Actually you can do whatever the hell you want with your purchased equipment as long as any modifications you do to it don't cause other components to fail.
From working in an Apple authorized service center, it didn't matter if a machine with Applecare or Apple's 1 year warranty came in with modifications as long as those changes didn't cause other components to fail. IE: A CPU upgrade fried the motherboard or a HD replacement broke a component off the logic board. Disassembling your Power or iBook would be a huge mistake due to the sheer number of different screws but a careful end user could disassemble his book and put it back together without causing anyone to become suspicious.
If he disassembled the hard drive to take pictuers, then he would have broken a seal that would have voided his warranty. As it is, I'm sure his warranty is intact.
I don't know if the Magnusson-Moss warranty act is directly applicable but I don't see why it wouldn't be.
I was looking over the pictures on Sony's page and there is a conspicuous lack of firewire on the new (and old) unit. Why did sony ditch firewire? I'll admit that *I* never used it the entire time I had my PS2 and IIRC, it was supposed to be used for multiplayer gaming, right?
The ethernet adapter (and modem, in that case) was about $50 when it first came out. You plugged it in to the back of your PS2 and you could play online games. There was also a company (I forget the name) that sold a CD that would boot the PS2 and enable it to stream digital media from your computer to the PS2. Pretty much like what Xbox Media Player does but you don't need a mod-chip for the PS2 because it was commercial software.
This unit has the ethernet (but no modem) built in, which is what should have been done right from the start.
I don't recall every saying anywhere that I owned a Rolex. In fact, I'll bet you that you don't own one either.
Honestly, I don't know why I'm even dignifying you with a response but I'd expect that any mechanical watch with a sweep second hand would make noise. It would seem that you are a moron.
I bought an autowinding "skeleton" style manual analog watch. This is the nicest watch I've owned and it's somehow soothing to hear the "tick-tick-tick-tick, tick-tick-tick-tick" of the sweep second hand when i'm falling asleep and my fiance doesn't have the damned TV on at night. It's very cool to see all of the inner workings, springs, jewels, etc.. my watch and cell phone are the only "jewelry" I wear - though I guess I'll be adding a ring (from titaniumrings.com, read about them here a couple years ago) as a wedding band.
I agree! There area few channels that I watch a small number of shows on and the remainder of my basic plus analog cable is wasted. I've wanted to go to dish or digital cable but it just isn't worth it to me.
Perhaps, if the FCC would require "ala carte" channel selection, I would bump up to a newer technology package but it's just not worth it. In fact, I believe Comcast is raising my rates next month.
Can we all stop splitting hairs on this subject already? Apple more than likely meant that they were the first 64 bit desktop that normal people would buy. Yes, you could buy a DEC Alpha ATX form factor motherboard 7 years ago and roll your own desktop. Yes, you could buy a 64 bit workstation and put it on your desk years before that. I believe that Apple's objective here is to commoditize the 64 bit desktop like the grandparent post said about 802.11, Firewire, no floppies, USB, built in ethernet, etc etc etc... Now you can buy a 64 bit desktop for $1300. It might not be "Teh first0r" but all of the machines you cited weren't really for general consumption.
The $5458 price tag includes a $29 network cable, among other things. I believe that in itself is indicitave of the amount of profit margin that exists on this machine.
I had just spoken to someone here at my office who's really into the space program and stays up to date on it. He said that the ocean shelf has a very shallow dropoff and the area lends itself to "repelling" hurricanes naturally. Of course, since this thing is so damn big I'd expect there to be collateral damage but he seems to tell me that it would be unlikely for a direct hit to happen.
1. I'm sure someone will design an "iCable" thingie or whatever for this new unit. Apple does leave some of its accessory design to 3rd party developers.
2. All that white space at the bottom makes it tie in to the eMac's look. They could have probably just centered the display but it looks better this way.
3. The display still rotates if you turn the entire unit. That arm was freakishly expensive ($300), would get loose after a while and was a pain in the ass to replace, if necessary.
4. I'm sure that anything will topple over if given enough of a push. Apple has more than likely looked into this and found this to be stable.
