This is finally the machine I have been looking for. An ultra-light that runs Mac OSX. SSD. Wow... they listened to the small market that is tired of lugging heavy feature bloated machines around.
My only question is how much faster is SSD over the hard drive option, and how much longer will the battery last?
If it takes the device from 5 hours to 10 hours battery life, that helps justify the high cost of the SSD option a lot... of course waiting will make that SSD cheaper, but I've already been waiting 5 years for a 3 pound Mac OSX ultra-light.
Jobs is a fabulous innovator and Gates is a fabulous marketer. Neither is a hero.
Job is a bull-headed perfectionist, must be hell to work for.
Gates is a two faced slimy liar that makes excellent lawyers and marketers, but having no integrity does not a hero make.
A real hero is someone who tries on of the hardest jobs in the country, fails pretty miserably, and goes on giving of himself after being removed from that job. Jimmy Carter is the best ex-president we've had since the U.S. was founded, and he's a hero because he's trying to bring peace and shelter to the world.
A real hero is the Iraqi lad or U.S. Marine who dives on a grenade so that several others might survive.
Robbing from the poor, lining your own pockets, and giving a small portion to good causes does not make you a hero - it means you are greedy but do feel a little remorse.
I applaud Mr. Gates for using his foundation to tackle some issues that other rich folks can't be bothered to tackle because there is no profit in it (Malaria and public education), I am also concerned about strings attached.
Aside from football games and beer commercials, where's the HD content?
I am compelled by neither American football nor American beer. I am too cheap to pay extra for HD premium channels (an HBO, a Showtime, etc).
No real point in buying or using an HD set if that's all the choice there is.
In Windows, you just insert the CD. Maybe into someone else's system when their back is turned. Windows OS trusts external content much more than the user sitting at the desk. "Do me", it says.
So how come people hate this feature in Windows, but love that feature in hot chicks?
Grinning, ducking and running.
Right you are, and they (tornados) are even less predictable than hurricanes, therefore they scare me more than hurricanes.
If you look at a composite map of the world at night, you can clearly see the oceans because most cities are built right on a coast. There are many, many good reasons why that is so. Expecting people to move away from the ocean is unreasonable.
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Actually, the compelling reason for many people to chose VHS over Beta was that the VHS decks had day/time programming first. For nearly 17 months most VHS decks made time-shifting your favorite TV shows easy and Beta had no programmable solution for the same goal.
It was also regional market driven by what was available in the area's rental stores. I remember being surprised and delighted that VHS was virtually unheard of in Hawaii when I got stationed there in 1985. Hawaii was a strong Beta market long after New York had entirely shifted to VHS.
What about getting conversations going between nearby drivers? Might help reduce the isolation one feels when driving in traffic... Could also make "caravaning" (where several car loads of people travel together on a long trip) easier to manage if hey can talk car to car without having to carry walkie-talkies or FRS radios.
Since the useable life span of my Cube will probably be 7 years, I expect I won't be in the market for a new machine until 2008 or 2009. At that point, I simply get whatever is best for me then, either a used OSX machine or whatever they are selling.
I may pad my options by buying the latest greatest PowerPC PowerMac just before they stop selling them, get loads of brownie points for her having the screaming machine in the house, and then graciously accept that machine when she decides to upgrade later.
Itanium announcements by the UNIX vendors where I worked scared me because we deliberately used architecture diversity to isolate our production facilities from architecture problems.
Having half our mail servers run on Sun (SPARC) and half on HP-UX (PA-RISC) meant that a problem with any one of the components could only take out half the complex, and we hoped we'd fix that problem before a different problem took out the other half.
It worked, but with most of our vendors jumping on the Itanium vaporware wagon, and the remaining non-jumper screwing us on service we got very nervous about being able to continue.
Turns out we were lucky. The scaleability and reliability of Linux on several processor types has made our tradition of two OS vendors for any major subsystem moot, and we can still split architectures between i86, Opteron, PowerPC, and even re-use the PA-RISC and SPARC gear that we have not lease returned or sold off.
