aye, but anything apple announces takes atleast a year for its PC counterpart to make the same darn thing, and then advertise like they created it (i.e. intel with centrino wireless networking - apple has already moved on past 802.11b). so its nice to see what's here now for us mac users, and down the road for the pc users. it's a big PR deal to have these events, and they usually have a lot of awe behind them.
i was not referring to real programmers... i said "blind codemonkeys", blind meaning they can't tell whats going on around them. proof in point, look at software on download.com or tucows.com. except for the commercial software, its not high quality at all. i wasn't meaning anything personal, i respect true developers for windows.
like the other guy said, that is helping to further and spread the myth. the only reason why there are MORE software programs for windows, is because blind codemonkeys code for windows because it's easy. but if you'll notice the quality of most windows software compared to those for MacOS... you can find the same or better software to do just what you want it to. and if not, install virtualpc.
from a non-geek perspective. I personally agree with this guy. When i can install linux on my mom's machine, and have her be able to figure out how to use it, then, and only then, will i consider linux ready for the desktop. And i'm pretty sure the guy who posted this story agrees with me. I'll admit, linux is ready for the desktops of geeks, but for the others? Keep trying, red hat. You're almost there. IMHO, until then, OS X is a much better desktop OS.
... for jumping the gun on technologies, why don't they just go to 1GHz G3's? Leftover stock and engineering complications aside, it seems to me that the top-of-the-line ibook by now should be a 1GHz G3 processor, 1GB RAM (640MB is too low of a minimum), 60GB Hard Drive (finally they moved up to this), Radeon 7500 64MB DDR, and Airport Extreme. Why can't they just move it up to Airport Extreme? I don't know much about Mac laptop internals, but would they have to change something on the motherboard, or do they just want to get rid of the old Airport cards lying around? I've got way too many questions to ask here... but i am glad that they finally upgraded the iBooks to 60GB. Now i might actually get one...
well, i must admit, it does look kinda cluttered, and it took me a good 30 seconds to get used to the new design. frankly, i liked the old design. don't be so hard on the guy!
but you might want to reconsider some factors. First off, i wouldn't use an iBook for recording, without using some nice usb audio device, which i'm not familiar enough with those to recommend any. i would use a powerbook in that situation, if i had to use a laptop. why do you have to use a laptop to record? laptop hard drives are a bit more shock-resistant than desktops, but are you talking about doing live recordings or something? cause the audio hardware on laptops is far behind that of most desktops.
that shake is 4 times cheaper on the mac, but takes 4 times the machines to do the same rendering... hopefully they'll fix this later on. oh, and before you go and tear apart my comment about the hefty price tag, i think it's a great price for the software, but i just wish it was more like premiere's price...
Dear Adobe,
Microsoft has done the same thing with their cute little image features in Windows XP. Oh yeah, let us bring up the free Windows Movie Maker. Who is stepping on toes now?
With Love,
Apple
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aye, but anything apple announces takes atleast a year for its PC counterpart to make the same darn thing, and then advertise like they created it (i.e. intel with centrino wireless networking - apple has already moved on past 802.11b). so its nice to see what's here now for us mac users, and down the road for the pc users. it's a big PR deal to have these events, and they usually have a lot of awe behind them.
i was not referring to real programmers... i said "blind codemonkeys", blind meaning they can't tell whats going on around them. proof in point, look at software on download.com or tucows.com. except for the commercial software, its not high quality at all. i wasn't meaning anything personal, i respect true developers for windows.
with a limited amount of software
like the other guy said, that is helping to further and spread the myth. the only reason why there are MORE software programs for windows, is because blind codemonkeys code for windows because it's easy. but if you'll notice the quality of most windows software compared to those for MacOS... you can find the same or better software to do just what you want it to. and if not, install virtualpc.
from a non-geek perspective. I personally agree with this guy. When i can install linux on my mom's machine, and have her be able to figure out how to use it, then, and only then, will i consider linux ready for the desktop. And i'm pretty sure the guy who posted this story agrees with me. I'll admit, linux is ready for the desktops of geeks, but for the others? Keep trying, red hat. You're almost there. IMHO, until then, OS X is a much better desktop OS.
that makes sense. i never thought of it that way.
... for jumping the gun on technologies, why don't they just go to 1GHz G3's? Leftover stock and engineering complications aside, it seems to me that the top-of-the-line ibook by now should be a 1GHz G3 processor, 1GB RAM (640MB is too low of a minimum), 60GB Hard Drive (finally they moved up to this), Radeon 7500 64MB DDR, and Airport Extreme. Why can't they just move it up to Airport Extreme? I don't know much about Mac laptop internals, but would they have to change something on the motherboard, or do they just want to get rid of the old Airport cards lying around? I've got way too many questions to ask here... but i am glad that they finally upgraded the iBooks to 60GB. Now i might actually get one...
well, i must admit, it does look kinda cluttered, and it took me a good 30 seconds to get used to the new design. frankly, i liked the old design. don't be so hard on the guy!
but you might want to reconsider some factors. First off, i wouldn't use an iBook for recording, without using some nice usb audio device, which i'm not familiar enough with those to recommend any. i would use a powerbook in that situation, if i had to use a laptop. why do you have to use a laptop to record? laptop hard drives are a bit more shock-resistant than desktops, but are you talking about doing live recordings or something? cause the audio hardware on laptops is far behind that of most desktops.
maybe i shouldn't post comments when i've had such a long day... i meant to say $4000 cheaper, but takes 4x as long... wow.
that shake is 4 times cheaper on the mac, but takes 4 times the machines to do the same rendering... hopefully they'll fix this later on. oh, and before you go and tear apart my comment about the hefty price tag, i think it's a great price for the software, but i just wish it was more like premiere's price...
Dear Adobe, Microsoft has done the same thing with their cute little image features in Windows XP. Oh yeah, let us bring up the free Windows Movie Maker. Who is stepping on toes now? With Love, Apple