The iBook video adapter that has the s-video port also has an rca port. Note that this adapter is an additional purchase, at least it was for the iBook G3.
"but I can't run OS X if the proprietary ROM isn't there"
Incorrect. Mac OS Classic requires the ROM to boot, but Mac OS X does not. If you were to write the proper drivers (go ahead; the core OS is open-source, so it can't be too hard), you could probably run Mac OS X on an AmigaOne or even a GameCube.
It would, however, violate the license, which says you must not run OS X on non-Apple computers.
Music is/not/ "*your* personal property". You do/not/ in the traditional/buy/ music any more. You license it. This has been the case for several decades already.
DRM does not "prohibit perfectly legal activities", but define what is "legal" to do with your licensed product in the first place.
"unless it requires new hardware, but then its not exactily a G4 anymore, at least in my mind."
What? G4 merely defines the PowerPC generation 4, which means existance of AltiVec, multi-processing capability, etc. It doesn't have to be on the same hardware at all. The G4 exists for everything from embedded devices over laptops to servers.
Me warezing it would be rather silly, considering I can get it from my government for free.
If you want to test your applications on it, then give VMWare, VirtualPC or equivalent software a try. For transferring data to your Sony device, you still shouldn't be using it.
The only two things the hardware engineers managed to do was 1) get pretty close to what makes the iPod design good and 2) make it even smaller.
They did *not* manage to get out better battery life. The 20 hours of battery life apply if you use 48 kbps, which is even below the quality of your average kitchen-integrated radio. Going to a higher bitrate means more frequent hard drive access and higher CPU processing power requirements, and therefore more less battery life.
Kudos to Sony for being the only company that actually *kind of* understood the iPod's design strengths. But they messed up on almost everything else.
"Essentially, his answer is that the processor originally used in the iPods just aren't powerful enough for it."
Which is quite correct. Ogg Vorbis's strengthes lie in unmatched quality and "freeness", but its clear weakness is the inefficiency of the encoding algorithms in terms of CPU requirements.
Also, I would never buy a new portable music player that doesn't support the latest MPEG audio standards, namely AAC, and the quality difference between Apple's AAC encoder and Xiph Ogg Vorbis is truly negligible.
Whilst the iBook looks like its case is plastic-only, it's really plastic mixed with magnesium beneath, making it a lot stronger than it looks. My white-translucent plastic cover does have scratches which are visible under unusual lighting conditions. But the actual hardware doesn't seem to care.
Got my iBook July 2002. It's a 12 inch 700 MHz Combo drive model (G3). The hard drive, a Toshiba MK2018GAS, died April this year. But it's not like I ever treated my laptop well - I wanted a machine I could use *anywhere* and that's exactly what I did. So yes, I *did* carry it around with the drive spinning. And I suppose that eventually caused the drive's quality to deteriorate (it first had lots of problems writing and reading data; then it would start getting so far that it couldn't find all of the kernel on the drive any more, and that's when I realized booting from an emergency Linux CD might be a good idea to do backups.)
Replaced it upon others' advice with a Hitachi HTS548060M9AT00 (i.e. a Travel Star with 60 GB). Note that you lose any kind of warranty by replacing a hard drive, and that it's everything but easy.
Also upped RAM, first to 384 Megs, then to 640 Megs. It makes a huge difference. You don't want to use OS X with anything less than 384 Megs, but it won't be a *joy* with anything less than 512 Megs. Everyone will tell you that.
The hardware itself is incredible. Durable, lightweight, and really powerful enough for everyday work (I'm a programming and networking guy), watching DVDs, burning, etc. Of course, it goes without saying that Mac OS X is one of the best modern operating systems out there. As long as you're willing to deal with *slightly* less hardware and software compatibility (and even that seems to keep getting better) than you'd have on x86 machines, you're good to go. As an example, I just bought a Canon PowerShot A80 yesterday (great product I might add). It said on the backside that it would come with Mac OS X drivers. But up to now, I never used those. I plugged the thing in via USB and instantly, through Apple's ImageCapture software, had access to 1) downloading pictures, 2) sharing camera access over the web - thusly also to Windows and Linux PCs (ImageCapture comes with a built-in web server), 3) taking photos from the Mac, either manually or even in periodic intervals (again, this feature can be accessed from other machines through the network) and simple operations like rotating the images. Note again that this worked without *any* configuration - neither on the camera nor on the iBook - and without any glitches. Now, if I wanted advanced functionality such as Canon's photo stitching tool, I would of course have to install that. But the point is, if someone were to bring his camera over and it supports standards like PTP, I'm ready to go to use it. (My experience with using the Canon on Windows XP has been *muchly* different.)
(I should maybe note that the iBook does not come with PCMCIA, decreasing upgradeability. You can, of course, get lots of FireWire devices for external hard drives or TV tuners and whatnot, but Gigabit Ethernet or FireWire 800 will never be options for you.)
