That's interesting considering that greater than 90% of all installed Macs have completely legitimate software on them.... the last time I heard that number was below 50% (for a totally legit system) on the Windows side.
And since Apple hardware is more expensive (at least initial purchase) then this hardly holds any water.
I'm trying to figure out the ways to get this the cheapest. I suppose this will not be available in any other store than the Apple retail store or Apple's online store...
1) Use a paypal debit card (1.5% back) or other credit card cash back or point reward card (up to 4%)
2) Buy under a program like MyPoints using the affiliate Apple Store Link = a 5% yield in converted to cash points
3) Least useful tip: have the item shipped where Apple does not charge sales tax
Can anyone else think of any other ways to save money on such an item to yield it for the lowest price?
Go to the Apple Special Deals section and get a refurb eMac - best bang for your buck. Look for a week - you should be able to find an eMac 1Ghz or better for less than $600
Because sourceforge has the records and date when he downloaded PearPC - it shows 4 months ago.
It also shows that he downloaded an opensouce video player and then whatta you know - comes out with a video player a few months later.
Further, he is expressly denying that he used PearPC in any way whatsoever. The PearPC developers have found specific code that is stolen - you would think he would have wanted to be anonymous.
And... it's not an issue of "seeing whose better" - PearPC is only viable option to see.
I was one of the first to point this out and MANY of the PearPC forums respondents replied to me in email and told me about all the links within this article. (One of them is quite startling - about Arben having downloaded PearPC)
There are a few other insights at the link above.
Sorry to whore my own site, but I almost think it should be linked here too because I added a little political UNcorrectness to the mix.
Why the Cherry or The Pear May Be Apple's Next Lemon
Other posts here have mentioned that Apple used to sell it's laptops with 2.5" SCSI hard drives in them.
Let me just tell you that when I placed an IDE to SCSI adapter plate on a 2.5" laptop drive and placed it in a PowerBook Duo 2300 - there was a HUGE difference in boot time and Photoshop performance (for example) - it almost seemed to be like doubling the processor speed.
I have been disappointed that the industry decided to go to IDE, but pleased that it may be going to SATA.
I have been even more disappointed that work isn't being made to actually use flash based (no motor) hard drives a reality - as this is the main bottleneck in laptops (and really desktops)
Also, I would love to see if this could possibly be adapted to fit in older PowerBooks and would like to see performance tests on a Mac vs the Cheetah and Atlas IV as used in the tests. Maybe even test results froman Xserve.
I think a true test of performance for something like this - that isn't driver dependent - is only a good test if it can be compared under two different operating systems.
You have artificially increased demand for your product. If you have 1 million customers for your product rather than 500,000, don't you think you will have even higher sales overall?
After all, you aren't just selling your product to Walmart are you? This is certainly the case with music CDs - to get us back on topic.
That 3% difference is worth the price is distribution, recognition, and brand loyalty.
As a manufacturer, I might even consider taking a small loss to distribute at Walmart BECAUSE I might want to distribute my next product there as well.
In most cases - the new and improved that came off my line was streamlined, honed, and cost less to produce. In my next go around - I come out ahead.
Do you want the RIAA asking for higher pricing [see the many stories about price fixing & the lame settlement that followed]
Or
Do you want lower prices?
I hardly see how lower prices is a negative effect of a monopoly.
This is NOT Walmart's OWN product - they do not also control the content of this product - IE as Microsoft does with Internet Explorer.
Microsoft abused a monopoly by distributing a product for free, a product that was an essential component to the OS, but was also competition to other software. They controlled the development, quality, and distribution.
Walmart is only controlling ther distribution.
I see this as a net gain for online music stores to be able to negotiate better bulk pricing and for small record shops to use a negotiating chip as well.
If that were true they wouldn't be able to support almost 18% of their base that are running OSX on The beige G3 and the Blue and White - and then there's the few that have used the Xpostfacto utility - granted it's not ofiicially supported, but it DOES work with most ADB devices as they are for the most part - driverless.
I'm actually going to reveal something you may not know...
Both Connectix and Insignia (the two main companies that produced Windows emulation for the Mac) were actually just venture capital firms. This is why Connectix, at the height of every product launched, would just sell it off as an asset.
