Apple is tempting you! If you want to run OS X (legally) then you have to use their hardware.
When the Intel iBook (MacBook?) will come it most likely will be a Core Solo laptop to differenciate between the consumer and prosumer lines and to lower the cost of the iBook.
Do you really need a Core Duo laptop ??? What can you do with a Core Duo that you can't do with a Core Solo? What do you need FW800 for? Do you need really fast access to huge amounts of data? How often have you been in a place recently that had a modem port BUT didn't have wireless access points or ethernet? If you weren't at a hotel then most likely you didn't have access to either a modem or ethernet port (without permission).
Do you have a cell phone? Do you know that you can access the Internet through your cellphone from your laptop (through USB or bluetooth) without breaking your contract (search Google for QNC [quick network connect]). Granted QNC only gives you 14.4kb/s while using your minutes (no extra fees), but who really needs really fast access in the middle of nowhere? If you really need it then get a data plan from your cellphone provider. Here (Ontario, Canada) I can get a PCMCIA EVDO card that gives me up to 500MB transfer per month for $100 CDN.
Yes it would be nice to have a higher cap on the data plan (1.5GB to 2.0GB per month), but who really needs that much right now that doesn't have access to ethernet or a wireless connection.
If you need a fast graphics card, a core duo laptop with OS X, then get the MacBook Pro. If not then wait for and get one of the upcoming Intel iBooks. If you're not able to spend $1000 USD on a laptop (current cost of entry-level iBook) then get a heavy, loud, short battery life Windows XP laptop and please stop complaining. For the last couple of years (2-3 probably) Apple laptops have been feature competetive and are (with introduction of Intel chips) starting to be CPU competetive as well. There hasn't been such thing as a "Mac Tax" since the late '90s when Macs started being priced comparitively to mid-high-end PCs (which have things that cheap PCs don't - FW400, USB2.0, 802.11g, GB ethernet, dedicated video cards, SATA, DVI, etc.)
I am the consumer and (in this case as well as most where people claim they know what's best for their consumers) I know that I'd rather have the choice of whether I want to watch the DVD in my living room or go to a movie theatre.
The best solution for this would be to have the movie start in the theatre and have a 2 week delay for releasing a higher priced DVD (for e.g. $30 instead of $20). Then after the movie is done playing in theatres (4-6 months) the DVD should fall to the regular $20 price.
This way you're giving those who want the DVD the chance to get it earlier and those who'd rather pay less can wait the 4-6 months for the regular price or a year or 2 for the discounted price.
The drivers that need to be (and most if not all will be) found are:
- ATI Radeon X1600 PCI Express video driver
- Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) driver
- Airport Extreme driver
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR driver
- iSight driver
- IR receiver driver
and possibly 4 other drivers (Bus controller, Chipset, etc.)
I don't know if sound works or not (sound devices aren't expanded in the image). I'm guessing that Firewire and USB 2.0 don't need drivers (Windows XP SP2 supports them out of the box usually)
And then the drivers will have to be found for similar devices on the other Intel Macs (MacBook Pro, Mac Mini)
Actually what happened most likely was that the parent had some kernel extensions that were PPC-only which were slowing down the system. That's what I read in the MacWorld review (made the system run at the proper speed after they were removed).
If Google made Google Earth Plus compatible with a real-time GPS (currently you can only load a file) I'd be willing to part with the $20 for the app. Especially if they made this feature available on the Mac OS X version of the app. (Third-party solutions only work on Windows 2000/XP)
Another cool feature would be creating a mobile version of Google Maps for cell phones (there are 2 or 3 that exist, but they aren't that great - especially when they shrink the computer version of Google Maps to the size of a cell phone screen).
Convincing the cell network providers to give us accurate GPS info of our location from our phones (E911 gives that to the emergency services right now in most places in Canada and the US) for a fee would also be a great idea.
I thought that it was only lottery winnings that weren't taxed in Canada. (Although any income that you make on top of the lottery winnings would be taxed as if your lottery winnings were actual income - e.g. lottery winnings put you in top tax bracket, so any income is taxed at top tax bracket rate)
Could you please provide a link to some relevant info. Thanks.
