Why is Slashdot so obsessed with cracking OS X to run it on generic x86 machines? So they don't have to pay for OS X? You know it's strictly for warezing up on Bittorrent to screw Apple.
Because we like to tinker and see it as a challenge. Especially since most people are anticipating Apple using every trick they can come up to prevent it. I'm sure that there will be a significant portion of slashdotters who are looking forward to getting a copy of OS X for Intel just to see if they can get it to run, only to wipe it off the drive once they get it going.
So what software are you thinking of exactly? Most software lets you crossgrade (like PhotoShop).
And a license to run a lot of commercial software in Windows (such as Photoshop, Acrobat, MS Office) is not the same as a license to run this software in OS X. Which means you have to buy it all over again, which is exactly the parent poster's point.
This obviously doesn't apply to software pirates though.
PS Cigarettes are the only thing I can think of that one can purchase for ingestion that doesn't have any ingredient information at all. Everything else - including gum, medicine, and even things you don't ingest like cleaning products has the components listed in meticulous detail. What do you suppose the big secret is?
Most alcoholic drinks don't tell you what's in them either, beyond what percentage is alcohol.
if those 1000's get the same milage as a truck per gallon you have a point. But realistically a 40 tonne truck does not get the same milage as a 1 tonne car. He isn't paying the same per mile and thats where your arguement falls down an extra $5 dollars a week might easily equate to a $150 dollars a week to him. if he is an owner driver that might tip the balance from modest living to loss.
So, that gives him the right to blockcade a highway? He's still a hypocrite. If whatever he does with that truck is no longer profitable due to higher fuel prices, maybe he should reconsider his business model instead of pissing off thousands of people (gee, what does this remind you of?).
Actually, it does seem a bit like a witch hunt. Around here (Minnesota), there has been a lot of talk about smoking bans in places like restuarants and bars. The anti-smoking crowd likes to make a lot of noise about how great non-smoking restaurants and bars would be, and how everyone (except a few smokers) wants it that way. You would think the free market would sort this one out - if there really is a big demand, entrepreneurs would open up non-smoking establishments and be successful. After a while you would have a nice mix of smoking and non-smoking places to hang out depending on your preference, which would make a smoking ban a non-issue. Strangely, it doesn't seem to work that way - banning smoking results in less revenue which is why the people running the bars and restuarants oppose such manditory bans, thus every bar is full of smoke and every resturant has a smoking section. So it really ends up looking like a minority of outspoken non-smokers trying to dictate things for everyone. I say if you don't like it (the smoke), then don't visit those places. Try voting with your wallet instead of dragging the local government into it.
What I really don't understand about widescreen laptops is why most of them don't have a better keyboard. Most of them just have wasted space on both sides the keyboard where they could put things like a numeric keypad. If you're going to go with the "wider is better" theory, you might as well make use of all that space, right? (I still think Widescreen is a gimmick, I've used 16:9 and 4:3, and much prefer the latter)
Except that it probably won't be an Intel PowerBook. People seem to have forgotten that the word Power in PowerBook (and PowerMac) comes from PowerPC. The Intel versions should be called something else. That is, unless Apple decides to take a page from Intel's playbook and continue to use a name long after it stopped standing for what it did initially (for example, Pentium). On the otherhand, the iBook really will be an iBook now - go figure.
3. Apple doesn't like the idea of Mac OS X, which is beautiful, running on ugly ass hardware.
I always laugh at people who say things like this. Apple is out to make money, and they have been successful in carving out a niche market where they sell an OS tied to their hardware, so that's the way it's going to continue. But if tomorrow the winds changed and it would be more profitable to license their OS to other vendors, they would do it. Just like how they switched from PPC to x86.
Besides, if they didn't want their OS running on "ugly ass" hardware, how do you explain the eMac?
I believe there are many people that will consider doing this, and I think this could hurt OSX. This move could put Apple (overtime) going Head to Head with Dell not MS.
I really doubt it. Most people aren't going to want to pay the premium for Apple hardware just to run Windows and/or Linux. Sure, there will be a few, but not many - especially when the Dell is going to cost hundreds less and come with Windows pre-installed. If anything Apple may hurt sales of more premium brands like the Thinkpad, since Thinkpads already cost more than Dells, Toshibas, and Compaqs. But even then, the Thinkpad is probably still going to be the better deal for someone not interested in OSX (and besides, Thinkpads are a much better looking computer IMHO).