A bunch of companies that are too stupid to use secure computers? Come on now... While releasing a worm like sasser is definitely wrong, this clown's suggested punishment is way out of line. Frankly a lot of the burden should be on these alleged victims who knowingly continue to take no security procautions at all.
Who was hurt? Who died? Who's happiness was ruined? So some businesses are out some money. May the perpetrator pay, but those businesses also have to take responsibility for their own neglect.
Sasser did not impact me in the least, but then I do not run any software made by Microsoft because they refuse to take security seriously.
Londoners: My thoughts go out to you all. I hope the damage done turns out to be slight, and that your nation will respond in a way that more effectively damages Al Qaida.
Bravo! I know there are exceptions, but as a general rule people who have something to lose do not risk losing it. One of the fundamental problems with these "terrorists" is that they feel they've got nothing to lose. How about engaging them in the world economy? How about actually listening to them? I am not talking about the people who have already committed terrorist acts, but their neighbors and relatives need to be talked to and engaged positively so they are not recruited into the same nightmare.
Where is the Western Powers' pressure on the Saudi government to open up it's society and allow more participation in their own government?
All this talk of "democratizing the middle east" is pure bull-hockey unless you address the countries with the worst problems.
Apple is probably tired of people like me clinging to 5 year old machines too long (still happy on my 500MHz Cube); we must be bad for revenues.
Switching to Intel makes sense from a business revenue model, the Intel chip du jour is only useful for 12-18 months, but my G4 remains useable for over half a decade.
So the question is, will this spur sales of new machines once they are available? Will people have to upgrade more often once on Intel, or will the Mac OS "protect" our investment in Intel machines as he has for PowerPC machines?
I'll be buying them up like crazy. 5 years from now everyone will want the last of the Macs that actually worked, and had no mat errors and no overheating problems.;-)
Perhaps this style of fascism is exactly what American voters want after all...
If that is true, then the only way it will be fixed is when the aggressive stance that U.S. Capitolism requires it's puppet government to use all the time, will lead The United States into wars against all her neighbors and the reast of the world unites against the aggressor.
After a protracted world war, the greater numbers, intellectual resources, and physical resources of the rest of the world will surely allow the alliance against aggression to win, and then the allies will have to occupy the U.S. until the people of American recover from their insanity...
Gee this all sounds really familiar...
I am having the same problem on 10.3.5, and not 10.3.7 - but on a PowerMac Dual G4/500MHz. I have the same OS versions on a Cube, and on a Sawtooth G4 (single cpu @500Mhz) and they have never had this problem - only the dual seems to never wake from sleep. Spinning beach ball of death.
Interestingly, I can ssh into the dual-G4 when it is sleeping - which means it only keeps the display/keyboard/mouse asleep, but the machine itself is back to normal.
Oddly, booting the machine from power-off to login screen is quick - but when I jumped from 10.3.5 to 10.3.7, the time it takes to login and get functionaility as any user went from ~22 seconds to ~5 minutes, but ONLY on the dual G4 machine. The Cube and the Sawtooh (both also 500Mhz machines with the same OS) still login within ~22 seconds.
I have not tried the fix-permissions trick - though I intend to do so tonight.
A lot (but not all) of this is easily explained by the simple fact that disks and memory are not much faster today than they were in the late 1980s.
Time to start a simple text editor, open a 550 byte text file, make a change and close the file, then sync to disk is about the same today as it was in the late 1980s (assuming you had a hard disk).
The editor itself (Vim 6 vrs CygnusEd 2) is a LOT bigger today, but the number of IOPS my Seagate Baracuda V can do is only 20% higher than the number of IOPS my Quantum LPS 105MB can do (and that is 1990 era technology).
So - latency on my 25MHz Amiga is amost the same as my 500MHz PowerMac G4 Cube - but bandwitdh is vastly better on the PowerMac.