Why would a potenital kidnaper (which by the way is usually someone the child knows) want to take the child from inside the school, when they can kidnap them in front of the school before boarding the bus????
I totally agree. If they want to keep the stuff until they get revived (if we revive them), they should have to pay yearly taxes on their possesions (payable by the person/entity charged with taking care of their estate/stuff).
For your laptop:
Solution 1 - It has a PCMCIA slot - try borrowing/buying a PCMCIA ethernet adapter (they're as cheap as $15 with ship on ebay
Solution 2 - Use the floppy drive
Solution 3 - Burn a cd with the drivers or a cd with drivers and installation software for the os
Solution 4 - Download knoppix (or a "lite"r live-cd version of linux) and copy the driver to the hd that way
Solution 5 - Copy the drivers in Windows and access the FAT32 Windows partition from Linux (CAREFUL - might damage your windows partition)
Solution 6 - Remove the laptop's hd and use a 2.5" external usb enclosure to copy the files
Solution 7 - Get someone else to do it for free/money
Except that of the 6.4 billion people on the planet, only about 280 million have access to TV Shows on iTunes (less than 5%). The US iTunes Store is the only country to have deals with the TV networks to allow tv shows being sold through iTunes.
So d/l'ing the program through P2P or Bit Torrent, rather than taping it on VHS doesn't seem wrong to me. I'm not profiting from it and I delete the program after I've watched it.
[offtopic]
BTW. I absolutely hate commercials. - There's a scene in one of the early Futurama episodes where Fry has a commercial implanted into one of his dreams and the other crew members ask him how prevalent commercials were back in the 20th century. He answers by listing all the ways except in dreams. Other than dreams, there are still places that commercials aren't: underwater and space. If they (corporations) try to get space "banners" that cover up our view of stars, they'll see backlash and possibly the first case of space vandalism.
Bill Smith, chief technology officer at BellSouth justified content charging companies by saying they are using the telco's network without paying for it.
No, they're not! You're customers who are paying you a monthly payment for network access, are paying those companies as well and are moving their content across BellSouth's network as allowed in the contract.
The content providers are being ASKED (and payed) to move content. They aren't stealing bandwidth. Stop being greedy, and try to solve real problems like spam, network reliability and getting your service to more people.
Therefore the solution is to only allow your page to be seend for 47 millliseconds. (3 seconds less because some people's eyesight is better than others)
BTW If you flash your page like the retarded ads do, then you'll still be giving people more than 50 milliseconds to judge your website and they'll most likely hate your website because if strobes at a horrible frequency.
I have 435GB spread over a laptop, a desktop, 2 external hds and an iPod. Today after loading a file in Azureus on my desktop, I realized that 2 directories with over 30GB of data weren't visible on the hd. They dissappeared. Switched to Windows to realize that of the 190GB partition, almost 150GB were either in weird characters or the files themselves were unrecognizable by the program that should be able to read it. Lost tons of media, including over 12GB of MP3s and tons of videos.
The point is that we depend on technology way too much. A couple years ago I destroyed a partition (accidentally) and all I lost was about 100 MP3s, some game saves and some images. Today I lost a lot more. Makes you wonder what will happen when someone loses a HD in 5 years with no backups.
And now since Macs will be running on 97% same hardware, we can see that Apple products aren't over-priced (they used to be way back).
Here's how to counter the Macs are overpriced argument:
1) If costs wasn't an issue would you want a Mac?
- if no, then go buy a PC and stop complaining about things that you don't care about.
- if yes, then you want something that Macs have (OS X, great design, better battery life for normal sized laptops, features [USB 2.0, Firewire, DVD+_RW, 802.11G], whatever.)
2) Go to a computer company website and spec out a similar computer (make sure that you take into account all the features - comparing a Mac to a $300 Walmart PC is not a proper comparison).
3) The Mac will come out either even or lower in price + you get OS X on it.
4) If they're still complaining about being able to build their own computer for half the price of Dell, IBM, etc., then they:
- Don't value their time enough.
- Don't care about warranty, customer service, proper reinstallation CDs/DVDs (Windows laptop restore CDs are crap because of the spyware/nagware they reinstall and they don't allow you to backup your documents before reinstall).