I agree. I bought some Samsung 160GB 5400RPM drives back when they were being phased out. Cool, quiet, reliable - great drives.
I think it's time for the Quantum Bigfoot drives to make a comeback. With today's technology, I'm sure we could easily have a 1TB drive with 5.25" platters. I'd buy one. I wouldn't really care about speed or latency issues, as I would certainly have a fast 3.5" drive to boot the OS off of.
You are not being forced to adopt digital TV. If you were really opposed to it you would not buy any TV service. Same goes for radio. It's a luxury; if you don't like it, you can live perfectly well without it.
He's probably referring to over the air broadcasts, which you can pick up for free once you have purchased a television and an antenna. In a couple of years, the analog broadcasts will cease, meaning if you still want to recieve television you have to buy a digital TV or a converter box.
And what if I don't want a built in webcam, or Windows XP, or a fancy looking case? Atleast when I build my own I don't have to buy stuff I don't need like I do with an OEM. And besides, that webcam in the iMac is not going to be too terribly useful. Who wants to move the whole computer just to point the camera at something?
Do you pay a price premium for most Macs? Yep. Is it anywhere 2x the price of a "comparable" PC. Nope.
You can buy a complete PC system for $400 easily. The cheapest complete Apple system is the eMac at $800. And the $400 PC is going to kick the crap out of the eMac. Or take a typical $1000 AMD box from a vender like Compaq. A $1000 AMD box is going to be 64bit, so the comparable Mac is going to be the Powermac G5, starting out at $2000. And that $1000 AMD box is going to be faster, have more memory (at least 1GB), use less power, and be more expandable than the $2000 Powermac. It all depends on how you play the "build the comparable..." game.
Does anyone fall for that stupid Disney Vault thing anymore? Pick a movie that is currently in the "vault" and I'll bet you $100 I can find somewhere to buy it.
Getting people to pay you $100 to say "Ebay"... now that's quite a feat!
Or you could wait and see if retailers get desperate and try to dump their stock of Xboxes really cheap. This may not happen though if retailers are able to get rid of most of the old stock before the 360's launch.
Google has done the same thing too. The whole "invites" thing was a way to limit supply and create buzz about GMail. Where else have you seen webmail accounts being sold for real money on eBay?
On the other hand, Apple doesn't care about the things that open source players are likely to have: Standard, open connectors (no dock connector that you have to pay Apple to use), ability to play lots of different formats like Vorbis, ability to customize the interface, ability to upgrade the memory, ability to talk to various operating systems, etc. Really, this player and the iPod re targetting different sections of the portable music player market.
It's value as a bomb shelter went away when slow flying bombers were no longer the weapon delivery mechanism. As the article says, once the warning time dropped to 4 minutes, evacuating to the shelter became impossible.
It could still be useful, you would just have to go running to it at the slightest hint of trouble. Just like what our Vice President does all the time on this side of the pond.
Looking at the system specs, you could dump the 64 bit processor for an AMD Socket A processer, and probably save atleast $100 on the processor and motherboard, and possibly even get away with slighly cheaper type of memory. Sure, it won't be as fast, but a socket A system can still run new games. From there you would have enough leftover cash to afford a Windows XP home lincense and a cheap case.
Sheesh, I thought this thing was supposed to IMPROVE brightness and contrast.
With the way the LCD manufacturers like to fudge and plain out lie when it coms to their specifications, I wouldn't be so quick to judge this new technology. I would wait until you see it side by side with a current LCD monitor.
Which raises another question...If the display settings are set at 60Hz, and then locked out so you couldn't even change it if you wanted to, is that grounds for a protential lawsuit?
I would atleast ask if you could have the refresh rate changed before you sue. If they say no, then try asking for a LCD.
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Why is Slashdot so obsessed with cracking OS X to run it on generic x86 machines? So they don't have to pay for OS X? You know it's strictly for warezing up on Bittorrent to screw Apple.
