To offer a user's perspective. I hate my work provided laptop because it so slow...
Having a laptop is fundamental to my job. I work for a technology department of a major bank so having a laptop is essential so that I can support the applications that I wrote out-of-hours. Unfortunately, the need to secure my laptop (because it could be potentially compromised because it goes outside the bank's immediate environment) means that all the security software installed on it makes it run very slow. My brand new Lenovo Thinkpad takes approximately 15 minutes to startup- unbelievable I know but in my frustration I timed it yesterday.
Most technology people I know have asked that the bank allows us to use our own desktops at home - with the mandated mandated anti-virus, version checking software, et al. installed - but there is still a (perfectly understandable) reluctance to do this. Until then we'll stutter by.
As an aside: I love the latest hardware dual core that Intel / AMD is providing - and to demonstrate how much the security software on my dual-core Thinkpad is slowing things down - 10 minutes into the boot up of my bank laptop I took out my Macbook Pro from my bag and launched all the applications in the Applications folder. The MBP won. (This is not intended to inflame any mac/windows wars, but merely to show the cost of securing the laptop had on performance)
Actually no - did you even read the original article? The article is a set of musings from someone about how they might go about getting Windows to run on the Intel Macs. They have *not* actually got Windows to run on Mac.
Certainly a beautiful looking PC. No doubt I'd like one myself. But I'm wondering why would I bother paying upwards of $3000 (depending on the exchange rate) on something that can act as a PVR(DVR) when TiVo can do the same thing for very much less?
I spent the thanksgiving weekend contemplating supplementing a PC I had so it could be used as a MythTV for my other television. After figuring up the cost of a Hauppauge PCI card and suffiicient HD space I decided against it.
As a hobbyist I'd love to do it but the economics are against me.
There's been a lot of jokes/comments about BSOD with Windows Media Center and as much as I love my TiVo I did want to balance the negative comments. I'm unhappy to report that my TiVo does crash about once a week. Typically it occurs when it attempts to change channel to start recording. The crash requires a full reboot - which means yanking the power cable since there is no power button on the TiVo. A reboot takes about 7 minutes.
Is any one else experiencing problems or do I have a bad box? I never had crashes until I updated to the Home Media Option (with an approved Linksys USB wireless adapter).
Unfortunately prior to Windows XP SP2 the firewall came on *after* the network had been initialized. It would be therefore possible for someone to attack the system before the ports were closed down.
After selling an old Dell laptop to that I was using (for fun) as a Mandrake Linux 9 box, I attempted to reinstall Windows 98 only to find that it didn't recognize half the hardware in the machine such as the ESS Maestro soundcard, the ATI video card, the Xircom network card etc. All of these had been detected successfully by the Linux install.
What followed was about 2 hours of searching the web trying to find the appropriate Win 98 drivers, downloading them to a Mac and burning them onto CD (since I couldn't transfer them over the network since the network card wasn't recognized).
So the article is a little disingenous.
What stuns me is that Apple have managed to create both a geek computer and a home computer that is easy to use. I'm sitting here typing on an iBook that I regularly use in terminal mode to compile programs, yet it is the same computer that my wife uses for instant messaging and email. It flabbergasts me how me they were so sneaky to do this. People say their switch campaign didn't work but I'm not convinced: 4 of my geek friends switched to macs and 3 newbie friends bought macs after trying mine. Good luck Apple.
Is it all about Swing vs AWT? I hope not. I think Eclipse is great! But Eclipse got it right and Sun got it wrong. I want my user interface to look like the operating system I'm using (not Java L&F) and I want it to be natively quick.
Please compromise Sun - The native approach is better as long as the toolkit can always guarantee to draw the lowest common denominator. That's what Java should be - write once, run everywhere, to the best of individual platforms abilities.
The rules are quite different in the UK. Coming from the UK it didn't surprise me that the advert got pulled. The rules are quite clear - you cannot make a claim for a product that cannot be substantiated. As we all know, fast as the G5 is, it certainly cannot categorically claim to be the worlds fastest personal computer since there are other computers/processors that beat it (in certain benchmarks) . It doesn't really matter how many people complained or what their motives were - they were only bringing this claim to the attention of the Advertising Standard Comittee. That committee quite rightly found that Apple couldn't back up their claim and therefore was misleading the public. The UK always airs on the side of protecting the consumer rather than the advertiser. (I've lived in the US for five years now and I'm still shocked by the outrageous claims that appear in US ads.)
