In any of the more free countries. Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand, Netherlands, etc...
and 2) What's stopping you from going?"
I'm sorry, but that's the dumbest question evah. Friends? Family? The notion that we still live in a country with the greatest "potential" to do the most good and would like to help in that endeavor? The very idea of people leaving in frustration is quite sad, especially in a country where the collective ideas from a wide range of perspectives is what should be the avenue for change (in our pseudo "democracy"), which this country needs. Maybe it's a sign of complete apathy due to special interest groups with the most money (corporations, etc...) gain the most influence, or maybe it's the want of a xenophobic state. Both are worth leaving, but we should just attempt to change it.
Your largest issue was you had a burning problem with the machine, and that's why Macs are now not your particular choice for machines? How did you attempt to get it fixed? Did you? Did you go to an Apple store to have a genius look at it/repair it, or did you have Apple send you a box to have it FedEx'd to a repair center? Did you try a different brand of media? If you found this burning strangeness within a few weeks of ownership, Apple will just replace the machine instead of fixing it too.
You see, shit happens, how convenient it is to get free help/support when shit does happen is what counts.
"Seems to me like they might sell some of these if they allowed purchasing the song that someone shared with you, right from the device, and then letting you copy it back to your PC."
And, how would that work exactly? How would you purchase it right from the device? How does MS complete that transaction (Credit Card, Debit Card, etc...)? I do not see a way.
What I want to know is can you share the music you get from MS at all? Via iTunes I can burn a CD of my purchased songs (audio CD, plays in any CD player) to share with anyone which can then be ripped in any format I want, in iTunes, ripped by iTunes, that is now DRM free too. I can also transfer the actual purchased songs to any 5 computers without any sort of conversion, once a year (so, 5 machines a year can be authorized).
Trolly troll. Feeding you crumbs makes you come back, I know, but I can't help myself.
"And that whole dillusion about being ready right out of the box is crap. My macbook spent 2 hours just doing updates the first time I turned it on."
You do realize that on a Mac, software updates do not keep you from working, right? There was no need to stare at the screen for two hours, you could have made and posted a nice "creative" website via iWeb during that time, even though iWeb was one of the updates. Nice try.
"Then their big red computers and ipod cash grab for AIDS campaign is just offensive. So if I buy a red computer for $1500 they'll give $5 to the world AIDS foundation... Whereas Bill Gates is giving billions of dollars he got from his inferior and fundimentally evil products to AIDS research right out of his own pocket."
You are comparing Bill Gates to Apple? You do realize that one is a company, and the other is an individual, right? Are you on drugs? And Apple doesn't sell a red $1500 computer. Must be the drugs kicking in... I could see that board meeting now... "Uh, yes, I would like to propose giving away billions of our dollars to charity. How does that sound to you all?" Oh the hilarity that would ensue.
"Photoshop benchmarks better on PC's now since apple switched over to the intel chips."
It's called Rosetta. When Adobe makes their Apps Universal, all will be well again. Until then, my Quad G5 is running circles around your PC just fine.
"They claim their computers are built for doing creative things, but then the computer animation industry is run on PC's."
You named one creative job out of a thousand. I'm not sure how that is supposed to matter. I will tell you that there is not an equivalent to iLife on a PC, which is reason enough alone to "switch" IMO, and that 94% of all design firms use Macs, most music that you will ever listen to will have touched a Mac at some point, nearly everything you see that's printed (from newspapers to magazines) was via a Mac workflow, etc... so if people aren't running renderman on their Mac it obviously doesn't mean OS X isn't for doing "creative things" as you stated. Your logic is not only wrong, but the assumption within was also wrong. See iLife.
"1) Does your iPod use standard USB/mini-USB connections on the DAP itself, or do you have to pay for some propriatary connection?"
Who the fuck cares? It comes with the iPod.
"2) Can you replace your battery?"
Yes. I have replaced the batteries on my iPods. It's easy, and you can find them on the internets quite easily. OR, you can just take it to an Apple store and they will give you a nice shiny replacement iPod with a new battery in it for $59. $59... pretty sweet.