5. Errrr... it's hard to give a URL but if you go to apple.com and refresh enough, you'll see the profile shot of the iMac and iPod together. They look quite the same. Are you referring to the iMac's lack of a b&w LCD screen and scroll wheel?
6. They call it the eMac. Wait a year and the new iMacs will be refreshed to slightly cheaper/slightly faster.
1. You will now see a million wires coming out of the right side of the machine, hanging in mid-air and visible at all times.
2. All that white space at the bottom of the display makes it look like a waste of space (of course it's probably used for the internal electronics, but geez, couldn't they think of a better design?).
3. The display now only rotates in one single dimension (either tilts up or down) as opposed to the previous iMac multi-dimensions of fredom).
4. That base seems awefully inadecuate for so much weight on top of it. Seems like if it is very easy to drop the display sideways if you have a crouded desk and move things around a lot.
5. This design has been created before by the big guys (IBM and Compaq/HP I think had/have something similar), why not come up with something as cool as the iPod? (it's a shame they say on the website "from the creators of iPod" - if I was one of the iPod designers I'd be shamed...).
Since Applecare's inception they've been bending over backwards to fix computers! I was working at a shop MANY years ago (this was when you could still renew Applecare indefinitely) and people were still renewing their Apple IIe Applecare ($58?).
The only crap part about it is here in Florida you must present a federal tax ID because we have some sort of anti-scam law which won't let an individual purchase an extended warranty (from anyone, not just Apple).
This is finally the Mac I can afford and justify the purchase price on. I was going to buy a G4 Digital Audio motherboard for $200, a cpu for $350, video card, memory, hard drive, case, power supply, etc... but why even bother now? It would've cost me $800 to have a nice G4, why not just spend a few hundred more and get a brand new G5 iMac with a warranty and then an extra $250 for two more years of warranty.
Sure, there are a lot of kiosks in drug stores around here - you can put in a floppy, flash media, cd or scan directly from the flat bed scanner. The same places usually offer a service to rip the pictures out of your memory card and you come back later for the prints.
A lot of people just don't want to think about that; I suspect it has to do with the fact that you have so much more control over the image capture process with digital. It's probably easier for them to shoot film and blame bad shots on the processing.
I'm hoping that getting digital prints back ends up costing the same or less than traditional film. I'd have to guess that developing film is HORRIBLE for the environment and dye-sub has to be at least margionally better.
What's wrong with taking the camera back to the store for high quality prints? I don't own a printer capable of printing pictures at home. I don't want to buy a photo printer either.
Expensive and incompatible flash cards? Umm... I'll give you incompatible, CF and SD are major players but there's four others out there. The price has gone down to almost nothing compared to what it was before. I bought a 128mb CF card for $90 1.5 years ago, I can get a 512 for that now. A few years before that, getting an 8 meg SmartMedia card for $60 was a steal!
Expensive inkjet consumables? Inkjet paper has come down from over a dollar a sheet (clay coated "special" paper) to generic photo paper which is pennies a sheet. I suppose you could buck the system and print on 99 cent copier paper but it will look like hell. While printer ink certainly hasn't gotten cheaper, it has gotten better for about the same price. Remember buying a $50 DeskJet 500 black cartridge? Not too much different today but the resolution and color output is through the roof.
I'm not sure what your trying to prove here. Is it about expensive consumables for home printing? Expensive services for printing at a photomat? Expensive flash memory? What? It's free to display them on a monitor or TV. With film cameras, you STILL have to develop the film and get prints so it's not like the cost of developing and service is something that came about with digital cameras and surprised everyone.
This $20 camera is shit. You could compare it to a $70 camera. I believe Target sells a $70 camera w/ flash and LCD and it's probably the same guts with a USB interface.
My 2MP Canon Powershot A40 still produces amazing pictures in all lighting conditions. I am hard pressed to WANT to replace it because there just isn't any reason at the moment. I've been eyeing the Polaroid x530 but it won't be out for a couple months and even then it might suck.