Connectix Quickcam = Logitech Quickcam
Connectix Virtual Game Station = Sony Buyout
Connectix Virtual PC ( at an undeniable breakthrough point) = Microsodt VPC
Insignia was the same:
Softwindows... I did an unupublished interview with the head of FWB... he stated that they simply licensed the code rather than bought it from Insignia. The reason they never released an update after leasing the code was because they didn't see any merit at the time in releasing a new OS X version.
Insignia is supposedly shopping this around.
I have found that these two companies were essentially started up by venture capital and paid off their investors, dumped their employees, and the owners got filthy rich.
Now, as for this software. I find it NEXT to impossible that the software is running a G4 at 80% speed of the CPU. If you were to translate this properly - Apple's CPUs are about 1.2X as fast as the equivalent P4 and P3 (G3 & G4 respectively) - so essentially the claim is saying it will run a 100% equivalent Mhz / speed ratio.
This means if I had a 3Ghz Pentium 4 with 1 Gig RAM - I would have the equivalent of a 2.4Ghz G4!! There's just NO way!
without adding the old ones too is very confusing and frustrating to users.
Very few Seimens phones I have seen have bluetooth.
Bluetooth has become the MAIN function I use my Sony Ericcson T616 for now - even above and beyond talking on the phone.
I can control my iTunes, PowerPoint, RadioShark, ElGato TV, DVD, and just about any other program. What's even better is I can search for songs and view the song detail right on the phone + control the mouse on screen.
Also with 802.11g which is backwards compatible with b - users will have to have this new standard to even operate - so lines or no lines - it's still confined.
I didn't blackmail him - he was stalking me - literally, he was emailing constantly, he even called, he also made a false report to my better business bureau. I had every right to find out information about him. His information was OUTSIDE the norm, but I would agree, as a straight man, I held bias and stereotype against him - well - it worked.
I do this all the time with problematic eBayers and Yahoo auction buyers and sellers that I run into.
I once had a guy email me and accuse me of stealing his Bang & Olufsen turntable that I was selling on ebay. He said he sold one on ebay two weeks prior to my auction and that the bidder (who happened to be 100 miles from me had made a claim that it was broken. He paid out on the claim. He accused me of being in cohorts with someone to pull a fast one and get the turntable, collect on insurance, then resell it on ebay for a double profit.
Well, I ended up googling his email address. Turns out - I got something to this affect on a "Discreet Personals Website" in Colorado:
"Male looking for other males for discreet, private meetings - into play, but nothing too rough"
I emailed him and told him I had found some information about him that I might post to eBayers That Suck dot com.
He didn't bother me after that.
I always google any problematic customer to see if they are a complainer on line or have anything "strange" about them - or are possibly on another business's hit list.
I google potential girlfriends names and if I have them, email addresses.
If you google my ID; adzoox, it brings up my website and home town of Greenville SC and things about me in the Upstate of South Carolina. Lots of google results are my slashdot posts from the past 3-4 months.
If I am not mistaken... Apple has made investments in the LCD lines of Samsung and LG Philips (through Chi Mei Electronics)
If I am also not mistaken this included sharing patent and development knowledge between Apple and said companies.
Since Apple may move to OLED or another technology and be involved in it's creation, enhancement and deployment - maybe they could offer Honeywell a piece of that pie to be "dropped" from litigation.
Otherwise - I think Honeywell is unjustly going after the computer makers because they are simply OEM and ODM from essentially 4 main conglomerates: Samsung, Sharp, LG Philips, Mitsubishi - there are smaller players in abundance but these four control about 80% of the market.
Well - it was only 20% of the computers - I'm not sure if this included replacing leased with purchased Macs either -as there were several 1000 in Kinko's locations and in the graphic design departments at FedEx.
I was only close to knowledge about this because my brother flies fedex executives around the country and I was hitching a ride with him not too long ago.
Here was the original speculation that this was going to happen.
You left out the fact this is NOT a normal Xbox - it has 128MB MOD on it.
