You made your point yourself, even if it's not glaringly obvious. "most of the important" and "most of the "custom stuff"".
I own several semi recent macs, so lets get that out of the way. I can do "most" of my business needs, you're right. Here are a few apps I can't use...anything to open a 1-2-3 spreadsheet (it might exist, hadn't looked to hard), avaya IP phone software, lucent phone monitoring software. These are not every business applications but they are ones I am forced to use. That means no mac for work, and there are probably hundreds of little proprietary applications that can't be reproduced that companies use like this.
I'll agree once you get a mac that has no hardware problems, you're going to have less work to do than windows. The trick is getting that mac with no hardware problems. If you haven't had one, you're lucky. I've had 5 macs with major hardware issues out of the box....and if you've had them repair your machine flawlessly, you're lucky there too. None of mine have been repaired where they didn't cosmetically damage something or just mess up the repair completely. I just don't expect to see companies dealing with high failure rates. If their published failure rate is low, I would be suprised because I've had many other and off brand PC's that haven't had these issues.
Your mileage might have varied, but I can't believe I am the only one this happened to.
My first iPod was 1st gen 5 gig (2001 I think?). Honestly, I liked how easy it was to update all my mp3 tags in iTunes to make them uniform so using the iPod was a natural selection.
I'll agree with you, these days I am almost embarassed to admit I have one because it's like bell bottoms or parachute pants. However, I happened to go look at other mp3 players. The creative option of the time looked like a cd player and was rather large. It stored an extra gig if I remember, but it was big and heavy. The other players that I remember at the time were all small flash based mp3 players and I was attracted to keeping my entire music in the car with me.
See, I don't listen to the radio and usually hear about new music from word of mouth. That being said the FM tuner in more recent models of players doesn't interest me. I only upgraded my ipod when the 4th gen 40 gigs came out because I needed more space, and recently to the 60 gig video because (well in this case I guess I am a whore) because of the smaller form factor. I admit I thought "cool I can watch movies and stuff now" but I've never done it since the first day. Aesthetically the color screen is an improvement.
I guess I'm not the guy you are targeting, I never considered what other people thought of my choice in a gadget. If you think about that for a second, it seems silly.
Yes, and there's always room for a company that innovates through acquisitions. Forgive me, but being innovative does not involve buying other people's work and calling it your own, and furthermore not giving credit where credit's due, as above. That's called evil.
I beg to differ. Use 10.4 and use spotlight to find '.wdgt' and tell me how many results you get from/Library/Widgets. Or take a 12 inch powerbook, any of them. Grab simpsons season 6 disk 1 and play the itchy and scratchy amusment park episode. You're likely to get a core audio crash about 11 minutes in.
All of these bugs existed in 10.4 through 10.4.7 documented. Apple even stole Microsofts ability to not fix bugs.
Worked his ass off? Buying the chips for the ipod or buying the company that made the jukebox software that is now itunes? Or maybe worked his ass off buying the company that sorts itunes 7 albums by album art?
I'm sorry there isn't much that is OSX, ipod, or software that's actually developed by Apple. Refined? Maybe prior to 10.4. In this regard I hold them no higher than Microsoft for buying up companies and 'innovating'.
I probably bought 20 or songs, which when I couldn't break the DRM (yeah I know I can now) I just went and got illegitamately and replaced the itunes version. Now that I realize I was a moron, I'll continue buying CDs.
These guys presumably worked in the retail store.... Know where else you could work for 8 bucks an hour part time (to avoid giving you benefits of course) and get treated like crap? Well anywhere honestly, but go work at wal-mart, UPS, or any restaurant.
The feeling I get is that if you aren't in development over there at Apple, you aren't really going to advance up the chain very much. I wouldn't worry about it.
honestly out of the 8 macs I've bought over the last 5 years (I'm married to a geek, we don't buy one of anything)4 of those macs had major problems. I've never had an ipod have a hardware issue. I'm about as cynical as it gets over Apple hardware quality control too.
The reason people assume AAC is an apple thing is because they've pushed it so much, and frankly, have the only player in town that supports it out of the box or advertises support out of the box prominently.
then count my usage patterns in there. powerbook ti - bad logic board, paint issue powerbook ti #2 - 3 bad harddrives imac g4 - randomly shut off powerbook al - 2 bad hard drives powermac g5 - bad powersupply, randomly shut off, 2nd power supply + logic board
folks bought an imac g5 defective harddrive, keyboard and mouse in first 3 months.
and I started buying apple computers in 2k1, not very good quality control is a real issue. Their support centers also seem to have a difficult time *not* damaging computers on repair as well.
i've bought 8 computers from them since 10.1 and 6 have had major hardware flaws. I am done with Apple Hardware.
