You do know the Aqua GUI can be killed and the whole thing can be run terminal only. Plus without an active user it sits at about 0-1% CPU use dependent on your hardware.
THe only reason its soo much faster is that you have a professional level graphics card doing the drawing for you, Try again with a Geforce 2 MX and the results would be a whole lot different. Especially when considering 9's BLAZING fast speed on all hardware that runs it.
I don't know how you overlooked the obvious disparity in video cards acocunting for major differences in the speed of drawing applications.
For there godly case design. These are realyl mediocre mods to cases, but if he could get one of those things to look even close to a Mac case, i would be thoroughly impressed.
Im aware Apple likes to poke fun, its one of the cool things about Apple, but I was wondering where the specific references you guys are making are coming from.
Since everything else isn't gonan go anywhere I'll reply to the last part. The reason that Apple is the only company making Macs is simple, when they licensed other companies, those companies severely undercut thier prices and rather than helping them to expand it cannibalized thier sales. And currently at this stage of the game, if Apple were to try the same thing it would happen again.
Perhaps a couple years down the line as the switch campaing becomes more succesful and the Palladium initiative is realized for what it is, then people will start flocking ot hte mac at a rate I doubt Apple can handle. Then they can relicense thier machines to others, because then they are guaranteed that in the long run that is a smart move. At this stage in the game, I just don't see it possible yet. maybe a couple years down the line. Personally I look forward ot the day I can make my own Mac with parts of my choosing in a gorgeous enclosure, just differnt enough that a mobo can't use it.
Oh and when is siad Apple supporting thier community I was referring to its continued Attendance since the conception of MacWorld, now f only they would give out free stuff other than just posters.
As I see it, this has nothign to do with arrogance. This is Apple supporting thier community, AS they have done since the inception of MacWorld. It's not thier show, it isn't hosted by them, nor is the money made by them. They merely show up to support the community that is buying thier machines.
As to how this "arrogance" applies to Apple's market, I have no idea where your getting the idea that people profiting off them are leeches, but lets look at it this way: You design a new method of transportation. We'll call it teleportation. We'll say this method is revolutionary because it function by allowing people to instanteously vanish from one place and appear in another. Now lets say that you have a friend, we'll call him John Cochran, and he comes along and steals your plans, rapes your machines of thier components and creates a new method of transportation called transporters that do the same thing. Would you be happy to bend over for him as he makes billions off of your hard work? I highly doubt it.
As to thier diversity, Apple has allowed people to do what they please with thier computer since its inception, nor with a BSD core its even easier to change things. Thier technological innovations were never closed off, the reason they weren't adopted was because the industry considered them all proprietary.(appletalk, NuBUS, ADB, etc) Nowadays that is different since they use standards to create thier innovations and release exactly how to do it to the rest of the world.
Apple doesn't owe its profit to the show, the show owes its profit to Apple. The motivating factor for me and about everybody else to go to the show over everything else is to view the keynote personally. Sure they stream it, but the chances of getting one are so precious and its so much better in person anyway. No network hiccups, except when the person next to you has the audacity to cough and you miss by what measure the G4 outperforms [isert specs here] PC.
The Mac industry you say? Well, you must mean the Apple consumer base, because there is no "Mac industry" just a Mac community.
In the big picture a 45 million loss is next to nothing considering they bought out 3 companies and have more than 4 billion dollars in the bank. Why everyone seems to think this move is economically motivated is beyond me. Of all the possible reasons why Apple would not go to the show Money is the least probable.
Has no one picked up on Apple's motive's to gain a stranlehold on the digital media creation markets. All they need to do now is buy Alias|Wavefront and guess what, everyone now has to buy macs since Maya is unrivaled in 3D devevlopment.
Soon its not going to be that Macs are prevalent in media creation, thanks to MS's Palladium and TCPA, Soon Macs will be the ONLY method of media creation.
I sincerely doubt that Apple bought High end audio software so that it could let everyone be Britney.
I don't see these in any consumer product for the simple fact that though you can make movies, you've done it forever, iMovie gave you the ability to edit your own stuff to look cool. Your iMusic idea falls down since no one has audio recording equipment that outputs in either USB or Firewire that isn't exhorbitantly expensive, so consumers aren't buying any any time soon.
However.... if DRM continues on the path it is going now, then Apple may provide us all with our own tools and coupled with Rendezvous awate iTunes and the iChat network, we could all have a new system to replace the RIAA. Its a shame the music will probably all suck.
I must point out that Apple has been making less and less announcements at MacWorld. All the products on teh current lineup where independent of a MacWorld except for the iMac, and iPod at the last Mac World. After that show they announced the new Power Macs. Before the show they announced the new TiBooks, and even before that the new iBooks. So as you can see, Apple doesn't need MacWorld to announce products. Even the iPod wasn't even unvieled at a Mac World.
