I don't see what's wrong with that analogy. Maybe it isn't technicaly correct. But I'm sorry. I know nothing about networks.
My point was just what you said: It's possable to work on different levels of service.
I was using the internet as an example. And that this thing may have different services just like the internet has different services on it.
I was not trying to draw any direct corolation between the two.
You said that the internet is for moving data, couldn't the two techologies be used together? Maybe the net could be used to interface this technology
I just can't see how people--esspecialy on/.--can be so un-creative and only think of this technology as being good for some free-for-all message board, when it could be the next big thing to come along since the internet.
..if most people were intelligent and responsible, but personally I don't feel like accessing it at some point in the woods during a camping trip and seeing that someone took a shit where I'm pitching my tent.
I will basically degenerate into graffiti that needs no physical object to exist, "I wuz here" messages written in empty space.
It could still be great if those intelligent responible people are the same ones who make this system.
It doen't take a genius to figure out solutions to the problems you proposed. Just look at the internet for example.
Surely I don't ahve to explain any futher than that?
OK, I will anyway. It could basicly be like the internet today: www, e-mail, various chat clients, games and programs that connect over the net, just to name a few. And don't forget, that there are even 1000's of sub services on www alone.
This GPS thing dosn't have to be a single service where anyone can leave a messages. It can be a new system with different protocols and services just like the internet.
What does IE 6 have that Mozilla lacks (other than market share, which can change once the next version of Concept Virus hits)?
A nice, clean, sleek, and highly customizable interface.
My tool bar is only 1 row high, and it contains all the buttons I want, and none of the ones I never use....I like it.
Yes, mozilla does have options to change the GUI, but they aren't that great. IE also has a cool fullscreen feature which I use quite oftern (although, who ever allowed it to be enabled via JavaScript should be shot).
intellectual?? i think you mean pseudo-intellectual. those pompous assholes there think they know everything. it's funny to see how often they get trolled. it's basically a left-wing, bleeding-heart liberals site for computer geeks. and they barely cover tech issues anymore.
HAHA! Just like/.
Difference is, K5 is community driven, if they sway away from what the origonal contect was suppoesd to be about. It's because that's what the K5 community wanted, since they choose and submit the stories.
I'd would like to have said "Hey, if you want tech stories, goto Slashdot, not K5." But My first line explains why I didn't.
don't see any reason why the earth part of the system should be more than stipes of whatever color reflective paint on the ground. It's easy and cheap, and it won't ever need upgrading. Then car computer guides itself with the paint lines, but uses GPS to ditermine it's location and to make decisions about turning and stuff.
Oh yeah....Just imagine how much fun the youngins will have painting lines across to the other side of the road, or over to the footpath. Fun fun fun.
I think a better, but still relitivly cheap option would be to cut 4mm gouge into the road, and drop wires or something into it, then cover with sealer/tarmac/whatever. It would make it a bit harder for people to vandlise (most people don't have concrete cutters), and won't matter if the road it wet, dirty etc.
Lets get realistic here shall we? Yes, viewing photos an uploading them to the net is not really a PDA feature as such. But for a while now, all PDAs--even Palm, just go to palmgear.com and look though the software titles--have been doing more than just PIM/PDA funtions, they are starting to move into the PIM/PDA-mobile computer area.
What does PDA stand for? Personal Digital Assistant, what does PIM stand for? Personal Infomation Manager.
So a PDA isn't nessesarly restricted to PIM tasks. It can assist you, just like the iPaq will be assisting the companies' photographers for whom I'm writing this web app for.
There's no reason that you can't keep the PIM side slick and usefull, and have a powerfull computer side to do tasks. Both Palm and PocketPC have proved this already.
All my friends use Palm (save this one guy). The trouble is they all use old PalmVs and the like, and see no need to upgrade; Palm has hurt itself by making a perfectly adequate product from its first few generations.
I'll just add something here.
I spose the depends on how you persive perfectly adequate.
My Vx is perfectly adequate, compared to the newer Palms or PocketPCs. But if Palm did something usefull like dump the graffiti area, use a higher res screen, made it even thinner than the Vx, bumped up the RAM, and fixed up some annoying thigs in PalmOS, I would no longer see the Vx as adequate. But have they? No. What am I missing today?
Poor colour screen.
Vibrator option that has poor setting (it's either on or off from what I can tell, I don't need a vibrator when my Palm is sitting on the table doing it wake-up call).
No spare stylus.
Heavier.
LED power button.
A new note app.