Interesingly - with 1.2GB of Ram my Mac can run about the name number of applications simultaneously as my Amiga 3000T can with 18MB or Ram - roughly 14 without swapping.
Text editors, terminal windows, word processor, web browser, X11, music player, and picture editor - pretty much the same stuff (though it is MP3 files instead of MODs today, and jpegs/mpegs instead of GIF/ANIM/AIFF files). Basically the only the my Amiga was not doing was PalmOS PDA synchronizing, and the only the the Mac still does not do is fun Paint program like DeluxePaint.
Biggest single difference by far: The PowerBook supports two monitors displaying different things out of the box. The iBook only supports "video mirroring" unless you are willing to hack at it a bit.
On the other hand, the iBooks and iMacs typically come with more bundled software (AppleWorks - which is good enough to replace MS-Office in my opinion - though may not be for others), typically a cheap Encyclopedia, and a game... Not sure that matters much, but the AppleWorks is something I'd buy and that $69 (list) is saved in the iBook.
I want a Combo Drive or Super Drive, but I do not want it inside my laptop. I want to it connect via USB2 or Firewire.
I want this for two reasons:
I see no reason to haul around any optical drive when I am traveling - and frankly, I could always use more battery time.
The most likely thing to fail in a laptop is the optical drive, which has lots of moving parts. An outboard optical drive would be vastly easier to replace in case of failure.
I'd be willing to pay more for this feature, perhaps $150 more than the current offering - assuming that the laptop without the drive weighed in at, say, 4.2 pounds (remember the PB2400?).
I never grabbed a Newton for one reason and one reason only - size. I have had Palm Pilot (original), Palm III, Palm V, Palm Vx, Sony Clie, and now a Tungsten C. They all worked pretty well. I am even one of the whacky few for whom Graffiti came naturally, and I can take notes FASTER in Graffiti than I can with pencil and paper (might be experience with Japanese).
Even though I love my Palm - I'd give it up in a heartbeat for a Palm-sized Newton, just for the notepad with text and pictures together.
Big labels are fighting over dead artists. Elvis passed on nearly 27 years ago, which means that even if he had some music in the pipeline of production, that the big labels are dealing and contracting over music that is over a quarter century old!
AppleTalk was so useful that in the Amiga's heyday a 3rd party made cards for Amiga computers called "DoubleTalk" because they could either allow an Amiga to talk to an Apple/Mac network at normal speed, or connect Amigas exclusively at double that speed. For a while, it was a viable Amiga to Amiga networking option (at the time Ethernet and ArcNet cards were very expensive for the Amiga).
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This is finally the machine I have been looking for. An ultra-light that runs Mac OSX. SSD. Wow... they listened to the small market that is tired of lugging heavy feature bloated machines around.
My only question is how much faster is SSD over the hard drive option, and how much longer will the battery last?
If it takes the device from 5 hours to 10 hours battery life, that helps justify the high cost of the SSD option a lot... of course waiting will make that SSD cheaper, but I've already been waiting 5 years for a 3 pound Mac OSX ultra-light.
Dancing for joy.
Jobs is a fabulous innovator and Gates is a fabulous marketer. Neither is a hero. Job is a bull-headed perfectionist, must be hell to work for. Gates is a two faced slimy liar that makes excellent lawyers and marketers, but having no integrity does not a hero make. A real hero is someone who tries on of the hardest jobs in the country, fails pretty miserably, and goes on giving of himself after being removed from that job. Jimmy Carter is the best ex-president we've had since the U.S. was founded, and he's a hero because he's trying to bring peace and shelter to the world. A real hero is the Iraqi lad or U.S. Marine who dives on a grenade so that several others might survive. Robbing from the poor, lining your own pockets, and giving a small portion to good causes does not make you a hero - it means you are greedy but do feel a little remorse. I applaud Mr. Gates for using his foundation to tackle some issues that other rich folks can't be bothered to tackle because there is no profit in it (Malaria and public education), I am also concerned about strings attached.
