He complains about DRM. Intel Macs have TPM in them. So if he doesn't like DRM, then it follows that he wouldn't like an Intel Mac. And then there is always the issues of giving money to company like Apple that supports DRM (though you would be pretty hardpressed to build/buy a PC without giving atleast some money to a hardware company that supports DRM).
To me, when apple said they did not do anything to prevent windows from running, that should mean not remove bios, udf, and el tsomething......
Why? All that statement meant to me is that they wouldn't use DRM or something to prevent you from booting other OSes. I could just as easily say that Amiga hasn't done anything to prevent you from booting Windows on a A1200. Of course, they haven't done much to help you either.
Well, if you are looking to buy a $550-$600 video card, I think you can pony up the money for a PCI-Express board too. If not, there are some not-quite-as-fast-but-cheaper AGP cards you can buy.
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Knowing Disney's history of "cheapquels", what they'll try is to let Pixar produce big blockblusters. Then they will do low-budget sequels to these movies in house as cheaply as possible. While these movies won't do nearly as well as the initial releases, due the fact that they are cheap to make (I've heard Disney has spent less than $1 million producing some of these cheapquels for their 2D films) almost any money they make off of the movie is pure profit. And Disney doesn't seem to mind trashing their successful franchises either.
What the hell is up with you AMD fanboys? AMD cannot deliver chips in sufficient volumes to satisfy all of it's existing customers let alone new ones.
For a computer company with a whopping 2.4% marketshare? Please. AMD could of easily supported Apple. Especially if Apple went the smart route and sold both AMD and Intel machines just like many PC manufacturers do right now.
And it's not like Intel hasn't had supply issues either.
versus the G5 which simply wouldn't work in a laptop at all.
People keep on saying this, and it's simply not true. I have seen Intel Prescotts in gaming laptops. If there is a laptop running a Prescott, that means there could be a laptop running a G5. Of course, it would not look like a traditional Apple laptop, but more like those massive PC gaming laptops. But don't say it can't be done.
The only place it really makes sense anymore to use a desktop is if you're a gamer or an avid upgrader and like to swap out your motherboard/CPU/memory/video cards every once in awhile.
Or if you are cheap. I can buy a lot more computer for my money with a desktop. I really don't see the reason for a laptop unless you want portability, or something with a small footprint. And a lot of laptop owners I know who thought they needed portability have a laptop that ends up sitting in the same spot all the time anyway.
I don't think its an unreasonable assertion. How many single manufacturers are currently outselling apple with strictly AMD-equipped computers?
Probably none, as I can't think of any major OEM that doesn't offer Intel based systems too. Heck, even the whitebox places will happily build you an Intel system if that is what you want.
I don't see what this has to do with anything though.
My personal experience is that owning a 5 year old G4 that was bottom-of-the-line at the time is still a viable computer. Not only can I use it for email and web surfing, but it also pulls its weight in Photoshop and web development. Every other time I owned a five year old computer it was depressingly obsolete.
That's just a sign of the times. A 5 year old PC is either going to be a higher end PIII, or a low P4, or the AMD equivilent. Which are all still very capable machines. I know people who get use out of older machines too.
Depends. If you watch a lot of TV, then "buying in bulk" with cable or satellite is cheaper. But if you are only interested in just 1-2 shows, then iTunes will come out ahead. Though if you are really cheap, nothing is going to beat Bittorrent.
Yes we all know that OSX is more secure, better designed, blah blah blah. But anyone with any common sense (or in other words, not a retarded Mac fanboy like yourself) knows that if you can get the user to run a program on ANY system, all bets are off. And the typical Mac user is dumb enough to do just that, just like the typical Windows user. I don't need to see actual malware to know that, because I'm smarter than that.
And you wonder why there are so many Mac bashers. Let me give you a hint: It's not the hardware. It's not the software. It's not even the company. It's annoying Mac fanboys like yourself that ultimately piss people off.
So shut the hell up until you know what you're talking about.
The whole PC pricing scheme reminds me of the way American car companies price vans (and probably other cars) -- put in an engine that's really too small, leave off options that most buyers would add to the package and advertise an unbelievably low price that almost nobody would end up paying.
On the other hand, Apple reminds me of how the Japanese do things. If you want the moonroof, you also have to buy the upgraded wheels, the spoiler, power seats, and the 6 disk CD changer.
If you can't tell, I rather prefer building my own computers.
Remember, Apple is abandoning their proprietary innovation by going with Intel so they can offer cheap PC OEM equipement in an expensive fancy package, they are not really IMPROVING PC technology.
Did you even look at the pictures? The insides of the Intel iMac looks just like the later G5 iMacs - basically a bunch of custom, propriety, Apple hardware in a custom, propriety Apple case with a few standard bits thrown in, such as the standard SATA harddrive. I really wasn't anything else either.