- Don't care about how the computer looks (cheap cases look like crap - same goes for cheap LCDs).
I'm not saying that Macs are for everyone. They're not. But if most people actually researched their computer purchase, there'd be a lot more Macs on the net.
Why is that every time someone (person, corporation or an entity) does something that a corporation doesn't like, they instantly need laws protecting them and their business?
But when we, the consumers, want some laws changed/created corporations always object and usually win?
One of these days (hopefully soon) they'll realize that you can't always have your cake and eat it too.
Maybe instead of giving.Mac for free, for a year with every new Mac, Apple should create.Mac Lite.
- 250MB of bandwidth per month
- 50MB of storage
--- 10MB goes to website (if you want more you need to get full.Mac service)
--- 10MB goes to email
--- 30MB goes to iSync (for iCal, Address Book, bookmarks, and documents which you specify)
Give 1 free year access to.Mac Lite with every new Mac purchase. Charge a yearly fee of $25 after the first year.
Right now (before January 2005 MacWorld Keynote) the Powerbooks have:
- faster CPUs,
- bigger busses,
- Firewire 400 and 800,
- Gigabit Ethernet,
- DVI output (dual in the 15" and 17"),
- higher monitor resolution,
- bigger maximum hardrive (120GB),
- faster RAM,
- better video card (with more VRAM),
- digital audio in/out
- and illuminated keyboard.
I think that's enough to seperate the two lines.
Considering that the external iSight retails for $149 USD (it probably cost Apple between $50 and $75 USD) Jobs might put the internal one in iBooks and Powerbooks (internal probably costs Apple $40 to $70).
Although you are right that the iBook most definatively won't get it if the Powerbook doesn't. Since the consensus is that the Powerbook probably won't be upgraded for another few months while iBook Yonah P4 Rev.1 works out it's issues, the iBook might get it now and the Powerbook will get it in a few months.
- CPU will most likely be upgraded to Intel Yonah Single Core CPU
- FSB will be upgraded (142MHz to ?)
- Default RAM will stay at 512MB
- 802.11G and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR will remain
-Optional HD upgrade might go from 100GB max to 120GB max
- don't know about displays (widescreen ?, 13.3 ?)
- Video RAM BETTER be upgraded to 64MB (32MB isn't enough for games or full Core Image functionality and the iBook has had 32MB for 5 or 6 updates (3 or 4 years!)
- Firewire 400 WILL continue to be on the iBook (lots of people with Digital Video Cameras and iMovie would be useless otherwise)
- Battery life might go from theoretical 6 hours to theoretical 5 hours
- LCDs might be upgraded the same way Powerbook LCDs were, BUT resolution might not change
- Hopefully the iBook will gain an internal iSight like the iMac G5
- The iBook won't get a remote (people would lose it too easily) but it might get a few function keys added/changed to allow easier FrontRow control
- The iBook P4 will look somewhat different just like the iBook changed when the CPU changed from G3 to G4
That would be an iBook that I would be willing to trade up for (I have an early 2004 iBook G4 14" 1GHz)
Here in Ontario, Canada unlimited cellphone internet access cost $80 CDN (approx. $69 USD), "UNLIMITED" means 25MB, roaming data plan can be up to 5 cents per KB and they wonder why few people use cellphone internet access???
1) What happens when the service decides to raise the monthly price? Do I have to pay the new rate or is the new rate for new customers only?
2) What happens when the service goes out of business? Do I get to keep the music as if I bought it? Will my "playlist" be transfered to another service (of my choice)?
3) What happens when the service decides to remove an artist's music? Does the music get deleted from my computers as well?
4) What happens if I format my Windows partition? Will my music be automatically re-downloaded when I sign in to the service?
5) What happens if I cancel my membership and rejoin 3 months or a year later? Will my music be reactivated or will I have to re-download it?
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Apple is tempting you! If you want to run OS X (legally) then you have to use their hardware.
When the Intel iBook (MacBook?) will come it most likely will be a Core Solo laptop to differenciate between the consumer and prosumer lines and to lower the cost of the iBook.
