iRiver T10 got the Samsung chip which made it suck, IFP-799 are much better.
YP-Z5 do well in signal to noise ratio obviously thought very many players hade 82-83dB, so only Zen Micro, T10, U3 and U10 really fails it. YP-Z5 does will in distortion aswell, U10 and T10 really sucks again, and so did X5, lots of players are worse than Shuffle and the YP-Z5. U3 nails frequency responce, YP-Z5 gets an average result.
In any case I think that YP-Z5 does a nice run, and that's why I told my sister to get it (and it has the latest version of the SigmaTel chip.)
iRiver earned their reputation thru the IFP-series, I've been against them during T10 and T20 becaues I know a lot of people where disappointed, but I haven't checked reviews for Clix 2, T50 and T60 so I don't wanna talk against them. U10 may have the same chip as the T10 for all I know.
iAudio where considered good during the same time with their U2, 5, G3 and so on, and reviews of F2, U3, 7 haven't turned them down either. I don't know what chip the X5 uses which where the only iAudio player in the test, it's an HDD player so I have never cared about it.
Also I don't know how much a technical test like this matters, since peoples opionions may differ anyway and for all I know iRiver and iAudio may have got their reputation as good players due to SRS WOW and BBE which are things I wouldn't use. Maybe people like them for better equalizers or whatever (even thought they ruin the sound technically). I know the iAudio 7 are said to distort if you play around to much with the equalizer, and the where said about one of the iPods I read about, so I guess the iAudios aren't perfect in that regard (maybe they fail that due to higher output power? If they lowered the amplification it would handle more extreme boosts in the equalizer shouldn't it?)
In any case, it's very easy to find a player with good battery life, line in, mic, radio, support for many formats and UMS if you stay away for Apple, just pick one of those which also brings good sound quality aswell;D
My sister is technically retarded and she can handle her Samsung YP-Z5 even thought she didn't knew how to clear the content of the memory card in her digital camera..
Thought that players interface are said to be decent, I've only tried and iPod once and it took me a while to use it aswell (a while probably being 30-60 seconds or so but anyway.)
But you might have a point, since I haven't tried many mp3 players and used their interfaces, I really doubt the iAudio D2 or 7, iRiver Clix 2, Creative Zen V (not that I would buy one of those) or Sonys MP3-players (same as with Creative, I would buy one without SonicStage thought.) are very hard to use.
Anyway I don't say no to better battery life, sound quality, radio, line in, more powerful output, better audio quality, UMS functionallity, lots of audio formats for the same or similair price as an iPod.
Wow, you mean that even Apple products gets cheaper as prices on the components falls!?!
However this is totally irrelevant when one have no idea what the other players cost to make and sell for, and even that is rather unintresting.
Only thing I care for is what I get for the money I have to pay, and in that regard there are many players which offers more value for your money than Apple (and not only more value but also better players, or lower prices.)
Ok, yeah, I see your point in that it's convenient to easily sync your mp3 players library, your phones contact list and calendar and play music thru your access point (if it wasn't the case I have, receiver in the same room as the computer and network outlet in another room, so what do I do? TP-cable over the whole floor because I want wireless music or optical cable over the whole floor because I want it?)
Regarding hardware as in the computer and software hacks works nice to since the hardware are just PC hardware, so no special with the integration there.
Nah, people would just waste their time commenting stuff because they belive they are important but noone care, spend their time reading less intelligent crap such as this comment than real books written by real writers which actually had something to say. Maybe they would even start doing it at work!
First thing I did was to hide the storepart of iTunes, I also blocked access to iTunes store in the parental settings of iTunes so now I'm sure I will never buy anything by accident either;D
Actually there are two ways to install programs: 1) Just drag the icon to Applications. 2) Use the supplied installer if there are one.
And two ways to remove programs: 1) Drag the icon to trash. 2) Use the supplied installer and choose uninstall from it.
Most applications use number 1 of both alternatives, but applications doesn't install in/Applications only, some put files in the users or system wide Application support and whatever the other directory where called, and eventually in even more places. For instance settings, examples/demos and so on, maybe fonts?
I'm not sure if I mix up the names or not but I think that CleanApp and AppZapper both search for these files and tries to delete them, CleanApp being free and AppZapper costing money. Yank and some other app (there are two of both, atleast) instead logs what happens to the filesystem when you install an application and saves the data so you can uninstall everything later. One of those applications only worked for regular installers where the other worked for "everything", including plugins and such.
