Exactly, I travled 3 weeks in Canada using my Haglôfs Tight Medium PRO standard backpack, carrying my 12" iBook, no problem at all.
In fact, I use it every day for my Compaq Armada laptop at work, because, like you said, it DOSEN'T have the "EXPENSIVE LAPTOP" written all over it.
These days thieves will be all over a pretty case, I'll bet they would even go to great extends to grab my old Dell latitude 166MHz Pentium laptop, just because it's in a shiny Dell laptop bag.
It's such as shame that being a vigilante is against the law, because I'd love to pack a bomb that would blow the greedy fatty fingers of the thief, into one of them shiny expensive laptop cases.
Then you were more lucky than me with your iBook, because mine sure looks like it have been put together by butterfingered lepricorns!!
The monitor gapes half a cm in each side, and the battery looks like its falling out. Now my old Dell Latitude has far superior assembly quality, and it's not like the iBooks are cheap compared to PC's even today. I'd expect far better quality for that price, but I guess thats where Apple earns most their profit, by putting design before engeneering, why else would someone sane put a rigid wire connecting the display on a laptop, knowing it will be opened a million times?!?
I do like the Mac OS X, but it's a damn shame that I can't really build my own system to run it for a fair price. So my next system is going to be a AMD64 running Fedora core 2.
I "switched" december last year, mainly because the new iBook G4 was priced similar to many nice PC laptops, and even though it was lower on the MHz, my old PC with a Pentium III 800MHz has no problem running the games i usally play, so I figured those awailable for Mac would at least run as fast as my old PC. Boy was I wrong, Warcraft III is dogslow, on mac it runs at 1/3 speed of the PC:-(
So only "option" for gamers would be to buy a G5, but thats so expensive, that I could build myself 4 dual AMD64 systems at the same price!
Because, you can't rip your new CD's anyway! They are f*cked up to offer copy protection, that can easily be broken, but the loss is the bits that keep the error-correction, thus making the quality lower than any regular CD.
Breaking the CD copy protection is illegal by law, so even if you could use say a HIFI CD-player with optical digital out and a soundcard in your PC with optical digital in to do this, it would be illegal.
So this sums up to:
a - Yes, but with some scratches, you'll be lucky to hear anything...
b - Well, you can use anything besides a Computer, certain car stereo's and HIFI cd-players with advanced features(B&O dosen't play those scrap CD's)
c - Exactly 0 times, because it would be illegal to break the copy "protection"
d - No, not unless you break the law
e - Perhaps, I wouldn't know, they got some creative accounting people at the recordcompanies, how else whould they be able to convince governments to put special musical artist tax on Flash ram cards, and empty CD's?
f - The cover "art" has been in servere decline the last many years, today's standard I could do in photoshop in 2 hours
Thats why iTunes is such a great deal, because thats the ONLY way you can get new music to a transportable format legally. A CD is somewhat transportable, but I don't feel like bringing a suitcase with CD's every time I take the train/plane etc.
I wish I had any mod points, because what you say are the truth, but it hurts most of the zealots to hear it.
Also, GNOME was supposed to be a small memory footprint system, but with XFree86 using 40MB, Gnome core 20MB, Nautilus 100MB and Mozilla another 100MB, you end up using 260MB for a GUI and a webbrowser! Windows XP only uses 120MB, and Windows 2000 60MB. On Windows NT 4 you could do it in 20MB, and on Windows NT 3.51 only 12MB.
But I guess thats evolution or what. I just think it is sad that Linux has taken the lead from microsoft as the resource hog.
I run Warcraft III on both my older PC and my almost new iBook G4.
It runs sluggish and slow on the iBook, I have to disable a lot of features to make it just bareable to play. On the PC it runs smoothly, with all features turned on.
I don't know if the PowerPC is superior to x86 processors by design, but it sure does look like Blizzard dosen't take any advantage of that.
PC Specs: 800MHz Intel Celeron(100MHz FSB, 128Kb 2rd cache) BX Chipset on ASUS P2B-F Motherboard 512MB 100MHz SDRAM Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS 32MB (2xAGP) Windows 2000 Professional SP4
iBook Specs: 800MHz G4 PowerPC(133MHz FSB, 256Kb 2rd cache) 640MB 266MHz PC2100 RAM ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 32MB OS X 10.3.3
Those wars were won by the huge american production machine, which is funny because these days that production machine is being outsourced to India or China.
