Sorry it's not very good. I was never very good at drawing.
Feel free to redistribute this as Creative Commons, although for obvious reasons I'd prefer if you didn't tack my name/user id onto it.....
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If you want to convert Indeo to a modern format, for free, as I had to do the other day, boot up virtualPC (or in your case, a real pc) and get the indeo video codec for QuickTime For Windows. Works a charm. Click export and you can put it straight to.h264 with zero loss. Now, finding the damn codec, that's a fun game, have fun with the googling; I'd tell you where it is, but I can't remember since it was like 4am and 9 coffee's down when I found them, and since I'm paranoid, no history to go looking through. If you really can't find them, e-mail me, and I'll send you them. They are out there though. Just a shame the only ones that exist for PowerPC are quicktime OS9.
WHAT???
Why??
THe whole purpose of coffee is the caffeine. Caffeine is like water; without it, you just can't function. If you want something that doesn't have caffeine it (again; WHY??) drink water. Coffee is a sacred drink. By drinking that horrible stuff that was once coffee but lacks its essence, you're defaming a religion.
Please bear in mind the above comments were typed at (local time)04:45hrs after 9 cups of rocketfuel gurana coffee, as I've a presentation to give tomorrow and haven't exactly written it yet. Keynote.app is calling. Laters....
Nah, as much of a MacHead as I am, I have to conceed that the modern Dashboard is pretty much Konfabulator. Admittedly you could say that Konfabulator is based on DesktopObjects but with modern graphics. However, Apple's Dashboard is a carbon-copy of Konfabulator. And Yahoo calling it Dashboard now is just asking for a lawsuit. As to who'd win; who knows. But the PR damage to Yahoo alone would be worth it to Apple. See Microsoft 'ripping-off' Apple's OS.
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OK, so Apple ripped off Konfabulator with OS X Tiger's Dashboard. Now Yahoo (who bought Konfabulator) are ripping off Apple by rebranding it "Yahoo Dashboard". Clever, since Dashboard is waaay more famous a brand than Konfabulator, but Apple can't sue Yahoo for ripping them off since if they did Yahoo would counter-sue on the basis that Apple ripped off Konfabulator.
Indeed. Although, in related news, no white-haired crazy-eyed crackpot's have come out of the woodwork with a "flux capacitor". Although the British Government have been losing a fair amount of plutonium recently. However, fingers point to the blatant incompetence of BNFL Sellafield workers, rather than Libyan terrorists.
Need I remark, as no doubt hordes of others will, that the URL is wrong, not to mention that for some odd reason windows users can't understand that the 'i' in Apple products is lower case; iMac, iPod, iMovie, and, in this case, iTunes. I get so damned fed-up of seeing Itunes, ITunes, itunes. Get it right. It's not hard.
Mind you, neither is checking an URL.
Yep. You are paying extra 'cause it's white and it's an iPod. And also for that genuine "new apple smell". Them mind-bending chemicals they stuff in there to make your purchase seem totally justified and explainable don't come cheap:)
That said, it doesn't play windows media audio files. So it's doing a damned fine thing by trying to get people NOT to use that shitty format. It's also the only player on the market that legally allows you to play files from the worlds most popular online music store. It also has one of the best audio-quality ratings of any handheld device (beating even some large hi-fi's). It's also not made by creative, who despite making the worlds best soundcards make the worlds worst quality players.
But yeah, who needs extreme over-engineered precision quality audio-heaven. After all, these are people that will accept and PAY good money to rent 128k WMA files. They deserve shit.
Pah, you think that's cool, there's a blank Apple Pro keyboard going for buttons on eBay right now. A genuine apple keyboard, just they obviously made a mistake. At first I thought it was a normal one sprayed, but it's not, just never had the character glyphs printed. Pretty neat. I'd get it, but it's going out of my price range, and I just bought a new mighty-mouse, so my new kit budget is 0. The auction can be found here
Enjoy!
A great shame that they didn't run similar tests on a windows system compared to an OS X system. That would have shown once and for all the truth! That OS X is so far advanced to windows, it's not even the same game, let alone in the same league!
