I will visit the US this summer from Europe. Can anyone point me to a link where I can get some maps/explanations about roaming in the US?
I am horrendously confused about the US market and their current standards.
I will come with a N9 and an iPhone so I should be fine, but I'd like to be sure ahead of the time.
Get H2O Wireless (www.h2owirelessnow.com), Jolt (www.joltmobile.com) or Fuzion (www.fuzionmobile.com). All these are MVNOs that operate on AT&T's spectrums (so you will get 3g) and offer competitive (read as "cheaper than AT&T") pay as you go plans. Of course you will need an unlocked phone, but these are all better options than AT&T and T-Mobile for short term subscriptions.
I was not talking hardware - if we are talking hardware we can go back to MacroVision for VHS - more appropriate anyway for the video discussion at hand. Whether SCMS killed off the DAT is debateable - I actually think what killed the DAT was reliability and the prevalence of recorded CD media and then HD media. DAT was always a niche product with very low reliability (I had my D7 in more than 30 times over its life, and my SV3800 3 times, etc.)
And I may grant you that the W3C should also champion media, yet I must disagree in your statement that the implementors will "always take a walled garden approach" - I think seeing the widespread use of H264 and AAC since Apple and Sony with the PSP championed them shows that you can take a non "walled garden approach" and still gain wide spread acceptance. By your argument, OGG will see wider adoption simply because W3C recommends it - I disagree. I don't think it will surpass the MPEG-4/QT container anytime soon, and I think that by the time it gains the widespread acceptance you think it may (if ever,) the successor to MPEG-4/QT will be there.
The problem is, we are doing the consumer a disservice by advocating a standard that CONTENT will not be created in. Yeah, we may have.OGG, we may reencode all of our content for our machines - but the creators of content out there will not, and all people will want to know is "why can't I watch cool video X"
I don't think people adopted MP3 because it was without DRM. When people adopted MP3, no formats had DRM (DRM audio in WMA started in the late 90s, MP3 started in 1991 on work started in the 70s...)
mp3 was successful because it was good enough and there at the right time. the people who developed mp3 and charge more for it than mp4 (AAC) have been trying to kill it for years even though they get higher licensing fees for it than AAC.
W3C should stay out of video CODECs and containers and focus on what they should do, HTML standards...
AAC is a licensed standard of MPEG-4. It is not free and open, and it certainly has a much larger market share than ogg audio formats (again, none of this is about audio, but video, so take my response as a response to the non relevant post...)
AAC is implemented in QuickTime, true, and probably in Trolltech's QT (not sure which QT you were referring to). It is ALSO implemented in the XBox 360, the Zune, Real Player, Sony PSP and PS3, and most players these days. It is also the base audio CODEC for HD DVD and for Bluray. There is no disputing AAC has a lot of support, and WAY more support than.ogg. We the/. crew do NOT represent the consumer space - we represent the tech geek space.
AAC got implemented by Apple because it had way better features than Mp3 (support for more channels, higher bit depths, better quality at the same size, industry support, and being wrapped in DRM IF NECESSARY (not required). Also, ogg did not even EXISTS at the time Apple adopted AAC as their standard (and no, it is not THEIR standard, it is an open licensable standard)
But I digress - this is supposed to be about video;)
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I know these posts are SUPPOSED to be about video, but while on the topic of transcoding, Max for the Mac from sbooth.org does a great job of transcoding from FLAC to any format you want, even multiple simultaneously, and ading them to itunes, using a variety of encoders (as in you can encode into MP3 using Core Audio or LAME or a variety of others), and yes, to ogg...
But I am going back to see if anyone actually posted insightful things about VIDEO
because in all honestly, it really DOES make sense to continue with a container format like the MPEG-4 container format, and not try and push ANOTHER container format from a body that really knows nothing about media container formats (W3C)
It took many years and many smart people to decide that MPEG-4 would be based on QuickTime, and to gain such wide adoption (yeah, even MSFT supports it now - THAT should tell you something....