But yes, drag to trash is the method people use, but it leaves a lot of files in other places, just look at all the places Adobe CS 3 put its files in.
Also Apple are both innovative and do get things done in a quite good way when they do something.
The free software movement are rather good at copying what is there and make something similair, but I don't see much creativity. For instance compare OpenOffice with Pages, or XMMS with iTunes (don't compare with Amarok and whatever the GTK-variant is called, they came after iTunes ffs.)
Why do we need KDE and Gnome to look like Windows copies? And why are so many unix users all hyped up over transparent terminals, wobble windows, docks and shit like that? It's just "hey, look, we can have this to!", but it's useless. Transparent terminals SUCK.
And how big are the chances that your photoviewer/editor in a free OS are as easy to use and "powerful" as iPhoto?
More things on the list of things which suck: *.Mac should be dead, free or available as a software package for setting up your own. * Multiple user lists in iChat, what where they thinking? * No MSN support in iChat, understandable but suck. * Stupid formats and archives which doesn't work outside the mac world. * No uninstaller! But there are apps which solves that (Yank, commercial, CleanApp, free.) * Apple should stop with this non-computer shit, I'm a computer nerd, I care about computers, OS and software, not music players, phones, network appliances and design. FFS!:D
It has been said so many times before, free software and OSes are only free if your time are useless.
And before you start to bash me for not knowing my stuff or having used this and that. I'm an AmigaOS kid who has used Windows, Linux since 95. Free-/Net-/OpenBSD, Solaris, tested QNX and ran a little OS X.
Sure modern Linux dists are less of a PITA, but problems will still exist, on my PC for instance (Athlon64 3000+, MSI MS-6702 VIA kt800-chipset, nv6800le) latest Ubuntu can't even start the installer because it's a liveCD which boots a graphical environment, that would be ok if it worked, but now it just gives me the first graphical screen with the ugly orangebrown background and mouse pointer and nothing more... Fedora Core works on it but after updating with yum for the first time the machine couldn't boot any more... Debian worked perfect, of course.
But newbies will still have to figure out how to watch dvds, play their music, get flash, java and so on, which is a litle bit harder if they take the AMD64-version. On a Mac it will probably be easier.
I call bullshit on more software, most unix apps can probably compile just fine in OS X, check fink or macports.
And then there are all the native OS X apps of which many are very good. For instance I take quite a few photos with my digital camera but the image viewers for X are so slow compared to viewing them in Windows, and I would prefer if there was some nice way to organize them (which there might be now.), with every mac you get iPhoto, and if that isn't enough for you you can run Adobes LightRoom, Apple Aperture or Adobe Photoshop, neither of which is available for Linux.
Same for making music I guess, how many prolevel apps are there for Linux? How many are decent for beginners? Macs ship with Garageband.
What about making your own less than only-upload-directly-from-digital-camera-videos to but on youtube?
How easy is it to setup my Canon Canoscan 4400F in Linux? My Canon i865 printer?
What about if I buy a Wacom tablet or M-audio USB-keyboard to make music on it?
Heck, even I'm who imho are quite experienced wouldn't single boot Linux or FreeBSD because I need my printer and I want to be able to play an occasional game, are you sure you have convinced ANYONE to run Linux only? How many of the people who dual boot now could have run OS X only do you think?
And personally I'd say all Linux dists sucks, Debian and Gentoo beeing the few who sucks less because atleast the former one are stable and all stuff worked fine in the later one when I used it and it's up to date. But Debian are usually quite outdated, that doesn't matter for average users and nowadays I would prefer it over unstable crap, but it's still an issue. Ubuntu gets rather updated between releases aswell, they sticked to Firefox 1.0.7 instead of switching to 1.5 even thought it had major memory leaks and the latest version can't even be installed on my machine! SuSE can't be conveniently upgraded between releases, Fedora Core craped out on me after an update, ArchLinux switched USB err.. "architecture" leaving me with no USB devices just because it feelt like it, it also updated Alsa to a version where the mixer would crash so I couldn't change capture device to the Mic. YOPER sucked dick, I don't remember in what way but it wasn't a good one, so on so on. Slackware might be ok aswell btw. Anyway in my opinion FreeBSD works and fit me much better, and I could live with FreeBSD + KDE over OS X if it wasn't for pro apps and commercial apps. But I do want to try those, and I don't wanna deal with shit like not getting my fucking microphone for two days to work (don't ask me why it didn't, I don't remember.)