I'm not surprised at this. Apple weren't really all that bothered with this, it would only generate so many sales. Apple are all ready selling iPods in almost every shop imaginable, so it won't harm then, and HP aren't gonna make much money, since who want's an HP iPod when you can get a real one straight from Apple.
Frankly I'm surprised it lasted this long. I doubt HP will bother trying to develop something. After all, Apple already have like 85% of the market wrapped up, and what they don't, Creative and iRiver can haggle over.
By the way, just once could we please have some actual reporting from Slashdot, not reposts from The Register or BoingBoing.
Well that's surely obvious. Buy Apple. Sell Microsoft.
(By the way; by doing the above, you're actually contributing to the overall effect. And if you could get 10,000 of your closest friends to do the same, that Apple stock I just bought will enable me to actually afford one of the new Power-Inteli-Mac's)
My apologies. I was just reading an article on one of George Bush's latest propaganda displays (cough) err.. I mean speeches, and I guess that coloured my post a little more than I realised. What I was more trying to get at was that the holding of money supreme above all else is something that should be stopped. From my understanding, the "American Dream" is just this; the accruing of more money than everyone else, at the expense of everything else. I just find that philosophy sickening. My apologies if it was a little over-anti-american. It was really meant like that, since I'm aware most americans don't like their 'elected' government, nor their policies,. I did RTFA, but it was more in the way of a brief skim. Consider any undeserved comments rescinded.
It really is extremely telling that this article is from the USA. Why is it that in america, a lot of people seem to value money above life? Not just human life, but they actually value money above the life around;
"Oh, honey the dog's ill. It'll cost $300 to fix. Or $30 to have him euthanised"
"Fuck that, I could get a new computer for that. Put him down"
Is that really all that unrealistic a statement? You cannot out a value on human life either. Life is sacred. Money is merely a little bit of paper with a naff picture on it. Big business' losing $x million means nothing to me. They don't matter compared to a human life. I despise murderers and rapists because they do not hold human life sacred. I despise people like the goverment of Texas, because they are exactly the same. Killing people because you're pissed at them, or because they caused you, through your own stupidity to lose money is NOT a good, right or allowable thing. That's what Al Quaeda and other terrorist groups do. Al Quaeda are pissed at the USA for destroying the holiness of their sacred lands (mainly Saudi). So they go and kill a lot of americans in the hope it will deter the USA from staying in the middle east. Just like the government of texas are pissed at people breaking the law, so they murder people, in the hopes it will deter people from murdering each other. Despicable.
In the end, this idea is sick on many levels. I found it utterly disgusting that a government should want to execute anyone. I found it even worse that they'd do it for money, or because that person has caused people, through their own abject stupidity, to lose money. I hate hackers, they're a damned pain in the arse, don't get me wrong. But they don't sicken me, like scum who would suggest the execution of people based on the fact that others lost money (again, via their own total stupidity) . Mind you, I know that windows is inherently insecure, and so I installed a different OS. It was SUSE, I now run Mac OS X. I know that windows is insecure, because there are over 150,000 unique virii for it. Anyone who doesn't see it coming therefore is fucking stupid.
Anyways, at the end of the day, I'll leave the probably 3 people who read this, and have read this far with an american saying (that's actual american, not euro-american):
"Only when the last tree has been felled, and the last river polluted, will white men realise that you cannot eat money, and that you cannot drink oil."
Yeah, USB wise, the Mac is the most supporting. The original iBook was the first consumer machine in the world to support USB. Unlike on a windows system, where USB access is kinda flaky, on OS X, it's in there at the core level. Mounting a USB thumb drive is totally automated, you just plug it in, and it appears on the desktop/in the finder. As someone else mentioned, there is a tasteful apple logo built-in to the screen. The rest of the mac is opaque, but the apple logo on the top of the iBook (on the other side of the lcd) is translucent, so when the screen's on it glows a subtle white. Also the hidden led (you only see it when it's on) glows the same white when the iBook is asleep (it pulses gently, no hard on/off here), so if you don't like white, get down the hardware store and buy some PlastiKote, you can get some really cool effects (see www.macmod.com for some examples). Seriously go to the apple website and check this all out. I'm not a howling zealot, mind. I just consider Apple's stuff to be the best in the world. If it wasn't, I wouldn't buy it. If you click here it will take you to a QuickTimeVR presentation of the 14" iBook. It's just a little bigger than the 12" (obviously), but sadly they don't have a QTVR of the 12". QuickTimeVR is basically where you can look at the thing from all angles in 3D. If you don't have QuickTime, get it, since it's better than WindowsMediaPlayer by far. That's on the apple Quick Time site. The details for the iBook are here . Hope this helps.