I think it would nicer to keep the eyes on the prize. For most of us, consumers, the container formats are free....
Don't quote me on this, but I imagine to implement MPEG-4 containers on Linux, it is also free....
What exactly is the point of undoing all that work?
But that, again, presupposes that it is "pretending" to be off.... When in sleep mode, pressing any of the TWO button (and there are 2 - home, sleep) will wake the phone and allow you to unlock it - JUST like any other phone where hitting a key wakes it from a black screen (well, that is exactly how my last 3 phones worked anyway - just they had more buttons). Turning on a phone that has been turned off requires you to hold the sleep/wake/ON button for a few seconds.... and then you get an Apple logo as the phone boots. Those are OBVIOUS differences.
Again, there is no "pretending," and as I said elsewhere, you buy a $600 phone, at least read the 10 pages of "important information" included. People need to stop abdicating responsibility for their own actions so much...
Problem in a setting like that is all of the AT&T US plans allow for free roaming when AT&T is not available in the 48 contiguous states. Why would you want the phone to NOT work when you are roaming WITHIN the US? There really is no cure for stupidity/laziness. People buy an expensive piece of hardware with a large monthly bill. They need to educate themselves to charges and features. Why must we continuously abdicate intelligence and responsibility to the theory that "the big bad corporation *ucked me over"?
10 page "Important Product information Guide included with each iPhone. That and an 8 page illustrated manual. Page one of the "Important" guide tells you how to turn the phone off...
The problem is no one reads manuals anymore, everyone wants to sue and complain, everytime someone effs up, it is someone else's fault. You just spent $600 on a new toy (now $400) - you would think you would read the 10 pages of "Important Information" before you start using it 24/7....
I've had various cell phones for 10 years now. Cell phones have a VERY clear distinction between OFF (phone goes to voice mail, no calls or texts come in, texts show up when you turn it on and they get retrieved, no missed calls are tracked but voicemail is registered) and SLEEP (phone is in low power mode, the buttons don't work, the screen is off, phonecalls/texts/vms come in). I really don't understand why this is something new and complicated for everyone to understand. It is not like this is a "new" feature... You don't want "activity" you need to turn off the phone. It has ALWAYS been like that
The most frequently the iPhone can poll is every 15 minutes. I believe the default was set at 30 minutes. You can set it to manual which means it will not check until you go into the email - other than Yahoo, which is push. A way to get around the Connections to Edge but still use the Wifi is to pull out the Sim Card.
I'm sorry, but anyone going abroad with a phone ON and not checking their plan BEFORE they do it is pretty damn stupid. This is not the 1st phone this kind of stuff happened with, and will certainly not be the last - the thing is, Apple is on top of their game these days so they tend to get all the silly press. 300 page bills are over (AT&T texted all their customers that the bills are now not going to disclose detail like that) and the going abroad thing is no different than ANY other smart phone, as long as you don't replace the sim or take it out when you go abroad.
Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about. You can go out an buy the latest whiz-bang cable modem, and you will still have to give Comcast the MAC address of the Cable Modem.
>Nor is this Steve Jobs idea. You think Steve Jobs cares about consumer rights? Do they let you run OS-X on commodity hardware? Do they license their DRM? These are the masters of lock-in.
Wow - I needed to respond to that...
I don't knowhow you can say Steve cares nothing about consumer rights - Steve Jobs has definitely expressed his desire to sell DRM free music, and every consumer version of the Mac OS (Classic or X) and every consumer product they have has been sold WITHOUT DRM and WITHOUT serial #s (Server products, professional high end software, etc is excluded). They have also ALWAYS had a great balance on price/perfomance, For example, Final Cut Express is a bargain for what you get, Shake was bought and dropped from $12,000 to $600, etc.. Compared to the draconian OS restrictions of MS software (Activation codes, dial in, etc), they are saints...
As for selling their OS on hardware that is not theirs - that is their right. There is no requirement for them to support it and make it work, they can do what they want. They are a hardware company and as such it is in their interest to sell hardware. Is their hardware competitively priced? Yes. When you buy their hardware, it includes the OS. You have no license to take that OS elsewhere, so there is no lock in - you can buy any hardware you want, take all your data with you, and continue to use the old machine.