The xbox used here was physically modded. The unit had the processor doubled (also a mod)
The upgraded HD IS necessary to squeeze just a tad more performance. PearPC is unuseable on anything this slow (even the mod)
Your keyboard, mouse, and monitor totals are not commonly available at those prices.
The original article stated that we could just buy an xbox off the shelf and have a cheap mac. (This is also what the parent here was implying) - with tool and supply cost, time, parts costs, and feature comparison the emac is Under $600 shipped with 5 minutes of time involved (an can play Hal, Madden, Quake, and Doom 3 [soon] I might add)
The modded Xbox - done properly (as your emlation on top of an emulation doesn't work) is about $550 and that's if you find low reasonable commonly available prices.
Plus, saying that the PearPC/XBox Mac is anywhere close to a 1Ghz eMac is just downright heresy - it's not even compareable in speed to a 1st generation iMac.
Slashdot Mirror
See this journal entry.
That's interesting considering that greater than 90% of all installed Macs have completely legitimate software on them .... the last time I heard that number was below 50% (for a totally legit system) on the Windows side.
And since Apple hardware is more expensive (at least initial purchase) then this hardly holds any water.
I'm trying to figure out the ways to get this the cheapest. I suppose this will not be available in any other store than the Apple retail store or Apple's online store...
1) Use a paypal debit card (1.5% back) or other credit card cash back or point reward card (up to 4%)
2) Buy under a program like MyPoints using the affiliate Apple Store Link = a 5% yield in converted to cash points
3) Least useful tip: have the item shipped where Apple does not charge sales tax
Can anyone else think of any other ways to save money on such an item to yield it for the lowest price?
Apple's Remote Desktop is a great solution.
I have started to use it to troubleshoot client's computers remotely.
It also uses standard SQL type reporting for it's database - so the data is actually transferrable between Macs, PCs, and Linux.
Go to the Apple Special Deals section and get a refurb eMac - best bang for your buck. Look for a week - you should be able to find an eMac 1Ghz or better for less than $600
Because sourceforge has the records and date when he downloaded PearPC - it shows 4 months ago.
It also shows that he downloaded an opensouce video player and then whatta you know - comes out with a video player a few months later.
Further, he is expressly denying that he used PearPC in any way whatsoever. The PearPC developers have found specific code that is stolen - you would think he would have wanted to be anonymous.
And... it's not an issue of "seeing whose better" - PearPC is only viable option to see.
You give slashdot too much credit there.
Apple websites published it first - if anything thier was MUCH greater traffic flow from the dozens of websites that linked to it.
I do agree that a lot of people get the free "whored" advertising here, but I also have to admit I do it for my own sites often.
In fact, it's why I post here - so I can get into Google searches talking about just about every Apple topic under the sun.
I did an article on my jackwhispers website about this.
I was one of the first to point this out and MANY of the PearPC forums respondents replied to me in email and told me about all the links within this article. (One of them is quite startling - about Arben having downloaded PearPC)
There are a few other insights at the link above.
Sorry to whore my own site, but I almost think it should be linked here too because I added a little political UNcorrectness to the mix.
Why the Cherry or The Pear May Be Apple's Next Lemon
For your info -
The Apple PowerBook Duo 2300 could take IDE OR SCSI 2.5" drives.
Other posts here have mentioned that Apple used to sell it's laptops with 2.5" SCSI hard drives in them.
Let me just tell you that when I placed an IDE to SCSI adapter plate on a 2.5" laptop drive and placed it in a PowerBook Duo 2300 - there was a HUGE difference in boot time and Photoshop performance (for example) - it almost seemed to be like doubling the processor speed.
I have been disappointed that the industry decided to go to IDE, but pleased that it may be going to SATA.
I have been even more disappointed that work isn't being made to actually use flash based (no motor) hard drives a reality - as this is the main bottleneck in laptops (and really desktops)
Also, I would love to see if this could possibly be adapted to fit in older PowerBooks and would like to see performance tests on a Mac vs the Cheetah and Atlas IV as used in the tests. Maybe even test results froman Xserve.
I think a true test of performance for something like this - that isn't driver dependent - is only a good test if it can be compared under two different operating systems.
