Why don't you try using that mysterious organ between your ears to try and work through the consequences of Apple releasing OSX for the x86 architecture. Try running this little excercise on your grey matter for more than five seconds, too.
How is the new iMac 3 year old technology? The DVD drive is apparently a Pionerr DVR-104, the display is state of the art, the CPU type (7450) is 1 year old this month, the wireless card 18 months old tops. Really, WTF are you talking about?
Not really, I was in France. This may be apocryphal but I heard that the STOP signs in Quebec read ARRET even though in France it's just plain STOP... I have every sympathy with trying to protect and preserve the French language (and by extension, culture), but you can take these things too far. In the UK there is a great deal of money spent on the protection and preservation of the Welsh language, certainly a worthy aim but at what cost? Still fewer and fewer Welsh actually speak the language, not surprising seeing as the Fast Show and the Simpsons are just as funny in Colwyn Bay as they are in London.
People DON'T keep forgetting that, we all know how bursty network traffic is when used normally. It's the twats DDOSing, SirCamming and Divxing the world that are fucking up the statistical models of network use and causing all the broadband business disasters that we're seeing.
It sounds appalling, I know - but it works out just beautifully. Basically, UK residents who own a TV are required to pay a yearly fee of £100 (ish maybe $160?) which pays for the BBC, which in turn carries no advertisements. This gets you BBC1, BBC2, BBC Choice, BBC News 24, BBC Knowledge (TV Channels) National Radios 1-5 plus local radio and TV. BBCi, which includes all BBC information services including BBC webstes but excluding beeb.com. The World Service is paid for by general taxation as it is considered an instrument of British foreign policy. It's really an excellent system.
true audiophiles? the problem with fibre in SPDIF use (TOSLINK) is that the cheap EO transceivers and crappy cables often lead to high levels of jitter. However, when properly engineered, ADAT or TOSLINK provide performance that's as good or better than a copper solution without the induction and weight problems of copper. And copper does NOT beat fibre for bandwidth - which bar did you hear that in?
Slide in mainboards have been a feature of certain Macintosh models for far longer than that. I had a Colour Classic where you just pushed two tabs in, grabbed the SCSI connector and whipped the whole board out the back. Absolutely beautiful for upgrading. I don't know who innovated the "media bay" concept in notebooks, but a lot of the better manufacturesr seem to hav ebeen doing it for some years now, not just Apple, I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro with unlockable drives. Not hot-swap or battery replaceable (nice one Apple) but close.
The new iMac may be $1299 NOW, but if Apple do what they normally do, that will be $999 within 12 months. Apple DO understand price sensitivity, but they're not going to start losing money on their products anytime soon, they've been there before.
I got that one beat. I used to live in Paris at the Fondation des Etats Unis (my GF's mother was American). Watching Pulp Fiction in VF, Sam Jackson's line "well I'm a mushroom cloud layin' motherfucker, motherfucker!" was translated into "Je suis une bombe nucleaire!". I pissed myself.
faster in everything? obviously you've never seen the distributed.net RC5-64 client speed database. A G4 867 smashes a 2.2Ghz P4 into oblivion (oh yeah, like you've got a 2.2 P4 already - riiight). You clearly know fuck-all about CPU architecture Mr 20-stage pipeline (almost THREE times as oong as the 7450s)
"I couldnt tell you whether Apple users will be using PC clones in the next year" well, I CAN tell you - the majority will be using them. What MS apologists ALWAYS fail to realise is that their anti-Mac argument is made from a position of weakness, because they don't use Macs on a regular basis. In contrast, the pro-Mac-er argues his case from a knowledge of both platforms as he is so often forced to use a beige shitbox at work.
Apple have apparently decided that 802.11a is a dead end because it DOESN'T offer backwards compatibility with 802.11b. Therefore a NEW variant has been agreed called 802.11g, that offers better bandwidth than 802.11a AND compatibility with 802.11b. You could have researched this yourself of course, but I guess it's more fun to try and perpetuate myths about how technologically backward and overpriced Apple's products are. Fool.
Apple's blank DVDs were NEVER $30 a piece - they started at $9 each and are now $5... As to when you'll get those video cards you mention:- the GF3 has been a BTO PowerMac option for a whole year now (that card was actually DEBUTED on the Mac) and ATI will sell you a Radeon 8500 Mac Edition NOW - with BTO rumoured in the near future. Any other questions, or are you sick of being shown up now? Idiot.
"There are much better girls walking around at most American universities than you will find in the airbrushed art of prOn." just delete the American, and you have the universal truth that - once teenage boys realise it - will destroy the porn industry once and for all. Who honestly thinks that the finest girls get into the porn industry? Any fool kno the answer to that. If you spend your time at university fragging while you should be learning how f*ck properly, you're insane.
that's stupid - you can do a complete hardware emu without necessarily running at full speed. Many emulators are in this position until the their platform catches up.
nonsense, Virtual game Station for the Macintosh is an absolutely fantastic emulator. The only thing that it loses to a real PSX is the inability to use the excellent Sony and Namco (I love my neGcon!) controllers. PSX on your you iBook? You better believe it!
I know where you're coming from, but look to history and you'll see there WAS a time when Apple ruled the PC world (the era of the Apple II). Apple, when successful, like to behave extremely arrogantly - but they're hippies, designers and snobs at heart - not actually motivated by evil as MS seem to be.
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Why don't you try using that mysterious organ between your ears to try and work through the consequences of Apple releasing OSX for the x86 architecture. Try running this little excercise on your grey matter for more than five seconds, too.
How is the new iMac 3 year old technology? The DVD drive is apparently a Pionerr DVR-104, the display is state of the art, the CPU type (7450) is 1 year old this month, the wireless card 18 months old tops. Really, WTF are you talking about?
