Right. After all, no body ever hears of computer owners tweaking their machines, adding aftermarket performance boosters or even building their own. No body hears of computer uses tricking out their computers so they look cool. Nobody gets emotionally attached to their computer. Nothing like cars at all.
do you think Porsche would last? If they try to scale their manufacturing capability up to Ford levels, do you think their QA would remain at Porsche levels?
how long after Apple cut prices before they failed the way so many other bottom-tier PC vendors have. Hell, the way so many TOP tier PC vendors have. Of the PC companies that were formed in the same decade Apple was, how many are left? Of the PC companies formed in the 1980s - how many are left?
I know a number of PC users who never owned a Mac, but they "lust after" a Titanium Powerbook, or a G4 with the cinema display.
Exactly. I heard a joe-user type talking about (a) how hard it is to use a Mac to edit video. (Huh!?!) and (b) how insanely cool the pulsing sleep light is on an ice book and how great that is.
Yeah - look at the way Jaguar and Porsche suffer from being confined to a tiny part of the overall car market.
People don't seem to realize that, just like cars, there will always be niche markets for people who want something special. The Linux guys are just like my dad & his friends who liked to rework their run-of-the-mill chevys into something special. Mac people are like the guys who buy jags, mgs and so on. Sure it will always be a small part of the market but that doesn't mean Apple can't make money doing it.
It has more to do with Motorola simply not selling enough PPC chips to justify the R&D on faster chips. That's why the next Apple CPU will probably be a version of IBM's newer Power chips.
I'm running 4 screens on my OS X box at this moment.
My middle mouse button works fine, thank you - and using the mouse buttons for cut and paste is an X11 oddity that has nothing to do with the operating system and isn't used by any windowing system except X11 based systems.
A command line doesn't make Unix? Well, no. Mach and FreeBSD make Unix - a purer Unix than Linux is, actually.
Slow ram and disks? Disks - yeah, this disk on my iBook is slow. It sucks. It's also the bargain-basement model. As for RAM, I can't say I've ever noticed my iBook being any slower in daily use than my gigahertz work PC so I can't really take this one seriously either. Sorry.
While I agree this is false advertising, I didn't notice the claims when I bought it - I actually turned one on and played with it so I knew what I was getting. Because of that, I guess I'm neither suprised nor really upset. From my point of view I can't see how 16 bit color would be noticably different on the very-low-res screen anyway. It is still a lot better than my IIIC was.
>"There's nothing you can do with a Mac that is impossible with Windows, at least as far as I'm aware."
True. Just like there's nothing stopping you from running a marathon instead of taking a car and driving to the finish line.
The point isn't that Macs do what PCs can't - the point is that when my kids install a new game on their iMac I don't cringe wondering if I'll have to reinstall the OS again.
For servers I use Linux. For compatibility, I use W2k. For just pain-free productivity, I use a Mac.
I managed to score a (perfectly legal) copy at the MS employee store for $50 - and it is a pretty nice package. It's also really nice to not have to boot my office PC to read some attachment someone sent me.
On the other hand, I wouldn't have paid $450 either.
For what one family member does with his G4 the SMP support is extremely helpful in terms of raw performance, but you've got to look at your applications and see if they exploit SMP. If you're writing your own code you can obviously make it support SMP, but you didn't really say what you were doing.
I think you're confusing SMP with the AltiVec coprocessor. Apps have to be designed to use the AltiVec, not SMP.
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I had a Sizzlers trike. I seem to remember that it even had a little biker man with a top hat.
Man that was a long time ago.
Nah. These days we all ride little gas powered scooters.
Right. After all, no body ever hears of computer owners tweaking their machines, adding aftermarket performance boosters or even building their own. No body hears of computer uses tricking out their computers so they look cool. Nobody gets emotionally attached to their computer. Nothing like cars at all.
do you think Porsche would last? If they try to scale their manufacturing capability up to Ford levels, do you think their QA would remain at Porsche levels?
how long after Apple cut prices before they failed the way so many other bottom-tier PC vendors have. Hell, the way so many TOP tier PC vendors have. Of the PC companies that were formed in the same decade Apple was, how many are left? Of the PC companies formed in the 1980s - how many are left?
Wow. It's not often you see this sort of penetrating insight on /.
I know a number of PC users who never owned a Mac, but they "lust after" a Titanium Powerbook, or a G4 with the cinema display.
Exactly. I heard a joe-user type talking about (a) how hard it is to use a Mac to edit video. (Huh!?!) and (b) how insanely cool the pulsing sleep light is on an ice book and how great that is.
Yeah - look at the way Jaguar and Porsche suffer from being confined to a tiny part of the overall car market.
People don't seem to realize that, just like cars, there will always be niche markets for people who want something special. The Linux guys are just like my dad & his friends who liked to rework their run-of-the-mill chevys into something special. Mac people are like the guys who buy jags, mgs and so on. Sure it will always be a small part of the market but that doesn't mean Apple can't make money doing it.
It has more to do with Motorola simply not selling enough PPC chips to justify the R&D on faster chips. That's why the next Apple CPU will probably be a version of IBM's newer Power chips.
If you use the utility knife to cut off your eyelids, you get great circumvision capabilities./p
Please place your hands inside the yellow circles.
But we don't know if they've behaved responsibly or not, unless we know the actual violation!
What was their crime? Linking to the wrong kernel module? Cutting and pasting GPL source into their drivers?
It would be nice, if the people writing it could actually code. Instead, you get weekly bug fixes that are actually bug releases.
10 minutes?
Bah. Kids today.
Not five years ago I worked on a project where builds were a day long process. My current project, it's an hour long job.
Humbug.
I'm using Space myself. I think I noticed others on version tracker, but I haven't bothered to check anything else out yet.
You must be one of them there homophobes I've heard about.
Right.
Why didn't you just put Yellow Dog on it?
We enjoy learning the ins and outs of our machines, much like my brother the gearhead enjoys rebuilding his 52 Harley.
My mother, on the other hand does not want or need to know how to rebuild her engine, or her PC. She just wants to get her work done.
Does the word "dithering" mean anything to you?
Each pixel can display 16^3 different colors. By placing differently colored pixels next to each other they get "color combinations".
Also known as "false advertising".
While I agree this is false advertising, I didn't notice the claims when I bought it - I actually turned one on and played with it so I knew what I was getting. Because of that, I guess I'm neither suprised nor really upset. From my point of view I can't see how 16 bit color would be noticably different on the very-low-res screen anyway. It is still a lot better than my IIIC was.
Most mac users use MS Office?
Is that why MS is complaining about how few people are buying it?
>"There's nothing you can do with a Mac that is impossible with Windows, at least as far as I'm aware."
True. Just like there's nothing stopping you from running a marathon instead of taking a car and driving to the finish line.
The point isn't that Macs do what PCs can't - the point is that when my kids install a new game on their iMac I don't cringe wondering if I'll have to reinstall the OS again .
For servers I use Linux. For compatibility, I use W2k. For just pain-free productivity, I use a Mac.
-- What effect has the economy had on overall sales of Office at Microsoft?
I managed to score a (perfectly legal) copy at the MS employee store for $50 - and it is a pretty nice package. It's also really nice to not have to boot my office PC to read some attachment someone sent me.
On the other hand, I wouldn't have paid $450 either.
For what one family member does with his G4 the SMP support is extremely helpful in terms of raw performance, but you've got to look at your applications and see if they exploit SMP. If you're writing your own code you can obviously make it support SMP, but you didn't really say what you were doing.
I think you're confusing SMP with the AltiVec coprocessor. Apps have to be designed to use the AltiVec, not SMP.