Oh, my apologies if the rest of us folks have other uses for our Windows installs for such things as - you know - gaming, which require extensive use of the mouse/trackpad. Waaaaaa!!!!
If you are gaming, aren't you going to use some kind of special game controller, not the fucking trackpad???
For me, gaming is about fun and using Windows is the exact opposite of fun.
That sounds like a pretty specialized use case. I have WinXP on my MBP for one purpose - to compile and debug a cross platform C++ application I'm writing using Qt. I don't do anything else with Windows.
Again, you are talking about someone who just bought a PC with Vista and they are not tech savvy enough to use it. I think this suggestion would fall on deaf ears.
The reliability problems on the MB and MBP are worked out. I bought a new, custom built MBP about 2 weeks ago after carefully watching reader reports on the reliability issues.
I agree that the first ones were shit. We have one here at the office that is absolute shit - and it has had a motherboard replacement and it still is shit.
This is usually the case with new Apple hardware models. I've had problems with buying just after a new model comes out on the following models: PowerMac 7200, PowerBook 5300 cs, PowerMac G4, PowerMac G4 Cube, MacMini Intel Core Duo.
I try to avoid new models for personal purchases, but as a Mac developer, I end up with them at the office because we are trying to make sure our software works well with new models before we start getting support calls.
That doesn't cover all right-button uses; for instance, you can't right-click-and-drag with the two-finger method. Yes you can. Also, I find that it isn't an issue in MacOS X. It is only an issue when I'm trying to use WinXP on my MacBook Pro (which is rarely).
There are more differences to the MBP and the MB. The processor speed difference doesn't matter much at all. The MBP has a _much_ faster hard drive. Hard drive speed makes a _huge_ difference for laptops. My MB hard drive is driving me crazy at how slow it is... According to Apple's tech specs on these models, they have the same hard drives available: a 5400 rpm hard drive or a 200GB 4200 rpm hard drive.
I picked the MacBook Pro for these reasons: I wanted better video hardware (uses ATI instead of Intel), I wanted the 15" non-glossy screen, and they keyboard on the MacBook is teh suck (reminds me of the IBM PCjr).
You should have just convinced them to buy a Mac. At the point where they have the new PC at home AND their complaint is that Vista is not enough like XP and what they really want is XP, getting a Mac really isn't going to make them happy. As a Mac developer, it would make ME happy, but for most people my welfare isn't their main concern.
I knew kids whose phone was listed this way when I was in high school in the 1980s. We had Southwestern Bell where I lived. Maybe they don't do that anymore(?)
I'm a Mac user and I really like my MacBook Pro, but I also like really small subnotebooks. So, I'd love to see a super miniature version of the MacBook. It would be bitchin. I keep looking at a friend's Sony subnotebook and saying that it must be nice to have such a small book and I wish it could run MacOS X.
Except that it isn't actually an election year. And according to an earlier post Ted Stevens would be re-elected to the US Senate regardless of proposing ass-hat legislation.
So, someone filed a patent on curing cancer so that when someone finally does it they can sue them. The only problem was someone else filed a patent on curing disease. That guy, it turns out, was screwed because of a patent granted on "beneficial effects".
Right. So you are trying to promote "researcher" as a more elite term than "scientist" where in the general publics' mind it going to be like "Oh, he's not a scientist - he is merely a researcher."
You cannot have a contract where one side gets nothing. They didn't get nothing. In many of these cases, the customer just got a deep discount - not zero total charges.
The customers are in a morally grey area, but Amazon isn't? They are making unauthorized charges to credit cards: this is fraud. I'd say they are at least in a morally grey area.
Well, to continue the analogy, the customer runs outside, stands by the door, and tells all the other customers about it. Then he calls all his friends and family on his cell phone and tells them to come grab some cheap pickles. So what? Let's say they were running a sale on pickles that was particularly good - they don't want word of mouth advertising? Some of this obviously hinges on whether the customer believes that the seller has made a mistake. But even so, you have freedom of speech.
