So who else do we know who does G4-800 chips? One answer: Apple. And how much do they cost? about 2x-4x as much as this new amiga effort. So by sacrificing apple's proprietary mobo and peripherals, I fulfil my desire for "Architecture" and slice the cost right down. That's looking pretty peachy to me.
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You do know that Amiga is just a board, right? 2X to 4X for Apple? Hardly. Have you looked at Apple's prices lately? You can buy a complete system for the amount you spend on this thing.
I'm not saying the Amiga might not be good, I'm just saying it is hardly cheap.
They are generally Mac hostile and have been for many years. You are lucky to find any Mac stuff there at all (they do sell a couple things but, not much).
CompUSA?
CompUSA doesn't have the best track record on carrying these sorts of things.
If you really want an external device for the Mac go and get it elsewhere (say online or at the Apple Store or something.)
I really wish people who say this would bother to do some research.
High price?
What are you buying some repackaged last year model? (Probably).
There is no such thing as a commodity laptop and never has been and probably never will be as you have to custom design the parts to fit into the small portable case.
Cheap PC laptops are repackaged older models.
If that was all you wanted, go buy a refurb iBook.
As I've said in the past, anything cheaper than an iBook is last years model on the PC side.
Why? custom components are what go into ALL laptops and there is no way to get around it so, Apple can make the current model cheaper than anyone else as that is something they excel at.
In other words, get a cheap PC laptop? it is last years tech.
People want a cheaper computer and the first company to make a decent $200 box (Sony? Panasonic? other?) will sell a million.
You do remember eMachines don't you? PC makers (the ones that survived) have started to learn the ever decreasing prices strategy doesn't work. Why? They can't make a profit at it when each manufacture keeps cutting prices.
FWIW, Apple sells lots of machines a year and sells more than Gateway. Gateway has a large market share in the US but, that is the only place they sell now.
And it took YEARS for anyone to win the Hack-a-Mac contest. That person then refused to have their name public (for obvious reasons).
Oh sure, anything is hackable but, you are talking about something here that is probably behind a Firewall and two probably has little turned on in the way of servers/services to the outside..
However, good LCD displays have been around for many years. The problem was a lot of PC laptops used poor quality ones (as opposed to Apple notebooks).
So, it isn't just recent displays but, those of good quality.
FYI, I had a PowerBook with a really nice Active Matrix display back in 1995(!).
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Except XFree86 is replaceable. However, you would have to write your own windowing system like Apple did.
I might but, will have to reread it again later.
Amiga is a pretty limited market so, I rather doubt if Apple cares but, I'll double check to be sure.
By that logic Macs aren't Macs as they have nothing in common with the orginal other than being from the same company.
Apple switch processors, uses PCI uses AGP, uses USB1.1, uses Firewire, etc. None of that was in or around in the days of the original Mac.
You wrote:
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You do know that Amiga is just a board, right? 2X to 4X for Apple? Hardly. Have you looked at Apple's prices lately? You can buy a complete system for the amount you spend on this thing.
I'm not saying the Amiga might not be good, I'm just saying it is hardly cheap.
I've read the Apple license agreements. I don't recall it saying you couldn't install it on one machine.
Basically, the license just says that you have a one user license to install on one machine and to have a backup copy.
Apple has never bothered to go after anyone who installs it on two machines but, that is there.
I should remind you that there were clones some years ago and you can legally run MacOS on those.
So, where does it say that?
Staples?
They are generally Mac hostile and have been for many years. You are lucky to find any Mac stuff there at all (they do sell a couple things but, not much).
CompUSA?
CompUSA doesn't have the best track record on carrying these sorts of things.
If you really want an external device for the Mac go and get it elsewhere (say online or at the Apple Store or something.)
You must not be looking as much as I am.
OmniWeb for instance is multilingal.
Basically, a good OS X app just needs new nib and other related files be dropped into its bundle.