Do you really need a Core Duo laptop ??? What can you do with a Core Duo that you can't do with a Core Solo? What do you need FW800 for? Do you need really fast access to huge amounts of data? How often have you been in a place recently that had a modem port BUT didn't have wireless access points or ethernet? If you weren't at a hotel then most likely you didn't have access to either a modem or ethernet port (without permission).
Do you have a cell phone? Do you know that you can access the Internet through your cellphone from your laptop (through USB or bluetooth) without breaking your contract (search Google for QNC [quick network connect]). Granted QNC only gives you 14.4kb/s while using your minutes (no extra fees), but who really needs really fast access in the middle of nowhere? If you really need it then get a data plan from your cellphone provider. Here (Ontario, Canada) I can get a PCMCIA EVDO card that gives me up to 500MB transfer per month for $100 CDN.
Yes it would be nice to have a higher cap on the data plan (1.5GB to 2.0GB per month), but who really needs that much right now that doesn't have access to ethernet or a wireless connection.
If you need a fast graphics card, a core duo laptop with OS X, then get the MacBook Pro. If not then wait for and get one of the upcoming Intel iBooks. If you're not able to spend $1000 USD on a laptop (current cost of entry-level iBook) then get a heavy, loud, short battery life Windows XP laptop and please stop complaining. For the last couple of years (2-3 probably) Apple laptops have been feature competetive and are (with introduction of Intel chips) starting to be CPU competetive as well. There hasn't been such thing as a "Mac Tax" since the late '90s when Macs started being priced comparitively to mid-high-end PCs (which have things that cheap PCs don't - FW400, USB2.0, 802.11g, GB ethernet, dedicated video cards, SATA, DVI, etc.)
I am the consumer and (in this case as well as most where people claim they know what's best for their consumers) I know that I'd rather have the choice of whether I want to watch the DVD in my living room or go to a movie theatre.
The best solution for this would be to have the movie start in the theatre and have a 2 week delay for releasing a higher priced DVD (for e.g. $30 instead of $20). Then after the movie is done playing in theatres (4-6 months) the DVD should fall to the regular $20 price.
This way you're giving those who want the DVD the chance to get it earlier and those who'd rather pay less can wait the 4-6 months for the regular price or a year or 2 for the discounted price.
Update:
Check out http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Main_Page for info on installing Windows XP on Intel Macs as well as links to drivers.
Congratulations to narf2006 and blanka! Great Job!
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From the screenshots available on the osx86project.org website it seems that there's still a bit of work to be done: finding drivers!
Here's the Windows Device Manager on iMac Core Duo - http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=ab17121
The drivers that need to be (and most if not all will be) found are:
- ATI Radeon X1600 PCI Express video driver
- Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) driver
- Airport Extreme driver
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR driver
- iSight driver
- IR receiver driver
and possibly 4 other drivers (Bus controller, Chipset, etc.)
I don't know if sound works or not (sound devices aren't expanded in the image). I'm guessing that Firewire and USB 2.0 don't need drivers (Windows XP SP2 supports them out of the box usually)
And then the drivers will have to be found for similar devices on the other Intel Macs (MacBook Pro, Mac Mini)
Actually what happened most likely was that the parent had some kernel extensions that were PPC-only which were slowing down the system. That's what I read in the MacWorld review (made the system run at the proper speed after they were removed).
If Google made Google Earth Plus compatible with a real-time GPS (currently you can only load a file) I'd be willing to part with the $20 for the app. Especially if they made this feature available on the Mac OS X version of the app. (Third-party solutions only work on Windows 2000/XP)
Another cool feature would be creating a mobile version of Google Maps for cell phones (there are 2 or 3 that exist, but they aren't that great - especially when they shrink the computer version of Google Maps to the size of a cell phone screen).
Convincing the cell network providers to give us accurate GPS info of our location from our phones (E911 gives that to the emergency services right now in most places in Canada and the US) for a fee would also be a great idea.
I thought that it was only lottery winnings that weren't taxed in Canada. (Although any income that you make on top of the lottery winnings would be taxed as if your lottery winnings were actual income - e.g. lottery winnings put you in top tax bracket, so any income is taxed at top tax bracket rate)
Could you please provide a link to some relevant info. Thanks.
Why would a potenital kidnaper (which by the way is usually someone the child knows) want to take the child from inside the school, when they can kidnap them in front of the school before boarding the bus????
