When talking about the MacBook Air, remember that the thickness of the entire machine is less than most SODIMM slots and retaining clips.
Oh, and Apple is hardly alone in sacrificing user-installable parts in favor of making things thinner and lighter. Lenovo's X1 Carbon, which is the closest thing that the traditional Windows vendors have to a MacBook Air, doesn't have upgradeable RAM or storage either.
He's been at Apple for the entirety of Mac OS X to date. He's made his pile of cash off options and employee stock purchase, and now he's returning to what he loves - producing free (BSD is as free you can get) software that is really useful.
First, both parties are on the fiduciary needle. They just want to spend all that money on slightly different things. Why is it that we never hear of Democrat plans to reform and cut social program waste, and never hear of Republican plans to reform and cut military waste?
Second, Clinton had a Republican Congress practically the whole way because of his completely botched attempt to pass national health care that scared voters into a Republican Revolution in 1994. He had to work with them in order to get a budget passed, and they weren't going to accept anything that wasn't balanced or in surplus. Thus, the government shutdown (well, and Gingrich being an egotistical ass).
Third, it's real easy to talk about the surplus that Clinton left behind, and forget that immediately after he left office, the whole Dot Com bubble imploded. Oh, and he was the one who signed the repeal of Glass-Steagall which set the table for the Bear Stearns / AIG collapse. Bush had a small version of what he left for Obama to deal with right out of the gate, and then a massive stock market dive that we like to call 9/11/2001. Oh, and he had a Republican majority in Congress who forgot why they were sent there, so they started spending like teenagers that found a suitcase full of money. Bush is not without blame though - the two wars that he put on the federal American Express absolutely didn't help things, and everyone seems to forget that TARP was his walk off shot - for some reason Obama gets tagged with that one.
There's plenty of blame to go around - none of these politicians can get the stink off of them, but that doesn't mean they won't try. The whole world shines shit and tries to pass it off as gold.
The trick, if you're getting Windows installed, is to tell the EFI what it's new boot device is. There are two ways to do that:
1. Use the "Startup Disk" control panel in Mac OS X to highlight the Windows partition, and click the Restart button. After this, EFI is set to boot to Windows until you change it back, and you can blow away the HFS+ partition. 2. Use the "bless" command on the terminal with the -setBoot flag. Use the man page for the other stuff you'll need for "bless" (I have a AppleScript on my desktop I double-click to reboot to Win8 for only the next boot, and it uses "bless" to get that done. You can then blow away the HFS+ partition.
Any sane admin would provision vPro with a mind towards power savings, as that's one of the huge benefits of AMT / vPro - out of band management allows you to remote power-up as well as remote wake for things like updates and software installs. As for vulnerabilities, if it's not provisioned, nothing is active, and there's nothing to exploit. If it's provisioned, you can use TLS and kerberos for security rather than some crap shared-secret password.
The only way to do an EFI-booted install is to install it as if it's the only OS present. In fact, if I recall correctly, if Windows Setup even sees an existing EFI System Partition from Mac OS X, it will freak out and give some nonsense error that has nothing to do with what the real problem is.
It took me a bit of trial and error to get it going, but I got it done in a Saturday using Apple's EFI Boot Manager (hold Option while booting up with DVD or USB install media present) and letting Windows do any partitioning on a blank disk.
And I would contend that 8GB OSX partition is hardly useless, but that's because I prefer MacOS to Windows =)
Part of that was because you could upgrade the Mac XL to way higher specs than the Mac or Mac 512k. You could jam 2MB of RAM in there, which no Mac was going to get until the Mac II line. Oh, and it had a hard disk.
No, the largest market for tablets is people that want to run apps on their tablets. That market coincides almost exactly with the iPad / Android market segment.
Developers target platforms that have users. WinRT has no users, thus no developers, even with Microsoft giving hardware to developers for free.
WinRT is dead - swap it out with something else and you might at least recover *some* lost money.
Apple isn't implementing SecureBoot. I run Windows 8 (hacked with a real Start menu) on a MacPro4,1 because Win8 actually does a real EFI boot, unlike the complete hash of it they made with Windows 7.
That 5 year old Mac Pro boots Win8 in under 12 seconds.
Part of the thing that made the TouchPad fire sale successful is the idea that you could do something with it, and that something had nothing to do with the software that HP shipped on it.
The only way they get excitement for the Surface RT tablets is to do away with that SecureBoot horseshit. Then a fire sale might move the hardware.
The Lenovo marketing department only now figured out how to astroturf Slashdot. Or, alternatively, this was submitted when it was new back in May, but the editors only posted it now.
This device is very different from the X-series tablets (which Lenovo still sells, btw).
If you can't see how being able to remove the screen and walk off with it leaving half the device behind as a docking station is different from the tilt-a-whirl convertible, then you aren't paying very close attention.
