"I have recently upgraded from a Mac 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM to a new G5 dual 2GHz with AGP 8X and PCI-X to help me at my freelance gig where I copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. On the G5 I spent about 20 minutes trying to install Adobe Arcobat 6. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that."
It sounds like you might be having problems with your internet settings (I'm wondering if you have dial-up, DSL, or a cable modem) or you just flat out got a lemon from the factory. Which just happens. I work IT for the University of Texas where we get boatloads of Apple machines and every once in awhile we get a lemon. Send it back and get it replaced.
However, I haven't encountered any machines (iMac, ibook, G4, G5) that has the same symptoms you've described. If anything like that happens it's usually due to our internet connection or router. So out of the 500 machines that I maintain, I'd have to say that your problem is not typical.
Also of note that you made a huge jump from a 8600 (possibly running anything from OS 8 to 9.2.2) to a G5 running OSX. So maybe (no flame intended) there might be some unfamiliarity involved?
"I am sorry to have to admit that apparently the company has been a party to vaporware when it comes to the claims regarding RealPC." "In reviewing the status, it was determined that the development cost including licensing fees made the project unattractive."
With the above statements in mind, and the rest of the article, it's almost like they passed around the idea of RealPC to see if there was enough interest.
So perhaps we can expect vaporware to be a new marketing approach?
Mac vs. PC aside, as an IT worker I'm glad I don't have to worry about yet another literal and figural can of worms in my department.:)
Myself and people I know are actually discovering different music and media online instead of what the mainstream spoonfeeds us. And we're willing to get our free sample and then go out and order the CD or movie. Their concerns seem to be primarily is that they can't figure out how to put us back in their marketing scheme.
What we are seeing right now could just be a global tape trading community. Surely there is a way to treat it as such without treading on too many legal toes. Either that or we're all just going to hell with everyone who has ever videotaped B5.:)
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That's my vote anyway.
You write:
"I have recently upgraded from a Mac 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM to a new G5 dual 2GHz with AGP 8X and PCI-X to help me at my freelance gig where I copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. On the G5 I spent about 20 minutes trying to install Adobe Arcobat 6. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that."
It sounds like you might be having problems with your internet settings (I'm wondering if you have dial-up, DSL, or a cable modem) or you just flat out got a lemon from the factory. Which just happens. I work IT for the University of Texas where we get boatloads of Apple machines and every once in awhile we get a lemon. Send it back and get it replaced.
However, I haven't encountered any machines (iMac, ibook, G4, G5) that has the same symptoms you've described. If anything like that happens it's usually due to our internet connection or router. So out of the 500 machines that I maintain, I'd have to say that your problem is not typical.
Also of note that you made a huge jump from a 8600 (possibly running anything from OS 8 to 9.2.2) to a G5 running OSX. So maybe (no flame intended) there might be some unfamiliarity involved?
--Aikidoal
New in the sense that spam is the new marketing strategy spun off from junk mail.
"I am sorry to have to admit that apparently the company has been a party to vaporware when it comes to the claims regarding RealPC." "In reviewing the status, it was determined that the development cost including licensing fees made the project unattractive."
With the above statements in mind, and the rest of the article, it's almost like they passed around the idea of RealPC to see if there was enough interest.
So perhaps we can expect vaporware to be a new marketing approach?
Mac vs. PC aside, as an IT worker I'm glad I don't have to worry about yet another literal and figural can of worms in my department.:)
Myself and people I know are actually discovering different music and media online instead of what the mainstream spoonfeeds us. And we're willing to get our free sample and then go out and order the CD or movie. Their concerns seem to be primarily is that they can't figure out how to put us back in their marketing scheme.
What we are seeing right now could just be a global tape trading community. Surely there is a way to treat it as such without treading on too many legal toes. Either that or we're all just going to hell with everyone who has ever videotaped B5.:)