There are a few serious problems with your product.
First off, it doesn't have wireless interfaces built into it. You should have a version that can accept an 802.11g card tomorrow. Nowhere that I am going to put this device has a Ethernet port close-by. Living room? No. Master bedroom? No.
Secondly, it is ugly. This means it won't be allowed in the living room or bedroom so even if it had wireless capability without a dongle, I couldn't use it anywhere I wouldn't already have a computer.
If it supported Rendezvous, I might care about it. It doesn't appear to, so I don't.
I don't want to rip all of my CDs into a box in my living room. I want to rip them into my home server and then stream and download them to different devices around my house.
So Mac users are especially prone to want tabbed browsing, as Mozilla products offer.
I disagree. I think by the benefit of not having the Taskbar, Mac users are less likely to need or want tabs. I use tabs in Mozilla at work, but when I am at home on the Mac using Safari (or OmniWeb or Chimera) I don't need tabs because the Dock isn't cluttered like the Taskbar (Win2000, WinXP's Taskbar behaves more like the Dock when lots of windows are open). Add to that the fact that Command+Tab switches between applications and Command+` switches between windows in the current application and you have very little reason for tabs to exist.
Double-buffering every window in a GUI environment is a good thing. You don't get window flicker in Mac OS X like you do in GUIs that aren't double-buffered like Windows.
Every window in Mac OS X is double-buffered. This is a good thing. Photoshop has its how window buffering support added in. This results in the Photoshop window being buffered more than twice. This accounts for some of the interface lag. Once this is fixed in the OS X release of Photoshop, it should meet OS 9 performance.
This is true for the most part. Sometimes I won't get enough of a signal to display anything so I'll have to go turn the futz knob on the rabbit-ears. Sometimes something will break the reception and I'll get some green screen.
The worst problem is lack of live content in HDTV. Most HDTV is recorded. Everyone should be shooting live stuff with HDTV DV cameras, but they're not. WRAL (Raleigh) is, and I wish more would follow.
Yeah, I hate those CSI episodes in HDTV that I evidently don't watch. It sucks that the local PBS station also has HDTV that evidently I can't watch because no one is willing to broadcast it.
Sweet, it sounds like it is going to support off-air HDTV. I've got a widescreen HDTV that I bought for anamorphic DVDs, but I don't have cable. All of the HDTV I watch right now is off the air, which is a good amount in Charlotte. I'm glad to see TiVo isn't leaving us early adopters behind.
Having to pay $49 to get iDVD3 (even though other iApps come along they are also freely available) is rediculous.
Keynote is expensive, nice, but still expensive and on par with Microsoft's rediculous prices for their own office apps. Apple should have offered the iApps along with Keynote for like $79 or the iApps by themselves for $29. That would have made it worth the money to get the iApps. Jobs even said the only reason they don't offer iDVD for free is that it is so huge in size. Given that admission, I will feel no guilt at all when I download it from elsewhere or get it from a friend's new Mac.
The $50 pays for shipping and handling as well as the DVD license that Apple must pay for ever copy of iDVD.
Oh, my spalling does suck, but nevermind about that:)
You won't have to worry about that much longer. Spell-checking is pervasive on Mac OS X. You'll be able to spell check in the textareas you type into on Slashdot.
But if anyone wants to throw links to great places new Mac ownsers can go to (such as http://fink.sourceforge.net/ ) I'd LOVE to see your thoughts, links, suggestions, etc.
Have you bought one yet? If not, buy one. They might not be discontinued if they are still selling. No one plans to discontinue something that far out. They may be looking at discontinuing it.
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You'd rather yell across a house than instant message? If I'm in my office working, and she is downstairs doing whatever and the laptop happens to be on, she can easily IM me rather than yell something that I won't hear -- especially when I'm listening to music.
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The teacher could even bring his own laptop, add their AIM screen names to his AIM account, and talk to students via AIM.
Using a Rendezvous capable chat client would be a better solution. Everyone on that LAN automatically sees everyone else in the chat client. It's very cool around my house. My girlfriend and I peer-to-peer chat using Rendezvous instead of yelling at each other through the house when we're on different floors.
The easy solution is to not have classroom LANs configured to passthrough to the Internet. They should be able to access all of the University's resources on the Intranet, but they could set it up so the prof can easily turn on and off the Internet passthrough.
With Rendezvous (ZeroConf), they'll never be able to kill the network. Kids will still be able to iChat peer to peer and do other things. Heck, with cached e-mail from the IMAP server they can read and respond to their e-mail offline in class.
Your post doesn't say anything positive about USB 2.0. All your post talks about it how Intel used its market dominance to ensure that USB 2.0 was on more Wintel computers than FireWire.
That's a benefit of USB 2.0's presense, not the technology. I simply said that with FireWire beating USB 2.0 in every category, there is no point for USB 2.0.