I totally agree. If they want to keep the stuff until they get revived (if we revive them), they should have to pay yearly taxes on their possesions (payable by the person/entity charged with taking care of their estate/stuff).
For your laptop:
Solution 1 - It has a PCMCIA slot - try borrowing/buying a PCMCIA ethernet adapter (they're as cheap as $15 with ship on ebay
Solution 2 - Use the floppy drive
Solution 3 - Burn a cd with the drivers or a cd with drivers and installation software for the os
Solution 4 - Download knoppix (or a "lite"r live-cd version of linux) and copy the driver to the hd that way
Solution 5 - Copy the drivers in Windows and access the FAT32 Windows partition from Linux (CAREFUL - might damage your windows partition)
Solution 6 - Remove the laptop's hd and use a 2.5" external usb enclosure to copy the files
Solution 7 - Get someone else to do it for free/money
Except that of the 6.4 billion people on the planet, only about 280 million have access to TV Shows on iTunes (less than 5%). The US iTunes Store is the only country to have deals with the TV networks to allow tv shows being sold through iTunes.
So d/l'ing the program through P2P or Bit Torrent, rather than taping it on VHS doesn't seem wrong to me. I'm not profiting from it and I delete the program after I've watched it.
[offtopic]
BTW. I absolutely hate commercials. - There's a scene in one of the early Futurama episodes where Fry has a commercial implanted into one of his dreams and the other crew members ask him how prevalent commercials were back in the 20th century. He answers by listing all the ways except in dreams. Other than dreams, there are still places that commercials aren't: underwater and space. If they (corporations) try to get space "banners" that cover up our view of stars, they'll see backlash and possibly the first case of space vandalism.
[/offtopic]
Bill Smith, chief technology officer at BellSouth justified content charging companies by saying they are using the telco's network without paying for it.
No, they're not! You're customers who are paying you a monthly payment for network access, are paying those companies as well and are moving their content across BellSouth's network as allowed in the contract.
The content providers are being ASKED (and payed) to move content. They aren't stealing bandwidth. Stop being greedy, and try to solve real problems like spam, network reliability and getting your service to more people.
Therefore the solution is to only allow your page to be seend for 47 millliseconds. (3 seconds less because some people's eyesight is better than others)
BTW If you flash your page like the retarded ads do, then you'll still be giving people more than 50 milliseconds to judge your website and they'll most likely hate your website because if strobes at a horrible frequency.
I have 435GB spread over a laptop, a desktop, 2 external hds and an iPod. Today after loading a file in Azureus on my desktop, I realized that 2 directories with over 30GB of data weren't visible on the hd. They dissappeared. Switched to Windows to realize that of the 190GB partition, almost 150GB were either in weird characters or the files themselves were unrecognizable by the program that should be able to read it. Lost tons of media, including over 12GB of MP3s and tons of videos.
The point is that we depend on technology way too much. A couple years ago I destroyed a partition (accidentally) and all I lost was about 100 MP3s, some game saves and some images. Today I lost a lot more. Makes you wonder what will happen when someone loses a HD in 5 years with no backups.
And now since Macs will be running on 97% same hardware, we can see that Apple products aren't over-priced (they used to be way back).
Here's how to counter the Macs are overpriced argument:
1) If costs wasn't an issue would you want a Mac?
- if no, then go buy a PC and stop complaining about things that you don't care about.
- if yes, then you want something that Macs have (OS X, great design, better battery life for normal sized laptops, features [USB 2.0, Firewire, DVD+_RW, 802.11G], whatever.)
2) Go to a computer company website and spec out a similar computer (make sure that you take into account all the features - comparing a Mac to a $300 Walmart PC is not a proper comparison).
3) The Mac will come out either even or lower in price + you get OS X on it.
4) If they're still complaining about being able to build their own computer for half the price of Dell, IBM, etc., then they:
- Don't value their time enough.
- Don't care about warranty, customer service, proper reinstallation CDs/DVDs (Windows laptop restore CDs are crap because of the spyware/nagware they reinstall and they don't allow you to backup your documents before reinstall).
- Don't care about how the computer looks (cheap cases look like crap - same goes for cheap LCDs).
