Actually, fractional bits do exist. Well, not that bits of any size really *exist*, but just like imaginary numbers, the concept of infinity etc, fractional bits are used in all kinds of calculations, especially DSP. For instance, in digital audio processing it is typical to dither the audio stream by half a bit to reduce the audibility of quantization noise of low level signals. This is done in a mathematical space, and the final applied result of course rounds up or down to an integral value at some point depending on the data history when it comes time to write the data to a DAC or memory.
The 17" thing doesn't bother me all that much. What is it, less than an inch taller and wider? It actually looks a bit big to me, almost not comfortable to carry around. Like, why not a 23" portable;-)
What I like is the 802.11g. Unfortunately it is a new card format, so you can't put it in the older book. Maybe a third party card will work. Plus the newer machine supposedly has better distance. Again, no way to fix that on the older one.
Also integrated BlueTooth and and FW 800 are nice. I don't really need it right now, but I might sometime in the next year.
I wonder if the 'aluminium' case is going to turn out to be better in practice than the titanium. I'm a bit worried about scratching mine up.
The backlit keys thing is kinda nice. But I wouldn't sell mine for something like that.
(I just bought a SuperBook about 2 months ago, believing too that it would be at least 6 months before they upgraded it again and I didn't want to wait that long. It's still real sweet!;-0)
What Microsoft did would be like Apple turning the Finder into the default browser. if you type a URL in the Windows Explorer it automatically turns into Internet Explorer. And it is very difficult, if not impossible, for another application to get access to the kind of integration that produces.
If you could type a URL into the Finder's search box (which you can't, but might be cool), presumably it would launch whatever default browser you chose in the Internet Prefs pane.
Granted, integrating the two does seem to be slick sometimes. But they don't let just anyone else have access to that mechanism the same way they have. If they were to enable hooks into it, maybe no one would have complained. Some might say they had an ulterior motive (like the Courts).
Safari is just another app on your machine. Choose to use it or not. That's hard to say about IE on Windows.
It automatically imports IE bookmarks, but unfortunately not from Chimera where all my bookmarks reside.
I was able to manually drag one bookmark at a time from Chimera into the Bookmark Manager of Safari. It wouldn't support a multi-drag or folder drag though. Argh.
Given the likes of their new Address Book syncing thingy, a cool feature would be to support Bookmark syncing from a store on a server. It's a real pain to keep my 1G TiBook (now obsolete;-) bookmarks in sync with my DP500 tower's.
The Bookmark Manager is pretty nice though. Easy to rename items and such.
Not bad for a beta release. Really fast. But no tabs...
I can sure tell the difference between my 5 Macs, 4 PCs, 2 Sparc Stations and my Indy. I know which ones I prefer having sampled them all extensively.
Yes, you obviously did not get the point. You confuse smartness and cost with preference and applicability. Get off your high horse. There's more than one 'right' choice.
More people eat McDonalds hamburgers rather than Prime Rib. More people drive Ford Escorts than BMWs. Most people have IQs of 100 or less. Most people use Windows. And what exactly was your point?
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Actually, fractional bits do exist. Well, not that bits of any size really *exist*, but just like imaginary numbers, the concept of infinity etc, fractional bits are used in all kinds of calculations, especially DSP. For instance, in digital audio processing it is typical to dither the audio stream by half a bit to reduce the audibility of quantization noise of low level signals. This is done in a mathematical space, and the final applied result of course rounds up or down to an integral value at some point depending on the data history when it comes time to write the data to a DAC or memory.
What I like is the 802.11g. Unfortunately it is a new card format, so you can't put it in the older book. Maybe a third party card will work. Plus the newer machine supposedly has better distance. Again, no way to fix that on the older one.
Also integrated BlueTooth and and FW 800 are nice. I don't really need it right now, but I might sometime in the next year.
I wonder if the 'aluminium' case is going to turn out to be better in practice than the titanium. I'm a bit worried about scratching mine up.
The backlit keys thing is kinda nice. But I wouldn't sell mine for something like that.
(I just bought a SuperBook about 2 months ago, believing too that it would be at least 6 months before they upgraded it again and I didn't want to wait that long. It's still real sweet! ;-0)
If you could type a URL into the Finder's search box (which you can't, but might be cool), presumably it would launch whatever default browser you chose in the Internet Prefs pane.
Granted, integrating the two does seem to be slick sometimes. But they don't let just anyone else have access to that mechanism the same way they have. If they were to enable hooks into it, maybe no one would have complained. Some might say they had an ulterior motive (like the Courts).
Safari is just another app on your machine. Choose to use it or not. That's hard to say about IE on Windows.
It automatically imports IE bookmarks, but unfortunately not from Chimera where all my bookmarks reside.
;-) bookmarks in sync with my DP500 tower's.
I was able to manually drag one bookmark at a time from Chimera into the Bookmark Manager of Safari. It wouldn't support a multi-drag or folder drag though. Argh.
Given the likes of their new Address Book syncing thingy, a cool feature would be to support Bookmark syncing from a store on a server. It's a real pain to keep my 1G TiBook (now obsolete
The Bookmark Manager is pretty nice though. Easy to rename items and such.
Not bad for a beta release. Really fast. But no tabs...
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Yes, you obviously did not get the point. You confuse smartness and cost with preference and applicability. Get off your high horse. There's more than one 'right' choice.
More people eat McDonalds hamburgers rather than Prime Rib. More people drive Ford Escorts than BMWs. Most people have IQs of 100 or less. Most people use Windows. And what exactly was your point?