Aside from football games and beer commercials, where's the HD content? I am compelled by neither American football nor American beer. I am too cheap to pay extra for HD premium channels (an HBO, a Showtime, etc). No real point in buying or using an HD set if that's all the choice there is.
In Windows, you just insert the CD. Maybe into someone else's system when their back is turned. Windows OS trusts external content much more than the user sitting at the desk. "Do me", it says. So how come people hate this feature in Windows, but love that feature in hot chicks? Grinning, ducking and running.
Right you are, and they (tornados) are even less predictable than hurricanes, therefore they scare me more than hurricanes.
If you look at a composite map of the world at night, you can clearly see the oceans because most cities are built right on a coast. There are many, many good reasons why that is so. Expecting people to move away from the ocean is unreasonable.
It was also regional market driven by what was available in the area's rental stores. I remember being surprised and delighted that VHS was virtually unheard of in Hawaii when I got stationed there in 1985. Hawaii was a strong Beta market long after New York had entirely shifted to VHS.
What about getting conversations going between nearby drivers? Might help reduce the isolation one feels when driving in traffic... Could also make "caravaning" (where several car loads of people travel together on a long trip) easier to manage if hey can talk car to car without having to carry walkie-talkies or FRS radios.
That should read: "I may pad my options by buying my wife the latest greatest PowerPC PowerMac" ... -
I may pad my options by buying the latest greatest PowerPC PowerMac just before they stop selling them, get loads of brownie points for her having the screaming machine in the house, and then graciously accept that machine when she decides to upgrade later.
So - how do I go about doing this? System Preferences/Keyboard has nothing about it (at least not in 10.3.9).
Having half our mail servers run on Sun (SPARC) and half on HP-UX (PA-RISC) meant that a problem with any one of the components could only take out half the complex, and we hoped we'd fix that problem before a different problem took out the other half.
It worked, but with most of our vendors jumping on the Itanium vaporware wagon, and the remaining non-jumper screwing us on service we got very nervous about being able to continue.
Turns out we were lucky. The scaleability and reliability of Linux on several processor types has made our tradition of two OS vendors for any major subsystem moot, and we can still split architectures between i86, Opteron, PowerPC, and even re-use the PA-RISC and SPARC gear that we have not lease returned or sold off.
A bunch of companies that are too stupid to use secure computers? Come on now... While releasing a worm like sasser is definitely wrong, this clown's suggested punishment is way out of line. Frankly a lot of the burden should be on these alleged victims who knowingly continue to take no security procautions at all. Who was hurt? Who died? Who's happiness was ruined? So some businesses are out some money. May the perpetrator pay, but those businesses also have to take responsibility for their own neglect. Sasser did not impact me in the least, but then I do not run any software made by Microsoft because they refuse to take security seriously.
Bravo! I know there are exceptions, but as a general rule people who have something to lose do not risk losing it. One of the fundamental problems with these "terrorists" is that they feel they've got nothing to lose. How about engaging them in the world economy? How about actually listening to them? I am not talking about the people who have already committed terrorist acts, but their neighbors and relatives need to be talked to and engaged positively so they are not recruited into the same nightmare. Where is the Western Powers' pressure on the Saudi government to open up it's society and allow more participation in their own government? All this talk of "democratizing the middle east" is pure bull-hockey unless you address the countries with the worst problems.
How can we be sure these alleged protesters are realy protesters and not contracted by Eddie Bauer to create a publicity stunt?
Switching to Intel makes sense from a business revenue model, the Intel chip du jour is only useful for 12-18 months, but my G4 remains useable for over half a decade.
So the question is, will this spur sales of new machines once they are available? Will people have to upgrade more often once on Intel, or will the Mac OS "protect" our investment in Intel machines as he has for PowerPC machines?
Only time, and the wise old owl, know for sure...