You have 2 factors that you aren't considering:
Line capacity vs output vs distribution
You have artificially increased demand for your product. If you have 1 million customers for your product rather than 500,000, don't you think you will have even higher sales overall?
After all, you aren't just selling your product to Walmart are you? This is certainly the case with music CDs - to get us back on topic.
That 3% difference is worth the price is distribution, recognition, and brand loyalty.
As a manufacturer, I might even consider taking a small loss to distribute at Walmart BECAUSE I might want to distribute my next product there as well.
In most cases - the new and improved that came off my line was streamlined, honed, and cost less to produce. In my next go around - I come out ahead.
Wow, Walmart creates very high paying executive jobs, high paying distribution jobs.
The more a company makes the more workers they have to have to produce it.
The more a company has a demand for a product the more they get name recognition.
The iPod no longer sells because it's the best product - it sells because everyone has one and 1000's of places sell it.
I'll bet you don't think tax cuts grow the economy either...
I would disagree with this sentiment...
...
Walmart creates volume over margin sales...
Walmart SHOULD be able to come in and say
You sell "Mom & Pop Store A" this widget for X$ each per 50 ordered - giving you a 50% margin and giving them a 25% margin
We want to buy 50,000 of your widget [1000x MORE per month] than "Mom & Pop A" - your margin is 50% with them - we want it it be 40% for us
Do you understand that this DRAMATICALLY increases the profit, the employment, the scope of the company creating said widget?
I would rather sell 1 million of my items at $1 than 500,000 of my items for $2 - as long as I was making a profit and I could keep up with demand.
Well, make up your mind ...
Do you want the RIAA asking for higher pricing [see the many stories about price fixing & the lame settlement that followed]
Or
Do you want lower prices?
I hardly see how lower prices is a negative effect of a monopoly.
This is NOT Walmart's OWN product - they do not also control the content of this product - IE as Microsoft does with Internet Explorer.
Microsoft abused a monopoly by distributing a product for free, a product that was an essential component to the OS, but was also competition to other software. They controlled the development, quality, and distribution.
Walmart is only controlling ther distribution.
I see this as a net gain for online music stores to be able to negotiate better bulk pricing and for small record shops to use a negotiating chip as well.
Really?
Why does my ADB mouse and ADB Keyboard work then?
If that were true they wouldn't be able to support almost 18% of their base that are running OSX on The beige G3 and the Blue and White - and then there's the few that have used the Xpostfacto utility - granted it's not ofiicially supported, but it DOES work with most ADB devices as they are for the most part - driverless.
Why is $529 for a 17" Monitor, CPU ,and keyboard/mouse + TONS of awesome software - with a one year Apple Warranty too much for you?
See the Apple Store special deals section.
PS2 ports actually are supported - the HID is no differnt than ADB
I have a PS2 keyboard and a PS2 mouse hooked up to my Mac via a USB to PS2 adapter - no drivers.
Also you have to remember that Power Computing actually released a clone with PS2 and ADB ports, they required no special drivers.
The only difference - besides the pin configuration - is the voltage - ADB had 2 more volts and could chain 6 devices.
I'm actually going to reveal something you may not know...
... I did an unupublished interview with the head of FWB ... he stated that they simply licensed the code rather than bought it from Insignia. The reason they never released an update after leasing the code was because they didn't see any merit at the time in releasing a new OS X version.
Both Connectix and Insignia (the two main companies that produced Windows emulation for the Mac) were actually just venture capital firms. This is why Connectix, at the height of every product launched, would just sell it off as an asset.
Connectix Quickcam = Logitech Quickcam
Connectix Virtual Game Station = Sony Buyout
Connectix Virtual PC ( at an undeniable breakthrough point) = Microsodt VPC
Insignia was the same:
Softwindows
Insignia is supposedly shopping this around.
I have found that these two companies were essentially started up by venture capital and paid off their investors, dumped their employees, and the owners got filthy rich.
Now, as for this software. I find it NEXT to impossible that the software is running a G4 at 80% speed of the CPU. If you were to translate this properly - Apple's CPUs are about 1.2X as fast as the equivalent P4 and P3 (G3 & G4 respectively) - so essentially the claim is saying it will run a 100% equivalent Mhz / speed ratio.