Do you need to buy anything from the iTunes Store? No. Is the default ripping in iTunes to an open standard and not a proprietary CODEC owned by one company (read WMA) no. Have they always included an MP3 ripper? Yes - unlike MSFT, Sony, etc. that resisted that for years...
Look, Apple and Steve Jobs have plenty of faults, and nothing is as open as Linux - but they are a business, and have a right to make money, and they go about it better than any other large computer company. They sure did fight for the right for universal pricing and the ability to burn the music to CDs more than anyone else.
And Yahoo did not get there first because Yahoo wouldn't pony up 5 Million because they can't make a cent on their music...
Actually, DON'T consider SHN - it does not support metadata, does not support more than 2 channels, does not support high bit rates, and is NOT open source - the tech is owned by softsound (if I put that caveat 1st, you would not have even read this far).
I don't understand why the parent, with incorrect info that says the iTunes DRM is equally as bad as the Zune's gets a 5 and informative, and the response that clarifies that the Zune's 3 days 3 plays is universal gets a 1. Mod the response up!
I was under the impression that AAC has built-in support for encrypted data, and can be decrypted on the fly - therefore allowing for DRM wrappers - whereas MP3 cannot do this. I cannot find information about this now. While it is true that AAC itself is not DRMd, and AAC, unlike WMA, supports completely DRM free files, AAC has better mechanisms (as in, more secure for those who add the DRM wrapper) than does MP3.
No, AAC is not locked in with Apple. It is part of the MP4 standard and the successor to MP3 (it is also known as MP4). All it has over MP3 (other than being higher quality at the same file size and support for more channels/bitrates/bitdepths) is that it ha mechanisms to allow for DRM.
That said, AACs you encode yourself are DRM-less. Songs you buy from the ITS have Fairplay DRM (which is Apple's DRM). All none DRMd AACs will play in a Zune without modification (and several other players). While it is not open source (like.ogg), it is not any more closed source than.MP3 (how many of you out there know that media player makers have to play royalties to Thompson, etc. for the use of.MP3?)
I honestly don't know why AAC has not caught on more - it is so much more "open" than WMA, an has MUCH more broad support than.ogg.
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But, these are the things you CANNOT configure that Dell e1505 with....
Dell has 4 pin no power FireWire. Bus powered FireWire cannot be added to the Dell
Camera cannot be integrated, only 3rd party
No DVI out - only VGA out or S-Video out
No built in mic - must use external.
no built in optical in and out
no integrated GB Ethernet
6.2 vs 5.2 lbs
And if you are going to compare specs of things to sell and upgrade on craigslist, you should do the same with the MacBook...
I honestly don't know why I sat here and created this list, but your post was just ridiculous...
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My friend had a Nomad for a couple of years. kept on upgrading his firmware. I checked it out at a point in time where I was onto my 30 GB iPod (from the 5 GB). His menuing system SUCKED. It did not yet honor ID3 tags - it sorted everything alphabetically by track name and album name. To go down menus, you had to choose what you wanted then do a select, tewice. This was more than 2 years after the iPod came out.
Look, Creative did not "Invent" hierarchical navigation. They did not "invent" navigating music, and they SURE did not implement it right, or my friend would not have sold his Nomad and bought an iPod SOLELY on the merits of the navigation.
This is sour grapes, pure and simple. They lost in the market place because their navigation sucked - how can they be suing Apple for stealing their navigation?
Note for the math imparired: since it is now the middle of 2005, the end of 2007 is over 2 years away.
From where I am standing, Next June to end of 2007 is less than 2 years - it is approximately 1.5 years. The transition does not start until the first IntelliMacs ship, which is 6/6/6 (GOJ, Gospel according to Jobs)
I agree with you though -- Apple has a MAJOR transition ahead of them, and it will take muich work to convince people to stay with them. They are fortunate that developers like their OS, consumers like their iApps, and the media loves Apple. They just may pull it off...