I'll be buying them up like crazy. 5 years from now everyone will want the last of the Macs that actually worked, and had no mat errors and no overheating problems. ;-)
Perhaps this style of fascism is exactly what American voters want after all... If that is true, then the only way it will be fixed is when the aggressive stance that U.S. Capitolism requires it's puppet government to use all the time, will lead The United States into wars against all her neighbors and the reast of the world unites against the aggressor. After a protracted world war, the greater numbers, intellectual resources, and physical resources of the rest of the world will surely allow the alliance against aggression to win, and then the allies will have to occupy the U.S. until the people of American recover from their insanity... Gee this all sounds really familiar...
I am having the same problem on 10.3.5, and not 10.3.7 - but on a PowerMac Dual G4/500MHz. I have the same OS versions on a Cube, and on a Sawtooth G4 (single cpu @500Mhz) and they have never had this problem - only the dual seems to never wake from sleep. Spinning beach ball of death. Interestingly, I can ssh into the dual-G4 when it is sleeping - which means it only keeps the display/keyboard/mouse asleep, but the machine itself is back to normal. Oddly, booting the machine from power-off to login screen is quick - but when I jumped from 10.3.5 to 10.3.7, the time it takes to login and get functionaility as any user went from ~22 seconds to ~5 minutes, but ONLY on the dual G4 machine. The Cube and the Sawtooh (both also 500Mhz machines with the same OS) still login within ~22 seconds. I have not tried the fix-permissions trick - though I intend to do so tonight.
A lot (but not all) of this is easily explained by the simple fact that disks and memory are not much faster today than they were in the late 1980s. Time to start a simple text editor, open a 550 byte text file, make a change and close the file, then sync to disk is about the same today as it was in the late 1980s (assuming you had a hard disk). The editor itself (Vim 6 vrs CygnusEd 2) is a LOT bigger today, but the number of IOPS my Seagate Baracuda V can do is only 20% higher than the number of IOPS my Quantum LPS 105MB can do (and that is 1990 era technology). So - latency on my 25MHz Amiga is amost the same as my 500MHz PowerMac G4 Cube - but bandwitdh is vastly better on the PowerMac. Interesingly - with 1.2GB of Ram my Mac can run about the name number of applications simultaneously as my Amiga 3000T can with 18MB or Ram - roughly 14 without swapping. Text editors, terminal windows, word processor, web browser, X11, music player, and picture editor - pretty much the same stuff (though it is MP3 files instead of MODs today, and jpegs/mpegs instead of GIF/ANIM/AIFF files). Basically the only the my Amiga was not doing was PalmOS PDA synchronizing, and the only the the Mac still does not do is fun Paint program like DeluxePaint.
On the other hand, the iBooks and iMacs typically come with more bundled software (AppleWorks - which is good enough to replace MS-Office in my opinion - though may not be for others), typically a cheap Encyclopedia, and a game... Not sure that matters much, but the AppleWorks is something I'd buy and that $69 (list) is saved in the iBook.
I want this for two reasons:
- I see no reason to haul around any optical drive when I am traveling - and frankly, I could always use more battery time.
- The most likely thing to fail in a laptop is the optical drive, which has lots of moving parts. An outboard optical drive would be vastly easier to replace in case of failure.
I'd be willing to pay more for this feature, perhaps $150 more than the current offering - assuming that the laptop without the drive weighed in at, say, 4.2 pounds (remember the PB2400?).Even though I love my Palm - I'd give it up in a heartbeat for a Palm-sized Newton, just for the notepad with text and pictures together.
So much for nuturing creative talent.
All your companies are belong to us.
AppleTalk was so useful that in the Amiga's heyday a 3rd party made cards for Amiga computers called "DoubleTalk" because they could either allow an Amiga to talk to an Apple/Mac network at normal speed, or connect Amigas exclusively at double that speed. For a while, it was a viable Amiga to Amiga networking option (at the time Ethernet and ArcNet cards were very expensive for the Amiga).