I could blame Apple in many ways, for instance: * They are expensive. * They don't offer enough configuration options. * They use shitty GPUs and low quality displays. * They tend to make a decent app and then forget about it not updating it very much and therefor all you have is a halfdecen
It's rather obvious that you had no idea how to do it the mac way and only tried to do it your way / in the way you did it in your regular OS.
People have already told you how to fix the NFS issue, and it was very simple wasn't it? If your gf had sat for herself and tried to get NFS working what way do you think she would had prefered?
You never told WHAT you did with either of NFS or WHAT videos you wanted to see which didn't worked, but I got my Macbook Pro 16 days ago and I haven't done anything yet to watch movies except installed flip4mac, but then I haven't looked at many websites. But I doubt it will have problems viewing any popular site with not that weird movie formats using any browser and quicktime after that.
Regarding he browser I don't like Safari that much either, but it's decent. I use Opera in all OSes and I would never use firefox instead of it. In any case for Safari you can block ads with pithelmet, and Opera got a built in adblocker, if that was one of the reason she choosed firefox.
I'm sure organizing and editing her photos, make her own videos to put on youtube and so on will work sooo good in Gentoo... or not.
I have an illogical hate for Windows since my AmigaOS vs DOS+Win3.11 days, Win95 wasn't much to cheer for either.
Apple have had better quality control, it's not impossible that they some day will stop making retarded configurations thought not very likely because they can since if you want a mac they are the only choice so they can give you crap specs or tell you to buy something which aren't worth your money if you want something better.
They could put something else than TN-panels in their 20" iMacs, they have done before. They could get a little better TFTs for their laptops, atleast put as good in all of them instead of have a display lottery...
Regarding BIOS graphics card I do understand it will never happen. But it's sad that people who buy a real mac pro have to pay extra and can't use any card when people who run hacks can take whatever and much cheaper aswell.
The mac mini is a small but not that great attempt at that market imho. They could make something like the cube but with shuttle style hardware. Thought compatibility with various graphics cards would be bad, they won't make it because they will get less money per system sold (why they don't care about the number of customers is beyond my understanding.)
I wanted to use OS X because it seemed nice, but that where mostly when it where new, now I could probably survive just as good with FreeBSD and KDE if it wasn't for games and pro apps. I got this macbook pro (cheapest one) two weeks ago. I considered the mid one for more vram but it's so retarded that they force feed you top of the line CPU aswell.. Those are never a good buy.
My more or less final decision that that when this GPU isn't enough for games (I hope it will be enough for desktop, even with dual screen.) I can buy a PC in parts with good graphics, install OS X and say fuck you to Apple for not providing me with decent options.
I mean I will still have a reliable machine in my Macbook Pro, so I don't have to worry that much that I will break something on the "game station".
As one of Apples customers and former future customer I would like to say that I/we have NOT been well rewarded, the shareholders probably has thought.
I want to see more development of the OS and its utilities. And also better quality control of the machines, better graphics, no shitty TN-panels, no spoonfulls of thermal paste on the components, and a decent consumer desktop for people who don't want to have it inside the screen (there are a few people who whould want to have Mac "gamer" or "diy" or whatever.) Shuttlelike cube anyone? Yeah, they should switch to regular BIOS graphics cards aswell, atleast hacks can use them;/
Might be true, but in that environment will you really hear any difference anyway? Also I don't encode my music myself, and I would never reencode music because I would move them to a portable player.
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Old test which I've seen before.
;D
iRiver T10 got the Samsung chip which made it suck, IFP-799 are much better.
YP-Z5 do well in signal to noise ratio obviously thought very many players hade 82-83dB, so only Zen Micro, T10, U3 and U10 really fails it.
YP-Z5 does will in distortion aswell, U10 and T10 really sucks again, and so did X5, lots of players are worse than Shuffle and the YP-Z5.
U3 nails frequency responce, YP-Z5 gets an average result.
In any case I think that YP-Z5 does a nice run, and that's why I told my sister to get it (and it has the latest version of the SigmaTel chip.)
iRiver earned their reputation thru the IFP-series, I've been against them during T10 and T20 becaues I know a lot of people where disappointed, but I haven't checked reviews for Clix 2, T50 and T60 so I don't wanna talk against them. U10 may have the same chip as the T10 for all I know.
iAudio where considered good during the same time with their U2, 5, G3 and so on, and reviews of F2, U3, 7 haven't turned them down either.