Because we like to tinker and see it as a challenge. Especially since most people are anticipating Apple using every trick they can come up to prevent it. I'm sure that there will be a significant portion of slashdotters who are looking forward to getting a copy of OS X for Intel just to see if they can get it to run, only to wipe it off the drive once they get it going.
So what software are you thinking of exactly? Most software lets you crossgrade (like PhotoShop).
And a license to run a lot of commercial software in Windows (such as Photoshop, Acrobat, MS Office) is not the same as a license to run this software in OS X. Which means you have to buy it all over again, which is exactly the parent poster's point.
This obviously doesn't apply to software pirates though.
PS Cigarettes are the only thing I can think of that one can purchase for ingestion that doesn't have any ingredient information at all. Everything else - including gum, medicine, and even things you don't ingest like cleaning products has the components listed in meticulous detail. What do you suppose the big secret is?
Most alcoholic drinks don't tell you what's in them either, beyond what percentage is alcohol.
Close, but the real reason for the War On Drugs is that it's a convienent excuse to take away people's rights and increase the government's power.
if those 1000's get the same milage as a truck per gallon you have a point. But realistically a 40 tonne truck does not get the same milage as a 1 tonne car. He isn't paying the same per mile and thats where your arguement falls down an extra $5 dollars a week might easily equate to a $150 dollars a week to him. if he is an owner driver that might tip the balance from modest living to loss.
So, that gives him the right to blockcade a highway? He's still a hypocrite. If whatever he does with that truck is no longer profitable due to higher fuel prices, maybe he should reconsider his business model instead of pissing off thousands of people (gee, what does this remind you of?).
Actually, it does seem a bit like a witch hunt. Around here (Minnesota), there has been a lot of talk about smoking bans in places like restuarants and bars. The anti-smoking crowd likes to make a lot of noise about how great non-smoking restaurants and bars would be, and how everyone (except a few smokers) wants it that way. You would think the free market would sort this one out - if there really is a big demand, entrepreneurs would open up non-smoking establishments and be successful. After a while you would have a nice mix of smoking and non-smoking places to hang out depending on your preference, which would make a smoking ban a non-issue. Strangely, it doesn't seem to work that way - banning smoking results in less revenue which is why the people running the bars and restuarants oppose such manditory bans, thus every bar is full of smoke and every resturant has a smoking section. So it really ends up looking like a minority of outspoken non-smokers trying to dictate things for everyone. I say if you don't like it (the smoke), then don't visit those places. Try voting with your wallet instead of dragging the local government into it.
Disclaimer: I don't smoke.
What I really don't understand about widescreen laptops is why most of them don't have a better keyboard. Most of them just have wasted space on both sides the keyboard where they could put things like a numeric keypad. If you're going to go with the "wider is better" theory, you might as well make use of all that space, right? (I still think Widescreen is a gimmick, I've used 16:9 and 4:3, and much prefer the latter)
I suppose Apple will want to have the "1st Dual Core Laptop" and the only way that's gonna happen is with Intel.
Nice theory, but you can buy a dual core laptop today if you wanted to.
Except that it probably won't be an Intel PowerBook. People seem to have forgotten that the word Power in PowerBook (and PowerMac) comes from PowerPC. The Intel versions should be called something else. That is, unless Apple decides to take a page from Intel's playbook and continue to use a name long after it stopped standing for what it did initially (for example, Pentium). On the otherhand, the iBook really will be an iBook now - go figure.
3. Apple doesn't like the idea of Mac OS X, which is beautiful, running on ugly ass hardware.
I always laugh at people who say things like this. Apple is out to make money, and they have been successful in carving out a niche market where they sell an OS tied to their hardware, so that's the way it's going to continue. But if tomorrow the winds changed and it would be more profitable to license their OS to other vendors, they would do it. Just like how they switched from PPC to x86.
Besides, if they didn't want their OS running on "ugly ass" hardware, how do you explain the eMac?
I believe there are many people that will consider doing this, and I think this could hurt OSX. This move could put Apple (overtime) going Head to Head with Dell not MS.
I really doubt it. Most people aren't going to want to pay the premium for Apple hardware just to run Windows and/or Linux. Sure, there will be a few, but not many - especially when the Dell is going to cost hundreds less and come with Windows pre-installed. If anything Apple may hurt sales of more premium brands like the Thinkpad, since Thinkpads already cost more than Dells, Toshibas, and Compaqs. But even then, the Thinkpad is probably still going to be the better deal for someone not interested in OSX (and besides, Thinkpads are a much better looking computer IMHO).