That being said, I'm clearly a build it guy because I like having the option of going and grabbing a replacement system board or some various part from a local shop. So I guess I am not their market anymore.
Well, you'll at least be able to tell how optimized Apple's OpenGL is compared to directx (for native games). It's been under scrutiny on the PPC side as being pretty pokey for games.
I wouldn't go as far as to suggest apple has US tech support. I've called them three or four times (for my G5)and gotten people who barely speak and understand english. Maybe their overflow calls go to other contries, I don't know.
(somewhat unrelated) an IBM thinkpad T23 will not update it's BIOS without a installed and charged battery. Have a bettery that died and always reports 5% and the update refuses to apply.
I'm going to get modded down to hell and back but I think Aspyr's ports (coincedentally) are less optimized than from different publishers. Maybe they have different requirements, I don't know. It seems macsoft and others have much more complete and functioning ports.
It's a sad state when they first release a game and it has bugs after these things have been on the pc side for so long. Knights of the Old Republic was the first game that I bought from them that had such a bug. The autosaves were broken on release (not such a big deal) and sound was completely broken on their patch (a bigger deal). You revert, but it reeks of sloppiness.
I'll answer this one... on your $500 dell, doom3 will run at 640x480 with all options off at.5 fps, it will however not run on the mac as the port hasn't been released. I guess neither are playable.
But on a serious note, WC3, Age of Mythology will run on both.. Those are about the caliber of games that run on those systems. You know no one is going to game on a $500 pc.
because the MPAA and studio made the bulk of money from the movie, the soundtrack wasn't paid for that way, I am sure there were royalties paid, but nothing like what the studio got. The DVD is just icing on the cake for them.
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You made your point yourself, even if it's not glaringly obvious. "most of the important" and "most of the "custom stuff"".
I own several semi recent macs, so lets get that out of the way. I can do "most" of my business needs, you're right. Here are a few apps I can't use...anything to open a 1-2-3 spreadsheet (it might exist, hadn't looked to hard), avaya IP phone software, lucent phone monitoring software. These are not every business applications but they are ones I am forced to use. That means no mac for work, and there are probably hundreds of little proprietary applications that can't be reproduced that companies use like this.
I'll agree once you get a mac that has no hardware problems, you're going to have less work to do than windows. The trick is getting that mac with no hardware problems. If you haven't had one, you're lucky. I've had 5 macs with major hardware issues out of the box....and if you've had them repair your machine flawlessly, you're lucky there too. None of mine have been repaired where they didn't cosmetically damage something or just mess up the repair completely. I just don't expect to see companies dealing with high failure rates. If their published failure rate is low, I would be suprised because I've had many other and off brand PC's that haven't had these issues.
Your mileage might have varied, but I can't believe I am the only one this happened to.
My first iPod was 1st gen 5 gig (2001 I think?). Honestly, I liked how easy it was to update all my mp3 tags in iTunes to make them uniform so using the iPod was a natural selection.
I'll agree with you, these days I am almost embarassed to admit I have one because it's like bell bottoms or parachute pants. However, I happened to go look at other mp3 players. The creative option of the time looked like a cd player and was rather large. It stored an extra gig if I remember, but it was big and heavy. The other players that I remember at the time were all small flash based mp3 players and I was attracted to keeping my entire music in the car with me.
See, I don't listen to the radio and usually hear about new music from word of mouth. That being said the FM tuner in more recent models of players doesn't interest me. I only upgraded my ipod when the 4th gen 40 gigs came out because I needed more space, and recently to the 60 gig video because (well in this case I guess I am a whore) because of the smaller form factor. I admit I thought "cool I can watch movies and stuff now" but I've never done it since the first day. Aesthetically the color screen is an improvement.
I guess I'm not the guy you are targeting, I never considered what other people thought of my choice in a gadget. If you think about that for a second, it seems silly.
Yes, and there's always room for a company that innovates through acquisitions.
Forgive me, but being innovative does not involve buying other people's work and calling it your own, and furthermore not giving credit where credit's due, as above. That's called evil.
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I beg to differ. Use 10.4 and use spotlight to find '.wdgt' and tell me how many results you get from /Library/Widgets. Or take a 12 inch powerbook, any of them. Grab simpsons season 6 disk 1 and play the itchy and scratchy amusment park episode. You're likely to get a core audio crash about 11 minutes in.