Expantion card, which from what I head has been poorly implemented into the OS.
Oh yeah, and a basic thing like a pop-up clock, which I solved with better 3rd party SW anyway (PocketWatch+).
Not much really. Like you said, alot of people find there current Palm perfectly adequate. But I don't think Palm hurt them selves by making a product that is perfectly adequate. They hurt them selves by not improving there product. If you build it, they will come.
It's not just that they seem more impressive. It's because they are more capable. I'm working on a web/database project that will require some people to go out with a digital camera and take photos, then use a PDA to upload them via wireless.
I really wanted to go with Palms. But they just don't have stuff to make it happen. We're buying iPaqs instead.
It's simple, take the photos, slide the flashcard in to the PC card adapter. And copy the images to RAM (64MBs is enought, 8MBs is not).
They can then view and to a few little touch-ups, even re-size them, before using a proper web browser to upload the files via a wireless PC card.
We aren't buying the iPaqs for their 'shiny' features. Were buying them becasue they get the job done better than Palms ever could. As much as I like my Palm Vx as an orginiser, it's capabilities are somewhat limited.
Yeah, Ok, I buy that it doesn't have ports the older Mac's don't (ignoring the single extra USB). Er, does the old iMac have a VGA out? No, not a huge deal, but kinda nice. One of Apple's digital outs would have been better though....
Uh...Yes they do. We used to connect them up to an LCD projector. And it was a standard VGA connector to. But I won't gripe about the needing a dongle on the new mac since it's a tight fit in there.
Look on the back, bottom part of an old iMac, there wil be a plastic cover, pry it off and there you have your VGA port.
Really? Remember this is Apple, the first company I know of to remove the eject button/door for floppies (and on their first Mac no less).
Yes, so old mac users will be fine. But people who are new to computers will be a bit baffled by having no eject button on the CD drive.
The old floppy drive were a pain. Too bad if you left you floppy in there once the computer had shutdown. You either had to boot-up again, or find a paperclip. If they wanted to prevent users from ejecting a disk when it was being read, they could have put a locking mechanism on it.
I don't think Apple could have released anything that went beyond the hype. I don't recall a lot of rumors saying the iMac was now a G4 and could take the SuperDrive. Of corse I mostly ignore the rumor sites.
Yeah... But I was expecing something a bit bigger than this and photo orginising software.
Nice, but not innovative. Sony has been doing it for years (and I assume others as well). Personally I would like them on the side like the "old" iMac. They are mostly out of the way and look decent, but are easy to get too.
Yes, it has been done before so it's not really innovatine. But it's still a good idea that I thought Apple would have picked up on. And yes, ports on the side would have been ok aswell....Anything but the back.
That was one of my first thoughts on seeing it in person and moving the display around, except I figure Quartz should be able to correct for any amount of rotation, not just 90 degrees:-) That would be just the right amount of uselessly cool I think. (not the 90deg, that's really useful, I do it on my PowerBook a lot).
Well, if Apple don't do it. I'm guessing that someone else will release a app/hack to do so.
Wouldn't bug me, but I wouldn't use it with my Palm (er, Visor). I've never used the IRDA on my PowerBook, I don't think my Viao has one, never got it to work right on my printer, and the only time I recall using it on my DEC VERSA was to do network games (before 802.11), and a few times under Unix to run PPP mostly to see if it could be done, some for fie transfers.
I agree, most people don't use it that much, if at all. But it's not a costly or complex component, and I'm sure Apple could find a way to hide it somewhere.
Giving a quick push brings up a dialog with Restart, Sleep, Cancel, Shut Down (default). I don't use it since closing the lid puts it in sleep and I seldom remember it when I want to shutdown or reboot (since I have only done that three times since 1999 - of corse there have been more reboots after installing software, but that has been from clicking on the installers "Ok, reboot now").
Do you know if Mac OS X has heibernation? IE, when it saves the RAM to HDD and fully powers off.
FireWire isn't all that common on PCs, but other then that, I donno.
The things is, even though most PCs don't have FireWire, all the older iMac already have 2 FireWire ports. Nothing new except a xtra USB port.
Innovation means something new, or an improvment. I don't think an extra USB port counts.
I can't see a power button on the monitor. I'm guessing there is one of the keyboard, along with the eject button. It would still make sence to have it on the unit aswell. You have to keep in mind where people expect these buttons to be. Every time you go to hit the eject button, your going to be reaching over to the CD tray anyway. Having a button on the CD tray its'self is more logical an easier to use.