So what's your point? You run Word 5.1 on those machines, and you will continue to - sounds like you don't buy new hardware, nor seek out new applications to run on it, so why is it relevant whether it will run your 10 year old applications? I'm sure someone will come out with a MacPlus emulator for the thing - you could run it under that, kind of like running your Apple// applications on a mid 90s Macintosh.
That assumes you will be able to run classic, which you will NOT on an Intelimac, so no, you will NOT be able to run Word 5.1 on the Intelimac (or any classic apps for that matter).
Classic is over, get over it - keep your old machine for classic - I do - my 8500 runs 9.1, My PB G4 has 9.2.2 for when I am on the road, and need the blue box, and my desktop G4, which can even boot in 9, has no classic Mac on it whatsoever.
I'll take a red box anyday over keeping blue box on an Intel box...
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But what we will get, is what we all wanted since CHRP...
One machine that will run Mac OS X, Unix, and Windows apps, all on one box. The "Red Box" will be the new VPC from Microsoft - they will love it, because all of a sudden people will be able to run Windows apps at full speed on a Mac, and we will love it, because we will finally have the holy grail machine that runs EVERYTHING!
VPC will now be more like VPC for Windows then VPC for the Mac - if they do it right, you could even run Windows apps alongside Mac apps seamlessly like you run OS 9 apps now, maybe even each in its own Window!!
And the Mac will be the only machine that can do that...
I want one, now!
Q. Why are 3 of the next 3 SuperCoolFast gaming machines (even the one built by Msft) based around PPC cores?
A. Apparently, everyone in the next generation gaming world believes that PPC technology is THE best bet for gaming performance.
I kept on reading posts and waiting for SOMEONE to bring up that the XBox 360 etc. are all based on PPC cores, and finally had to say something myself...
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I will visit the US this summer from Europe. Can anyone point me to a link where I can get some maps/explanations about roaming in the US? I am horrendously confused about the US market and their current standards. I will come with a N9 and an iPhone so I should be fine, but I'd like to be sure ahead of the time.
Get H2O Wireless (www.h2owirelessnow.com), Jolt (www.joltmobile.com) or Fuzion (www.fuzionmobile.com). All these are MVNOs that operate on AT&T's spectrums (so you will get 3g) and offer competitive (read as "cheaper than AT&T") pay as you go plans. Of course you will need an unlocked phone, but these are all better options than AT&T and T-Mobile for short term subscriptions.
I just downloaded the Safari nightly, it gets 100, I see no jerkiness - it is silky smooth (I do have a Mac Pro though), the rendering is EXACT.
From where I am looking, and with what I am looking at Webkit/Safari is the clear AVAILABLE winner....
I was not talking hardware - if we are talking hardware we can go back to MacroVision for VHS - more appropriate anyway for the video discussion at hand. Whether SCMS killed off the DAT is debateable - I actually think what killed the DAT was reliability and the prevalence of recorded CD media and then HD media. DAT was always a niche product with very low reliability (I had my D7 in more than 30 times over its life, and my SV3800 3 times, etc.)
.OGG, we may reencode all of our content for our machines - but the creators of content out there will not, and all people will want to know is "why can't I watch cool video X"
And I may grant you that the W3C should also champion media, yet I must disagree in your statement that the implementors will "always take a walled garden approach" - I think seeing the widespread use of H264 and AAC since Apple and Sony with the PSP championed them shows that you can take a non "walled garden approach" and still gain wide spread acceptance. By your argument, OGG will see wider adoption simply because W3C recommends it - I disagree. I don't think it will surpass the MPEG-4/QT container anytime soon, and I think that by the time it gains the widespread acceptance you think it may (if ever,) the successor to MPEG-4/QT will be there.