Yeah. Because a piece-of-total-monkey-shit Dell, with a crap crt-monitor that'll be dead in 6 months, a nasty keyboard, and a shit printer with half a cartridge (that, by the way is probably about $100 a pop for new ones), running that bastion of quality known as WindowsXP so totally compares to a beautiful, tiny-footprint, near silent, fairly fast Mac, running the worlds most secure mainstream OS, Mac OS X. NOT
I mean, cummon. You have to be kidding me. You know why Dell are virtually unheard of in the UK? Because we're not so fucking stupid as to actually buy one. Dell's Quality Control consists of plugging a model in to be sure it doesn't blow-up!!
We weren't talking about "How much can I get a cheap-but-powerful windows machine for?". Which is good, since in the windows world, unless you DIY, cheap=celeron=SHIT.
Apple's cheapest ever Mac is still $499 because that's the cheapest they could make it without it being so piss poor as to damage their image as a company that makes quality, well-designed, cool, hip, chic, nice-to-look-at products. When was the last time you saw Dell winning the IDEA awards?? That's right. Buying a Dell is like getting a blowjob from a cheap $5 crack-whore. It just about gets the job done in a pinch, but you're left feeling soiled, nasty and shameful. Whereas owning a Mac is like dating a supermodel with a PhD. You know it's gonna look good, you know it's clever, and you can show it off to your friends.
Now, if you want to use your $299 cheap-shit Dell, be my guest. Mac's running OS X are nice and secure, so all the virii it'll be filled with won't bother me, on my nice, fairly expensive iBook. In this world you pay for what you get.
iMac is Apple's mid-range desktop solution. Available with a 17" or 20" tft widescreen, very tasty, comes with a 1.8 or 2.0GHz G5. The G5 is a 64-bit processor, very fast. Don't worry, the G5 running OS X natively uses 32-bit and 64-bit extensions, so you can run any OS X program without noticing whether it's new or old. They're also the flattest PC in the world. They look like a standard TFT monitor, but that's actually the entire machine. They retail from apple at $1,299 for the 17", or $1,799 for the full 20". If that's a little rich for your blood, you can buy an eMac, designed originally for schools, they come with a 17" flat CRT screen and a 1.4GHz G4 (the slightly older 32-bit chip). Retail for $799. If that's still too much, there's the new Mac Mini. This is the new TINY machine apple released a few months back. You have to see it to believe it. Literally about the size of 4 cd cases stacked on top of each other. Comes with a 1.25GHz G4, but you'll need your own monitor, keyboard and mouse. Fits standard VGA and digital monitors, and USB keyboard/mouse.