This amounts to just text editing.
Credit where credit is due.
Mac Rumors and AtAT's 6 month old predicted this.
I really wish people who say this would bother to do some research.
High price?
What are you buying some repackaged last year model? (Probably).
There is no such thing as a commodity laptop and never has been and probably never will be as you have to custom design the parts to fit into the small portable case.
Cheap PC laptops are repackaged older models.
If that was all you wanted, go buy a refurb iBook.
Quite true.
As I've said in the past, anything cheaper than an iBook is last years model on the PC side.
Why? custom components are what go into ALL laptops and there is no way to get around it so, Apple can make the current model cheaper than anyone else as that is something they excel at.
In other words, get a cheap PC laptop? it is last years tech.
You wrote:
You do remember eMachines don't you? PC makers (the ones that survived) have started to learn the ever decreasing prices strategy doesn't work. Why? They can't make a profit at it when each manufacture keeps cutting prices.
FWIW, Apple sells lots of machines a year and sells more than Gateway. Gateway has a large market share in the US but, that is the only place they sell now.
No it wasn't.
The processor would be running at full speed unless you turned processor cycling on.
Now if processor cycling is on it just puts the processor to sleep if idle for a set period of time. It isn't the same thing.
I forgot, Apple doesn't enable turning this on in desktops by their software but, it is there in the chips.
On all Apple portables, you can disable or enable it using Energy Saver.
This is just processor cycling.
All this does is doesn't waste cycles when on batter power if on. You can have it on or off. Up to you.
Basically, what this does is when the chip isn't being used, it puts it to sleep.
This sort of thing can save battery power.
The chip itself is not crippled, this cycling feature is present in chips Apple has used for many years. It isn't new.
If you need the processor not to go to sleep when not in use, just turn this off.
FWIW, you can turn this feature on on desktops but, it isn't on by default.
How about PowerPC chips?
Apple uses full desktop versions and they are NOT crippled in their laptops like this.
This is what happens when you have a chip that runs too hot.
Not entriely true.
There was lots of misleading commentary in the Slashdot submission.
Like, "battleship", "cruise", etc.
It was designed to start a flamewar.
Now the actual article on Wired, is quite a bit different than the submitter makes it out to be.
And low bitrates are good?
Unless Vorbis can get higher quality than MP3 than at a higher bitrate than 64K then it is worthless. End of story.
AAC is excellent at higher bitrates which is what you want not low bitrates. Assuming you want quality that is.
If you read the Wired article you would see that is not the case.
The Slashdot submitter was itching to start a flamewar or something.
Yeah, you do have one nice boat.
Now if I could afford something like that...
I'm interested although others here might try to shred afterwards.
I hope you used a Firewall and didn't turn on many services that are connected to the outside.
That and configured TCPwrappers on the OS X boxes as well as iffw (in 10.2 there is an interface to it in System Preferences).
You probably did but, I'm concerned as there are all these frothing at the mouth types here.
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And it took YEARS for anyone to win the Hack-a-Mac contest. That person then refused to have their name public (for obvious reasons).
Oh sure, anything is hackable but, you are talking about something here that is probably behind a Firewall and two probably has little turned on in the way of servers/services to the outside..
Yes but, QuickTime 6 supports a much better audio Codec than Ogg. AAC. Gives small file size and great quality. Don't diss it until you've tried it.
Wacky? Yes
Cool? No
Original? No
Good Idea? No
Sometimes the people who do things like this make me fear for humanity.
Last years was rotting when it was reported here so, it must have really stank when it was demolished.
Quite true.
However, good LCD displays have been around for many years. The problem was a lot of PC laptops used poor quality ones (as opposed to Apple notebooks).
So, it isn't just recent displays but, those of good quality.
FYI, I had a PowerBook with a really nice Active Matrix display back in 1995(!).
Did anyone else read this:
and think: Ah well, I must be reading too much AtAT.