It isn't what Apple hyped it up to be. It's just a new mac with a neat display mounting and case, but that's all.
What would have been innovative was if they had a few ports on the front. That way, when Joe User come to plug in his handycam/digital camera/iPod, he dosn't have to lean over the desk, and wrestle with the computer just to plug it in.
Someone else has said that it would be neat if you could rotate the LCD 90 degrees, and the video card could have an option to go into portrait mode.
How about an IR port on the front? Alot of people still have gadgets that use IR (my Palm for example). Since it's sitting on the desk, and not below it, and IR port would be in the right spot.
BTW, I have a win2k box, I use the power button to put it into hibination/suspend. I thing it makes more sence that way, than having it turn strait off or reset. I'm sure the old iMac I used did something similar. Does it not on your laptop?
If you need something else to like about it, take a gander at all the ports in the back. Definitely impressive.
What's so impressive about the ports at the back? They all seem pretty normal to me. Except for the extra USB port. But even my PC has 4.
Sure, it's well layed out. But that's not really innovation.
Innovation would be if they put an extra USB and FireWire port on the front of the computer (even that has already been done).
I do like the new mac. It is quite innovative. The display is a great idea. But it still has silly little design things that were obviouly not thought about, contrary to what Ive said (maybe Jobs forced him to). Examples: Power button on the back (?!!), no eject button on the CD drive. They could have put those on the front, but that wouldn't have looked as good.
2. Take some vague digital images of how 'cool' looking the inside of it is.
Yes.. and don't forget that those photos should be poorly lit and out of focus. Especialy since the photo's where probably taken with digital camera where you can see what you've just taken, and costs nothing to shoot again!
You really have to wonder sometimes how reviewers can take such bad photos.
So if your a person that takes photos of new gadgets etc, and oftern take bad photos, please goto an on-line tutorial. Theres plenty of them, and most are very helpful.
Also, when taking front-on photos of something flat, like a Palm, or printed ciruit board, use a flatbed scanner.
Ah well, my point still stands. CF drives aren't that expensize for what they are.
BTW moderators. I don't expect my posts to be moderated up. But why are the rest of the later ones?
It seems if your just picking a side an modding up, not matter what the person says. Your mod points would be better of spend somewhere else. Not on a nest of people bickering.
If you took out my side of the argument, they would not be worth modding up.
Actually, you can. Option-Shift-click the zoom box, and voila! Other zoom effects include icon size (Option-click) and label width (Shift-click), and there's also app ordering/palette placement/etc. via Applescript.
Ah...well then, just make it more obvious, and docking feature so it snaps into place like the taskbar and you have the best of both worlds.
I think the key fault here is making some of there features more acceable/obvious. Or maybe I just need to read the manual.
Of course, there's still the issue of having dupicate info since the app menu will be there, taking up vaulble space which could be put to better use.
Task Switcher-Pull down a floating App switcher tab from the menu. 1 click app switching.
The only problem with that, is it's a box that lists applicaions verticaly, which wastes alot of space (text flows horizontaly). Sure you can make it narrow, but then you get no text, only icons.
Then there's the fact that it's movable (more wasted memory muscle). Having it movable seem like a good idea. But the only reason it is movable is because it easly gets in the way of things. The taskbar isn't easly movable (not by default). But it dosn't need to be because it's never in the way of anything.
If you could make it horizontal, so it could slide along the bottom and not take up much room like the windows task bar, then it would be OK.
IMHO, the taskbar wins hands down. Evidence of that is the bad knock-off: the Dock.
The taskbar seem to be one of the few good ideas that MS had (unless they coppied it from someone else which wouldn't supprise me).
The maybe you should have actualy made that point in you post. Cause from what I read. It seem as if you where trying to point out how expensive microdrives are. Not comparing them to 1gig CF cards or anything.
LOL...you're not miffed about having to pay twice as much for a 33 MHz boos in bus speed and a second 800 MHz processor, plus an extra $600 on top of that to see anything? Yeah, you're a Mac user allright.
No. I'm not miffed 'cause I'm not getting one. and no, I'm not a mac user either. Although I maybe in the future.
I was just pointing out that the 2 computers where quite different.
And you obviouly didn't do what I said and acctualy go to their web-site and compare the features. because there's more difference than just the CPU and bus speed, expandibility for one thing.