The problem is, we are doing the consumer a disservice by advocating a standard that CONTENT will not be created in. Yeah, we may have
Thanks for engaging
I don't think people adopted MP3 because it was without DRM. When people adopted MP3, no formats had DRM (DRM audio in WMA started in the late 90s, MP3 started in 1991 on work started in the 70s...)
mp3 was successful because it was good enough and there at the right time. the people who developed mp3 and charge more for it than mp4 (AAC) have been trying to kill it for years even though they get higher licensing fees for it than AAC.
W3C should stay out of video CODECs and containers and focus on what they should do, HTML standards...
AAC is a licensed standard of MPEG-4. It is not free and open, and it certainly has a much larger market share than ogg audio formats (again, none of this is about audio, but video, so take my response as a response to the non relevant post...)
.ogg. We the /. crew do NOT represent the consumer space - we represent the tech geek space.
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AAC is implemented in QuickTime, true, and probably in Trolltech's QT (not sure which QT you were referring to). It is ALSO implemented in the XBox 360, the Zune, Real Player, Sony PSP and PS3, and most players these days. It is also the base audio CODEC for HD DVD and for Bluray. There is no disputing AAC has a lot of support, and WAY more support than
AAC got implemented by Apple because it had way better features than Mp3 (support for more channels, higher bit depths, better quality at the same size, industry support, and being wrapped in DRM IF NECESSARY (not required). Also, ogg did not even EXISTS at the time Apple adopted AAC as their standard (and no, it is not THEIR standard, it is an open licensable standard)
But I digress - this is supposed to be about video
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I know these posts are SUPPOSED to be about video, but while on the topic of transcoding, Max for the Mac from sbooth.org does a great job of transcoding from FLAC to any format you want, even multiple simultaneously, and ading them to itunes, using a variety of encoders (as in you can encode into MP3 using Core Audio or LAME or a variety of others), and yes, to ogg...
But I am going back to see if anyone actually posted insightful things about VIDEO
because in all honestly, it really DOES make sense to continue with a container format like the MPEG-4 container format, and not try and push ANOTHER container format from a body that really knows nothing about media container formats (W3C)
It took many years and many smart people to decide that MPEG-4 would be based on QuickTime, and to gain such wide adoption (yeah, even MSFT supports it now - THAT should tell you something....
I think it would nicer to keep the eyes on the prize. For most of us, consumers, the container formats are free....
Don't quote me on this, but I imagine to implement MPEG-4 containers on Linux, it is also free....
What exactly is the point of undoing all that work?
But that, again, presupposes that it is "pretending" to be off....
When in sleep mode, pressing any of the TWO button (and there are 2 - home, sleep) will wake the phone and allow you to unlock it - JUST like any other phone where hitting a key wakes it from a black screen (well, that is exactly how my last 3 phones worked anyway - just they had more buttons). Turning on a phone that has been turned off requires you to hold the sleep/wake/ON button for a few seconds.... and then you get an Apple logo as the phone boots. Those are OBVIOUS differences.
Again, there is no "pretending," and as I said elsewhere, you buy a $600 phone, at least read the 10 pages of "important information" included. People need to stop abdicating responsibility for their own actions so much...
Problem in a setting like that is all of the AT&T US plans allow for free roaming when AT&T is not available in the 48 contiguous states. Why would you want the phone to NOT work when you are roaming WITHIN the US?
There really is no cure for stupidity/laziness. People buy an expensive piece of hardware with a large monthly bill. They need to educate themselves to charges and features. Why must we continuously abdicate intelligence and responsibility to the theory that "the big bad corporation *ucked me over"?
10 page "Important Product information Guide included with each iPhone. That and an 8 page illustrated manual. Page one of the "Important" guide tells you how to turn the phone off...
The problem is no one reads manuals anymore, everyone wants to sue and complain, everytime someone effs up, it is someone else's fault. You just spent $600 on a new toy (now $400) - you would think you would read the 10 pages of "Important Information" before you start using it 24/7....