On the portable side, you can't go wrong with an iBookG4. Comes with a 1.2GHz or 1.33Ghz G4, and available in 12" or 14" screens, these things are great. I'm sitting in the den typing on a 12" right now:))
Wi-fi built-in. Bluetooth for an extra $50. With either a CDR-DVD or CDR-DVDR. Good battery life, instant sleep-wake (like all modern macs, sock that windows!). I use mine for gaming, net-trawling and 3D Animation and Film-Editing. I might add that if you're wanting to really do a lot of that sort of intensive work, a powerbook or an iMac might be better, but I manage ok. You'll want to get some extra RAM though. The iBook ships with 256MB unless you request more. Apple RAM costs more than Crucial though, so buy a 256MB iBook and go down to crucial.com and buy the extra 256MB. They even have a wizard that has Apple's stuff on it, so you can't screw it up. The iBook will skin you $999 for the base 12", going up to $1,500 for the top 14" model. All the Apple products come with free delivery. The cheap end of the apple slice is, IMHO, the better deal. Unless you're loaded, you end up paying through the nose for the PowerMac's and the PowerBooks for only a little bit more performance. The iBook I'm sitting with cost me only £600 (around the $999 mark) and totally rapes windows laptops worth twice that in virtually every department, ranging from sheer cpu power, to wi-fi range, battery power, sound quality and gaming power. Check out all this stuff by going to www.apple.com/store
I hope to be the first to say to you:
"Welcome to a new computer world. No virii, spyware or instability. Welcome to Macintosh"
Hate to burst your little american-centric bubble, 'educated' as you know doubt are by dubya's propaganda machine, but having a damned powerful computer in no way makes it easier for someone to design a bomb, as me having XCode makes it easy for me to write a program, as I can't actually program. Unless they're already a dems expert, it won't mean shit unless these things ship with a BuildMeANuke.app running on them. And of course there is the little fact that it's fairly easy to build bombs bug enough to take out 100% of the US. Not that 100% of the US is actually worth targeting. You'd hit the major cities and military bases and go on to targeting your real enemies, which since I'm guessing you're using Bush's definition of terrorist (aka Arab), would probably be Tel Aviv.
What about the IBM Power series? They're a fairly small market share, ok, but they're still important. Almost every mac in the world runs on them, and they're the makers of the Cell. I'd say that's fairly important. I'm sick of this emphasis on x86-derived chips. They're not very good, and we can already see AMD moving away with their 64-bit systems. They resemble the power series quite a lot. Still not as good as a G5 though....
With thunderous applause and nice little back-hands to the Trade Federation, i mean, RIAA/MPAA. How absolutely marvellous. So I guess there's no chance that Mickey Mouse will become public domain at any point in the next couple of centuries. I wonder how much more junk legislation can get passed due to "terrorism". We've already seen the patriot act, which everyone knows and loves. Now all the big business concerns are getting their little pet hates resolved as well. The ext time some "terrorist" event occurs, I wonder if the Senate will vote to give the Chancellor, (cough) I mean err President some 'emergency' powers. They do say that fact is often stranger than fiction. My concern is that maybe fact will become even 'darker' than fiction.
On the contrary, we SHOULD be laughing at these people. As anyone who has served in the armed forces can tell you, when really tragic things happen, sometimes you have to laugh, or else you'd cry. In this particular case, however, laughing at people this damned stupid is absolutely right and proper. Quite aside from the fact that these were 2 adults, who from all reports have not got any mental illness, and thus deserve the consequences of their actions, these people are providing two much needed services in our society . Firstly, they've done something hilariously stupid, thus giving us all something to laugh at and keep our morale good. As any Jedi can tell you, laughter and happiness are good things, and they're helping the cause by doing what they did. However, more importantly, they're removing their unworthy, pathetic genes from our species, killing two birds with one stone (or in this case, two morons with one petrol-based combustion event); firstly, they're furthering our evolution, and secondly, they're helping slow our massive over-population of our world. Human society was stable at around 10 million for millennia. We're now sitting at around six-and-a-half BILLION. It doesn't take a moron to tell you that the Earth will only support so many people. Which is just as well, since they're probably all buying their florescent tubes, petrol, and lightsaber hilts.
I really hate to sound like a troll (because I'm not), but why does anyone even care about Microsoft anymore. What makes people care about the half-arsed 'features' Microsoft tries to wax lyrical about in it's death-throws. They're going down. It sounds like a troll to say this, but I honestly believe in maybe 5 years, 10 at the outset, Microsoft will sell Office, and that's about it. All the techheads/geeks will still have Linux. It will probably have the majority of the desktop, since HP, Dell and all the other big suppliers will start distributing it. For everyone else, who want a computer that "Just Works®", Apple will be there. I see Apple making some fairly large gains back into the marketplace in the next few years, if they play their cards right. Linux too. But Microsoft? Nah. They're dead. Longhorn needed to be out by this summer to give hem a fighting chance. They've blown it, and I think they know it. I doubt Longhorn will ever really see the light of day. I think there's a very good chance that XP will be the last widely-used microsoft OS. In 20 years time, they'll call the last years of the 00's "The Return of the Apple". Although I don't know who's more evil, Darth Bill, or his Steveness!