"3) Can you use regular alkalines if you get stuck without your AC adapter to recharg"
Who the fuck cares? I can get an AC adapter that works in any car, or one for any wall socket, or one for planes, or... you see, the accessory list for the iPod is more than all other players combined. No need for alkalines (the enviro doesn't like your solution either).
"4) Did you pay more than $50?"
Hell yeah, and I got what I paid for.
"I wasn't going to buy a DAP until they got under $50, and I will not buy a DAP with a hard drive. iPods are ridiculous. They are simply status symbols, and their price far outpaces their utility."
You can't afford one (I'm sorry, I truly am, I wish everyone could have an iPod), that does suck. But to literally "whine" about it seems, well, childish. Just let it go man. The iPods are great for what they do. They really are. They are small, have good battery life, the NANO's and Shuffles do not use hard drives, connect seamlessly to the best music purchasing site on the planet, and is easy enough for my Grandma to use. Done.
"I know at least one person who avoids OS X partially because she feels that IT looks like a toy compared to XP. "
Looking like a toy and acting like one are two very different reasons for avoidance. "Looking" like a toy as a reason seems, well, childish. I maintain networks, and I can tell you the graphic design studios I maintain running x-serves are a breath of fresh air for me. So damned nice... from E-mail, file management, net-booting, etc... it "looks" like a toy, yes, but that's the beauty of it. If you can make complicated things seem like using a "toy", job well done.
"If the toy-looking OS has the better performance and interface, I'll take it."
So... you either own a Mac or are buying one today? J/K... sort of.
The point he was "attempting" to make, was that if you were to attach this iPod to a Mac, there would be no issue. He blamed Apple with even more conviction, so I think "bash" may be a little strong. No one was blaming MS, just taking this "opportunity" to point out a fact.
"I used to have an external SCSI HD that I booted from on my mac. Back then I could plug it in to any Mac and boot to my Desktop with all my software I thought that was so awsome. Someone had a boot problen or what ever I just plugged in my HD booted then fixed it. I life was so easy then"
I don't understand this statement, or why it was modded up. Go out and buy a 100 GB Firelite (or any external FW drive, FireLites can just fit in your pocket and are bus powered meaning no external power whatsoever, just a FW cord), clone your entire Mac to it, and boot it on any other Mac by holding down the option key on boot and selecting it. The Mac will find any mounted volumes with a blessed OS installed on it and you can boot from whichever one you choose. Been able to to this for years. I have a Firelite with three partitions on it, one is simply a clone of my home Mac that I can boot to and run and diagnostics, directory fixer-uppers, etc.., on the now mounted internal drive. I can copy files, whatever I want, and the other two partitions on my Firelite are images of Tiger and Panther install DVD's that I can use for installs (or archive and installs). Can fix almost all software issues on a Mac with a thing that I can easily fit in my front pocket. No CD's, DVD's, laptops, etc...
Pod: a detachable self contained unit. No battery compartment with screws. In fact, it's an enclosed device that you never open, with not one screw on it's surface. The "Pod" fits nicely. The "i" however, seems quite out of place today...
"We know the stories about Apple (ab)using cheap labour to maintain the iPod's profitability at the moment"
Trolly troll. *sigh* I'll feed you...
Microsoft will also be (ab)using cheap labour to maintain profitability, it's how business is done. The shirt you are wearing, the computer you are typing on, etc... were all made using cheap foriegn labour. Apple voluntarily investigated the accusations, hired a third party to oversee, and has since been shown to be largely false. If Apple "abuses" anything, it's cornering the market on components
"Microsoft may be using their position to deliberately push Apple into a crisis."
Actually, it seems Apple dropping their prices has actually pushed Microsoft into a "crisis". Apple holds 75% of the digital music playing market, and it accounts for about 40% of their profits (all other coming from Mac and software sales). I'm not sure you know what you are talking about.