Apple has been moving away from MacWorld announcements for awhile now. Apple can completely and totally not go and have no negative effect on Apple since, it no longer releases on the same schedule as MacWorld. Look at all thier latest products/machines/announcements. The iBook, TiBook, and Power Macs were all updated independent of a MacWorld, and the new Power Macs may be the only new product announced at a MacWorld since 1999 after which it was basically updates and announcements at MacWorlds.
Perhaps to you, but Photoshop in general "feels" and performs alot nicer in 9 then on a PC, add that to the fact that it also performs better in X than in XP and I really can't see why anyone would use a PC. Also as to color accuracy, no it can not be easily done on a PC. On the Mac you have SYSTEM-WIDE color management ensuring that not only are your colors on your monitor calibrated, but also your Scanner and Printer so that they all have the same color profile. That cannot be easily done on Windows, it never has been so on windows and that is the major reason why the print and design fields use macs in the first place.
The Mac OS GUI is plenty snappy, Its major advantage is that it loses no speed while multitasking on processor intensive tasks. So while its rendering your humongous image in photoshop, you cna feel free to go start a rendering process or just use dreamweaver to design a site for said image and you would have no perceptible speed difference then if Dreamweaver was the only open app. Then open a browser surf the web to see if your page is rendering correctly and finally return to see if the filters have been rendered and guess what, everything felt as if it was the only thing using the processor all the while your PS was chugging along in the bg.
HA! Virus software for macs is pitiful for one reason. Macs have no viruses. There are all of three viruses and none of theme are even remotely harmful. All they do is propagate themselves over and over. You can't satisy a market that doesn't exist so why would you expect Mac Virus Software to be useful?
I completely and totally doubt 98 would function on a computer you buy today, since hardware comes with seperate drivers for each windows and nowadays they no longer bundle 98 drivers for thier devices.
The awful windows GUI has gotten no better in XP, as a matter of fact it has taken several steps back in useability, but what's worse is that the old "classic" GUI is just as bad. That wasn't up to par with OS 9 and yet you'll settle for that instead of X's Aqua which is a functional GUI designed with the intent that it be functional and easy to use, which it is. the resources BS is jsut that BS. The Mac OS X GUI takes almost no resources in Jaguar since it makes use of your Graphics card, I keep top running and the majority of the time the system(Finder, loginwindow, Dock, etc. ) are taking up about 2% of my CPU unless im using the Finder in which case obviously it is given more resources so it can do its work. Really I don't see how you can say the Windows GUI is more fucntional then that of any Mac OS.
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You do know the Aqua GUI can be killed and the whole thing can be run terminal only. Plus without an active user it sits at about 0-1% CPU use dependent on your hardware.
THe only reason its soo much faster is that you have a professional level graphics card doing the drawing for you, Try again with a Geforce 2 MX and the results would be a whole lot different. Especially when considering 9's BLAZING fast speed on all hardware that runs it. I don't know how you overlooked the obvious disparity in video cards acocunting for major differences in the speed of drawing applications.
For there godly case design. These are realyl mediocre mods to cases, but if he could get one of those things to look even close to a Mac case, i would be thoroughly impressed.
Im aware Apple likes to poke fun, its one of the cool things about Apple, but I was wondering where the specific references you guys are making are coming from.
Since everything else isn't gonan go anywhere I'll reply to the last part. The reason that Apple is the only company making Macs is simple, when they licensed other companies, those companies severely undercut thier prices and rather than helping them to expand it cannibalized thier sales. And currently at this stage of the game, if Apple were to try the same thing it would happen again.
Perhaps a couple years down the line as the switch campaing becomes more succesful and the Palladium initiative is realized for what it is, then people will start flocking ot hte mac at a rate I doubt Apple can handle. Then they can relicense thier machines to others, because then they are guaranteed that in the long run that is a smart move. At this stage in the game, I just don't see it possible yet. maybe a couple years down the line. Personally I look forward ot the day I can make my own Mac with parts of my choosing in a gorgeous enclosure, just differnt enough that a mobo can't use it.
Oh and when is siad Apple supporting thier community I was referring to its continued Attendance since the conception of MacWorld, now f only they would give out free stuff other than just posters.
Do you guys have links to these instances where Apple pokes fun at MS, because I have seen neither of the advertisements of which you guys speak.
As I see it, this has nothign to do with arrogance. This is Apple supporting thier community, AS they have done since the inception of MacWorld. It's not thier show, it isn't hosted by them, nor is the money made by them. They merely show up to support the community that is buying thier machines. As to how this "arrogance" applies to Apple's market, I have no idea where your getting the idea that people profiting off them are leeches, but lets look at it this way: You design a new method of transportation. We'll call it teleportation. We'll say this method is revolutionary because it function by allowing people to instanteously vanish from one place and appear in another. Now lets say that you have a friend, we'll call him John Cochran, and he comes along and steals your plans, rapes your machines of thier components and creates a new method of transportation called transporters that do the same thing. Would you be happy to bend over for him as he makes billions off of your hard work? I highly doubt it. As to thier diversity, Apple has allowed people to do what they please with thier computer since its inception, nor with a BSD core its even easier to change things. Thier technological innovations were never closed off, the reason they weren't adopted was because the industry considered them all proprietary.(appletalk, NuBUS, ADB, etc) Nowadays that is different since they use standards to create thier innovations and release exactly how to do it to the rest of the world. Apple doesn't owe its profit to the show, the show owes its profit to Apple. The motivating factor for me and about everybody else to go to the show over everything else is to view the keynote personally. Sure they stream it, but the chances of getting one are so precious and its so much better in person anyway. No network hiccups, except when the person next to you has the audacity to cough and you miss by what measure the G4 outperforms [isert specs here] PC. The Mac industry you say? Well, you must mean the Apple consumer base, because there is no "Mac industry" just a Mac community.