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We're advertising my g/f's 42GG cleavage (the legal part, of course). Beat that!
And we'll accept them adult links/logos (as long as they're sufficiently censored)
Winnings will be spent on an iBook. If I get my way. But then, it's not my cleavage, so it will probably get blown on shoes.
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Yeah, but does it run linux?
Oh wait......
Sorry it's not very good. I was never very good at drawing. Feel free to redistribute this as Creative Commons, although for obvious reasons I'd prefer if you didn't tack my name/user id onto it..... http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/180/finishedmoh ammed5rp.jpg
If you want to convert Indeo to a modern format, for free, as I had to do the other day, boot up virtualPC (or in your case, a real pc) and get the indeo video codec for QuickTime For Windows. Works a charm. Click export and you can put it straight to .h264 with zero loss. Now, finding the damn codec, that's a fun game, have fun with the googling; I'd tell you where it is, but I can't remember since it was like 4am and 9 coffee's down when I found them, and since I'm paranoid, no history to go looking through. If you really can't find them, e-mail me, and I'll send you them. They are out there though. Just a shame the only ones that exist for PowerPC are quicktime OS9.
WHAT??? Why?? THe whole purpose of coffee is the caffeine. Caffeine is like water; without it, you just can't function. If you want something that doesn't have caffeine it (again; WHY??) drink water. Coffee is a sacred drink. By drinking that horrible stuff that was once coffee but lacks its essence, you're defaming a religion. Please bear in mind the above comments were typed at (local time)04:45hrs after 9 cups of rocketfuel gurana coffee, as I've a presentation to give tomorrow and haven't exactly written it yet. Keynote.app is calling. Laters....
Nah, as much of a MacHead as I am, I have to conceed that the modern Dashboard is pretty much Konfabulator. Admittedly you could say that Konfabulator is based on DesktopObjects but with modern graphics. However, Apple's Dashboard is a carbon-copy of Konfabulator. And Yahoo calling it Dashboard now is just asking for a lawsuit. As to who'd win; who knows. But the PR damage to Yahoo alone would be worth it to Apple. See Microsoft 'ripping-off' Apple's OS.
OK, so Apple ripped off Konfabulator with OS X Tiger's Dashboard. Now Yahoo (who bought Konfabulator) are ripping off Apple by rebranding it "Yahoo Dashboard". Clever, since Dashboard is waaay more famous a brand than Konfabulator, but Apple can't sue Yahoo for ripping them off since if they did Yahoo would counter-sue on the basis that Apple ripped off Konfabulator.
Indeed. Although, in related news, no white-haired crazy-eyed crackpot's have come out of the woodwork with a "flux capacitor". Although the British Government have been losing a fair amount of plutonium recently. However, fingers point to the blatant incompetence of BNFL Sellafield workers, rather than Libyan terrorists.
Need I remark, as no doubt hordes of others will, that the URL is wrong, not to mention that for some odd reason windows users can't understand that the 'i' in Apple products is lower case; iMac, iPod, iMovie, and, in this case, iTunes. I get so damned fed-up of seeing Itunes, ITunes, itunes. Get it right. It's not hard. Mind you, neither is checking an URL.
Yep. You are paying extra 'cause it's white and it's an iPod. And also for that genuine "new apple smell". Them mind-bending chemicals they stuff in there to make your purchase seem totally justified and explainable don't come cheap :)
That said, it doesn't play windows media audio files. So it's doing a damned fine thing by trying to get people NOT to use that shitty format. It's also the only player on the market that legally allows you to play files from the worlds most popular online music store. It also has one of the best audio-quality ratings of any handheld device (beating even some large hi-fi's). It's also not made by creative, who despite making the worlds best soundcards make the worlds worst quality players.