Whether or not this is better than standard parts is another issue entirely.
You must of missed the part about Mac users being "too smug". There seem to be a lot of Mac users, that seems to including yourself, that think that OSX is magically immune from viruses, worms, and other malware. The proof is, of course, that there is no known malware for OSX.
Of course, anyone with any sense realizes that spyware and viruses is certainly possible on the Mac. Especially considering that the most common way for malware to get on a Windows machine nowadays is tricking the user into running or installing something. OSX may be able to better protect the user against worms, but it can't protect the user against their own stupidity.
Fact is, if malware starts cropping up for the OSX, there is going to be a lot of owned Macs. Especially with "too smug" users thinking they can do whatever they want because they are somehow magically immune.
The second thing that you need is a large enough body of susceptible hosts that the worm can spread. Macs *don't* have that.
The obvious solution would be to use Windows boxes as a carrier for the virus, but only have a payload for the Macs. The real beauty to doing this way would be the fact that it would take YEARS to get rid of the infected Windows boxes, if the worm did not cause significant harmful effects on the Windows boxes it infects.
Wasn't this an issue with the PowerMac G5 when people first installed Linux on them?
I think the issue was that without the OS controlling the fans, they just defaulted to max speed. Which of course made the G5 with all of its fans that normally run very slow suddenly sound like a jet airplane. Not dangerous, but annoying.
Actually, they wouldn't have to do anything. Enable automatic updates by default, and let automatic updates take care of everything. The people savvy enough to use Windows Update can probably enable ActiveX for microsoft.com.
The average aluminum smelting plant uses 300mw of electricity or 250,000 times as much Link.
Holy cow, that's a lot of electricity. It seems from scanning that article that the majority of that electricity is used to create heat for use in their smelters. Anyone know why they don't just burn natural gas or coal at the plants for heat instead? It would seem to me that would be a heck of a lot cheaper, not to mention a more efficient use of limited resources than buying electricity from coal and gas power plants.
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Anything I download from iTunes is playable until I delete it or lose it somehow.
Unless you are going around the DRM, how can you be sure of this?
He complains about DRM. Intel Macs have TPM in them. So if he doesn't like DRM, then it follows that he wouldn't like an Intel Mac. And then there is always the issues of giving money to company like Apple that supports DRM (though you would be pretty hardpressed to build/buy a PC without giving atleast some money to a hardware company that supports DRM).
To me, when apple said they did not do anything to prevent windows from running, that should mean not remove bios, udf, and el tsomething......
Why? All that statement meant to me is that they wouldn't use DRM or something to prevent you from booting other OSes. I could just as easily say that Amiga hasn't done anything to prevent you from booting Windows on a A1200. Of course, they haven't done much to help you either.
Well, if you are looking to buy a $550-$600 video card, I think you can pony up the money for a PCI-Express board too. If not, there are some not-quite-as-fast-but-cheaper AGP cards you can buy.
Knowing Disney's history of "cheapquels", what they'll try is to let Pixar produce big blockblusters. Then they will do low-budget sequels to these movies in house as cheaply as possible. While these movies won't do nearly as well as the initial releases, due the fact that they are cheap to make (I've heard Disney has spent less than $1 million producing some of these cheapquels for their 2D films) almost any money they make off of the movie is pure profit. And Disney doesn't seem to mind trashing their successful franchises either.
True, but good luck finding any new updates for previous versions of OSX.
The single most vocal critic of their microprocessors -- along with all its fanboys -- has now been silenced.
Wait. I don't get it. How did the Intel switch for Apple shut up all the AMD fanboys?
What the hell is up with you AMD fanboys? AMD cannot deliver chips in sufficient volumes to satisfy all of it's existing customers let alone new ones.
For a computer company with a whopping 2.4% marketshare? Please. AMD could of easily supported Apple. Especially if Apple went the smart route and sold both AMD and Intel machines just like many PC manufacturers do right now.
And it's not like Intel hasn't had supply issues either.
versus the G5 which simply wouldn't work in a laptop at all.
People keep on saying this, and it's simply not true. I have seen Intel Prescotts in gaming laptops. If there is a laptop running a Prescott, that means there could be a laptop running a G5. Of course, it would not look like a traditional Apple laptop, but more like those massive PC gaming laptops. But don't say it can't be done.
The only place it really makes sense anymore to use a desktop is if you're a gamer or an avid upgrader and like to swap out your motherboard/CPU/memory/video cards every once in awhile.
Or if you are cheap. I can buy a lot more computer for my money with a desktop. I really don't see the reason for a laptop unless you want portability, or something with a small footprint. And a lot of laptop owners I know who thought they needed portability have a laptop that ends up sitting in the same spot all the time anyway.
I don't think its an unreasonable assertion. How many single manufacturers are currently outselling apple with strictly AMD-equipped computers?