No new G4s, so the fastest Mac you can buy is a $3500 dual-800 MHz G4, and that's way more expensive than the $1800 800 Mhz G4 iMac, with virtually the same capabilities. Good one, Apple
Yes a mac with a dual G4 and a 133Mhz system bus has the same capabilities as a single G4 and a 100Mhz bus.
Go to their site, and compare the specs of the two. I think you will find that the PowerMacs still have quite a few more features over the new iMacs.
Thinkgeek [thinkgeek.com] has a nice MP3 player for only $330. That player stores 20 Gigs worth of MP3s. Strange that there would be hype about a $250 1gig drive.
Maybe they got it wrong and forgot a decimal point. That must be it! These HDs are just like RAM. $2.50 for 1 gig. It's funny, RAM is cheaper than these dirves.
*sigh*. The artical isn't stricly about MP3 players. It's about a Hard Disk Drive that can be used in an MP3 player.
Can that MP3 player that you linked to fit into the slot of my digital camera or PDA? No.
Is that MP3 players' HDD smaller than a match box? No.
Can you store info on RAM, remove it from your computer, and plug it into another device and still access the data on it? NO!
Please, think before you post. This is NOT a MP3 Player, or an alternative to RAM. It's a small removable HDD. So unless you're going to compare it with other small, high capasity storage mediums, you post is completely redundant.
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I figure, by the time I get an iBook, they'll have a 10 and 20 gig version. Or maybe I could just buy the HDD and do it myself.
My point was just what you said: It's possable to work on different levels of service.
I was using the internet as an example. And that this thing may have different services just like the internet has different services on it.
I was not trying to draw any direct corolation between the two.
You said that the internet is for moving data, couldn't the two techologies be used together? Maybe the net could be used to interface this technology
I just can't see how people--esspecialy on /.--can be so un-creative and only think of this technology as being good for some free-for-all message board, when it could be the next big thing to come along since the internet.
I will basically degenerate into graffiti that needs no physical object to exist, "I wuz here" messages written in empty space.
It could still be great if those intelligent responible people are the same ones who make this system.
It doen't take a genius to figure out solutions to the problems you proposed. Just look at the internet for example.
Surely I don't ahve to explain any futher than that?
OK, I will anyway. It could basicly be like the internet today: www, e-mail, various chat clients, games and programs that connect over the net, just to name a few. And don't forget, that there are even 1000's of sub services on www alone.
This GPS thing dosn't have to be a single service where anyone can leave a messages. It can be a new system with different protocols and services just like the internet.
A nice, clean, sleek, and highly customizable interface.
My tool bar is only 1 row high, and it contains all the buttons I want, and none of the ones I never use....I like it.
Yes, mozilla does have options to change the GUI, but they aren't that great. IE also has a cool fullscreen feature which I use quite oftern (although, who ever allowed it to be enabled via JavaScript should be shot).
HAHA! Just like /.
Difference is, K5 is community driven, if they sway away from what the origonal contect was suppoesd to be about. It's because that's what the K5 community wanted, since they choose and submit the stories.
I'd would like to have said "Hey, if you want tech stories, goto Slashdot, not K5." But My first line explains why I didn't.
Oh yeah....Just imagine how much fun the youngins will have painting lines across to the other side of the road, or over to the footpath. Fun fun fun.
I think a better, but still relitivly cheap option would be to cut 4mm gouge into the road, and drop wires or something into it, then cover with sealer/tarmac/whatever. It would make it a bit harder for people to vandlise (most people don't have concrete cutters), and won't matter if the road it wet, dirty etc.
What does PDA stand for? Personal Digital Assistant, what does PIM stand for? Personal Infomation Manager. So a PDA isn't nessesarly restricted to PIM tasks. It can assist you, just like the iPaq will be assisting the companies' photographers for whom I'm writing this web app for.
There's no reason that you can't keep the PIM side slick and usefull, and have a powerfull computer side to do tasks. Both Palm and PocketPC have proved this already.
See my post above.
I'll just add something here.
I spose the depends on how you persive perfectly adequate.
My Vx is perfectly adequate, compared to the newer Palms or PocketPCs. But if Palm did something usefull like dump the graffiti area, use a higher res screen, made it even thinner than the Vx, bumped up the RAM, and fixed up some annoying thigs in PalmOS, I would no longer see the Vx as adequate. But have they? No. What am I missing today?
- Poor colour screen.
- Vibrator option that has poor setting (it's either on or off from what I can tell, I don't need a vibrator when my Palm is sitting on the table doing it wake-up call).
- No spare stylus.
- Heavier.
- LED power button.
- A new note app.