1. X-Com, UFO Defense. #1 on quite a few lists, why it hasn't been revived/duplicated in recent years is beyond me.
2. Ultima IV. Falling asleep on my Apple IIc completely immersed in a different yet interactive world was the dawn of my love of gaming. Thank you Ultima IV
3. WoW. A massive, and I mean massive world filled with adventure to be played in any way you wish, solo, with friends, etc... in a fantasy world filled with other personalities via other real humans from around the world. A complete alternate reality. Love it.
4. Grand Theft Auto. First game where pure violence and mayhem was set in a completely open, big world, non-linear play in a modern world while mixed with super fun driving physics.
5. Doom. Shooting things with guns in first person view. May have not been the first, and since it's all been basically the same with better graphics, but man was it fun.
" I also have a device that will play MP3s through my TV. None of those last three will play my FairPlay music."
Why try to play the FairPlay music as is? Burn the files to CD, RIP. and you end up with UnDRM'd files in any format, all done with iTunes.
"I also have a device that will play MP3s through my TV."
Yes, it's called an iPod, you own one. Buy an AV cable and you can play your tunes and movies/TV shows whatever, via your iPod on your TV, either directly or through your receiver.
"but I also own a phone and PSP that can both play music."
But, you own an iPod, so why would you need to use those to play your music? FairPlay allows you to burn CDs and have your music on 5 computers. If you need more than this then... interesting...
"(Apple hides the kernel panic/crash screens so well, most Mac users never realize their system has crashed. VERY MISLEADING, as most of them don't even realize they lost data on what they were working on if it wasn't saved.)"
You're kidding, right? The screen isn't "hidden" at all, it dims the screen and tells you to restart your computer with no other option. You can't not reboot by following the instructions (hold down power button). And you actually think that a user wouldn't realize that the Word document that they were working on for the last hour, without saving, is now gone and be pissed off? Seriously?
Apps/Utilities/Console: Crash Log, see the details of all panics, failures, etc... via the GUI. You also seem to suggest that there aren't any Mac users out there that actually haven't had a crash *raises hand*, which is VERY MISLEADING.
... the dumbest article I have read in quite some time.
Please remember Apple is a hardware company, the software is the hook, but's it's a hardware company just like Dell, HP, etc... one of their advantages is that they make the OS that runs the hardware, supported under one roof. Another is genius design of said hardware. Bundle it all with a great OS with unmatched pre-installed software (iLife) and you've got a great package, better than any PC IMO. The reason BootCamp exixts is because when Apple did the market research (gasp!), they found that an overwhelming amount of people "couldn't" buy a Mac due to some proprietary Windows applications that they "had" to use. Virtual PC was too slow, and without OS X drivers for devices, they wouldn't work under VPC anyway. BootCamp was a great solution. Complete hardware support for Windows (yeah, now I can play Half-Life on my Mac).
If you've seen any of the new Mac commercials, you will realize that every bit of them is bashing Windows. It is utter, complete Windows bashing, paid for by Apple, seen by millions.
Believe me, BootCamp was just another "hook", nothing more.
Another nice thing you can do on the Mac side, especially for those that are technically challanged, is just copy your entire user folder to an external drive. Just move the "house" icon (the icon of the logged in user) to a mounted HD. Done. Every file in there is copyable even when logged in as that user.
In 10.4.7 if your HD gets hosed, you can then just copy the user data over to the new drive (just copy the "house" icon back to the new drive in the now empty users folder), create a new user with the same name and Tiger will say something like "there is a user with the same name in the users folder, would you like to use that folder for this new user?" You say "yes" and done. Your old desktop picture, dock icons, etc... all intact. All you would have to do at that point is install any 3rd party apps (games, office, etc...). I have found that for a lot of people this was a very nice feature as all of the irreplaceable data is obviously stored in the user folder (music, pictures, preferences, desktop files... everything), and it couldn't be easier to do or explain. Drag folder from here to here.
"not to mention it's a stupid argument. not many people have done 5 system upgrades to a machine that shipped with os9. most of them bought a machine pre-loaded with a version of os x within that 5-product cycle."