This means if I had a 3Ghz Pentium 4 with 1 Gig RAM - I would have the equivalent of a 2.4Ghz G4!! There's just NO way!
without adding the old ones too is very confusing and frustrating to users.
Very few Seimens phones I have seen have bluetooth.
Bluetooth has become the MAIN function I use my Sony Ericcson T616 for now - even above and beyond talking on the phone.
I can control my iTunes, PowerPoint, RadioShark, ElGato TV, DVD, and just about any other program. What's even better is I can search for songs and view the song detail right on the phone + control the mouse on screen.
Also with 802.11g which is backwards compatible with b - users will have to have this new standard to even operate - so lines or no lines - it's still confined.
Your local Goodwill or Salvation Army.
I often find VERY high quality bags at the local thrift store. Sometimes, I even find new ones.
I found a brenthaven not too long ago and snagged it for $3.00
I didn't blackmail him - he was stalking me - literally, he was emailing constantly, he even called, he also made a false report to my better business bureau. I had every right to find out information about him. His information was OUTSIDE the norm, but I would agree, as a straight man, I held bias and stereotype against him - well - it worked.
I do this all the time with problematic eBayers and Yahoo auction buyers and sellers that I run into.
I once had a guy email me and accuse me of stealing his Bang & Olufsen turntable that I was selling on ebay. He said he sold one on ebay two weeks prior to my auction and that the bidder (who happened to be 100 miles from me had made a claim that it was broken. He paid out on the claim. He accused me of being in cohorts with someone to pull a fast one and get the turntable, collect on insurance, then resell it on ebay for a double profit.
Well, I ended up googling his email address. Turns out - I got something to this affect on a "Discreet Personals Website" in Colorado:
"Male looking for other males for discreet, private meetings - into play, but nothing too rough"
I emailed him and told him I had found some information about him that I might post to eBayers That Suck dot com.
He didn't bother me after that.
I always google any problematic customer to see if they are a complainer on line or have anything "strange" about them - or are possibly on another business's hit list.
I google potential girlfriends names and if I have them, email addresses.
If you google my ID; adzoox, it brings up my website and home town of Greenville SC and things about me in the Upstate of South Carolina. Lots of google results are my slashdot posts from the past 3-4 months.
If I am not mistaken ... Apple has made investments in the LCD lines of Samsung and LG Philips (through Chi Mei Electronics)
If I am also not mistaken this included sharing patent and development knowledge between Apple and said companies.
Since Apple may move to OLED or another technology and be involved in it's creation, enhancement and deployment - maybe they could offer Honeywell a piece of that pie to be "dropped" from litigation.
Otherwise - I think Honeywell is unjustly going after the computer makers because they are simply OEM and ODM from essentially 4 main conglomerates: Samsung, Sharp, LG Philips, Mitsubishi - there are smaller players in abundance but these four control about 80% of the market.
Well - it was only 20% of the computers - I'm not sure if this included replacing leased with purchased Macs either -as there were several 1000 in Kinko's locations and in the graphic design departments at FedEx.
I was only close to knowledge about this because my brother flies fedex executives around the country and I was hitching a ride with him not too long ago.
Here was the original speculation that this was going to happen.
You left out the fact this is NOT a normal Xbox - it has 128MB MOD on it.
The xbox used here was physically modded. The unit had the processor doubled (also a mod)
The upgraded HD IS necessary to squeeze just a tad more performance. PearPC is unuseable on anything this slow (even the mod)
Your keyboard, mouse, and monitor totals are not commonly available at those prices.
The original article stated that we could just buy an xbox off the shelf and have a cheap mac. (This is also what the parent here was implying) - with tool and supply cost, time, parts costs, and feature comparison the emac is Under $600 shipped with 5 minutes of time involved (an can play Hal, Madden, Quake, and Doom 3 [soon] I might add)
The modded Xbox - done properly (as your emlation on top of an emulation doesn't work) is about $550 and that's if you find low reasonable commonly available prices.
Plus, saying that the PearPC/XBox Mac is anywhere close to a 1Ghz eMac is just downright heresy - it's not even compareable in speed to a 1st generation iMac.