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To offer a user's perspective. I hate my work provided laptop because it so slow... Having a laptop is fundamental to my job. I work for a technology department of a major bank so having a laptop is essential so that I can support the applications that I wrote out-of-hours. Unfortunately, the need to secure my laptop (because it could be potentially compromised because it goes outside the bank's immediate environment) means that all the security software installed on it makes it run very slow. My brand new Lenovo Thinkpad takes approximately 15 minutes to startup- unbelievable I know but in my frustration I timed it yesterday. Most technology people I know have asked that the bank allows us to use our own desktops at home - with the mandated mandated anti-virus, version checking software, et al. installed - but there is still a (perfectly understandable) reluctance to do this. Until then we'll stutter by. As an aside: I love the latest hardware dual core that Intel / AMD is providing - and to demonstrate how much the security software on my dual-core Thinkpad is slowing things down - 10 minutes into the boot up of my bank laptop I took out my Macbook Pro from my bag and launched all the applications in the Applications folder. The MBP won. (This is not intended to inflame any mac/windows wars, but merely to show the cost of securing the laptop had on performance)
Actually no - did you even read the original article? The article is a set of musings from someone about how they might go about getting Windows to run on the Intel Macs. They have *not* actually got Windows to run on Mac.
Certainly a beautiful looking PC. No doubt I'd like one myself. But I'm wondering why would I bother paying upwards of $3000 (depending on the exchange rate) on something that can act as a PVR(DVR) when TiVo can do the same thing for very much less? I spent the thanksgiving weekend contemplating supplementing a PC I had so it could be used as a MythTV for my other television. After figuring up the cost of a Hauppauge PCI card and suffiicient HD space I decided against it. As a hobbyist I'd love to do it but the economics are against me.
There's been a lot of jokes/comments about BSOD with Windows Media Center and as much as I love my TiVo I did want to balance the negative comments. I'm unhappy to report that my TiVo does crash about once a week. Typically it occurs when it attempts to change channel to start recording. The crash requires a full reboot - which means yanking the power cable since there is no power button on the TiVo. A reboot takes about 7 minutes. Is any one else experiencing problems or do I have a bad box? I never had crashes until I updated to the Home Media Option (with an approved Linksys USB wireless adapter).
Unfortunately prior to Windows XP SP2 the firewall came on *after* the network had been initialized. It would be therefore possible for someone to attack the system before the ports were closed down.
After selling an old Dell laptop to that I was using (for fun) as a Mandrake Linux 9 box, I attempted to reinstall Windows 98 only to find that it didn't recognize half the hardware in the machine such as the ESS Maestro soundcard, the ATI video card, the Xircom network card etc. All of these had been detected successfully by the Linux install. What followed was about 2 hours of searching the web trying to find the appropriate Win 98 drivers, downloading them to a Mac and burning them onto CD (since I couldn't transfer them over the network since the network card wasn't recognized). So the article is a little disingenous.
What stuns me is that Apple have managed to create both a geek computer and a home computer that is easy to use. I'm sitting here typing on an iBook that I regularly use in terminal mode to compile programs, yet it is the same computer that my wife uses for instant messaging and email. It flabbergasts me how me they were so sneaky to do this. People say their switch campaign didn't work but I'm not convinced: 4 of my geek friends switched to macs and 3 newbie friends bought macs after trying mine. Good luck Apple.
Sorry typo - I meant SWT rather than AWT
Is it all about Swing vs AWT? I hope not. I think Eclipse is great! But Eclipse got it right and Sun got it wrong. I want my user interface to look like the operating system I'm using (not Java L&F) and I want it to be natively quick. Please compromise Sun - The native approach is better as long as the toolkit can always guarantee to draw the lowest common denominator. That's what Java should be - write once, run everywhere, to the best of individual platforms abilities.
The Matrix proved itself to be the weak series it threatened to be in the first movie.
The rules are quite different in the UK. Coming from the UK it didn't surprise me that the advert got pulled. The rules are quite clear - you cannot make a claim for a product that cannot be substantiated. As we all know, fast as the G5 is, it certainly cannot categorically claim to be the worlds fastest personal computer since there are other computers/processors that beat it (in certain benchmarks) . It doesn't really matter how many people complained or what their motives were - they were only bringing this claim to the attention of the Advertising Standard Comittee. That committee quite rightly found that Apple couldn't back up their claim and therefore was misleading the public. The UK always airs on the side of protecting the consumer rather than the advertiser. (I've lived in the US for five years now and I'm still shocked by the outrageous claims that appear in US ads.)