USB has it's place, but in my mind it isn't for high performance devices.
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Keeping the price low doesn't help too much if they don't sell.
Very few people have Ethernet in their living room. People don't want to plug some stupid dongle into the unit to make it wireless.
There are a few serious problems with your product.
First off, it doesn't have wireless interfaces built into it. You should have a version that can accept an 802.11g card tomorrow. Nowhere that I am going to put this device has a Ethernet port close-by. Living room? No. Master bedroom? No.
Secondly, it is ugly. This means it won't be allowed in the living room or bedroom so even if it had wireless capability without a dongle, I couldn't use it anywhere I wouldn't already have a computer.
You don't buy all of the albums at once. Duh.
If it supported Rendezvous, I might care about it. It doesn't appear to, so I don't.
I don't want to rip all of my CDs into a box in my living room. I want to rip them into my home server and then stream and download them to different devices around my house.
When did they bundle OmniWeb? It didn't come on my iBook and wasn't installed along with Jaguar.
I disagree. I think by the benefit of not having the Taskbar, Mac users are less likely to need or want tabs. I use tabs in Mozilla at work, but when I am at home on the Mac using Safari (or OmniWeb or Chimera) I don't need tabs because the Dock isn't cluttered like the Taskbar (Win2000, WinXP's Taskbar behaves more like the Dock when lots of windows are open). Add to that the fact that Command+Tab switches between applications and Command+` switches between windows in the current application and you have very little reason for tabs to exist.
Double-buffering every window in a GUI environment is a good thing. You don't get window flicker in Mac OS X like you do in GUIs that aren't double-buffered like Windows.
To who? Apple or Microsoft? :)
Every window in Mac OS X is double-buffered. This is a good thing. Photoshop has its how window buffering support added in. This results in the Photoshop window being buffered more than twice. This accounts for some of the interface lag. Once this is fixed in the OS X release of Photoshop, it should meet OS 9 performance.
Repeat after me: DRM isn't about copyright infringement, it's about control.
This is true for the most part. Sometimes I won't get enough of a signal to display anything so I'll have to go turn the futz knob on the rabbit-ears. Sometimes something will break the reception and I'll get some green screen.
The worst problem is lack of live content in HDTV. Most HDTV is recorded. Everyone should be shooting live stuff with HDTV DV cameras, but they're not. WRAL (Raleigh) is, and I wish more would follow.
Yeah, I hate those CSI episodes in HDTV that I evidently don't watch. It sucks that the local PBS station also has HDTV that evidently I can't watch because no one is willing to broadcast it.
Sweet, it sounds like it is going to support off-air HDTV. I've got a widescreen HDTV that I bought for anamorphic DVDs, but I don't have cable. All of the HDTV I watch right now is off the air, which is a good amount in Charlotte. I'm glad to see TiVo isn't leaving us early adopters behind.
Hell, I'd buy a TiVo for this feature alone. I don't even have cable or satelite TV. I want music sharing in my living room over AirPort Extreme!
The pop-up blocking feature is also available through a key-binding which allows for easy toggling on sites that you want to see pop-ups.
Good thing the iMac has both of those then.
Have you bought one yet? If not, buy one. They might not be discontinued if they are still selling. No one plans to discontinue something that far out. They may be looking at discontinuing it.
You'd rather yell across a house than instant message? If I'm in my office working, and she is downstairs doing whatever and the laptop happens to be on, she can easily IM me rather than yell something that I won't hear -- especially when I'm listening to music.
Using a Rendezvous capable chat client would be a better solution. Everyone on that LAN automatically sees everyone else in the chat client. It's very cool around my house. My girlfriend and I peer-to-peer chat using Rendezvous instead of yelling at each other through the house when we're on different floors.
The easy solution is to not have classroom LANs configured to passthrough to the Internet. They should be able to access all of the University's resources on the Intranet, but they could set it up so the prof can easily turn on and off the Internet passthrough.
With Rendezvous (ZeroConf), they'll never be able to kill the network. Kids will still be able to iChat peer to peer and do other things. Heck, with cached e-mail from the IMAP server they can read and respond to their e-mail offline in class.
Your post doesn't say anything positive about USB 2.0. All your post talks about it how Intel used its market dominance to ensure that USB 2.0 was on more Wintel computers than FireWire.
That's a benefit of USB 2.0's presense, not the technology. I simply said that with FireWire beating USB 2.0 in every category, there is no point for USB 2.0.
USB has it's place, but in my mind it isn't for high performance devices.
Yeah, maybe I should have used a # to represent standards that Apple didn't create, but did establish.
I knew my list wasn't exhaustive, so thanks for adding those others. Wouldn't it have been SCSI*?
Yes, I know. However, being able to hack Windows XP to support third party themes isn't the same thing as Windows XP supporting third party themes.
Were that the case, you'd have to say that Mac OS X supports third party themes.