Apple includes it's full Developer Tools free on CD with every boxed set of 10.2 CDs. They include some cool stuff - like an app with a picture of a bomb and a fuse and a button that says "light it!". When you do it gets shorter and eventually reaches the bomb at which point the app crashes deliberately.
They have various other stuff there too.
The beauty is that they made it easy for the beginner, but with the power to be used professionally (the iLife apps were all written with the same tools for example).
It's hard work (in the UK at least) finding a dialup ISP that works with OS X. Most of them are openly hostile towards Macs in general, OS X in particular.
Offering a partnership solution like this to help you get up and running seems like a good idea.
Indeed! Our dual 450 is a little workhorse. We only just retired our 9600/300 from pro video work (it used to house the Media 100 hardware card). We've had to replace her with a G4, but we still use her as a file server.
Macs have a working life that exceeds most PCs, although saying that I'm still using an old Pentium 200 with FreeBSD as an ftp server.
We use a Dual 450 in a pro video production environment - be thankful you have such a powerful machine!
I'm amazed every time I see it just how well it copes with DV streams. I think FCP3 decides just what it can do in real time based on the processors available to it, so a dual 1 gig could probably handle more real time stuff.
Renders don't take all that long, depending on what you're doing. It puts our £50,000 Media 100 system to shame in several areas (but is lacking in others - FCP4 seems to address those).
Try reparing your disk permissions. There's a lot of voodoo involved in updating the system and problems like this often occur.
Put in your Jag CD and boot holding the C key. From the CD you can repair the permissions on the System partition (which you can't do from Disk Utility when OS X is running - only on other drives/partitions).
You could also fsck the disk.
Boot in single user mode (hold command+s at boot time) and type "fsck -y" from the prompt and let it do its work. If it says it fixed errors, run it again until it says the file system is ok.
iMacs and iBooks compare very favourably with equally specced PCs.
Sure, if you compare them to dirt cheap basic gateway and hp rubbish then they'll be more expensive, but compare them to HP and Dell's midrange stuff and they are about the same - remember that Apple starts at midrange and goes up. There is no bargain basement cheap version with Apple.
If it's 2x DVD-R, then you are correct - Apple has DVD burners in their laptops - something that few (any?) PC laptops have.
If you're talking about CD writing speed, it's bollocks - my iBook is a year old and has an 8x combo CD burner. The newer iBooks have 16x burners - I see no reason that the powerbook would have a 2x burner.
If it was a typo and you meant to type "24x" and call it slow, then you're just impatient. I doubt there's much point putting a burner of that speed in a laptop - the faster you spin the disc, the more battery you use doing so.
You also note that it "lacks several legacy ports in favour of firewire and USB" as if this is a bad thing. I don't want a paralell port or an RS232 port on my laptop. I'm sure there are people who do need these ports, for them there are two options - buy a PC laptop or buy an adapter. There's no reason to include them on 98.7654% of modern laptops*.
Mercedes are experimenting at the moment with hemp. It's quite a good material, when combined with certain resins, to make car door panels. Things like the inside panels of the door, the protective plastic skirt at the front, the boot linings etc.
The only problem they're having with it is that it's harder to recycle than current plastics they use. It creates a very strong matted structure that is hard to break down and doesn't burn very well, making both energy reclamation through burning and physical breakdown and re-use difficult. EU laws state that 85% of a new car must be recyclable by 2006 (I think).
When OS X fsck's the disk on startup it can take some time, but after then it's pretty quick.
My iBook starts up in about 2 seconds since I just put it to sleep instead of shutting down. It took me a while to get used to the idea that I didn't really need to start up from cold every morning any more.
Sleeping it is just the length of time it takes to shut the lid.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on there! Charging for point releases? Oh, you mean like from 10.1 to 10.2...
That's not a point release - that's a new OS. They didn't pick the best naming scheme, since it confused a lot of people, but that's the way it is.
Windows 95 and Windows 98 are like OS X 10.1 and OS X 10.2 - (except not as good as Apple's offerings). Microsoft didn't give you windows 98 for free if you had a computer with Windows 95 on it did they?
The point releases for OS X are the numbers after the second point - 10.2.x The number after the first decimal point can be likened to the 95, 98, 2000, XP in the Windows name.
I got fed up with just that sort of thing and changed computing platform. I'm not saying that the Mac never crashes, but it's certainly been a massive, massive step in the right direction.