I don't know what chip the X5 uses which where the only iAudio player in the test, it's an HDD player so I have never cared about it.
Also I don't know how much a technical test like this matters, since peoples opionions may differ anyway and for all I know iRiver and iAudio may have got their reputation as good players due to SRS WOW and BBE which are things I wouldn't use. Maybe people like them for better equalizers or whatever (even thought they ruin the sound technically). I know the iAudio 7 are said to distort if you play around to much with the equalizer, and the where said about one of the iPods I read about, so I guess the iAudios aren't perfect in that regard (maybe they fail that due to higher output power? If they lowered the amplification it would handle more extreme boosts in the equalizer shouldn't it?)
In any case, it's very easy to find a player with good battery life, line in, mic, radio, support for many formats and UMS if you stay away for Apple, just pick one of those which also brings good sound quality aswell
My sister is technically retarded and she can handle her Samsung YP-Z5 even thought she didn't knew how to clear the content of the memory card in her digital camera ..
:D:D:D:DD
Thought that players interface are said to be decent, I've only tried and iPod once and it took me a while to use it aswell (a while probably being 30-60 seconds or so but anyway.)
But you might have a point, since I haven't tried many mp3 players and used their interfaces, I really doubt the iAudio D2 or 7, iRiver Clix 2, Creative Zen V (not that I would buy one of those) or Sonys MP3-players (same as with Creative, I would buy one without SonicStage thought.) are very hard to use.
Anyway I don't say no to better battery life, sound quality, radio, line in, more powerful output, better audio quality, UMS functionallity, lots of audio formats for the same or similair price as an iPod.
To the other child of this thread:
Wow, you mean that even Apple products gets cheaper as prices on the components falls!?!
However this is totally irrelevant when one have no idea what the other players cost to make and sell for, and even that is rather unintresting.
Only thing I care for is what I get for the money I have to pay, and in that regard there are many players which offers more value for your money than Apple (and not only more value but also better players, or lower prices.)
Ok, yeah, I see your point in that it's convenient to easily sync your mp3 players library, your phones contact list and calendar and play music thru your access point (if it wasn't the case I have, receiver in the same room as the computer and network outlet in another room, so what do I do? TP-cable over the whole floor because I want wireless music or optical cable over the whole floor because I want it?)
Regarding hardware as in the computer and software hacks works nice to since the hardware are just PC hardware, so no special with the integration there.
Nah, people would just waste their time commenting stuff because they belive they are important but noone care, spend their time reading less intelligent crap such as this comment than real books written by real writers which actually had something to say. Maybe they would even start doing it at work!
Yeah because iWork and OpenOffice are more or less the same thing, or not.
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OpenOffice tries to be Office, and word suck.
iWork is similair applications but in a new fresh way, how dare you compare Pages with OO writer?
Just stay with your openoffice in whatever os
Subject says it all.
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I wonder how long it will take until Amiga Inc. revives the never released Amiga DE and decide that it's the shit for 2008s mobile phones!
http://last.fm/
Maybe they should connect computers to it aswell! That way you can easily store, manage, sort, delete, move around within and so on in your music.
:D)
(I wanted to do it Homer style but I failed.) (+1 insightful?
(I guess I knew the later one from HTML, not the first one, have never thought about using them on a forum thought.)
First thing I did was to hide the storepart of iTunes, I also blocked access to iTunes store in the parental settings of iTunes so now I'm sure I will never buy anything by accident either ;D
Actually there are two ways to install programs:
/Applications only, some put files in the users or system wide Application support and whatever the other directory where called, and eventually in even more places. For instance settings, examples/demos and so on, maybe fonts?
1) Just drag the icon to Applications.
2) Use the supplied installer if there are one.
And two ways to remove programs:
1) Drag the icon to trash.
2) Use the supplied installer and choose uninstall from it.
Most applications use number 1 of both alternatives, but applications doesn't install in
I'm not sure if I mix up the names or not but I think that CleanApp and AppZapper both search for these files and tries to delete them, CleanApp being free and AppZapper costing money.
Yank and some other app (there are two of both, atleast) instead logs what happens to the filesystem when you install an application and saves the data so you can uninstall everything later. One of those applications only worked for regular installers where the other worked for "everything", including plugins and such.
But yes, drag to trash is the method people use, but it leaves a lot of files in other places, just look at all the places Adobe CS 3 put its files in.