Not to mention, none of them were forced on you. I still have plenty of people running 10.2.8, the OS that their machine came with and are eternally happy with it.
- "II can prove with 100% certainty that dropping a hammer on top of your head will cause you to experience pain.
Did you know there are people who do not experience pain at all? It's extremely rare, but they do exist. So I'm inclined to say you are wrong... Then again the articles and documentaries I've seen of the subject might be fake, so I just can't be absolutely sure.
Quantum theory also predicts that there is a chance, however very small, that the hammer will pass right through me. Nothing is 100% certain to happen.
"But since there aren't many games for other platforms"...
Um, I currently have installed ATM (I cycle through them to keep down on HD space):
Doom III Quake 4 WoW Civilization IV Lego Star Wars SW KotOR Call of Duty 2 RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and Homeworld 2.
I do little other than play games on my Mac, outside of the normal browse and E-mail check, and a little iMovie/iDVD stuff. Check some of them out. But with BootCamp I won't have to care. I can just boot to Winblah to play those few that I may want to play that aren't out for the Mac. Done.
If it were up to Apple, they would rather sell high quality music files for 75 cents un DRM'd. It was the music industry that mandated some sort of "protection", and iTunes was the compromise (thank you Steve). I would hate to see what the music industry would have done if they had taken a shot at it themselves... *shudder*
And don't get me started on subscription downloads. At least I own the music I get from iTunes, can burn CD's that play everywhere (which I can then re-rip to get unDRM'd songs). I have yet to have an experience where the Apple DRM has gotten in my way. Not once. This is not about Apple, the only reason they are a target is because they have the largest market share due to customers liking their system the best. How is this Apple's fault again?
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"1) Where would you live, if not in America"
In any of the more free countries. Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand, Netherlands, etc...
and 2) What's stopping you from going?"
I'm sorry, but that's the dumbest question evah. Friends? Family? The notion that we still live in a country with the greatest "potential" to do the most good and would like to help in that endeavor? The very idea of people leaving in frustration is quite sad, especially in a country where the collective ideas from a wide range of perspectives is what should be the avenue for change (in our pseudo "democracy"), which this country needs. Maybe it's a sign of complete apathy due to special interest groups with the most money (corporations, etc...) gain the most influence, or maybe it's the want of a xenophobic state. Both are worth leaving, but we should just attempt to change it.
"How has Firefox "kicked their ass"?"
We can only assume that he meant it was a better browser. Which it is.
"You'll just be able to buy more of those $300 jeans with all the money you will save not buying games."
Or, you can just put that $300 towards Windows and run all your favorite Windows games on your Mac via BootCamp just peachy like.
Your largest issue was you had a burning problem with the machine, and that's why Macs are now not your particular choice for machines? How did you attempt to get it fixed? Did you? Did you go to an Apple store to have a genius look at it/repair it, or did you have Apple send you a box to have it FedEx'd to a repair center? Did you try a different brand of media? If you found this burning strangeness within a few weeks of ownership, Apple will just replace the machine instead of fixing it too.
You see, shit happens, how convenient it is to get free help/support when shit does happen is what counts.
"The CD burning software *should* be able to query the media/drive and get supported burning speeds for your drive/media combination"
OS X does and always has.
"Seems to me like they might sell some of these if they allowed purchasing the song that someone shared with you, right from the device, and then letting you copy it back to your PC."
And, how would that work exactly? How would you purchase it right from the device? How does MS complete that transaction (Credit Card, Debit Card, etc...)? I do not see a way.
What I want to know is can you share the music you get from MS at all? Via iTunes I can burn a CD of my purchased songs (audio CD, plays in any CD player) to share with anyone which can then be ripped in any format I want, in iTunes, ripped by iTunes, that is now DRM free too. I can also transfer the actual purchased songs to any 5 computers without any sort of conversion, once a year (so, 5 machines a year can be authorized).
Trolly troll. Feeding you crumbs makes you come back, I know, but I can't help myself.
"And that whole dillusion about being ready right out of the box is crap. My macbook spent 2 hours just doing updates the first time I turned it on."