But yeah, who needs extreme over-engineered precision quality audio-heaven. After all, these are people that will accept and PAY good money to rent 128k WMA files. They deserve shit.
Pah, you think that's cool, there's a blank Apple Pro keyboard going for buttons on eBay right now. A genuine apple keyboard, just they obviously made a mistake. At first I thought it was a normal one sprayed, but it's not, just never had the character glyphs printed. Pretty neat. I'd get it, but it's going out of my price range, and I just bought a new mighty-mouse, so my new kit budget is 0. The auction can be found here Enjoy!
A great shame that they didn't run similar tests on a windows system compared to an OS X system. That would have shown once and for all the truth! That OS X is so far advanced to windows, it's not even the same game, let alone in the same league!
I'm not surprised at this. Apple weren't really all that bothered with this, it would only generate so many sales. Apple are all ready selling iPods in almost every shop imaginable, so it won't harm then, and HP aren't gonna make much money, since who want's an HP iPod when you can get a real one straight from Apple. Frankly I'm surprised it lasted this long. I doubt HP will bother trying to develop something. After all, Apple already have like 85% of the market wrapped up, and what they don't, Creative and iRiver can haggle over. By the way, just once could we please have some actual reporting from Slashdot, not reposts from The Register or BoingBoing.
Well that's surely obvious. Buy Apple. Sell Microsoft. (By the way; by doing the above, you're actually contributing to the overall effect. And if you could get 10,000 of your closest friends to do the same, that Apple stock I just bought will enable me to actually afford one of the new Power-Inteli-Mac's)
My apologies. I was just reading an article on one of George Bush's latest propaganda displays (cough) err.. I mean speeches, and I guess that coloured my post a little more than I realised. What I was more trying to get at was that the holding of money supreme above all else is something that should be stopped. From my understanding, the "American Dream" is just this; the accruing of more money than everyone else, at the expense of everything else. I just find that philosophy sickening. My apologies if it was a little over-anti-american. It was really meant like that, since I'm aware most americans don't like their 'elected' government, nor their policies,. I did RTFA, but it was more in the way of a brief skim. Consider any undeserved comments rescinded.
It really is extremely telling that this article is from the USA. Why is it that in america, a lot of people seem to value money above life? Not just human life, but they actually value money above the life around; "Oh, honey the dog's ill. It'll cost $300 to fix. Or $30 to have him euthanised" "Fuck that, I could get a new computer for that. Put him down" Is that really all that unrealistic a statement? You cannot out a value on human life either. Life is sacred. Money is merely a little bit of paper with a naff picture on it. Big business' losing $x million means nothing to me. They don't matter compared to a human life. I despise murderers and rapists because they do not hold human life sacred. I despise people like the goverment of Texas, because they are exactly the same. Killing people because you're pissed at them, or because they caused you, through your own stupidity to lose money is NOT a good, right or allowable thing. That's what Al Quaeda and other terrorist groups do. Al Quaeda are pissed at the USA for destroying the holiness of their sacred lands (mainly Saudi). So they go and kill a lot of americans in the hope it will deter the USA from staying in the middle east. Just like the government of texas are pissed at people breaking the law, so they murder people, in the hopes it will deter people from murdering each other. Despicable. In the end, this idea is sick on many levels. I found it utterly disgusting that a government should want to execute anyone. I found it even worse that they'd do it for money, or because that person has caused people, through their own abject stupidity, to lose money. I hate hackers, they're a damned pain in the arse, don't get me wrong. But they don't sicken me, like scum who would suggest the execution of people based on the fact that others lost money (again, via their own total stupidity) . Mind you, I know that windows is inherently insecure, and so I installed a different OS. It was SUSE, I now run Mac OS X. I know that windows is insecure, because there are over 150,000 unique virii for it. Anyone who doesn't see it coming therefore is fucking stupid. Anyways, at the end of the day, I'll leave the probably 3 people who read this, and have read this far with an american saying (that's actual american, not euro-american): "Only when the last tree has been felled, and the last river polluted, will white men realise that you cannot eat money, and that you cannot drink oil."