I agree. I bought some Samsung 160GB 5400RPM drives back when they were being phased out. Cool, quiet, reliable - great drives.
I think it's time for the Quantum Bigfoot drives to make a comeback. With today's technology, I'm sure we could easily have a 1TB drive with 5.25" platters. I'd buy one. I wouldn't really care about speed or latency issues, as I would certainly have a fast 3.5" drive to boot the OS off of.
You are not being forced to adopt digital TV. If you were really opposed to it you would not buy any TV service. Same goes for radio. It's a luxury; if you don't like it, you can live perfectly well without it.
He's probably referring to over the air broadcasts, which you can pick up for free once you have purchased a television and an antenna. In a couple of years, the analog broadcasts will cease, meaning if you still want to recieve television you have to buy a digital TV or a converter box.
And what if I don't want a built in webcam, or Windows XP, or a fancy looking case? Atleast when I build my own I don't have to buy stuff I don't need like I do with an OEM. And besides, that webcam in the iMac is not going to be too terribly useful. Who wants to move the whole computer just to point the camera at something?
Do you pay a price premium for most Macs? Yep. Is it anywhere 2x the price of a "comparable" PC. Nope.
You can buy a complete PC system for $400 easily. The cheapest complete Apple system is the eMac at $800. And the $400 PC is going to kick the crap out of the eMac. Or take a typical $1000 AMD box from a vender like Compaq. A $1000 AMD box is going to be 64bit, so the comparable Mac is going to be the Powermac G5, starting out at $2000. And that $1000 AMD box is going to be faster, have more memory (at least 1GB), use less power, and be more expandable than the $2000 Powermac. It all depends on how you play the "build the comparable..." game.
Does anyone fall for that stupid Disney Vault thing anymore? Pick a movie that is currently in the "vault" and I'll bet you $100 I can find somewhere to buy it.
Getting people to pay you $100 to say "Ebay"... now that's quite a feat!
Or you could wait and see if retailers get desperate and try to dump their stock of Xboxes really cheap. This may not happen though if retailers are able to get rid of most of the old stock before the 360's launch.
Google has done the same thing too. The whole "invites" thing was a way to limit supply and create buzz about GMail. Where else have you seen webmail accounts being sold for real money on eBay?
On the other hand, Apple doesn't care about the things that open source players are likely to have: Standard, open connectors (no dock connector that you have to pay Apple to use), ability to play lots of different formats like Vorbis, ability to customize the interface, ability to upgrade the memory, ability to talk to various operating systems, etc. Really, this player and the iPod re targetting different sections of the portable music player market.
If clicking folders and files is that much work on a macintosh, please tell me, so I may retract my words).
Actually, it is. Have you ever tried the Finder?
It's value as a bomb shelter went away when slow flying bombers were no longer the weapon delivery mechanism. As the article says, once the warning time dropped to 4 minutes, evacuating to the shelter became impossible.
It could still be useful, you would just have to go running to it at the slightest hint of trouble. Just like what our Vice President does all the time on this side of the pond.
Looking at the system specs, you could dump the 64 bit processor for an AMD Socket A processer, and probably save atleast $100 on the processor and motherboard, and possibly even get away with slighly cheaper type of memory. Sure, it won't be as fast, but a socket A system can still run new games. From there you would have enough leftover cash to afford a Windows XP home lincense and a cheap case.
Sheesh, I thought this thing was supposed to IMPROVE brightness and contrast.
With the way the LCD manufacturers like to fudge and plain out lie when it coms to their specifications, I wouldn't be so quick to judge this new technology. I would wait until you see it side by side with a current LCD monitor.
Which raises another question...If the display settings are set at 60Hz, and then locked out so you couldn't even change it if you wanted to, is that grounds for a protential lawsuit?
I would atleast ask if you could have the refresh rate changed before you sue. If they say no, then try asking for a LCD.
It's not using LEDs for the display itself, it's using LEDs for the backlighting. I would say its an improvement over the flourescent bulbs used now.