I'm not saying that Macs are for everyone. They're not. But if most people actually researched their computer purchase, there'd be a lot more Macs on the net.
Why is that every time someone (person, corporation or an entity) does something that a corporation doesn't like, they instantly need laws protecting them and their business?
But when we, the consumers, want some laws changed/created corporations always object and usually win?
One of these days (hopefully soon) they'll realize that you can't always have your cake and eat it too.
Maybe instead of giving .Mac for free, for a year with every new Mac, Apple should create .Mac Lite.
.Mac service)
.Mac Lite with every new Mac purchase. Charge a yearly fee of $25 after the first year.
- 250MB of bandwidth per month
- 50MB of storage
--- 10MB goes to website (if you want more you need to get full
--- 10MB goes to email
--- 30MB goes to iSync (for iCal, Address Book, bookmarks, and documents which you specify)
Give 1 free year access to
Bu, bu, but Steve Jobs is also bald.
... reality dissintigrating, universe collapsing.
Oh, no
The Ultimate Remote
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If someone would be kind enough to buy me a Intel iMac (20" with 256 MB VRAM preferably) I'll find a way to get Windows XP running on it.
Any takers can msg me.
Thanks
"Ha Ha!" - (Nelson, Simpsons)
Would you like to super-size (your combo) to the MacBook Pro for an additional $1000 ?
Right now (before January 2005 MacWorld Keynote) the Powerbooks have:
- faster CPUs,
- bigger busses,
- Firewire 400 and 800,
- Gigabit Ethernet,
- DVI output (dual in the 15" and 17"),
- higher monitor resolution,
- bigger maximum hardrive (120GB),
- faster RAM,
- better video card (with more VRAM),
- digital audio in/out
- and illuminated keyboard.
I think that's enough to seperate the two lines.
Considering that the external iSight retails for $149 USD (it probably cost Apple between $50 and $75 USD) Jobs might put the internal one in iBooks and Powerbooks (internal probably costs Apple $40 to $70).
Although you are right that the iBook most definatively won't get it if the Powerbook doesn't. Since the consensus is that the Powerbook probably won't be upgraded for another few months while iBook Yonah P4 Rev.1 works out it's issues, the iBook might get it now and the Powerbook will get it in a few months.
- CPU will most likely be upgraded to Intel Yonah Single Core CPU
- FSB will be upgraded (142MHz to ?)
- Default RAM will stay at 512MB
- 802.11G and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR will remain
-Optional HD upgrade might go from 100GB max to 120GB max
- don't know about displays (widescreen ?, 13.3 ?)
- Video RAM BETTER be upgraded to 64MB (32MB isn't enough for games or full Core Image functionality and the iBook has had 32MB for 5 or 6 updates (3 or 4 years!)
- Firewire 400 WILL continue to be on the iBook (lots of people with Digital Video Cameras and iMovie would be useless otherwise)
- Battery life might go from theoretical 6 hours to theoretical 5 hours
- LCDs might be upgraded the same way Powerbook LCDs were, BUT resolution might not change
- Hopefully the iBook will gain an internal iSight like the iMac G5
- The iBook won't get a remote (people would lose it too easily) but it might get a few function keys added/changed to allow easier FrontRow control
- The iBook P4 will look somewhat different just like the iBook changed when the CPU changed from G3 to G4
That would be an iBook that I would be willing to trade up for (I have an early 2004 iBook G4 14" 1GHz)
Here in Ontario, Canada unlimited cellphone internet access cost $80 CDN (approx. $69 USD), "UNLIMITED" means 25MB, roaming data plan can be up to 5 cents per KB and they wonder why few people use cellphone internet access???
1) What happens when the service decides to raise the monthly price? Do I have to pay the new rate or is the new rate for new customers only?
2) What happens when the service goes out of business? Do I get to keep the music as if I bought it? Will my "playlist" be transfered to another service (of my choice)?
3) What happens when the service decides to remove an artist's music? Does the music get deleted from my computers as well?
4) What happens if I format my Windows partition? Will my music be automatically re-downloaded when I sign in to the service?
5) What happens if I cancel my membership and rejoin 3 months or a year later? Will my music be reactivated or will I have to re-download it?