All of these bugs existed in 10.4 through 10.4.7 documented. Apple even stole Microsofts ability to not fix bugs.
Worked his ass off? Buying the chips for the ipod or buying the company that made the jukebox software that is now itunes? Or maybe worked his ass off buying the company that sorts itunes 7 albums by album art?
I'm sorry there isn't much that is OSX, ipod, or software that's actually developed by Apple. Refined? Maybe prior to 10.4. In this regard I hold them no higher than Microsoft for buying up companies and 'innovating'.
I probably bought 20 or songs, which when I couldn't break the DRM (yeah I know I can now) I just went and got illegitamately and replaced the itunes version. Now that I realize I was a moron, I'll continue buying CDs.
eh, why put the product you are advertising on the first page.. I see the 2 PCI slot killer on page 2.
or maybe I don't know what 'passive' means but I see a fan on the card.
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These guys presumably worked in the retail store.... Know where else you could work for 8 bucks an hour part time (to avoid giving you benefits of course) and get treated like crap? Well anywhere honestly, but go work at wal-mart, UPS, or any restaurant.
The feeling I get is that if you aren't in development over there at Apple, you aren't really going to advance up the chain very much. I wouldn't worry about it.
but I really want a wii game that has star wars lightsaber fighting. Maybe I'm alone but I think they could clean up on that game by itself.
honestly out of the 8 macs I've bought over the last 5 years (I'm married to a geek, we don't buy one of anything)4 of those macs had major problems. I've never had an ipod have a hardware issue. I'm about as cynical as it gets over Apple hardware quality control too.
The reason people assume AAC is an apple thing is because they've pushed it so much, and frankly, have the only player in town that supports it out of the box or advertises support out of the box prominently.
then count my usage patterns in there.
powerbook ti - bad logic board, paint issue
powerbook ti #2 - 3 bad harddrives
imac g4 - randomly shut off
powerbook al - 2 bad hard drives
powermac g5 - bad powersupply, randomly shut off, 2nd power supply + logic board
folks bought an imac g5
defective harddrive, keyboard and mouse in first 3 months.
and I started buying apple computers in 2k1, not very good quality control is a real issue. Their support centers also seem to have a difficult time *not* damaging computers on repair as well.
If the TI Powerbook legacy is any indication, the 2nd generation isn't going to be any better.
i've bought 8 computers from them since 10.1 and 6 have had major hardware flaws. I am done with Apple Hardware.
That being said, I'm clearly a build it guy because I like having the option of going and grabbing a replacement system board or some various part from a local shop. So I guess I am not their market anymore.
Well, you'll at least be able to tell how optimized Apple's OpenGL is compared to directx (for native games). It's been under scrutiny on the PPC side as being pretty pokey for games.
When you subscribe to XM or Sirius?
I wouldn't go as far as to suggest apple has US tech support. I've called them three or four times (for my G5)and gotten people who barely speak and understand english. Maybe their overflow calls go to other contries, I don't know.
This one is funnier.. With satellite radio you are already paying for the music and the service. I guess they want you to continue to pay twice.
(somewhat unrelated) an IBM thinkpad T23 will not update it's BIOS without a installed and charged battery. Have a bettery that died and always reports 5% and the update refuses to apply.
with damned prerecorded message, there is no one on the other line to tell "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST!!". So they keep calling you.
I'm going to get modded down to hell and back but I think Aspyr's ports (coincedentally) are less optimized than from different publishers. Maybe they have different requirements, I don't know. It seems macsoft and others have much more complete and functioning ports.
It's a sad state when they first release a game and it has bugs after these things have been on the pc side for so long. Knights of the Old Republic was the first game that I bought from them that had such a bug. The autosaves were broken on release (not such a big deal) and sound was completely broken on their patch (a bigger deal). You revert, but it reeks of sloppiness.
I'll answer this one... on your $500 dell, doom3 will run at 640x480 with all options off at .5 fps, it will however not run on the mac as the port hasn't been released. I guess neither are playable.
But on a serious note, WC3, Age of Mythology will run on both.. Those are about the caliber of games that run on those systems. You know no one is going to game on a $500 pc.
because the MPAA and studio made the bulk of money from the movie, the soundtrack wasn't paid for that way, I am sure there were royalties paid, but nothing like what the studio got. The DVD is just icing on the cake for them.