It's a music player (with a 1.5yr life thanks to the battery)
Only if you have no idea how to treat a device with a lithium ion battery. I bought my 3G iPod in June 2004, use it daily and it still gets 9-10 hours, because I manage it properly.
Interestingly enough, the Red Book specification DOES support 4 channel audio. Google for the 4CH flag. Early players didn't support it, so nobody released quad material.
No normal Mac user is running with elevated privileges because the root account is disabled and there's no reason for them to hack the system to re-enable it. The script would still require your Admin password to do any damage.
And as we all know, anybody stupid enough to type their Admin password whenever they're asked cannot be helped or protected.
And if internal documentation showed that both Apple and Microsoft had invented the menuing system at the same time (without being influenced by each other), doesn't that prove that the patent is invalid as the method is obvious and could be invented by any decent designer?
Several studies disagree with you, as do my personal experiences. I download music to check it out, then buy the CD. Most genuine music fans do the same.
My Windows box (with an Abit MB) randomly reboots instead of shutting down when I power it down. Makes no difference what OS it's running (it still happens if you yank all the HDs). I'd love to know what is causing it.
This is nothing like the 68000/PPC transition. When the PPC came out the 68000 line was on its last legs (Apple had been using 33Mhz 68040s for three years). Making the step up to even a 75Mhz PPC processor allowed developers to release apps that simply couldn't run fast enough on the old architecture. These days, any 1Ghz+ computer with a decent amount of memory works perfectly well for the average user. Clock speed is virtually irrelevant except for gamers and geeks. What is becoming more important for the rest of the planet is design and form factor.
As developers have already discovered, it is quite easy to compile apps that run on both platforms as long as you're using XCode. They're not going to ignore the established base of 25 million PPC owners and write only for 4 million Intel users in 2008 unless they're mentally deficient. Why not spend an extra day or two in development and sell to everybody? After all, they already have PPC Macs to test on!
I'm not sure how the 10.1-10.2 situation is relevant, as the OS X APIs were not finalised before Tiger (and Apple said as much at the time). Software written in the future will still run on 10.4 systems regardless of the CPU as long as developers stick to these established APIs.
There's no such thing as a future proof computer. I buy computers now to perform a task I need to do now. In this case, the machine I buy to do audio work will continue to run the same software and plugins that I already own perfectly well for the next five years. OS X 10.5 (expected late 2006) will support PPC and 10.6 won't be out until at least 2008. Let's assume that 10.6 won't run on current hardware. That's still a guaranteed 3 years of OS support, and more from third-party developers (who don't have a vested interest in selling me new hardware).
My other option is scratching my arse for 2 years waiting for a machine that may or may not work well with my current hardware, and which will also need my software to be repurchased or upgraded.
Your milage may vary, but I have thought carefully about this.:)
The G5 suffers more than the G4 when it fails a branch prediction. This combined with its lower IPC means that even with a faster bus, it's virtually neck and neck with the G4 at the same clock speed. Check Bare Feats for real life application benchmarks proving this.
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It's a music player (with a 1.5yr life thanks to the battery)
Only if you have no idea how to treat a device with a lithium ion battery. I bought my 3G iPod in June 2004, use it daily and it still gets 9-10 hours, because I manage it properly.
Tips for preserving your battery life can be found at http://www.apple.com/batteries/
Actually, most of the music I've been buying recently is pushing 25 years old. I've been very enthusiastic about buying it. :)
So you're suggesting that somebody buying an iPod is NOT going to buy any music to put onto it (whether through downloads or CDs). Gotcha.
Interestingly enough, the Red Book specification DOES support 4 channel audio. Google for the 4CH flag. Early players didn't support it, so nobody released quad material.
Why wait? Tiger is a terrific platform right now.
IIRC the original 8086 had no memory management.
No normal Mac user is running with elevated privileges because the root account is disabled and there's no reason for them to hack the system to re-enable it. The script would still require your Admin password to do any damage.
And as we all know, anybody stupid enough to type their Admin password whenever they're asked cannot be helped or protected.
70? More like 10-20.
It just encrypts your home directory.
Only a Mac owner would spend time staring at the underside of their laptop. :)
And if internal documentation showed that both Apple and Microsoft had invented the menuing system at the same time (without being influenced by each other), doesn't that prove that the patent is invalid as the method is obvious and could be invented by any decent designer?
You had a two-and-a-half-inch headphone socket??
Or, if you don't sign with a major, both.
Several studies disagree with you, as do my personal experiences. I download music to check it out, then buy the CD. Most genuine music fans do the same.
Limit our rights how? We already have to use Apple hardware to run OS X.
That's Ubuntu, not Ubunbtu.
They don't do it to their OS anymore, sure. They do it to their websites instead... right, Opera owners?
Yep. It's just as useless for Australians as well.
I'd bet that you still use it though, right?
Change ISPs, yours sounds like a security nightmare.
My Windows box (with an Abit MB) randomly reboots instead of shutting down when I power it down. Makes no difference what OS it's running (it still happens if you yank all the HDs). I'd love to know what is causing it.
Because when you connect that insecure machine to the internet, you subject the rest of the world to your idiocy.*
:)
*'You' in this case is used in the hypothetical sense.
This is nothing like the 68000/PPC transition. When the PPC came out the 68000 line was on its last legs (Apple had been using 33Mhz 68040s for three years). Making the step up to even a 75Mhz PPC processor allowed developers to release apps that simply couldn't run fast enough on the old architecture. These days, any 1Ghz+ computer with a decent amount of memory works perfectly well for the average user. Clock speed is virtually irrelevant except for gamers and geeks. What is becoming more important for the rest of the planet is design and form factor.
:)
As developers have already discovered, it is quite easy to compile apps that run on both platforms as long as you're using XCode. They're not going to ignore the established base of 25 million PPC owners and write only for 4 million Intel users in 2008 unless they're mentally deficient. Why not spend an extra day or two in development and sell to everybody? After all, they already have PPC Macs to test on!
I'm not sure how the 10.1-10.2 situation is relevant, as the OS X APIs were not finalised before Tiger (and Apple said as much at the time). Software written in the future will still run on 10.4 systems regardless of the CPU as long as developers stick to these established APIs.
There's no such thing as a future proof computer. I buy computers now to perform a task I need to do now. In this case, the machine I buy to do audio work will continue to run the same software and plugins that I already own perfectly well for the next five years. OS X 10.5 (expected late 2006) will support PPC and 10.6 won't be out until at least 2008. Let's assume that 10.6 won't run on current hardware. That's still a guaranteed 3 years of OS support, and more from third-party developers (who don't have a vested interest in selling me new hardware).
My other option is scratching my arse for 2 years waiting for a machine that may or may not work well with my current hardware, and which will also need my software to be repurchased or upgraded.
Your milage may vary, but I have thought carefully about this.
The G5 suffers more than the G4 when it fails a branch prediction. This combined with its lower IPC means that even with a faster bus, it's virtually neck and neck with the G4 at the same clock speed. Check Bare Feats for real life application benchmarks proving this.
Nope. Check this link, where a 1.6Ghz G5 is only 10% faster than a 1.5Ghz G4 (in a laptop) rendering in Final Cut Pro 4.