You do realize that on a Mac, software updates do not keep you from working, right? There was no need to stare at the screen for two hours, you could have made and posted a nice "creative" website via iWeb during that time, even though iWeb was one of the updates. Nice try.
"Then their big red computers and ipod cash grab for AIDS campaign is just offensive. So if I buy a red computer for $1500 they'll give $5 to the world AIDS foundation... Whereas Bill Gates is giving billions of dollars he got from his inferior and fundimentally evil products to AIDS research right out of his own pocket."
You are comparing Bill Gates to Apple? You do realize that one is a company, and the other is an individual, right? Are you on drugs? And Apple doesn't sell a red $1500 computer. Must be the drugs kicking in... I could see that board meeting now... "Uh, yes, I would like to propose giving away billions of our dollars to charity. How does that sound to you all?" Oh the hilarity that would ensue.
"Photoshop benchmarks better on PC's now since apple switched over to the intel chips."
It's called Rosetta. When Adobe makes their Apps Universal, all will be well again. Until then, my Quad G5 is running circles around your PC just fine.
"They claim their computers are built for doing creative things, but then the computer animation industry is run on PC's."
You named one creative job out of a thousand. I'm not sure how that is supposed to matter. I will tell you that there is not an equivalent to iLife on a PC, which is reason enough alone to "switch" IMO, and that 94% of all design firms use Macs, most music that you will ever listen to will have touched a Mac at some point, nearly everything you see that's printed (from newspapers to magazines) was via a Mac workflow, etc... so if people aren't running renderman on their Mac it obviously doesn't mean OS X isn't for doing "creative things" as you stated. Your logic is not only wrong, but the assumption within was also wrong. See iLife.
"1) Does your iPod use standard USB/mini-USB connections on the DAP itself, or do you have to pay for some propriatary connection?"
Who the fuck cares? It comes with the iPod.
"2) Can you replace your battery?"
Yes. I have replaced the batteries on my iPods. It's easy, and you can find them on the internets quite easily. OR, you can just take it to an Apple store and they will give you a nice shiny replacement iPod with a new battery in it for $59. $59... pretty sweet.
"3) Can you use regular alkalines if you get stuck without your AC adapter to recharg"
Who the fuck cares? I can get an AC adapter that works in any car, or one for any wall socket, or one for planes, or... you see, the accessory list for the iPod is more than all other players combined. No need for alkalines (the enviro doesn't like your solution either).
"4) Did you pay more than $50?"
Hell yeah, and I got what I paid for.
"I wasn't going to buy a DAP until they got under $50, and I will not buy a DAP with a hard drive. iPods are ridiculous. They are simply status symbols, and their price far outpaces their utility."
You can't afford one (I'm sorry, I truly am, I wish everyone could have an iPod), that does suck. But to literally "whine" about it seems, well, childish. Just let it go man. The iPods are great for what they do. They really are. They are small, have good battery life, the NANO's and Shuffles do not use hard drives, connect seamlessly to the best music purchasing site on the planet, and is easy enough for my Grandma to use. Done.
"I know at least one person who avoids OS X partially because she feels that IT looks like a toy compared to XP. "
Looking like a toy and acting like one are two very different reasons for avoidance. "Looking" like a toy as a reason seems, well, childish. I maintain networks, and I can tell you the graphic design studios I maintain running x-serves are a breath of fresh air for me. So damned nice... from E-mail, file management, net-booting, etc... it "looks" like a toy, yes, but that's the beauty of it. If you can make complicated things seem like using a "toy", job well done.
"If the toy-looking OS has the better performance and interface, I'll take it."
So... you either own a Mac or are buying one today? J/K... sort of.
The point he was "attempting" to make, was that if you were to attach this iPod to a Mac, there would be no issue. He blamed Apple with even more conviction, so I think "bash" may be a little strong. No one was blaming MS, just taking this "opportunity" to point out a fact.