I know very well of the hack, thank you, but first of all, it would void your warrenty, second I'm not interested in running a spanned desktop using both the LCD and an external monitor, and if you mirror, sure you can put it to a higher res, BUT it will just appear with on the external monitor with black borders and the desktop inside of it, thus the actual desktop still runs only 1024x786 even though the monitor runs 1280x1024!
Third, the iBook was designed to use the keyboard as venting, so you'll end up with a burned out machine if you use the clampshell mode of the hack, which also would include you to trick it to go out of sleep with a USB device.
Regarding the assembly issues, take a look here: http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@1 05.1Ynv a138ekm.3@.688df500
I've recently bought a 12" iBook G4 800MHz, and it preforms directly like a Pentium III 800MHz with recent Java versions, which I found out using a Java dhrystones benchmark program to test it. The iBook scores 97.8 where the PC scores 99.2.
I've tested a lot of different platforms with that program, and it seems to follow SpecInt/Float benchmarks pretty well, if you look on how it compares to different systems, eg. a Sun SparcStation 5 scores around 4.9, making it 20 times slower than a Pentium III 800MHz PC, which also SpecInt/Float benches show.
So the PB at 1.33GHz will run like a PIII 1.33GHz, and you'll have to make up with yourself if thats sufficient for you. A P4 2.6GHz with HT scores around 216.
Also, if you decide to buy an iBook, be aware that it CAN'T run with an external monitor in any higher resolution than it's internal LCD, something my old Dell latitude from 1997 does with no problems at all:-(
I don't know if that is true for the PB, but it sucks bigtime. I'm very disapointed with my iBook on that fact, along with some other assembly issues that other people with iBook G4 also seems to have.
If you're going to spend most of your time in Eclipse, I'd save the extra bucks and go for a PC.
I have to admit: Nearly everything is simpler, faster, and easier on the linux box...
Where is my mod points when I need them?!?
Why is it that every bit of Linux propaganda gets modded skyhigh on this forum?
The site should be renamed "News for Linux Serfs, stuff that only matter if you follow the religion of Linux".
I know I'm going to be modded as troll, because most people can't handle the truth, but still, why aren't people just a little bit objective when writing?
The parrent post sounds just like some copy/paste of the praising text on the screens in Windows when you're installing it!
I've used almost every OS there is, and Linux from 1993, and saying that Mac OS X is slow and everything is faster and simpler, simply is a plain lie. Not that I'm a follower of Jobs or anything like that, I just try to be objective when reviewing anything, not Kamawhoring like the above post.
-H
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Go ahead, mod me troll, prove my point and make my day!
I really love the ST universe, but Enterprise really made me miss my savingthrow vs. bad SCI-FI.
The original are well, original, I mean fine plots, good cast, but bad effects etc.
My all time favorite is TNG, which was excellent. Great cast, great plots, hell, I even liked Wesley Crusher! Sure, TNG had some medicore episodes also, but not that many.
Next, DS9. Well, I never quite knew what to make of that, it introduced more medicore episodes, but it also had some pearls, like the one where they travel back in time to the old Enterprice with Kirk and all, that was a great episode. But I don't think many of the characters had the required "screen presence" like all the regular crew of TNG had.
Voyager, well, many medicore episodes, but also a few interessting ones, though most of them were TNG ripoff with slight modifications. All respect of a woman captain, but Janeway dosen't even come close to Picard, in therms of being a Captain. The ending sucked++. They tried to spice the show up with a female ex-borg(Sounds sweedish, eh?) but even though she had a good potential to become a real interesting character, it turned out to be a titty-teaser. I mean, she was more like ex-borg barbie.
And then Enterprise, well, I was exited when I was going to watch the first episode, and I got annoyed right away with that horrible intro-tune, boy that suck suck suck!!! I actually fell asleep during the first episode, and I never ever fall asleep watching either TV or movies, only other movie that made me sleep is Revenge with Kevin Costner, and I was partly drunk when watching that!! Next episode I had to turn off the tv after 15 min, I don't know why, but it was just BO-RING!