Yeah, USB wise, the Mac is the most supporting. The original iBook was the first consumer machine in the world to support USB. Unlike on a windows system, where USB access is kinda flaky, on OS X, it's in there at the core level. Mounting a USB thumb drive is totally automated, you just plug it in, and it appears on the desktop/in the finder. As someone else mentioned, there is a tasteful apple logo built-in to the screen. The rest of the mac is opaque, but the apple logo on the top of the iBook (on the other side of the lcd) is translucent, so when the screen's on it glows a subtle white. Also the hidden led (you only see it when it's on) glows the same white when the iBook is asleep (it pulses gently, no hard on/off here), so if you don't like white, get down the hardware store and buy some PlastiKote, you can get some really cool effects (see www.macmod.com for some examples). Seriously go to the apple website and check this all out. I'm not a howling zealot, mind. I just consider Apple's stuff to be the best in the world. If it wasn't, I wouldn't buy it. If you click here it will take you to a QuickTimeVR presentation of the 14" iBook. It's just a little bigger than the 12" (obviously), but sadly they don't have a QTVR of the 12". QuickTimeVR is basically where you can look at the thing from all angles in 3D. If you don't have QuickTime, get it, since it's better than WindowsMediaPlayer by far. That's on the apple Quick Time site. The details for the iBook are here . Hope this helps.
Yeah. Because a piece-of-total-monkey-shit Dell, with a crap crt-monitor that'll be dead in 6 months, a nasty keyboard, and a shit printer with half a cartridge (that, by the way is probably about $100 a pop for new ones), running that bastion of quality known as WindowsXP so totally compares to a beautiful, tiny-footprint, near silent, fairly fast Mac, running the worlds most secure mainstream OS, Mac OS X. NOT I mean, cummon. You have to be kidding me. You know why Dell are virtually unheard of in the UK? Because we're not so fucking stupid as to actually buy one. Dell's Quality Control consists of plugging a model in to be sure it doesn't blow-up!! We weren't talking about "How much can I get a cheap-but-powerful windows machine for?". Which is good, since in the windows world, unless you DIY, cheap=celeron=SHIT. Apple's cheapest ever Mac is still $499 because that's the cheapest they could make it without it being so piss poor as to damage their image as a company that makes quality, well-designed, cool, hip, chic, nice-to-look-at products. When was the last time you saw Dell winning the IDEA awards?? That's right. Buying a Dell is like getting a blowjob from a cheap $5 crack-whore. It just about gets the job done in a pinch, but you're left feeling soiled, nasty and shameful. Whereas owning a Mac is like dating a supermodel with a PhD. You know it's gonna look good, you know it's clever, and you can show it off to your friends. Now, if you want to use your $299 cheap-shit Dell, be my guest. Mac's running OS X are nice and secure, so all the virii it'll be filled with won't bother me, on my nice, fairly expensive iBook. In this world you pay for what you get.
iMac is Apple's mid-range desktop solution. Available with a 17" or 20" tft widescreen, very tasty, comes with a 1.8 or 2.0GHz G5. The G5 is a 64-bit processor, very fast. Don't worry, the G5 running OS X natively uses 32-bit and 64-bit extensions, so you can run any OS X program without noticing whether it's new or old. They're also the flattest PC in the world. They look like a standard TFT monitor, but that's actually the entire machine. They retail from apple at $1,299 for the 17", or $1,799 for the full 20". If that's a little rich for your blood, you can buy an eMac, designed originally for schools, they come with a 17" flat CRT screen and a 1.4GHz G4 (the slightly older 32-bit chip). Retail for $799. If that's still too much, there's the new Mac Mini. This is the new TINY machine apple released a few months back. You have to see it to believe it. Literally about the size of 4 cd cases stacked on top of each other. Comes with a 1.25GHz G4, but you'll need your own monitor, keyboard and mouse. Fits standard VGA and digital monitors, and USB keyboard/mouse. On the portable side, you can't go wrong with an iBookG4. Comes with a 1.2GHz or 1.33Ghz G4, and available in 12" or 14" screens, these things are great. I'm sitting in the den typing on a 12" right now :))