"I used to have an external SCSI HD that I booted from on my mac. Back then I could plug it in to any Mac and boot to my Desktop with all my software I thought that was so awsome. Someone had a boot problen or what ever I just plugged in my HD booted then fixed it. I life was so easy then"
I don't understand this statement, or why it was modded up. Go out and buy a 100 GB Firelite (or any external FW drive, FireLites can just fit in your pocket and are bus powered meaning no external power whatsoever, just a FW cord), clone your entire Mac to it, and boot it on any other Mac by holding down the option key on boot and selecting it. The Mac will find any mounted volumes with a blessed OS installed on it and you can boot from whichever one you choose. Been able to to this for years. I have a Firelite with three partitions on it, one is simply a clone of my home Mac that I can boot to and run and diagnostics, directory fixer-uppers, etc.., on the now mounted internal drive. I can copy files, whatever I want, and the other two partitions on my Firelite are images of Tiger and Panther install DVD's that I can use for installs (or archive and installs). Can fix almost all software issues on a Mac with a thing that I can easily fit in my front pocket. No CD's, DVD's, laptops, etc...
It fealt like I was reading a marketing PR piece the entire time I read the article. Full of nearly all opinions, and all glowing.
Pod: a detachable self contained unit. No battery compartment with screws. In fact, it's an enclosed device that you never open, with not one screw on it's surface. The "Pod" fits nicely. The "i" however, seems quite out of place today...
"We know the stories about Apple (ab)using cheap labour to maintain the iPod's profitability at the moment"
Trolly troll. *sigh* I'll feed you...
Microsoft will also be (ab)using cheap labour to maintain profitability, it's how business is done. The shirt you are wearing, the computer you are typing on, etc... were all made using cheap foriegn labour. Apple voluntarily investigated the accusations, hired a third party to oversee, and has since been shown to be largely false. If Apple "abuses" anything, it's cornering the market on components
"Microsoft may be using their position to deliberately push Apple into a crisis."
Actually, it seems Apple dropping their prices has actually pushed Microsoft into a "crisis". Apple holds 75% of the digital music playing market, and it accounts for about 40% of their profits (all other coming from Mac and software sales). I'm not sure you know what you are talking about.
1. X-Com, UFO Defense.
#1 on quite a few lists, why it hasn't been revived/duplicated in recent years is beyond me.
2. Ultima IV.
Falling asleep on my Apple IIc completely immersed in a different yet interactive world was the dawn of my love of gaming. Thank you Ultima IV
3. WoW.
A massive, and I mean massive world filled with adventure to be played in any way you wish, solo, with friends, etc... in a fantasy world filled with other personalities via other real humans from around the world. A complete alternate reality. Love it.
4. Grand Theft Auto.
First game where pure violence and mayhem was set in a completely open, big world, non-linear play in a modern world while mixed with super fun driving physics.
5. Doom.
Shooting things with guns in first person view. May have not been the first, and since it's all been basically the same with better graphics, but man was it fun.
" I also have a device that will play MP3s through my TV. None of those last three will play my FairPlay music."
Why try to play the FairPlay music as is? Burn the files to CD, RIP. and you end up with UnDRM'd files in any format, all done with iTunes.
"I also have a device that will play MP3s through my TV."
Yes, it's called an iPod, you own one. Buy an AV cable and you can play your tunes and movies/TV shows whatever, via your iPod on your TV, either directly or through your receiver.
"but I also own a phone and PSP that can both play music."
But, you own an iPod, so why would you need to use those to play your music? FairPlay allows you to burn CDs and have your music on 5 computers. If you need more than this then... interesting...
Your iPod software is out of date. 1.2 for 5th Gen.
"(Apple hides the kernel panic/crash screens so well, most Mac users never realize their system has crashed. VERY MISLEADING, as most of them don't even realize they lost data on what they were working on if it wasn't saved.)"
You're kidding, right? The screen isn't "hidden" at all, it dims the screen and tells you to restart your computer with no other option. You can't not reboot by following the instructions (hold down power button). And you actually think that a user wouldn't realize that the Word document that they were working on for the last hour, without saving, is now gone and be pissed off? Seriously?