It's a shame that they don't make them like they used to do, but if you watch the sad decline of quality in TV shows in general, it would be almost unnatural if StarTrek should go unaffected.
So, please, PLEASE put that horrible show Enterprise out of it's missery, and cancel it.
Even though the StarTrek world will decay, we might just get lucky that someone with the right amount of imagination will pick up the torch sometime in the future, it's dead in the water as it is now.
Upgrades suck - and it's all because of shared libraries. When are we going to learn to distribute binaries compiled statically?
You are SO right on that!
On Windows you have dll-hell, and on Linux/FreeBSD you have library-hell, due to the fact that every program seems to want a different version of shared library/dll.
More static binaries, because if you have to load different versions of shared libraries for each program, you're really not gaining anything besides making it harder on yourself.
Besides, windows already uses all the ram it can get it's dirty hands on for diskcache, and then swap out parts of programs, they could easily be have been compiled staticly without any loss at all, besides better use of the diskcache.
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Exactly, I travled 3 weeks in Canada using my Haglôfs Tight Medium PRO standard backpack, carrying my 12" iBook, no problem at all.
In fact, I use it every day for my Compaq Armada laptop at work, because, like you said, it DOSEN'T have the "EXPENSIVE LAPTOP" written all over it.
These days thieves will be all over a pretty case, I'll bet they would even go to great extends to grab my old Dell latitude 166MHz Pentium laptop, just because it's in a shiny Dell laptop bag.
It's such as shame that being a vigilante is against the law, because I'd love to pack a bomb that would blow the greedy fatty fingers of the thief, into one of them shiny expensive laptop cases.
-H
IYDMMA = If You Don't Mind Me Asking.
-H
Well, we are a very capable species. We will not die off easily...
:-)
Quick, lets start looking for the gene mutation that protects us from human stupidity.
-H
Use Fedora and check www.fedorafaq.org, installing Nvidia drivers(When having updated your yum.conf) is as easy as writing this in the terminal:
:-)
yum install nvidia-glx kernel-module-nvidia-
It can't be much easier
-H
What's the application, IYDMMA? I'm curious :)
-H
Then you were more lucky than me with your iBook, because mine sure looks like it have been put together by butterfingered lepricorns!!
:-(
The monitor gapes half a cm in each side, and the battery looks like its falling out. Now my old Dell Latitude has far superior assembly quality, and it's not like the iBooks are cheap compared to PC's even today. I'd expect far better quality for that price, but I guess thats where Apple earns most their profit, by putting design before engeneering, why else would someone sane put a rigid wire connecting the display on a laptop, knowing it will be opened a million times?!?
I do like the Mac OS X, but it's a damn shame that I can't really build my own system to run it for a fair price. So my next system is going to be a AMD64 running Fedora core 2.
I "switched" december last year, mainly because the new iBook G4 was priced similar to many nice PC laptops, and even though it was lower on the MHz, my old PC with a Pentium III 800MHz has no problem running the games i usally play, so I figured those awailable for Mac would at least run as fast as my old PC. Boy was I wrong, Warcraft III is dogslow, on mac it runs at 1/3 speed of the PC
So only "option" for gamers would be to buy a G5, but thats so expensive, that I could build myself 4 dual AMD64 systems at the same price!
-H
I think one of the best proffs of there being other intelligent life in the universe, is the fact that nobody has contacted us yet.
-H
Science relies on facts that can be proven by experiments, that other, even non-believers, can reproduce.
Religion excels in the fact, that it can't be proven in any way, you just have to believe in it.
If you don't believe in science, the planes/trains/(insert technology here) will not stop working, just because you don't believe in it.
Ofc. you could argue that everyone has to stop believe in it for it to stop working, but thats another discussion...
-H
Because, you can't rip your new CD's anyway! They are f*cked up to offer copy protection, that can easily be broken, but the loss is the bits that keep the error-correction, thus making the quality lower than any regular CD.
Breaking the CD copy protection is illegal by law, so even if you could use say a HIFI CD-player with optical digital out and a soundcard in your PC with optical digital in to do this, it would be illegal.