Good thing the Helix is a Core-series CPU with vPro, and you can turn off secure boot in the firmware in about 2 seconds. I have one on my desk right now, and secure boot is disabled, and it's running Windows 7, which Lenovo has driver support for.
The reason we're looking at this device at my business: saving on software licensing.
Yes, you can buy at T-series notebook and a tablet for about the same money, but you're buying two licenses of each software title now. Also, this device still checks all the boxes we were using X-series tablets for previously - namely signature capture with a stylus.
Oh, and they have Windows 7 support, so we don't even have to train our users on Windows 8 until Microsoft relents and gives us a sensible UI.
As an example, the ribbon is really great for word, excel, and powerpoint, for example.
I was with you until you said this. The ribbon is an abomination, and still takes me 3x the amount of time to find a simple function that used to be easy to locate in the menus.
The Mac version of office gives you both the Ribbon, and the traditional menus, with the option to turn off the Ribbon. This makes it superior to the Windows version, because it gives the user the choice.
They don't have to outsell Android in order to be successful, and to say otherwise completely ignores the dynamics of every marketplace that has ever existed.
Launchpad has it's uses, but I agree with you and don't use it either. This is the point the GP was making - using it (or not) is a choice. Unlike Windows 8.
Because there's no way that a TV producer would delete the hours of footage of routine traffic stops and taking statements that would make CSPAN look like a rousing drama; and instead condense weeks worth of footage that contains 3-4 exciting incidents into a 22 minute show with 8 minutes of commercial breaks, right?
The massive bombs are all products of the 50s and early 60s. Once the law of inverse-cube was observed with huge fucking explosions that vaporized atolls in the south Pacific, they figured out that you could make a more reliable, stable, less expensive, and far more effective small warhead in the 300 - 500 Kt range. Oh, and since we developed lifters capable of hauling those big dick nukes, we could put 3 - 10 of the smaller more effective ones on there.
The big bombs have all been decommissioned from the US arsenal. The W83 is kept around for deep penetrator bunker buster utility, but the rest of the nuclear arsenal is all sub-megaton.
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When talking about the MacBook Air, remember that the thickness of the entire machine is less than most SODIMM slots and retaining clips.
Oh, and Apple is hardly alone in sacrificing user-installable parts in favor of making things thinner and lighter. Lenovo's X1 Carbon, which is the closest thing that the traditional Windows vendors have to a MacBook Air, doesn't have upgradeable RAM or storage either.
He's been at Apple for the entirety of Mac OS X to date. He's made his pile of cash off options and employee stock purchase, and now he's returning to what he loves - producing free (BSD is as free you can get) software that is really useful.
First, both parties are on the fiduciary needle. They just want to spend all that money on slightly different things. Why is it that we never hear of Democrat plans to reform and cut social program waste, and never hear of Republican plans to reform and cut military waste?
Second, Clinton had a Republican Congress practically the whole way because of his completely botched attempt to pass national health care that scared voters into a Republican Revolution in 1994. He had to work with them in order to get a budget passed, and they weren't going to accept anything that wasn't balanced or in surplus. Thus, the government shutdown (well, and Gingrich being an egotistical ass).
Third, it's real easy to talk about the surplus that Clinton left behind, and forget that immediately after he left office, the whole Dot Com bubble imploded. Oh, and he was the one who signed the repeal of Glass-Steagall which set the table for the Bear Stearns / AIG collapse. Bush had a small version of what he left for Obama to deal with right out of the gate, and then a massive stock market dive that we like to call 9/11/2001. Oh, and he had a Republican majority in Congress who forgot why they were sent there, so they started spending like teenagers that found a suitcase full of money. Bush is not without blame though - the two wars that he put on the federal American Express absolutely didn't help things, and everyone seems to forget that TARP was his walk off shot - for some reason Obama gets tagged with that one.
There's plenty of blame to go around - none of these politicians can get the stink off of them, but that doesn't mean they won't try. The whole world shines shit and tries to pass it off as gold.
Use Disk Management to expand the NTFS disk, and reclaim that 8GB chunk!
The trick, if you're getting Windows installed, is to tell the EFI what it's new boot device is. There are two ways to do that:
1. Use the "Startup Disk" control panel in Mac OS X to highlight the Windows partition, and click the Restart button. After this, EFI is set to boot to Windows until you change it back, and you can blow away the HFS+ partition.
2. Use the "bless" command on the terminal with the -setBoot flag. Use the man page for the other stuff you'll need for "bless" (I have a AppleScript on my desktop I double-click to reboot to Win8 for only the next boot, and it uses "bless" to get that done. You can then blow away the HFS+ partition.
That's not what I said. I said that Windows Setup eats it if it sees another EFI system partition.
But good job at calling something I didn't say untrue.
Any sane admin would provision vPro with a mind towards power savings, as that's one of the huge benefits of AMT / vPro - out of band management allows you to remote power-up as well as remote wake for things like updates and software installs. As for vulnerabilities, if it's not provisioned, nothing is active, and there's nothing to exploit. If it's provisioned, you can use TLS and kerberos for security rather than some crap shared-secret password.
