course, that I want their OS!)
[/quote]
Are you nuts? (Seriously!)
Apple's competition = Joe Schmoe with $400, a fairly computer literate son/daughter & Pricewatch.com.
98% of Apple owners shop Apple because for them it's a better product. The remaining 2% are admittedly-whacked-out Zealots, but the fact remains that the hardware is good because competition from $400+pricewatch.com dictates that it must be.
Insighful!
is to make it cool to buy it. Make it something people *want* to spend the $$$ on.
iirc..
the reason people were bitter over 10.2 being $130 was that 10.1 was free.
Unless they've done something drastically different to their 'video mirroring', it's also an extended desktop. I've got a 1ghz 17" iMac that is only supposed to do mirroring, yet allows extended desktop. Same thing with my gf's 15" TI Powerbook which was also labeled as mirroring.
:o?
I imagine it's a small fubar like the Superdrive allowing DVD-RW, but it's only labeled as DVD-R.
And to continue the cycle of poor management, they don't quite comprehend how drastic things could get ;)
runs on NT4 (sp1 iirc) because their to afraid to apply patches for fear of major system failure (2k+ employees). The risk of trying to fix what's been so long mismanaged.. forgotten.. poorly designed.. is just to great.
amen to that! :->
Winner!
First time a slashdot post made me audibly LOL.
^5
Lots of whining in that review, a lot of it sounding like n00bish-ness.
2GB dual G5 benchmarks
TXT makes the anti-.DOC point more obvious.
That's actually a good idea.. *breaks out TextPad*
go get a job beatnik :p