Probably none, as I can't think of any major OEM that doesn't offer Intel based systems too. Heck, even the whitebox places will happily build you an Intel system if that is what you want.
I don't see what this has to do with anything though.
My personal experience is that owning a 5 year old G4 that was bottom-of-the-line at the time is still a viable computer. Not only can I use it for email and web surfing, but it also pulls its weight in Photoshop and web development. Every other time I owned a five year old computer it was depressingly obsolete.
That's just a sign of the times. A 5 year old PC is either going to be a higher end PIII, or a low P4, or the AMD equivilent. Which are all still very capable machines. I know people who get use out of older machines too.
Depends. If you watch a lot of TV, then "buying in bulk" with cable or satellite is cheaper. But if you are only interested in just 1-2 shows, then iTunes will come out ahead. Though if you are really cheap, nothing is going to beat Bittorrent.
I eventually figured out they were stealing my work and left them a present :)
Okay, enough suspense. What "present" did you leave them?
If a circle with eight legs ran across my floor, I'd still be freaked out.
Okay, for you we'll start with a square with 4 legs and work up from there.
Yes we all know that OSX is more secure, better designed, blah blah blah. But anyone with any common sense (or in other words, not a retarded Mac fanboy like yourself) knows that if you can get the user to run a program on ANY system, all bets are off. And the typical Mac user is dumb enough to do just that, just like the typical Windows user. I don't need to see actual malware to know that, because I'm smarter than that.
And you wonder why there are so many Mac bashers. Let me give you a hint: It's not the hardware. It's not the software. It's not even the company. It's annoying Mac fanboys like yourself that ultimately piss people off.
So shut the hell up until you know what you're talking about.
The whole PC pricing scheme reminds me of the way American car companies price vans (and probably other cars) -- put in an engine that's really too small, leave off options that most buyers would add to the package and advertise an unbelievably low price that almost nobody would end up paying.
On the other hand, Apple reminds me of how the Japanese do things. If you want the moonroof, you also have to buy the upgraded wheels, the spoiler, power seats, and the 6 disk CD changer.
If you can't tell, I rather prefer building my own computers.
Remember, Apple is abandoning their proprietary innovation by going with Intel so they can offer cheap PC OEM equipement in an expensive fancy package, they are not really IMPROVING PC technology.
Did you even look at the pictures? The insides of the Intel iMac looks just like the later G5 iMacs - basically a bunch of custom, propriety, Apple hardware in a custom, propriety Apple case with a few standard bits thrown in, such as the standard SATA harddrive. I really wasn't anything else either.
Whether or not this is better than standard parts is another issue entirely.
that's really 80's. modern mobos regulate fan speed.
True, but if you try to run a modern PC with just one large fan, the motherboard is going to end up telling it run full blast anyway.
You must of missed the part about Mac users being "too smug". There seem to be a lot of Mac users, that seems to including yourself, that think that OSX is magically immune from viruses, worms, and other malware. The proof is, of course, that there is no known malware for OSX.
Of course, anyone with any sense realizes that spyware and viruses is certainly possible on the Mac. Especially considering that the most common way for malware to get on a Windows machine nowadays is tricking the user into running or installing something. OSX may be able to better protect the user against worms, but it can't protect the user against their own stupidity.
Fact is, if malware starts cropping up for the OSX, there is going to be a lot of owned Macs. Especially with "too smug" users thinking they can do whatever they want because they are somehow magically immune.
The second thing that you need is a large enough body of susceptible hosts that the worm can spread. Macs *don't* have that.
The obvious solution would be to use Windows boxes as a carrier for the virus, but only have a payload for the Macs. The real beauty to doing this way would be the fact that it would take YEARS to get rid of the infected Windows boxes, if the worm did not cause significant harmful effects on the Windows boxes it infects.
You obviously didn't have a 60Mhz Pentium
Nope. But I had a 59.9999999987573Mhz one though.
Wasn't this an issue with the PowerMac G5 when people first installed Linux on them?
I think the issue was that without the OS controlling the fans, they just defaulted to max speed. Which of course made the G5 with all of its fans that normally run very slow suddenly sound like a jet airplane. Not dangerous, but annoying.
Simple! Change Windows Update!
Actually, they wouldn't have to do anything. Enable automatic updates by default, and let automatic updates take care of everything. The people savvy enough to use Windows Update can probably enable ActiveX for microsoft.com.
The average aluminum smelting plant uses 300mw of electricity or 250,000 times as much Link.
Holy cow, that's a lot of electricity. It seems from scanning that article that the majority of that electricity is used to create heat for use in their smelters. Anyone know why they don't just burn natural gas or coal at the plants for heat instead? It would seem to me that would be a heck of a lot cheaper, not to mention a more efficient use of limited resources than buying electricity from coal and gas power plants.