By the way, the DC280 is 12.1 oz! Holy crap! I thought you were exaggerating but I guess not...
You are absolutely correct. Also, this is no different from buying a disposable film camera, using it, removing the 35mm canister and reloading it yourself.
I just patiently wait here, hoping eventually someone will "get it."
I may pick one of these up just to have around. I could have one in the car ready to go in case my expensive camera isn't with me. I also have a camera phone but it's crap (Motorola V400), this is crap too but it's quite a bit better than my phone. It's simply amazing that people bitch about how it's 2 megapixel interpolated and 1.3mpix native - who cares?!? 20 bucks! I'd have a shit hemorrhage if I found out that my Canon A40 was actually 1.3mpix and I paid $300 new for it 1.5 years ago.
I was generalizing a bit to all Palm and CE devices but for example if you're sitting at Starbucks and get a phone call that there's a server problem, you can possibly fix it without having to go anywhere. Just one example of many.
I agree that it's tedious and slow but it's entirely possible that to spend a few minutes VNCing somewhere would prevent needing to go find a computer somewhere to do the same task.
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From working in an Apple authorized service center, it didn't matter if a machine with Applecare or Apple's 1 year warranty came in with modifications as long as those changes didn't cause other components to fail. IE: A CPU upgrade fried the motherboard or a HD replacement broke a component off the logic board. Disassembling your Power or iBook would be a huge mistake due to the sheer number of different screws but a careful end user could disassemble his book and put it back together without causing anyone to become suspicious.
If he disassembled the hard drive to take pictuers, then he would have broken a seal that would have voided his warranty. As it is, I'm sure his warranty is intact.
I don't know if the Magnusson-Moss warranty act is directly applicable but I don't see why it wouldn't be.
Anyone care to enlighten me?
This unit has the ethernet (but no modem) built in, which is what should have been done right from the start.
Honestly, I don't know why I'm even dignifying you with a response but I'd expect that any mechanical watch with a sweep second hand would make noise. It would seem that you are a moron.
I bought an autowinding "skeleton" style manual analog watch. This is the nicest watch I've owned and it's somehow soothing to hear the "tick-tick-tick-tick, tick-tick-tick-tick" of the sweep second hand when i'm falling asleep and my fiance doesn't have the damned TV on at night. It's very cool to see all of the inner workings, springs, jewels, etc.. my watch and cell phone are the only "jewelry" I wear - though I guess I'll be adding a ring (from titaniumrings.com, read about them here a couple years ago) as a wedding band.
I'm printing that out for my office! I especially like how all of Scandinavia is referred to as "Nokia!"
Oh damn, that was my laugh for the day!
Austria is that island where the toilets flush backwards, no?
Perhaps, if the FCC would require "ala carte" channel selection, I would bump up to a newer technology package but it's just not worth it. In fact, I believe Comcast is raising my rates next month.
Go fuck yourself you little bitch. Go pony up $1350 and buy the camera body already if you're so aware of it.
http://foveon.com/SD10_info.html
Can we all stop splitting hairs on this subject already? Apple more than likely meant that they were the first 64 bit desktop that normal people would buy. Yes, you could buy a DEC Alpha ATX form factor motherboard 7 years ago and roll your own desktop. Yes, you could buy a 64 bit workstation and put it on your desk years before that. I believe that Apple's objective here is to commoditize the 64 bit desktop like the grandparent post said about 802.11, Firewire, no floppies, USB, built in ethernet, etc etc etc... Now you can buy a 64 bit desktop for $1300. It might not be "Teh first0r" but all of the machines you cited weren't really for general consumption.
The $5458 price tag includes a $29 network cable, among other things. I believe that in itself is indicitave of the amount of profit margin that exists on this machine.
Buy one.
I had just spoken to someone here at my office who's really into the space program and stays up to date on it. He said that the ocean shelf has a very shallow dropoff and the area lends itself to "repelling" hurricanes naturally. Of course, since this thing is so damn big I'd expect there to be collateral damage but he seems to tell me that it would be unlikely for a direct hit to happen.