In the big picture a 45 million loss is next to nothing considering they bought out 3 companies and have more than 4 billion dollars in the bank. Why everyone seems to think this move is economically motivated is beyond me. Of all the possible reasons why Apple would not go to the show Money is the least probable.
Has no one picked up on Apple's motive's to gain a stranlehold on the digital media creation markets. All they need to do now is buy Alias|Wavefront and guess what, everyone now has to buy macs since Maya is unrivaled in 3D devevlopment. Soon its not going to be that Macs are prevalent in media creation, thanks to MS's Palladium and TCPA, Soon Macs will be the ONLY method of media creation.
Steve attended CalTech, I hardly see any reason to be jealous.
simple, by continuing to make cool innovative products.
I sincerely doubt that Apple bought High end audio software so that it could let everyone be Britney. I don't see these in any consumer product for the simple fact that though you can make movies, you've done it forever, iMovie gave you the ability to edit your own stuff to look cool. Your iMusic idea falls down since no one has audio recording equipment that outputs in either USB or Firewire that isn't exhorbitantly expensive, so consumers aren't buying any any time soon. However.... if DRM continues on the path it is going now, then Apple may provide us all with our own tools and coupled with Rendezvous awate iTunes and the iChat network, we could all have a new system to replace the RIAA. Its a shame the music will probably all suck.
I must point out that Apple has been making less and less announcements at MacWorld. All the products on teh current lineup where independent of a MacWorld except for the iMac, and iPod at the last Mac World. After that show they announced the new Power Macs. Before the show they announced the new TiBooks, and even before that the new iBooks. So as you can see, Apple doesn't need MacWorld to announce products. Even the iPod wasn't even unvieled at a Mac World.
Apple has been moving away from MacWorld announcements for awhile now. Apple can completely and totally not go and have no negative effect on Apple since, it no longer releases on the same schedule as MacWorld. Look at all thier latest products/machines/announcements. The iBook, TiBook, and Power Macs were all updated independent of a MacWorld, and the new Power Macs may be the only new product announced at a MacWorld since 1999 after which it was basically updates and announcements at MacWorlds.
Perhaps to you, but Photoshop in general "feels" and performs alot nicer in 9 then on a PC, add that to the fact that it also performs better in X than in XP and I really can't see why anyone would use a PC. Also as to color accuracy, no it can not be easily done on a PC. On the Mac you have SYSTEM-WIDE color management ensuring that not only are your colors on your monitor calibrated, but also your Scanner and Printer so that they all have the same color profile. That cannot be easily done on Windows, it never has been so on windows and that is the major reason why the print and design fields use macs in the first place. The Mac OS GUI is plenty snappy, Its major advantage is that it loses no speed while multitasking on processor intensive tasks. So while its rendering your humongous image in photoshop, you cna feel free to go start a rendering process or just use dreamweaver to design a site for said image and you would have no perceptible speed difference then if Dreamweaver was the only open app. Then open a browser surf the web to see if your page is rendering correctly and finally return to see if the filters have been rendered and guess what, everything felt as if it was the only thing using the processor all the while your PS was chugging along in the bg. HA! Virus software for macs is pitiful for one reason. Macs have no viruses. There are all of three viruses and none of theme are even remotely harmful. All they do is propagate themselves over and over. You can't satisy a market that doesn't exist so why would you expect Mac Virus Software to be useful? I completely and totally doubt 98 would function on a computer you buy today, since hardware comes with seperate drivers for each windows and nowadays they no longer bundle 98 drivers for thier devices. The awful windows GUI has gotten no better in XP, as a matter of fact it has taken several steps back in useability, but what's worse is that the old "classic" GUI is just as bad. That wasn't up to par with OS 9 and yet you'll settle for that instead of X's Aqua which is a functional GUI designed with the intent that it be functional and easy to use, which it is. the resources BS is jsut that BS. The Mac OS X GUI takes almost no resources in Jaguar since it makes use of your Graphics card, I keep top running and the majority of the time the system(Finder, loginwindow, Dock, etc. ) are taking up about 2% of my CPU unless im using the Finder in which case obviously it is given more resources so it can do its work. Really I don't see how you can say the Windows GUI is more fucntional then that of any Mac OS.