I've had various cell phones for 10 years now. Cell phones have a VERY clear distinction between OFF (phone goes to voice mail, no calls or texts come in, texts show up when you turn it on and they get retrieved, no missed calls are tracked but voicemail is registered) and SLEEP (phone is in low power mode, the buttons don't work, the screen is off, phonecalls/texts/vms come in). I really don't understand why this is something new and complicated for everyone to understand. It is not like this is a "new" feature... You don't want "activity" you need to turn off the phone. It has ALWAYS been like that
The most frequently the iPhone can poll is every 15 minutes. I believe the default was set at 30 minutes. You can set it to manual which means it will not check until you go into the email - other than Yahoo, which is push.
A way to get around the Connections to Edge but still use the Wifi is to pull out the Sim Card.
I'm sorry, but anyone going abroad with a phone ON and not checking their plan BEFORE they do it is pretty damn stupid. This is not the 1st phone this kind of stuff happened with, and will certainly not be the last - the thing is, Apple is on top of their game these days so they tend to get all the silly press. 300 page bills are over (AT&T texted all their customers that the bills are now not going to disclose detail like that) and the going abroad thing is no different than ANY other smart phone, as long as you don't replace the sim or take it out when you go abroad.
Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about. You can go out an buy the latest whiz-bang cable modem, and you will still have to give Comcast the MAC address of the Cable Modem.
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>Nor is this Steve Jobs idea. You think Steve Jobs cares about consumer rights? Do they let you run OS-X on commodity hardware? Do they license their DRM? These are the masters of lock-in.
Wow - I needed to respond to that...
I don't knowhow you can say Steve cares nothing about consumer rights - Steve Jobs has definitely expressed his desire to sell DRM free music, and every consumer version of the Mac OS (Classic or X) and every consumer product they have has been sold WITHOUT DRM and WITHOUT serial #s (Server products, professional high end software, etc is excluded). They have also ALWAYS had a great balance on price/perfomance, For example, Final Cut Express is a bargain for what you get, Shake was bought and dropped from $12,000 to $600, etc.. Compared to the draconian OS restrictions of MS software (Activation codes, dial in, etc), they are saints...
As for selling their OS on hardware that is not theirs - that is their right. There is no requirement for them to support it and make it work, they can do what they want. They are a hardware company and as such it is in their interest to sell hardware. Is their hardware competitively priced? Yes. When you buy their hardware, it includes the OS. You have no license to take that OS elsewhere, so there is no lock in - you can buy any hardware you want, take all your data with you, and continue to use the old machine.
Do you need to buy anything from the iTunes Store? No. Is the default ripping in iTunes to an open standard and not a proprietary CODEC owned by one company (read WMA) no. Have they always included an MP3 ripper? Yes - unlike MSFT, Sony, etc. that resisted that for years...
Look, Apple and Steve Jobs have plenty of faults, and nothing is as open as Linux - but they are a business, and have a right to make money, and they go about it better than any other large computer company. They sure did fight for the right for universal pricing and the ability to burn the music to CDs more than anyone else.
And Yahoo did not get there first because Yahoo wouldn't pony up 5 Million because they can't make a cent on their music...
Actually, DON'T consider SHN - it does not support metadata, does not support more than 2 channels, does not support high bit rates, and is NOT open source - the tech is owned by softsound (if I put that caveat 1st, you would not have even read this far).
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I don't understand why the parent, with incorrect info that says the iTunes DRM is equally as bad as the Zune's gets a 5 and informative, and the response that clarifies that the Zune's 3 days 3 plays is universal gets a 1. Mod the response up!
I was under the impression that AAC has built-in support for encrypted data, and can be decrypted on the fly - therefore allowing for DRM wrappers - whereas MP3 cannot do this. I cannot find information about this now. While it is true that AAC itself is not DRMd, and AAC, unlike WMA, supports completely DRM free files, AAC has better mechanisms (as in, more secure for those who add the DRM wrapper) than does MP3.