Apps/Utilities/Console: Crash Log, see the details of all panics, failures, etc... via the GUI. You also seem to suggest that there aren't any Mac users out there that actually haven't had a crash *raises hand*, which is VERY MISLEADING.
Well shucks, if two of you have "never" had a crash, then it's official: Windows XP/2000 is the most stable OS on the planet...
... the dumbest article I have read in quite some time.
Please remember Apple is a hardware company, the software is the hook, but's it's a hardware company just like Dell, HP, etc... one of their advantages is that they make the OS that runs the hardware, supported under one roof. Another is genius design of said hardware. Bundle it all with a great OS with unmatched pre-installed software (iLife) and you've got a great package, better than any PC IMO. The reason BootCamp exixts is because when Apple did the market research (gasp!), they found that an overwhelming amount of people "couldn't" buy a Mac due to some proprietary Windows applications that they "had" to use. Virtual PC was too slow, and without OS X drivers for devices, they wouldn't work under VPC anyway. BootCamp was a great solution. Complete hardware support for Windows (yeah, now I can play Half-Life on my Mac).
If you've seen any of the new Mac commercials, you will realize that every bit of them is bashing Windows. It is utter, complete Windows bashing, paid for by Apple, seen by millions.
Believe me, BootCamp was just another "hook", nothing more.
Another nice thing you can do on the Mac side, especially for those that are technically challanged, is just copy your entire user folder to an external drive. Just move the "house" icon (the icon of the logged in user) to a mounted HD. Done. Every file in there is copyable even when logged in as that user.
In 10.4.7 if your HD gets hosed, you can then just copy the user data over to the new drive (just copy the "house" icon back to the new drive in the now empty users folder), create a new user with the same name and Tiger will say something like "there is a user with the same name in the users folder, would you like to use that folder for this new user?" You say "yes" and done. Your old desktop picture, dock icons, etc... all intact. All you would have to do at that point is install any 3rd party apps (games, office, etc...). I have found that for a lot of people this was a very nice feature as all of the irreplaceable data is obviously stored in the user folder (music, pictures, preferences, desktop files... everything), and it couldn't be easier to do or explain. Drag folder from here to here.
"not to mention it's a stupid argument. not many people have done 5 system upgrades to a machine that shipped with os9. most of them bought a machine pre-loaded with a version of os x within that 5-product cycle."
Not to mention, none of them were forced on you. I still have plenty of people running 10.2.8, the OS that their machine came with and are eternally happy with it.
- "II can prove with 100% certainty that dropping a hammer on top of your head will cause you to experience pain.
Did you know there are people who do not experience pain at all? It's extremely rare, but they do exist. So I'm inclined to say you are wrong... Then again the articles and documentaries I've seen of the subject might be fake, so I just can't be absolutely sure.
Quantum theory also predicts that there is a chance, however very small, that the hammer will pass right through me. Nothing is 100% certain to happen.
"But since there aren't many games for other platforms"...
Um, I currently have installed ATM (I cycle through them to keep down on HD space):
Doom III
Quake 4
WoW
Civilization IV
Lego Star Wars
SW KotOR
Call of Duty 2
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
and Homeworld 2.
I do little other than play games on my Mac, outside of the normal browse and E-mail check, and a little iMovie/iDVD stuff. Check some of them out. But with BootCamp I won't have to care. I can just boot to Winblah to play those few that I may want to play that aren't out for the Mac. Done.
If it were up to Apple, they would rather sell high quality music files for 75 cents un DRM'd. It was the music industry that mandated some sort of "protection", and iTunes was the compromise (thank you Steve). I would hate to see what the music industry would have done if they had taken a shot at it themselves... *shudder*
And don't get me started on subscription downloads. At least I own the music I get from iTunes, can burn CD's that play everywhere (which I can then re-rip to get unDRM'd songs). I have yet to have an experience where the Apple DRM has gotten in my way. Not once. This is not about Apple, the only reason they are a target is because they have the largest market share due to customers liking their system the best. How is this Apple's fault again?