- Expantion card, which from what I head has been poorly implemented into the OS.
- Oh yeah, and a basic thing like a pop-up clock, which I solved with better 3rd party SW anyway (PocketWatch+).
Not much really. Like you said, alot of people find there current Palm perfectly adequate. But I don't think Palm hurt them selves by making a product that is perfectly adequate. They hurt them selves by not improving there product. If you build it, they will come.I really wanted to go with Palms. But they just don't have stuff to make it happen. We're buying iPaqs instead.
It's simple, take the photos, slide the flashcard in to the PC card adapter. And copy the images to RAM (64MBs is enought, 8MBs is not). They can then view and to a few little touch-ups, even re-size them, before using a proper web browser to upload the files via a wireless PC card.
We aren't buying the iPaqs for their 'shiny' features. Were buying them becasue they get the job done better than Palms ever could.
As much as I like my Palm Vx as an orginiser, it's capabilities are somewhat limited.
Uh...Yes they do. We used to connect them up to an LCD projector. And it was a standard VGA connector to. But I won't gripe about the needing a dongle on the new mac since it's a tight fit in there.
Look on the back, bottom part of an old iMac, there wil be a plastic cover, pry it off and there you have your VGA port.
Really? Remember this is Apple, the first company I know of to remove the eject button/door for floppies (and on their first Mac no less).
Yes, so old mac users will be fine. But people who are new to computers will be a bit baffled by having no eject button on the CD drive.
The old floppy drive were a pain. Too bad if you left you floppy in there once the computer had shutdown. You either had to boot-up again, or find a paperclip. If they wanted to prevent users from ejecting a disk when it was being read, they could have put a locking mechanism on it.
I don't think Apple could have released anything that went beyond the hype. I don't recall a lot of rumors saying the iMac was now a G4 and could take the SuperDrive. Of corse I mostly ignore the rumor sites.
Yeah... But I was expecing something a bit bigger than this and photo orginising software.
Nice, but not innovative. Sony has been doing it for years (and I assume others as well). Personally I would like them on the side like the "old" iMac. They are mostly out of the way and look decent, but are easy to get too.
Yes, it has been done before so it's not really innovatine. But it's still a good idea that I thought Apple would have picked up on. And yes, ports on the side would have been ok aswell....Anything but the back.
That was one of my first thoughts on seeing it in person and moving the display around, except I figure Quartz should be able to correct for any amount of rotation, not just 90 degrees :-) That would be just the right amount of uselessly cool I think. (not the 90deg, that's really useful, I do it on my PowerBook a lot).
Well, if Apple don't do it. I'm guessing that someone else will release a app/hack to do so.
Wouldn't bug me, but I wouldn't use it with my Palm (er, Visor). I've never used the IRDA on my PowerBook, I don't think my Viao has one, never got it to work right on my printer, and the only time I recall using it on my DEC VERSA was to do network games (before 802.11), and a few times under Unix to run PPP mostly to see if it could be done, some for fie transfers.
I agree, most people don't use it that much, if at all. But it's not a costly or complex component, and I'm sure Apple could find a way to hide it somewhere.
Giving a quick push brings up a dialog with Restart, Sleep, Cancel, Shut Down (default). I don't use it since closing the lid puts it in sleep and I seldom remember it when I want to shutdown or reboot (since I have only done that three times since 1999 - of corse there have been more reboots after installing software, but that has been from clicking on the installers "Ok, reboot now").
Do you know if Mac OS X has heibernation? IE, when it saves the RAM to HDD and fully powers off.
The things is, even though most PCs don't have FireWire, all the older iMac already have 2 FireWire ports. Nothing new except a xtra USB port.
Innovation means something new, or an improvment. I don't think an extra USB port counts.
I can't see a power button on the monitor. I'm guessing there is one of the keyboard, along with the eject button. It would still make sence to have it on the unit aswell. You have to keep in mind where people expect these buttons to be. Every time you go to hit the eject button, your going to be reaching over to the CD tray anyway. Having a button on the CD tray its'self is more logical an easier to use.
It isn't what Apple hyped it up to be. It's just a new mac with a neat display mounting and case, but that's all.
What would have been innovative was if they had a few ports on the front. That way, when Joe User come to plug in his handycam/digital camera/iPod, he dosn't have to lean over the desk, and wrestle with the computer just to plug it in.
Someone else has said that it would be neat if you could rotate the LCD 90 degrees, and the video card could have an option to go into portrait mode.