If there's anything else you want to know, you may want to register at applenova.com; they have quite a few experienced people there (it's obviously a "fan" board though, but that doesn't mean the people aren't critical of Apple).
Have you actually *tried* dropping them? iBooks look like they would break if you dropped them one inch, but mine never fussed a single time when I dropped it from my desk (about 5 feet) or my bed (about 3 feet).
However, up to now, Core Video isn't used at any point in the OS where it is *needed*. It is used for *eye candy*. It will increase performance *for* the effects, as they are done through the GPU, but none of those effects so far have any productive use.
So yes, it supports Quartz Extreme indeed. But as those models only came with 16 Megs of VideoRAM, IIRC, support is limited.
As to Core Image, it is not designed to improve performance, but to add, for example, visual feedback through effects. For example, when opening a Dashboard widget on a fully Core Image-supported computer, you get a water ripple effect. If your graphics hardware is word, the effect simply gets discarded - which doesn't remove any functionality. You can already see similar things in Panther, like the fast user switching cube effect, which doesn't appear on slower machines.
Currently, the standard open / save dialog boxes do not appear to have any Spotlight-enabled features. Smart Folders stored in the sidebar are shown, but greyed out, but I suppose they could easily change that. Still, that wouldn't quite allow for "real" searching. For apps to properly work with Spotlight, they need to create plug-ins for Spotlight to recognize their file formats and file formats' metadata. As can be seen at http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlighttech.ht ml , the currently supported list of formats is rather small - one of the reasons to release a Tiger DP this early, so people can make use of the provided APIs.
It gets better. Although not quite confirmed, some IMDB members claim he directed "The Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis", which was released 1955, 12 years before his birth.
We can only assume one thing: that in fact, he was not born, but *re-born* on earth in 1947, in Roswell, New Mexico, and that IMDB's claim of a 1967 birth was sponsored by the illuminati.
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Thought you were right on? Think again.
The iBook video adapter that has the s-video port also has an rca port. Note that this adapter is an additional purchase, at least it was for the iBook G3.
*rolleyes*
/seriously/ claiming that, at a time when Apple had about 3 billion in cash, a 200 million "injection" "saved" them?
Are you
Apple wasn't bankrupt in '97, nor anywhere near it. They simply lacked focus.
But that's emulation (of a ROM-less PowerPC machine, nevertheless, but still emulation).
"but I can't run OS X if the proprietary ROM isn't there"
Incorrect. Mac OS Classic requires the ROM to boot, but Mac OS X does not. If you were to write the proper drivers (go ahead; the core OS is open-source, so it can't be too hard), you could probably run Mac OS X on an AmigaOne or even a GameCube.
It would, however, violate the license, which says you must not run OS X on non-Apple computers.
Music is /not/ "*your* personal property". You do /not/ in the traditional /buy/ music any more. You license it. This has been the case for several decades already.
DRM does not "prohibit perfectly legal activities", but define what is "legal" to do with your licensed product in the first place.
"unless it requires new hardware, but then its not exactily a G4 anymore, at least in my mind."
What? G4 merely defines the PowerPC generation 4, which means existance of AltiVec, multi-processing capability, etc. It doesn't have to be on the same hardware at all. The G4 exists for everything from embedded devices over laptops to servers.
Yes, it happens ( http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=battery+recall ), and yes, it's ugly, but you can't blame Apple on this one.
"Better prefer to launch a proprietary software with a windows emulator."
Hmm, I see. How exactly is that software *not* proprietary, eh?
Me warezing it would be rather silly, considering I can get it from my government for free.
If you want to test your applications on it, then give VMWare, VirtualPC or equivalent software a try. For transferring data to your Sony device, you still shouldn't be using it.
The only two things the hardware engineers managed to do was 1) get pretty close to what makes the iPod design good and 2) make it even smaller.
They did *not* manage to get out better battery life. The 20 hours of battery life apply if you use 48 kbps, which is even below the quality of your average kitchen-integrated radio. Going to a higher bitrate means more frequent hard drive access and higher CPU processing power requirements, and therefore more less battery life.
Kudos to Sony for being the only company that actually *kind of* understood the iPod's design strengths. But they messed up on almost everything else.
How about you stop warez'ing WServer2k3 and start realizing it was built for network admins, not you?
"Essentially, his answer is that the processor originally used in the iPods just aren't powerful enough for it."
Which is quite correct. Ogg Vorbis's strengthes lie in unmatched quality and "freeness", but its clear weakness is the inefficiency of the encoding algorithms in terms of CPU requirements.
Also, I would never buy a new portable music player that doesn't support the latest MPEG audio standards, namely AAC, and the quality difference between Apple's AAC encoder and Xiph Ogg Vorbis is truly negligible.
Whilst the iBook looks like its case is plastic-only, it's really plastic mixed with magnesium beneath, making it a lot stronger than it looks. My white-translucent plastic cover does have scratches which are visible under unusual lighting conditions. But the actual hardware doesn't seem to care.