A quick trip to the terminal reports my uptime as "11:35AM up 57 days, 12:42..." This is by no means a long time by Unix standards, but for a laptop (iBook 600Mhz) that I use everyday, sleeping, waking, starting and stopping multiple programs, working on all sorts of stuff, burning CDs, browsing the net etc, I'd say it was very good.
The longest I could go on my Windows 2000 box before I'd have to reset was about a week - it wouldn't crash, it would just get confused and start swapping icon images over, so Word would have the Excel icon, and so on.
The only time I reboot my iBook is for system updates. Very few programs "Unexpectedly Quit" on me (Camino used to do it occasionally, every 2 weeks or so, but I'm using Safari right now). I've never had a kernel panic in 10.2.x (I had two in 10.1.5, but I traced it to the well known Classic environment and a USB device panic bug that was fixed).
If you want your software to crash less, buy a Mac.
My domain name, and hence my email address, has a hyphen.
I have come across a couple of sites that reject my email address for that reason. It's usually no skin off my nose, I just take my business elsewhere, but it's annoying if the site I found was the cheapest for a particular item I was after - it happened with a cheap international call provider (using BT to call internationally from the UK is suicide).
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But why hold back - a pair of Power4 chips makes for 4 cores (assuming you can get all the heat out of that sexy 1U case that the Xserve lives in.
Apple includes it's full Developer Tools free on CD with every boxed set of 10.2 CDs. They include some cool stuff - like an app with a picture of a bomb and a fuse and a button that says "light it!". When you do it gets shorter and eventually reaches the bomb at which point the app crashes deliberately.
They have various other stuff there too.
The beauty is that they made it easy for the beginner, but with the power to be used professionally (the iLife apps were all written with the same tools for example).
The best thing is that they're free!
Looks purple to me..
Buy a Mac, use ColorSync to ensure your screen colours are accurate.
Apache is installed by default in both the regular and (of course) server versions of OS X.
All you have to do is check the "web sharing" box in the sharing panel.
If you uncomment the appropriate lines in your httpd.conf file you can get php going too.
It's hard work (in the UK at least) finding a dialup ISP that works with OS X. Most of them are openly hostile towards Macs in general, OS X in particular.
Offering a partnership solution like this to help you get up and running seems like a good idea.
Indeed! Our dual 450 is a little workhorse. We only just retired our 9600/300 from pro video work (it used to house the Media 100 hardware card). We've had to replace her with a G4, but we still use her as a file server.
Macs have a working life that exceeds most PCs, although saying that I'm still using an old Pentium 200 with FreeBSD as an ftp server.
We use a Dual 450 in a pro video production environment - be thankful you have such a powerful machine!
I'm amazed every time I see it just how well it copes with DV streams. I think FCP3 decides just what it can do in real time based on the processors available to it, so a dual 1 gig could probably handle more real time stuff.
Renders don't take all that long, depending on what you're doing. It puts our £50,000 Media 100 system to shame in several areas (but is lacking in others - FCP4 seems to address those).
Try reparing your disk permissions. There's a lot of voodoo involved in updating the system and problems like this often occur.
Put in your Jag CD and boot holding the C key. From the CD you can repair the permissions on the System partition (which you can't do from Disk Utility when OS X is running - only on other drives/partitions).
You could also fsck the disk.
Boot in single user mode (hold command+s at boot time) and type "fsck -y" from the prompt and let it do its work. If it says it fixed errors, run it again until it says the file system is ok.
But you can buy a Coke or Sprite from both places - but McD's marks it up a lot compared to the 7-11.
You can't buy an Apple from anyone but Apple - they're the only ones that make them.
iMacs and iBooks compare very favourably with equally specced PCs.
Sure, if you compare them to dirt cheap basic gateway and hp rubbish then they'll be more expensive, but compare them to HP and Dell's midrange stuff and they are about the same - remember that Apple starts at midrange and goes up. There is no bargain basement cheap version with Apple.
What media are you talking about there?
If it's 2x DVD-R, then you are correct - Apple has DVD burners in their laptops - something that few (any?) PC laptops have.
If you're talking about CD writing speed, it's bollocks - my iBook is a year old and has an 8x combo CD burner. The newer iBooks have 16x burners - I see no reason that the powerbook would have a 2x burner.
If it was a typo and you meant to type "24x" and call it slow, then you're just impatient. I doubt there's much point putting a burner of that speed in a laptop - the faster you spin the disc, the more battery you use doing so.
