How about this... i agree with you about the "high end" at Apple (and don't believe any benchmarks folks none of them are sane).
I don't agree with you with regards to the iBook or iMac. You can't match price/features/size/weight, etc... with a name brand win vendor. If you can I will buy one tomorrow (and run linux on it).
That said, I still use a dual 800mhz G4, 1gb ram, and OS X with a 17" digital flat panel LCD. Yes, it cost 3100.00 including the ram. I do think it is about 500.00 too much but not really for the flat panel. Quite competitive actually.
Interesting? Not to one who continues the price bitching about apple... it's old, it's tired, and in this case it is kinda just wrong! (who else could manage to sell "of course it's going to be more expensive now, you understand don't you?")
Have you checked the price/features of an iBook vs other name vendors? You can't match the 1300.00 iBook with anything else on the market... IMO
Considering the weight -- 4.9lbs -- size -- and features Sony doesn't come close in price unless you want to lug your dvd/cdrw drive with you... even then the price is about the same.
but hey, this topic is about the cool mod. thanks for posting it, i am amazed by the time people put into modding their cases
For Fuck's Sake Dirk Pitt, a Macintosh computer is no more proprietary than a Dell running Windows.
In fact, if said Mac computer is running OS X (and they all are now) then it is light years more open than a Dell running Windows. Does Apple make certain bridges and other motherboard interconnects? Yes. And Yes and Yes... the hardware is somewhat more "proprietary" if you need to call it that but no more so than the fact that you CAN't go solder your own MB but only choose major pieces.
Yes Apple released OS X almost a year ago now... and it IS, not appears to be, based on NetBSD and OpenStep, and a windowing engine called Quartz.
There is no "if there is an Office suite" because it was released a month ago from MSFT.
The simple answer is that a port to *nix is not easy because this version of Office is Carbon and not Cocoa. Please read up on these old topics if you are un-learned.
Should *nix have Office?! Yes. As they should have QT player and a host of other sw.
Eventually this will be fully true. Right now we are waiting for a few key apps. I am full time on OS X but I don't do print design, only stuff meant for the screen... tools are here. Oh, my tools are there too! Installing Tomcat and the other pieces of Cocoon today on an OS X dev machine.
To the person who said Competition = Better Codecs.
Perhaps. How many of you belligerent, or simply benign Linux users have been to a site which demand you have WIMP, REAL, or QT installed??
Quick... which one of those players are on your platform?! None!!! Yes. You got it right.
How many players would you like? What, you only need one... well in my pedantic rant then the answer is simple: open base level MPEG4! any player picks up any stream.
While I find Sorensen encoded movie trailers rock, and streaming encoded Sorensen from CNN to be better than the WIMP or REAL alternatives in terms of image/audio QOS I don't like the fact that it is a closed system. That one must have QT to read the media.
Not the idea behind the web... and other media should evolve into at least some modicum of openness and universal(ish) access.
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How about this... i agree with you about the "high end" at Apple (and don't believe any benchmarks folks none of them are sane).
I don't agree with you with regards to the iBook or iMac. You can't match price/features/size/weight, etc... with a name brand win vendor. If you can I will buy one tomorrow (and run linux on it).
That said, I still use a dual 800mhz G4, 1gb ram, and OS X with a 17" digital flat panel LCD. Yes, it cost 3100.00 including the ram. I do think it is about 500.00 too much but not really for the flat panel. Quite competitive actually.
(who else could manage to sell "of course it's going to be more expensive now, you understand don't you?")
Have you checked the price/features of an iBook vs other name vendors? You can't match the 1300.00 iBook with anything else on the market... IMO
Considering the weight -- 4.9lbs -- size -- and features Sony doesn't come close in price unless you want to lug your dvd/cdrw drive with you... even then the price is about the same.
but hey, this topic is about the cool mod. thanks for posting it, i am amazed by the time people put into modding their cases
For Fuck's Sake Dirk Pitt, a Macintosh computer is no more proprietary than a Dell running Windows.
In fact, if said Mac computer is running OS X (and they all are now) then it is light years more open than a Dell running Windows. Does Apple make certain bridges and other motherboard interconnects? Yes. And Yes and Yes... the hardware is somewhat more "proprietary" if you need to call it that but no more so than the fact that you CAN't go solder your own MB but only choose major pieces.
Old argument. Get a life and check back with us.
Yes Apple released OS X almost a year ago now... and it IS, not appears to be, based on NetBSD and OpenStep, and a windowing engine called Quartz.
There is no "if there is an Office suite" because it was released a month ago from MSFT.
The simple answer is that a port to *nix is not easy because this version of Office is Carbon and not Cocoa. Please read up on these old topics if you are un-learned.
Should *nix have Office?! Yes. As they should have QT player and a host of other sw.
Eventually this will be fully true. Right now we are waiting for a few key apps. I am full time on OS X but I don't do print design, only stuff meant for the screen... tools are here. Oh, my tools are there too! Installing Tomcat and the other pieces of Cocoon today on an OS X dev machine.
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This is subjective HYPERBOLE.
To the person who said Competition = Better Codecs.
Perhaps. How many of you belligerent, or simply benign Linux users have been to a site which demand you have WIMP, REAL, or QT installed??
Quick... which one of those players are on your platform?! None!!! Yes. You got it right.
How many players would you like? What, you only need one... well in my pedantic rant then the answer is simple: open base level MPEG4! any player picks up any stream.
While I find Sorensen encoded movie trailers rock, and streaming encoded Sorensen from CNN to be better than the WIMP or REAL alternatives in terms of image/audio QOS I don't like the fact that it is a closed system. That one must have QT to read the media.
Not the idea behind the web... and other media should evolve into at least some modicum of openness and universal(ish) access.