Got my iBook July 2002. It's a 12 inch 700 MHz Combo drive model (G3). The hard drive, a Toshiba MK2018GAS, died April this year. But it's not like I ever treated my laptop well - I wanted a machine I could use *anywhere* and that's exactly what I did. So yes, I *did* carry it around with the drive spinning. And I suppose that eventually caused the drive's quality to deteriorate (it first had lots of problems writing and reading data; then it would start getting so far that it couldn't find all of the kernel on the drive any more, and that's when I realized booting from an emergency Linux CD might be a good idea to do backups.)
Replaced it upon others' advice with a Hitachi HTS548060M9AT00 (i.e. a Travel Star with 60 GB). Note that you lose any kind of warranty by replacing a hard drive, and that it's everything but easy.
Also upped RAM, first to 384 Megs, then to 640 Megs. It makes a huge difference. You don't want to use OS X with anything less than 384 Megs, but it won't be a *joy* with anything less than 512 Megs. Everyone will tell you that.
The hardware itself is incredible. Durable, lightweight, and really powerful enough for everyday work (I'm a programming and networking guy), watching DVDs, burning, etc. Of course, it goes without saying that Mac OS X is one of the best modern operating systems out there. As long as you're willing to deal with *slightly* less hardware and software compatibility (and even that seems to keep getting better) than you'd have on x86 machines, you're good to go. As an example, I just bought a Canon PowerShot A80 yesterday (great product I might add). It said on the backside that it would come with Mac OS X drivers. But up to now, I never used those. I plugged the thing in via USB and instantly, through Apple's ImageCapture software, had access to 1) downloading pictures, 2) sharing camera access over the web - thusly also to Windows and Linux PCs (ImageCapture comes with a built-in web server), 3) taking photos from the Mac, either manually or even in periodic intervals (again, this feature can be accessed from other machines through the network) and simple operations like rotating the images. Note again that this worked without *any* configuration - neither on the camera nor on the iBook - and without any glitches. Now, if I wanted advanced functionality such as Canon's photo stitching tool, I would of course have to install that. But the point is, if someone were to bring his camera over and it supports standards like PTP, I'm ready to go to use it. (My experience with using the Canon on Windows XP has been *muchly* different.)
(I should maybe note that the iBook does not come with PCMCIA, decreasing upgradeability. You can, of course, get lots of FireWire devices for external hard drives or TV tuners and whatnot, but Gigabit Ethernet or FireWire 800 will never be options for you.)
If there's anything else you want to know, you may want to register at applenova.com; they have quite a few experienced people there (it's obviously a "fan" board though, but that doesn't mean the people aren't critical of Apple).
Hope that helps.
See, that's what happens when you live in a country with metric units; you get American units all messed up. Never mind my post.
Nah, surfing the web and talking to my girlfriend over instant messaging is more fun in bed.
Have you actually *tried* dropping them? iBooks look like they would break if you dropped them one inch, but mine never fussed a single time when I dropped it from my desk (about 5 feet) or my bed (about 3 feet).
Nice that you can quote text from websites.
However, up to now, Core Video isn't used at any point in the OS where it is *needed*. It is used for *eye candy*. It will increase performance *for* the effects, as they are done through the GPU, but none of those effects so far have any productive use.
"Radeon Mobility" -> RageM6.
So yes, it supports Quartz Extreme indeed. But as those models only came with 16 Megs of VideoRAM, IIRC, support is limited.
As to Core Image, it is not designed to improve performance, but to add, for example, visual feedback through effects. For example, when opening a Dashboard widget on a fully Core Image-supported computer, you get a water ripple effect. If your graphics hardware is word, the effect simply gets discarded - which doesn't remove any functionality. You can already see similar things in Panther, like the fast user switching cube effect, which doesn't appear on slower machines.
Woah, I never even noticed that. Must be a well-done slant at John Sculley :-)
Currently, the standard open / save dialog boxes do not appear to have any Spotlight-enabled features. Smart Folders stored in the sidebar are shown, but greyed out, but I suppose they could easily change that. Still, that wouldn't quite allow for "real" searching. For apps to properly work with Spotlight, they need to create plug-ins for Spotlight to recognize their file formats and file formats' metadata. As can be seen at http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlighttech.ht ml , the currently supported list of formats is rather small - one of the reasons to release a Tiger DP this early, so people can make use of the provided APIs.
Dashboard gadgets are indeed bundles with HTML, images, JavaScript, etc. and a plist in them.
It's also listed on "Steve's Resume": http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html
It gets better. Although not quite confirmed, some IMDB members claim he directed "The Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis", which was released 1955, 12 years before his birth.
We can only assume one thing: that in fact, he was not born, but *re-born* on earth in 1947, in Roswell, New Mexico, and that IMDB's claim of a 1967 birth was sponsored by the illuminati.