How does it contradict? (also there was it again, the mac user answer when someone complains =P)
I would just be happy if they focused more on the os, machines and apps than "non mac"-stuff.
How do you do as nice quotes?
I haven't tried NFS so I can't help, maybe there are some differences in NFS shipped with different OSes and say Solaris would work better?
VLC is nice, I just haven't tried to make my browser use it, and I really don't see why. For syncing subtitles and such it's nice thought.
Most people takes photos, not everyone uploads videos to youtube but with the right tools more would probably do it.
I love KDE so we'll see if my mac ends up with KDE 4, in OS X thought of course =P
My macbook pro is back in less than a second. It takes 5-7 or so for it to go down (with fans of and so on.)
Thanks for suggesting Journler and iGTD, just downloaded them.
Regarding Amarok there is KDE for OS X, and will be KDE 4, so I guess it's possible to run amarok in OS X aswell.
Also Apple are both innovative and do get things done in a quite good way when they do something.
.Mac should be dead, free or available as a software package for setting up your own. :D
The free software movement are rather good at copying what is there and make something similair, but I don't see much creativity. For instance compare OpenOffice with Pages, or XMMS with iTunes (don't compare with Amarok and whatever the GTK-variant is called, they came after iTunes ffs.)
Why do we need KDE and Gnome to look like Windows copies? And why are so many unix users all hyped up over transparent terminals, wobble windows, docks and shit like that? It's just "hey, look, we can have this to!", but it's useless. Transparent terminals SUCK.
And how big are the chances that your photoviewer/editor in a free OS are as easy to use and "powerful" as iPhoto?
More things on the list of things which suck:
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* Multiple user lists in iChat, what where they thinking?
* No MSN support in iChat, understandable but suck.
* Stupid formats and archives which doesn't work outside the mac world.
* No uninstaller! But there are apps which solves that (Yank, commercial, CleanApp, free.)
* Apple should stop with this non-computer shit, I'm a computer nerd, I care about computers, OS and software, not music players, phones, network appliances and design. FFS!
It has been said so many times before, free software and OSes are only free if your time are useless.
And before you start to bash me for not knowing my stuff or having used this and that. I'm an AmigaOS kid who has used Windows, Linux since 95. Free-/Net-/OpenBSD, Solaris, tested QNX and ran a little OS X.
Sure modern Linux dists are less of a PITA, but problems will still exist, on my PC for instance (Athlon64 3000+, MSI MS-6702 VIA kt800-chipset, nv6800le) latest Ubuntu can't even start the installer because it's a liveCD which boots a graphical environment, that would be ok if it worked, but now it just gives me the first graphical screen with the ugly orangebrown background and mouse pointer and nothing more... Fedora Core works on it but after updating with yum for the first time the machine couldn't boot any more... Debian worked perfect, of course.
But newbies will still have to figure out how to watch dvds, play their music, get flash, java and so on, which is a litle bit harder if they take the AMD64-version. On a Mac it will probably be easier.
I call bullshit on more software, most unix apps can probably compile just fine in OS X, check fink or macports.
And then there are all the native OS X apps of which many are very good. For instance I take quite a few photos with my digital camera but the image viewers for X are so slow compared to viewing them in Windows, and I would prefer if there was some nice way to organize them (which there might be now.), with every mac you get iPhoto, and if that isn't enough for you you can run Adobes LightRoom, Apple Aperture or Adobe Photoshop, neither of which is available for Linux.
Same for making music I guess, how many prolevel apps are there for Linux? How many are decent for beginners? Macs ship with Garageband.
What about making your own less than only-upload-directly-from-digital-camera-videos to but on youtube?
How easy is it to setup my Canon Canoscan 4400F in Linux? My Canon i865 printer?
What about if I buy a Wacom tablet or M-audio USB-keyboard to make music on it?
Heck, even I'm who imho are quite experienced wouldn't single boot Linux or FreeBSD because I need my printer and I want to be able to play an occasional game, are you sure you have convinced ANYONE to run Linux only? How many of the people who dual boot now could have run OS X only do you think?
And personally I'd say all Linux dists sucks, Debian and Gentoo beeing the few who sucks less because atleast the former one are stable and all stuff worked fine in the later one when I used it and it's up to date.
But Debian are usually quite outdated, that doesn't matter for average users and nowadays I would prefer it over unstable crap, but it's still an issue. Ubuntu gets rather updated between releases aswell, they sticked to Firefox 1.0.7 instead of switching to 1.5 even thought it had major memory leaks and the latest version can't even be installed on my machine!