The only way to do an EFI-booted install is to install it as if it's the only OS present. In fact, if I recall correctly, if Windows Setup even sees an existing EFI System Partition from Mac OS X, it will freak out and give some nonsense error that has nothing to do with what the real problem is.
It took me a bit of trial and error to get it going, but I got it done in a Saturday using Apple's EFI Boot Manager (hold Option while booting up with DVD or USB install media present) and letting Windows do any partitioning on a blank disk.
And I would contend that 8GB OSX partition is hardly useless, but that's because I prefer MacOS to Windows =)
Part of that was because you could upgrade the Mac XL to way higher specs than the Mac or Mac 512k. You could jam 2MB of RAM in there, which no Mac was going to get until the Mac II line. Oh, and it had a hard disk.
No, the largest market for tablets is people that want to run apps on their tablets. That market coincides almost exactly with the iPad / Android market segment.
Developers target platforms that have users. WinRT has no users, thus no developers, even with Microsoft giving hardware to developers for free.
WinRT is dead - swap it out with something else and you might at least recover *some* lost money.
Apple isn't implementing SecureBoot. I run Windows 8 (hacked with a real Start menu) on a MacPro4,1 because Win8 actually does a real EFI boot, unlike the complete hash of it they made with Windows 7.
That 5 year old Mac Pro boots Win8 in under 12 seconds.
Part of the thing that made the TouchPad fire sale successful is the idea that you could do something with it, and that something had nothing to do with the software that HP shipped on it.
The only way they get excitement for the Surface RT tablets is to do away with that SecureBoot horseshit. Then a fire sale might move the hardware.
The trackpad on X1 Carbon and Helix (same part) does have a physical button - it clicks down in the same vein as Apple's trackpad.
Unfortunately, it's not nearly as tuned nor responsive as Apple's offering, so it still sucks.
The Lenovo marketing department only now figured out how to astroturf Slashdot. Or, alternatively, this was submitted when it was new back in May, but the editors only posted it now.
This device is very different from the X-series tablets (which Lenovo still sells, btw).
If you can't see how being able to remove the screen and walk off with it leaving half the device behind as a docking station is different from the tilt-a-whirl convertible, then you aren't paying very close attention.
Good thing the Helix is a Core-series CPU with vPro, and you can turn off secure boot in the firmware in about 2 seconds. I have one on my desk right now, and secure boot is disabled, and it's running Windows 7, which Lenovo has driver support for.
Installing Linux would be a snap.
The reason we're looking at this device at my business: saving on software licensing.
Yes, you can buy at T-series notebook and a tablet for about the same money, but you're buying two licenses of each software title now. Also, this device still checks all the boxes we were using X-series tablets for previously - namely signature capture with a stylus.
Oh, and they have Windows 7 support, so we don't even have to train our users on Windows 8 until Microsoft relents and gives us a sensible UI.
I thought that all vaults are to receive a shipment of replacement water chips as standard stock, to go with the GECK...
As an example, the ribbon is really great for word, excel, and powerpoint, for example.
I was with you until you said this. The ribbon is an abomination, and still takes me 3x the amount of time to find a simple function that used to be easy to locate in the menus.
The Mac version of office gives you both the Ribbon, and the traditional menus, with the option to turn off the Ribbon. This makes it superior to the Windows version, because it gives the user the choice.
It's easy to have large growth numbers when you are starting from a non-existent share.
"Hey, my penny stock is now worth $0.03! That's a 300% growth rate!"
I wish I could "fail badly" to the tune of 23 to 32 million activations in 3 months.
They don't have to outsell Android in order to be successful, and to say otherwise completely ignores the dynamics of every marketplace that has ever existed.
Launchpad has it's uses, but I agree with you and don't use it either. This is the point the GP was making - using it (or not) is a choice. Unlike Windows 8.
If an officer is approaching with their weapon drawn, there is more going on than a routine traffic stop.
Hand on holstered firearm, sure. Weapon actually drawn and pointed? That is unlikely.
Because there's no way that a TV producer would delete the hours of footage of routine traffic stops and taking statements that would make CSPAN look like a rousing drama; and instead condense weeks worth of footage that contains 3-4 exciting incidents into a 22 minute show with 8 minutes of commercial breaks, right?
The massive bombs are all products of the 50s and early 60s. Once the law of inverse-cube was observed with huge fucking explosions that vaporized atolls in the south Pacific, they figured out that you could make a more reliable, stable, less expensive, and far more effective small warhead in the 300 - 500 Kt range. Oh, and since we developed lifters capable of hauling those big dick nukes, we could put 3 - 10 of the smaller more effective ones on there.
The big bombs have all been decommissioned from the US arsenal. The W83 is kept around for deep penetrator bunker buster utility, but the rest of the nuclear arsenal is all sub-megaton.