You also note that it "lacks several legacy ports in favour of firewire and USB" as if this is a bad thing. I don't want a paralell port or an RS232 port on my laptop. I'm sure there are people who do need these ports, for them there are two options - buy a PC laptop or buy an adapter. There's no reason to include them on 98.7654% of modern laptops*.
* 88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Indeed, I bought a large packet of toffees yesterday - it was labeled as 454g (almost exactly 1 pound).
The milk I buy is marked as 568ml (1 pint), and the car I drive is marked with mph and mpg - however, petrol is sold in litres and pence-per-litre.
I'm 6'1", 9 stone, 5 pounds (I know, underweight!)
The imperial system is entrenched, but it doesn't stop us using the metric system too.
I have done the same for my domain - any aol or hotmail mail is dropped right at the door. There's just too much noise coming from those two.
Mercedes are experimenting at the moment with hemp. It's quite a good material, when combined with certain resins, to make car door panels. Things like the inside panels of the door, the protective plastic skirt at the front, the boot linings etc.
The only problem they're having with it is that it's harder to recycle than current plastics they use. It creates a very strong matted structure that is hard to break down and doesn't burn very well, making both energy reclamation through burning and physical breakdown and re-use difficult. EU laws state that 85% of a new car must be recyclable by 2006 (I think).
Damn, I replied to the poster you quoted.
I read the quote and hit reply on your post without thinking.
When OS X fsck's the disk on startup it can take some time, but after then it's pretty quick.
My iBook starts up in about 2 seconds since I just put it to sleep instead of shutting down. It took me a while to get used to the idea that I didn't really need to start up from cold every morning any more.
Sleeping it is just the length of time it takes to shut the lid.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on there! Charging for point releases? Oh, you mean like from 10.1 to 10.2...
That's not a point release - that's a new OS. They didn't pick the best naming scheme, since it confused a lot of people, but that's the way it is.
Windows 95 and Windows 98 are like OS X 10.1 and OS X 10.2 - (except not as good as Apple's offerings). Microsoft didn't give you windows 98 for free if you had a computer with Windows 95 on it did they?
The point releases for OS X are the numbers after the second point - 10.2.x
The number after the first decimal point can be likened to the 95, 98, 2000, XP in the Windows name.
You don't need more than one mouse button in Mac OS.
Windows needs two - there are menu options accessed by right clicking that aren't available any other way in some Windows functions and apps.
That's not the case on the Mac. If you want a two button mouse though, you can get one.
I don't, I run it on a 600Mhz IBM PPC750FX - a G3.
As fast as a PDA? Nah! They have PDAs with 3GHz P4s inside now don't they?
Sure you can only check your email on the road for 5 minutes before you need to recharge it, but it's fast email checking!
I got fed up with just that sort of thing and changed computing platform. I'm not saying that the Mac never crashes, but it's certainly been a massive, massive step in the right direction.
A quick trip to the terminal reports my uptime as "11:35AM up 57 days, 12:42..." This is by no means a long time by Unix standards, but for a laptop (iBook 600Mhz) that I use everyday, sleeping, waking, starting and stopping multiple programs, working on all sorts of stuff, burning CDs, browsing the net etc, I'd say it was very good.
The longest I could go on my Windows 2000 box before I'd have to reset was about a week - it wouldn't crash, it would just get confused and start swapping icon images over, so Word would have the Excel icon, and so on.
The only time I reboot my iBook is for system updates. Very few programs "Unexpectedly Quit" on me (Camino used to do it occasionally, every 2 weeks or so, but I'm using Safari right now). I've never had a kernel panic in 10.2.x (I had two in 10.1.5, but I traced it to the well known Classic environment and a USB device panic bug that was fixed).
If you want your software to crash less, buy a Mac.
My domain name, and hence my email address, has a hyphen.
I have come across a couple of sites that reject my email address for that reason. It's usually no skin off my nose, I just take my business elsewhere, but it's annoying if the site I found was the cheapest for a particular item I was after - it happened with a cheap international call provider (using BT to call internationally from the UK is suicide).
It's quite obviously called The Beachball of Rumination
The video connector that broke was the connection to the internal LCD screen - a terminal failure requiring replacement of the entire logic board.
However, the external Apple video connector used to connect to a CRT/LCD monitor is still working.
In 2005:
Mac OS X 10.4 will be called "Pussy"
Windows Longhorn will be called "Yeast Infection"