SuSE can't be conveniently upgraded between releases, Fedora Core craped out on me after an update, ArchLinux switched USB err.. "architecture" leaving me with no USB devices just because it feelt like it, it also updated Alsa to a version where the mixer would crash so I couldn't change capture device to the Mic. YOPER sucked dick, I don't remember in what way but it wasn't a good one, so on so on.
Slackware might be ok aswell btw.
Anyway in my opinion FreeBSD works and fit me much better, and I could live with FreeBSD + KDE over OS X if it wasn't for pro apps and commercial apps. But I do want to try those, and I don't wanna deal with shit like not getting my fucking microphone for two days to work (don't ask me why it didn't, I don't remember.)
I could blame Apple in many ways, for instance:
* They are expensive.
* They don't offer enough configuration options.
* They use shitty GPUs and low quality displays.
* They tend to make a decent app and then forget about it not updating it very much and therefor all you have is a halfdecen
It's rather obvious that you had no idea how to do it the mac way and only tried to do it your way / in the way you did it in your regular OS.
People have already told you how to fix the NFS issue, and it was very simple wasn't it? If your gf had sat for herself and tried to get NFS working what way do you think she would had prefered?
You never told WHAT you did with either of NFS or WHAT videos you wanted to see which didn't worked, but I got my Macbook Pro 16 days ago and I haven't done anything yet to watch movies except installed flip4mac, but then I haven't looked at many websites. But I doubt it will have problems viewing any popular site with not that weird movie formats using any browser and quicktime after that.
Regarding he browser I don't like Safari that much either, but it's decent. I use Opera in all OSes and I would never use firefox instead of it.
In any case for Safari you can block ads with pithelmet, and Opera got a built in adblocker, if that was one of the reason she choosed firefox.
I'm sure organizing and editing her photos, make her own videos to put on youtube and so on will work sooo good in Gentoo... or not.
Doh, make lots of repelant magnets and move them around the living module to turn! :D
Don't you worry about it, with the TN panels Apple have been putting in some of their machines lately green will probably look orange from an angle ;D
I have an illogical hate for Windows since my AmigaOS vs DOS+Win3.11 days, Win95 wasn't much to cheer for either.
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Apple have had better quality control, it's not impossible that they some day will stop making retarded configurations thought not very likely because they can since if you want a mac they are the only choice so they can give you crap specs or tell you to buy something which aren't worth your money if you want something better.
They could put something else than TN-panels in their 20" iMacs, they have done before. They could get a little better TFTs for their laptops, atleast put as good in all of them instead of have a display lottery
Regarding BIOS graphics card I do understand it will never happen. But it's sad that people who buy a real mac pro have to pay extra and can't use any card when people who run hacks can take whatever and much cheaper aswell.
The mac mini is a small but not that great attempt at that market imho. They could make something like the cube but with shuttle style hardware. Thought compatibility with various graphics cards would be bad, they won't make it because they will get less money per system sold (why they don't care about the number of customers is beyond my understanding.)
I wanted to use OS X because it seemed nice, but that where mostly when it where new, now I could probably survive just as good with FreeBSD and KDE if it wasn't for games and pro apps. I got this macbook pro (cheapest one) two weeks ago. I considered the mid one for more vram but it's so retarded that they force feed you top of the line CPU aswell.. Those are never a good buy.
My more or less final decision that that when this GPU isn't enough for games (I hope it will be enough for desktop, even with dual screen.) I can buy a PC in parts with good graphics, install OS X and say fuck you to Apple for not providing me with decent options.
I mean I will still have a reliable machine in my Macbook Pro, so I don't have to worry that much that I will break something on the "game station".
As one of Apples customers and former future customer I would like to say that I/we have NOT been well rewarded, the shareholders probably has thought.
;/
I want to see more development of the OS and its utilities. And also better quality control of the machines, better graphics, no shitty TN-panels, no spoonfulls of thermal paste on the components, and a decent consumer desktop for people who don't want to have it inside the screen (there are a few people who whould want to have Mac "gamer" or "diy" or whatever.) Shuttlelike cube anyone?
Yeah, they should switch to regular BIOS graphics cards aswell, atleast hacks can use them
Might be true, but in that environment will you really hear any difference anyway?
Also I don't encode my music myself, and I would never reencode music because I would move them to a portable player.