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No, AAC is not locked in with Apple. It is part of the MP4 standard and the successor to MP3 (it is also known as MP4). All it has over MP3 (other than being higher quality at the same file size and support for more channels/bitrates/bitdepths) is that it ha mechanisms to allow for DRM. That said, AACs you encode yourself are DRM-less. Songs you buy from the ITS have Fairplay DRM (which is Apple's DRM). All none DRMd AACs will play in a Zune without modification (and several other players). While it is not open source (like .ogg), it is not any more closed source than .MP3 (how many of you out there know that media player makers have to play royalties to Thompson, etc. for the use of .MP3?)
I honestly don't know why AAC has not caught on more - it is so much more "open" than WMA, an has MUCH more broad support than .ogg.
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But, these are the things you CANNOT configure that Dell e1505 with.... Dell has 4 pin no power FireWire. Bus powered FireWire cannot be added to the Dell Camera cannot be integrated, only 3rd party No DVI out - only VGA out or S-Video out No built in mic - must use external. no built in optical in and out no integrated GB Ethernet 6.2 vs 5.2 lbs And if you are going to compare specs of things to sell and upgrade on craigslist, you should do the same with the MacBook... I honestly don't know why I sat here and created this list, but your post was just ridiculous... -- No sig and proud
My friend had a Nomad for a couple of years. kept on upgrading his firmware. I checked it out at a point in time where I was onto my 30 GB iPod (from the 5 GB). His menuing system SUCKED. It did not yet honor ID3 tags - it sorted everything alphabetically by track name and album name. To go down menus, you had to choose what you wanted then do a select, tewice. This was more than 2 years after the iPod came out. Look, Creative did not "Invent" hierarchical navigation. They did not "invent" navigating music, and they SURE did not implement it right, or my friend would not have sold his Nomad and bought an iPod SOLELY on the merits of the navigation. This is sour grapes, pure and simple. They lost in the market place because their navigation sucked - how can they be suing Apple for stealing their navigation?
From where I am standing, Next June to end of 2007 is less than 2 years - it is approximately 1.5 years. The transition does not start until the first IntelliMacs ship, which is 6/6/6 (GOJ, Gospel according to Jobs)
I agree with you though -- Apple has a MAJOR transition ahead of them, and it will take muich work to convince people to stay with them. They are fortunate that developers like their OS, consumers like their iApps, and the media loves Apple. They just may pull it off...
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So what's your point? You run Word 5.1 on those machines, and you will continue to - sounds like you don't buy new hardware, nor seek out new applications to run on it, so why is it relevant whether it will run your 10 year old applications? // applications on a mid 90s Macintosh.
I'm sure someone will come out with a MacPlus emulator for the thing - you could run it under that, kind of like running your Apple
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Because you'd have 99,999 different configurations to support... and it's not your clean, simple KNOWN hardware configuration.
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That assumes you will be able to run classic, which you will NOT on an Intelimac, so no, you will NOT be able to run Word 5.1 on the Intelimac (or any classic apps for that matter). Classic is over, get over it - keep your old machine for classic - I do - my 8500 runs 9.1, My PB G4 has 9.2.2 for when I am on the road, and need the blue box, and my desktop G4, which can even boot in 9, has no classic Mac on it whatsoever. I'll take a red box anyday over keeping blue box on an Intel box... -- me 1, sig 0
But what we will get, is what we all wanted since CHRP... One machine that will run Mac OS X, Unix, and Windows apps, all on one box. The "Red Box" will be the new VPC from Microsoft - they will love it, because all of a sudden people will be able to run Windows apps at full speed on a Mac, and we will love it, because we will finally have the holy grail machine that runs EVERYTHING! VPC will now be more like VPC for Windows then VPC for the Mac - if they do it right, you could even run Windows apps alongside Mac apps seamlessly like you run OS 9 apps now, maybe even each in its own Window!! And the Mac will be the only machine that can do that... I want one, now!
And you forgot:
Q. Why are 3 of the next 3 SuperCoolFast gaming machines (even the one built by Msft) based around PPC cores?
A. Apparently, everyone in the next generation gaming world believes that PPC technology is THE best bet for gaming performance.
I kept on reading posts and waiting for SOMEONE to bring up that the XBox 360 etc. are all based on PPC cores, and finally had to say something myself...
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