How about an IR port on the front? Alot of people still have gadgets that use IR (my Palm for example). Since it's sitting on the desk, and not below it, and IR port would be in the right spot.
BTW, I have a win2k box, I use the power button to put it into hibination/suspend. I thing it makes more sence that way, than having it turn strait off or reset. I'm sure the old iMac I used did something similar. Does it not on your laptop?
What's so impressive about the ports at the back? They all seem pretty normal to me. Except for the extra USB port. But even my PC has 4.
Sure, it's well layed out. But that's not really innovation. Innovation would be if they put an extra USB and FireWire port on the front of the computer (even that has already been done).
I do like the new mac. It is quite innovative. The display is a great idea. But it still has silly little design things that were obviouly not thought about, contrary to what Ive said (maybe Jobs forced him to). Examples: Power button on the back (?!!), no eject button on the CD drive. They could have put those on the front, but that wouldn't have looked as good.
Yes.. and don't forget that those photos should be poorly lit and out of focus. Especialy since the photo's where probably taken with digital camera where you can see what you've just taken, and costs nothing to shoot again!
You really have to wonder sometimes how reviewers can take such bad photos.
So if your a person that takes photos of new gadgets etc, and oftern take bad photos, please goto an on-line tutorial. Theres plenty of them, and most are very helpful.
Also, when taking front-on photos of something flat, like a Palm, or printed ciruit board, use a flatbed scanner.
BTW moderators. I don't expect my posts to be moderated up. But why are the rest of the later ones?
It seems if your just picking a side an modding up, not matter what the person says. Your mod points would be better of spend somewhere else. Not on a nest of people bickering.
If you took out my side of the argument, they would not be worth modding up.
*sigh* back to k5.
I couldn't give you an accurate mesurment in metres above sea-level. But yes, I am high.
Are you low?
Ah...well then, just make it more obvious, and docking feature so it snaps into place like the taskbar and you have the best of both worlds.
I think the key fault here is making some of there features more acceable/obvious. Or maybe I just need to read the manual.
Of course, there's still the issue of having dupicate info since the app menu will be there, taking up vaulble space which could be put to better use.
The only problem with that, is it's a box that lists applicaions verticaly, which wastes alot of space (text flows horizontaly). Sure you can make it narrow, but then you get no text, only icons.
Then there's the fact that it's movable (more wasted memory muscle). Having it movable seem like a good idea. But the only reason it is movable is because it easly gets in the way of things. The taskbar isn't easly movable (not by default). But it dosn't need to be because it's never in the way of anything.
If you could make it horizontal, so it could slide along the bottom and not take up much room like the windows task bar, then it would be OK.
IMHO, the taskbar wins hands down. Evidence of that is the bad knock-off: the Dock.
The taskbar seem to be one of the few good ideas that MS had (unless they coppied it from someone else which wouldn't supprise me).
The maybe you should have actualy made that point in you post. Cause from what I read. It seem as if you where trying to point out how expensive microdrives are. Not comparing them to 1gig CF cards or anything.
No. I'm not miffed 'cause I'm not getting one. and no, I'm not a mac user either. Although I maybe in the future.
I was just pointing out that the 2 computers where quite different.
And you obviouly didn't do what I said and acctualy go to their web-site and compare the features. because there's more difference than just the CPU and bus speed, expandibility for one thing.
True. But late time I heard. 1gig CF cards where more expensive than a 1gig microdrive. So there goes that argument
Yes a mac with a dual G4 and a 133Mhz system bus has the same capabilities as a single G4 and a 100Mhz bus.
Go to their site, and compare the specs of the two. I think you will find that the PowerMacs still have quite a few more features over the new iMacs.
1627545.12533 Gz (Gizyards)
1 Gz was how long it took King Arthur II to run around the table naked while being chased by dogs.
Maybe they got it wrong and forgot a decimal point. That must be it! These HDs are just like RAM. $2.50 for 1 gig. It's funny, RAM is cheaper than these dirves.
*sigh*. The artical isn't stricly about MP3 players. It's about a Hard Disk Drive that can be used in an MP3 player.
Can that MP3 player that you linked to fit into the slot of my digital camera or PDA? No.
Is that MP3 players' HDD smaller than a match box? No.
Can you store info on RAM, remove it from your computer, and plug it into another device and still access the data on it? NO!
Please, think before you post. This is NOT a MP3 Player, or an alternative to RAM. It's a small removable HDD. So unless you're going to compare it with other small, high capasity storage mediums, you post is completely redundant.