Not really, I was in France. This may be apocryphal but I heard that the STOP signs in Quebec read ARRET even though in France it's just plain STOP... I have every sympathy with trying to protect and preserve the French language (and by extension, culture), but you can take these things too far. In the UK there is a great deal of money spent on the protection and preservation of the Welsh language, certainly a worthy aim but at what cost? Still fewer and fewer Welsh actually speak the language, not surprising seeing as the Fast Show and the Simpsons are just as funny in Colwyn Bay as they are in London.
People DON'T keep forgetting that, we all know how bursty network traffic is when used normally. It's the twats DDOSing, SirCamming and Divxing the world that are fucking up the statistical models of network use and causing all the broadband business disasters that we're seeing.
Man, your rent must be cheap! Our T1 (2048kbits) costs us £900pcm, my rent is £1240pcm. That's central London for you...
It sounds appalling, I know - but it works out just beautifully. Basically, UK residents who own a TV are required to pay a yearly fee of £100 (ish maybe $160?) which pays for the BBC, which in turn carries no advertisements. This gets you BBC1, BBC2, BBC Choice, BBC News 24, BBC Knowledge (TV Channels) National Radios 1-5 plus local radio and TV. BBCi, which includes all BBC information services including BBC webstes but excluding beeb.com. The World Service is paid for by general taxation as it is considered an instrument of British foreign policy. It's really an excellent system.
Stainless? Are you absolutey sure about that? Probably a very expensive steel for that application, cast Magnesium cases are where it's at - see NeXT.
true audiophiles? the problem with fibre in SPDIF use (TOSLINK) is that the cheap EO transceivers and crappy cables often lead to high levels of jitter. However, when properly engineered, ADAT or TOSLINK provide performance that's as good or better than a copper solution without the induction and weight problems of copper. And copper does NOT beat fibre for bandwidth - which bar did you hear that in?
Slide in mainboards have been a feature of certain Macintosh models for far longer than that. I had a Colour Classic where you just pushed two tabs in, grabbed the SCSI connector and whipped the whole board out the back. Absolutely beautiful for upgrading. I don't know who innovated the "media bay" concept in notebooks, but a lot of the better manufacturesr seem to hav ebeen doing it for some years now, not just Apple, I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro with unlockable drives. Not hot-swap or battery replaceable (nice one Apple) but close.
The new iMac may be $1299 NOW, but if Apple do what they normally do, that will be $999 within 12 months. Apple DO understand price sensitivity, but they're not going to start losing money on their products anytime soon, they've been there before.
I got that one beat. I used to live in Paris at the Fondation des Etats Unis (my GF's mother was American). Watching Pulp Fiction in VF, Sam Jackson's line "well I'm a mushroom cloud layin' motherfucker, motherfucker!" was translated into "Je suis une bombe nucleaire!". I pissed myself.
err... I'm in the UK and I got MY G4 733 with Superdrive in the middle of FEBRUARY 2001.
err... the iMac has GeForce 2MX graphics - so you'd better add that in too, bright boy.
faster in everything? obviously you've never seen the distributed.net RC5-64 client speed database. A G4 867 smashes a 2.2Ghz P4 into oblivion (oh yeah, like you've got a 2.2 P4 already - riiight). You clearly know fuck-all about CPU architecture Mr 20-stage pipeline (almost THREE times as oong as the 7450s)
"I couldnt tell you whether Apple users will be using PC clones in the next year" well, I CAN tell you - the majority will be using them. What MS apologists ALWAYS fail to realise is that their anti-Mac argument is made from a position of weakness, because they don't use Macs on a regular basis. In contrast, the pro-Mac-er argues his case from a knowledge of both platforms as he is so often forced to use a beige shitbox at work.
Apple have apparently decided that 802.11a is a dead end because it DOESN'T offer backwards compatibility with 802.11b. Therefore a NEW variant has been agreed called 802.11g, that offers better bandwidth than 802.11a AND compatibility with 802.11b. You could have researched this yourself of course, but I guess it's more fun to try and perpetuate myths about how technologically backward and overpriced Apple's products are. Fool.
Apple's blank DVDs were NEVER $30 a piece - they started at $9 each and are now $5... As to when you'll get those video cards you mention:- the GF3 has been a BTO PowerMac option for a whole year now (that card was actually DEBUTED on the Mac) and ATI will sell you a Radeon 8500 Mac Edition NOW - with BTO rumoured in the near future. Any other questions, or are you sick of being shown up now? Idiot.
where do you get one? sounds good
"There are much better girls walking around at most American universities than you will find in the airbrushed art of prOn." just delete the American, and you have the universal truth that - once teenage boys realise it - will destroy the porn industry once and for all. Who honestly thinks that the finest girls get into the porn industry? Any fool kno the answer to that. If you spend your time at university fragging while you should be learning how f*ck properly, you're insane.
that's stupid - you can do a complete hardware emu without necessarily running at full speed. Many emulators are in this position until the their platform catches up.
nonsense, Virtual game Station for the Macintosh is an absolutely fantastic emulator. The only thing that it loses to a real PSX is the inability to use the excellent Sony and Namco (I love my neGcon!) controllers. PSX on your you iBook? You better believe it!
I know where you're coming from, but look to history and you'll see there WAS a time when Apple ruled the PC world (the era of the Apple II). Apple, when successful, like to behave extremely arrogantly - but they're hippies, designers and snobs at heart - not actually motivated by evil as MS seem to be.
erm... Philips either DOES or DID own Polygram records.
I'm not trying Solaris until they port it to my Casio G-Shock!
well you can't, of course - that why we PRESUME innocence until PROVEN otherwise.