What it does have is gorgeous styling, a comfortable UI, and a brilliantly smooth end-to-end player-to-software-to-store arrangement. To me, that makes it a popular portable player, not necessarily a really good one.
Wait... isn't that what makes a really good digital music player? The pleasant user experience (looks, UI, and easy content) is the selling point to nearly all the users.
I haven't ever found a player that I would take with me anywhere that reproduces audiophile quality sound. But that's not what I want when I am walking down the street with my iPod. There are too many distractions in that scenario anyway. Seriously listening to music is done sitting in my living room where my receiver and large speakers are.
I still have this happen both at home and at work, but it's not ALL the time. Seems to be the first message that gets sent to me disappears, especially if it is ONLY a URL.
I thought it was post hoc ergo propter hoc, but yeah. A may seem like it's caused by B because B followed A, but to assume that is the case is not just a fallacy - often it's an intentional rhetorical tactic. In politics especially, you will hear things like "Bobby played GTA:SA! And then Bobby assaulted his sister!" And even though no one said that Bobby's crime was caused by the game, it's implied and people listening will believe. Some of them, anyway.
So, in the case of Adobe, all the rep would say in the promotional video was that the G5 was (so far) twice as fast as any previous Mac rather than twice as fast as any Dell. A big, meaningful difference, since the "Finding Nemo" poster really did seem to be designed to hit the G5's sweetspot.
The adobe 'rep' Greg Gilley, VP of Engineering for Adobe, actually said, "...on some areas of PhotoShop we have seen performance that's more than double of any other machine that we have ever seen." That's not talking specifically about Mac's although that could be what he meant... You decide.
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Wait... isn't that what makes a really good digital music player? The pleasant user experience (looks, UI, and easy content) is the selling point to nearly all the users.
I haven't ever found a player that I would take with me anywhere that reproduces audiophile quality sound. But that's not what I want when I am walking down the street with my iPod. There are too many distractions in that scenario anyway. Seriously listening to music is done sitting in my living room where my receiver and large speakers are.
I still have this happen both at home and at work, but it's not ALL the time. Seems to be the first message that gets sent to me disappears, especially if it is ONLY a URL.
I thought it was post hoc ergo propter hoc, but yeah. A may seem like it's caused by B because B followed A, but to assume that is the case is not just a fallacy - often it's an intentional rhetorical tactic. In politics especially, you will hear things like "Bobby played GTA:SA! And then Bobby assaulted his sister!" And even though no one said that Bobby's crime was caused by the game, it's implied and people listening will believe. Some of them, anyway.
The adobe 'rep' Greg Gilley, VP of Engineering for Adobe, actually said, "...on some areas of PhotoShop we have seen performance that's more than double of any other machine that we have ever seen." That's not talking specifically about Mac's although that could be what he meant... You decide.
Altivec is a Motorola technology, I don't think that the G5 - an IBM product - incorporates that particular tech.