So this sums up to:
a - Yes, but with some scratches, you'll be lucky to hear anything...
b - Well, you can use anything besides a Computer, certain car stereo's and HIFI cd-players with advanced features(B&O dosen't play those scrap CD's)
c - Exactly 0 times, because it would be illegal to break the copy "protection"
d - No, not unless you break the law
e - Perhaps, I wouldn't know, they got some creative accounting people at the recordcompanies, how else whould they be able to convince governments to put special musical artist tax on Flash ram cards, and empty CD's?
f - The cover "art" has been in servere decline the last many years, today's standard I could do in photoshop in 2 hours
Thats why iTunes is such a great deal, because thats the ONLY way you can get new music to a transportable format legally. A CD is somewhat transportable, but I don't feel like bringing a suitcase with CD's every time I take the train/plane etc.
-H
I wish I had any mod points, because what you say are the truth, but it hurts most of the zealots to hear it.
Also, GNOME was supposed to be a small memory footprint system, but with XFree86 using 40MB, Gnome core 20MB, Nautilus 100MB and Mozilla another 100MB, you end up using 260MB for a GUI and a webbrowser! Windows XP only uses 120MB, and Windows 2000 60MB. On Windows NT 4 you could do it in 20MB, and on Windows NT 3.51 only 12MB.
But I guess thats evolution or what. I just think it is sad that Linux has taken the lead from microsoft as the resource hog.
-H
Ok, here's a real world benchmark for ya:
I run Warcraft III on both my older PC and my almost new iBook G4.
It runs sluggish and slow on the iBook, I have to disable a lot of features to make it just bareable to play. On the PC it runs smoothly, with all features turned on.
I don't know if the PowerPC is superior to x86 processors by design, but it sure does look like Blizzard dosen't take any advantage of that.
PC Specs:
800MHz Intel Celeron(100MHz FSB, 128Kb 2rd cache)
BX Chipset on ASUS P2B-F Motherboard
512MB 100MHz SDRAM
Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS 32MB (2xAGP)
Windows 2000 Professional SP4
iBook Specs:
800MHz G4 PowerPC(133MHz FSB, 256Kb 2rd cache)
640MB 266MHz PC2100 RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 32MB
OS X 10.3.3
-H
Hehehe.
:-)
Nice one.
-H
Those wars were won by the huge american production machine, which is funny because these days that production machine is being outsourced to India or China.
-H
This reminds me of this old Interview :-)
-H
By the use of resources, you should think so...
-H
Hmm, thanks for the info, that would be ok way to do it...
;-)
I might be interested in spanned, when I get a bigger table, but I guess my mind is still limited by PC constraints.
-H
I know very well of the hack, thank you, but first of all, it would void your warrenty, second I'm not interested in running a spanned desktop using both the LCD and an external monitor, and if you mirror, sure you can put it to a higher res, BUT it will just appear with on the external monitor with black borders and the desktop inside of it, thus the actual desktop still runs only 1024x786 even though the monitor runs 1280x1024!
1 05.1Ynv a138ekm.3@.688df500
Third, the iBook was designed to use the keyboard as venting, so you'll end up with a burned out machine if you use the clampshell mode of the hack, which also would include you to trick it to go out of sleep with a USB device.
Regarding the assembly issues, take a look here:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@
-H
I've recently bought a 12" iBook G4 800MHz, and it preforms directly like a Pentium III 800MHz with recent Java versions, which I found out using a Java dhrystones benchmark program to test it. The iBook scores 97.8 where the PC scores 99.2.
:-(
I've tested a lot of different platforms with that program, and it seems to follow SpecInt/Float benchmarks pretty well, if you look on how it compares to different systems, eg. a Sun SparcStation 5 scores around 4.9, making it 20 times slower than a Pentium III 800MHz PC, which also SpecInt/Float benches show.
So the PB at 1.33GHz will run like a PIII 1.33GHz, and you'll have to make up with yourself if thats sufficient for you. A P4 2.6GHz with HT scores around 216.