I used to have a car insurance agent who would find insurance companies that had made similar mistakes and then get all his customers to buy the insurance before the company realizes its mistake. I lived in Houston and some insurance company had mistakenly listed my zip code as being in some rural part of west Texas and charged accordingly. So, I got my insurance that year really cheap.
This is because most people just dick with things randomly until they work. Then they walk away and don't think about it again until it stops working. This is the way most people use computers.
I know the liberals on Slashdot are going to hate to hear this, but chances are that John Doe is guilty. The guy's a constant trouble maker Yeah, Exene too.
Everytime a new format is developed, there is this ridiculous, costly and unrequired fight to prove whose better. Its infuriating. The obvious answer is that the chairman of the communist party should decide what format is best for us.
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If you are gaming, aren't you going to use some kind of special game controller, not the fucking trackpad???
For me, gaming is about fun and using Windows is the exact opposite of fun.
That sounds like a pretty specialized use case. I have WinXP on my MBP for one purpose - to compile and debug a cross platform C++ application I'm writing using Qt. I don't do anything else with Windows.
Again, you are talking about someone who just bought a PC with Vista and they are not tech savvy enough to use it. I think this suggestion would fall on deaf ears.
The reliability problems on the MB and MBP are worked out. I bought a new, custom built MBP about 2 weeks ago after carefully watching reader reports on the reliability issues.
I agree that the first ones were shit. We have one here at the office that is absolute shit - and it has had a motherboard replacement and it still is shit.
This is usually the case with new Apple hardware models. I've had problems with buying just after a new model comes out on the following models: PowerMac 7200, PowerBook 5300 cs, PowerMac G4, PowerMac G4 Cube, MacMini Intel Core Duo.
I try to avoid new models for personal purchases, but as a Mac developer, I end up with them at the office because we are trying to make sure our software works well with new models before we start getting support calls.
Egg Freckles.
I picked the MacBook Pro for these reasons: I wanted better video hardware (uses ATI instead of Intel), I wanted the 15" non-glossy screen, and they keyboard on the MacBook is teh suck (reminds me of the IBM PCjr).
I knew kids whose phone was listed this way when I was in high school in the 1980s. We had Southwestern Bell where I lived. Maybe they don't do that anymore(?)
I'm a Mac user and I really like my MacBook Pro, but I also like really small subnotebooks. So, I'd love to see a super miniature version of the MacBook. It would be bitchin. I keep looking at a friend's Sony subnotebook and saying that it must be nice to have such a small book and I wish it could run MacOS X.
How about the white pages? Don't they list some numbers as "kids phone"?
Let me straighten this out for everyone: Letting the monopolist write the legislation isn't capitalism.
The reason isn't population density - it is "heads I win - tails you lose" written by the phone/cable monopolies.
Except that it isn't actually an election year. And according to an earlier post Ted Stevens would be re-elected to the US Senate regardless of proposing ass-hat legislation.
So, someone filed a patent on curing cancer so that when someone finally does it they can sue them. The only problem was someone else filed a patent on curing disease. That guy, it turns out, was screwed because of a patent granted on "beneficial effects".
Don't ask the guy who invented Viagra to shoot you in the heart because he might miss.
Right. So you are trying to promote "researcher" as a more elite term than "scientist" where in the general publics' mind it going to be like "Oh, he's not a scientist - he is merely a researcher."
Great. Maybe you could talk to uncle ted about being less of an asshat.
The customers are in a morally grey area, but Amazon isn't? They are making unauthorized charges to credit cards: this is fraud. I'd say they are at least in a morally grey area.
I used to have a car insurance agent who would find insurance companies that had made similar mistakes and then get all his customers to buy the insurance before the company realizes its mistake. I lived in Houston and some insurance company had mistakenly listed my zip code as being in some rural part of west Texas and charged accordingly. So, I got my insurance that year really cheap.
This is because most people just dick with things randomly until they work. Then they walk away and don't think about it again until it stops working. This is the way most people use computers.