2. All that white space at the bottom makes it tie in to the eMac's look. They could have probably just centered the display but it looks better this way.
3. The display still rotates if you turn the entire unit. That arm was freakishly expensive ($300), would get loose after a while and was a pain in the ass to replace, if necessary. 4. I'm sure that anything will topple over if given enough of a push. Apple has more than likely looked into this and found this to be stable.
5. Errrr... it's hard to give a URL but if you go to apple.com and refresh enough, you'll see the profile shot of the iMac and iPod together. They look quite the same. Are you referring to the iMac's lack of a b&w LCD screen and scroll wheel?
6. They call it the eMac. Wait a year and the new iMacs will be refreshed to slightly cheaper/slightly faster.
The only crap part about it is here in Florida you must present a federal tax ID because we have some sort of anti-scam law which won't let an individual purchase an extended warranty (from anyone, not just Apple).
This is finally the Mac I can afford and justify the purchase price on. I was going to buy a G4 Digital Audio motherboard for $200, a cpu for $350, video card, memory, hard drive, case, power supply, etc... but why even bother now? It would've cost me $800 to have a nice G4, why not just spend a few hundred more and get a brand new G5 iMac with a warranty and then an extra $250 for two more years of warranty.
square knots?
It's amazing how we've come from $900 gigantic low-res cameras to $20 disposable (semi) high-res cameras!
A lot of people just don't want to think about that; I suspect it has to do with the fact that you have so much more control over the image capture process with digital. It's probably easier for them to shoot film and blame bad shots on the processing.
I'm hoping that getting digital prints back ends up costing the same or less than traditional film. I'd have to guess that developing film is HORRIBLE for the environment and dye-sub has to be at least margionally better.
What's wrong with taking the camera back to the store for high quality prints? I don't own a printer capable of printing pictures at home. I don't want to buy a photo printer either.
Expensive and incompatible flash cards? Umm... I'll give you incompatible, CF and SD are major players but there's four others out there. The price has gone down to almost nothing compared to what it was before. I bought a 128mb CF card for $90 1.5 years ago, I can get a 512 for that now. A few years before that, getting an 8 meg SmartMedia card for $60 was a steal!
Expensive inkjet consumables? Inkjet paper has come down from over a dollar a sheet (clay coated "special" paper) to generic photo paper which is pennies a sheet. I suppose you could buck the system and print on 99 cent copier paper but it will look like hell. While printer ink certainly hasn't gotten cheaper, it has gotten better for about the same price. Remember buying a $50 DeskJet 500 black cartridge? Not too much different today but the resolution and color output is through the roof.
I'm not sure what your trying to prove here. Is it about expensive consumables for home printing? Expensive services for printing at a photomat? Expensive flash memory? What? It's free to display them on a monitor or TV. With film cameras, you STILL have to develop the film and get prints so it's not like the cost of developing and service is something that came about with digital cameras and surprised everyone.
It looks like it was maid till '98, I would have thought it was discontinued much earlier than that.
http://www.toptown.com/nowhere/kypfer/disctimeline .htm/
My 2MP Canon Powershot A40 still produces amazing pictures in all lighting conditions. I am hard pressed to WANT to replace it because there just isn't any reason at the moment. I've been eyeing the Polaroid x530 but it won't be out for a couple months and even then it might suck.
By the way, the DC280 is 12.1 oz! Holy crap! I thought you were exaggerating but I guess not...
I just patiently wait here, hoping eventually someone will "get it."
I may pick one of these up just to have around. I could have one in the car ready to go in case my expensive camera isn't with me. I also have a camera phone but it's crap (Motorola V400), this is crap too but it's quite a bit better than my phone. It's simply amazing that people bitch about how it's 2 megapixel interpolated and 1.3mpix native - who cares?!? 20 bucks! I'd have a shit hemorrhage if I found out that my Canon A40 was actually 1.3mpix and I paid $300 new for it 1.5 years ago.
I agree that it's tedious and slow but it's entirely possible that to spend a few minutes VNCing somewhere would prevent needing to go find a computer somewhere to do the same task.