Also, if you decide to buy an iBook, be aware that it CAN'T run with an external monitor in any higher resolution than it's internal LCD, something my old Dell latitude from 1997 does with no problems at all
I don't know if that is true for the PB, but it sucks bigtime. I'm very disapointed with my iBook on that fact, along with some other assembly issues that other people with iBook G4 also seems to have.
If you're going to spend most of your time in Eclipse, I'd save the extra bucks and go for a PC.
-H
I have to admit: Nearly everything is simpler, faster, and easier on the linux box...
Where is my mod points when I need them?!?
Why is it that every bit of Linux propaganda gets modded skyhigh on this forum?
The site should be renamed "News for Linux Serfs, stuff that only matter if you follow the religion of Linux".
I know I'm going to be modded as troll, because most people can't handle the truth, but still, why aren't people just a little bit objective when writing?
The parrent post sounds just like some copy/paste of the praising text on the screens in Windows when you're installing it!
I've used almost every OS there is, and Linux from 1993, and saying that Mac OS X is slow and everything is faster and simpler, simply is a plain lie. Not that I'm a follower of Jobs or anything like that, I just try to be objective when reviewing anything, not Kamawhoring like the above post.
-H
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Go ahead, mod me troll, prove my point and make my day!
I submitted this story earlier today, but it got rejected?!?
WTF is wrong with you?
-H
I really love the ST universe, but Enterprise really made me miss my savingthrow vs. bad SCI-FI.
The original are well, original, I mean fine plots, good cast, but bad effects etc.
My all time favorite is TNG, which was excellent. Great cast, great plots, hell, I even liked Wesley Crusher! Sure, TNG had some medicore episodes also, but not that many.
Next, DS9. Well, I never quite knew what to make of that, it introduced more medicore episodes, but it also had some pearls, like the one where they travel back in time to the old Enterprice with Kirk and all, that was a great episode. But I don't think many of the characters had the required "screen presence" like all the regular crew of TNG had.
Voyager, well, many medicore episodes, but also a few interessting ones, though most of them were TNG ripoff with slight modifications. All respect of a woman captain, but Janeway dosen't even come close to Picard, in therms of being a Captain. The ending sucked++. They tried to spice the show up with a female ex-borg(Sounds sweedish, eh?) but even though she had a good potential to become a real interesting character, it turned out to be a titty-teaser. I mean, she was more like ex-borg barbie.
And then Enterprise, well, I was exited when I was going to watch the first episode, and I got annoyed right away with that horrible intro-tune, boy that suck suck suck!!! I actually fell asleep during the first episode, and I never ever fall asleep watching either TV or movies, only other movie that made me sleep is Revenge with Kevin Costner, and I was partly drunk when watching that!! Next episode I had to turn off the tv after 15 min, I don't know why, but it was just BO-RING!
It's a shame that they don't make them like they used to do, but if you watch the sad decline of quality in TV shows in general, it would be almost unnatural if StarTrek should go unaffected.
So, please, PLEASE put that horrible show Enterprise out of it's missery, and cancel it.
Even though the StarTrek world will decay, we might just get lucky that someone with the right amount of imagination will pick up the torch sometime in the future, it's dead in the water as it is now.
-H
Some people have no humor, moderators, for example...
-H
Thats because it was taken inside a studio, like the one they used to fakte the lunar landings.
Why do you think the european beagle2 failed, and the American didn't?
If you can't make it, fake it!
-H
Upgrades suck - and it's all because of shared libraries. When are we going to learn to distribute binaries compiled statically?
You are SO right on that!
On Windows you have dll-hell, and on Linux/FreeBSD you have library-hell, due to the fact that every program seems to want a different version of shared library/dll.
More static binaries, because if you have to load different versions of shared libraries for each program, you're really not gaining anything besides making it harder on yourself.
Besides, windows already uses all the ram it can get it's dirty hands on for diskcache, and then swap out parts of programs, they could easily be have been compiled staticly without any loss at all, besides better use of the diskcache.
-H
I'm sure a lot of old farts will tell me how they used some serial controller to compute stuff back in the 60's and that I'm just a little kid. :)
Yeah, a little kid thats on way to much crack like the moderators of your post!
Else you would have remembered that the tapedrive, was in fact just a tapedrive without any processors whatsoever.
-H