Wi-fi built-in. Bluetooth for an extra $50. With either a CDR-DVD or CDR-DVDR. Good battery life, instant sleep-wake (like all modern macs, sock that windows!). I use mine for gaming, net-trawling and 3D Animation and Film-Editing. I might add that if you're wanting to really do a lot of that sort of intensive work, a powerbook or an iMac might be better, but I manage ok. You'll want to get some extra RAM though. The iBook ships with 256MB unless you request more. Apple RAM costs more than Crucial though, so buy a 256MB iBook and go down to crucial.com and buy the extra 256MB. They even have a wizard that has Apple's stuff on it, so you can't screw it up. The iBook will skin you $999 for the base 12", going up to $1,500 for the top 14" model. All the Apple products come with free delivery. The cheap end of the apple slice is, IMHO, the better deal. Unless you're loaded, you end up paying through the nose for the PowerMac's and the PowerBooks for only a little bit more performance. The iBook I'm sitting with cost me only £600 (around the $999 mark) and totally rapes windows laptops worth twice that in virtually every department, ranging from sheer cpu power, to wi-fi range, battery power, sound quality and gaming power. Check out all this stuff by going to www.apple.com/store
I hope to be the first to say to you:
"Welcome to a new computer world. No virii, spyware or instability. Welcome to Macintosh"
Hate to burst your little american-centric bubble, 'educated' as you know doubt are by dubya's propaganda machine, but having a damned powerful computer in no way makes it easier for someone to design a bomb, as me having XCode makes it easy for me to write a program, as I can't actually program. Unless they're already a dems expert, it won't mean shit unless these things ship with a BuildMeANuke.app running on them. And of course there is the little fact that it's fairly easy to build bombs bug enough to take out 100% of the US. Not that 100% of the US is actually worth targeting. You'd hit the major cities and military bases and go on to targeting your real enemies, which since I'm guessing you're using Bush's definition of terrorist (aka Arab), would probably be Tel Aviv.
Yeah, but will it play Duke Nukem Forever??
What about the IBM Power series? They're a fairly small market share, ok, but they're still important. Almost every mac in the world runs on them, and they're the makers of the Cell. I'd say that's fairly important. I'm sick of this emphasis on x86-derived chips. They're not very good, and we can already see AMD moving away with their 64-bit systems. They resemble the power series quite a lot. Still not as good as a G5 though....
With thunderous applause and nice little back-hands to the Trade Federation, i mean, RIAA/MPAA. How absolutely marvellous. So I guess there's no chance that Mickey Mouse will become public domain at any point in the next couple of centuries. I wonder how much more junk legislation can get passed due to "terrorism". We've already seen the patriot act, which everyone knows and loves. Now all the big business concerns are getting their little pet hates resolved as well. The ext time some "terrorist" event occurs, I wonder if the Senate will vote to give the Chancellor, (cough) I mean err President some 'emergency' powers. They do say that fact is often stranger than fiction. My concern is that maybe fact will become even 'darker' than fiction.
On the contrary, we SHOULD be laughing at these people. As anyone who has served in the armed forces can tell you, when really tragic things happen, sometimes you have to laugh, or else you'd cry. In this particular case, however, laughing at people this damned stupid is absolutely right and proper. Quite aside from the fact that these were 2 adults, who from all reports have not got any mental illness, and thus deserve the consequences of their actions, these people are providing two much needed services in our society . Firstly, they've done something hilariously stupid, thus giving us all something to laugh at and keep our morale good. As any Jedi can tell you, laughter and happiness are good things, and they're helping the cause by doing what they did. However, more importantly, they're removing their unworthy, pathetic genes from our species, killing two birds with one stone (or in this case, two morons with one petrol-based combustion event); firstly, they're furthering our evolution, and secondly, they're helping slow our massive over-population of our world. Human society was stable at around 10 million for millennia. We're now sitting at around six-and-a-half BILLION. It doesn't take a moron to tell you that the Earth will only support so many people. Which is just as well, since they're probably all buying their florescent tubes, petrol, and lightsaber hilts.
I really hate to sound like a troll (because I'm not), but why does anyone even care about Microsoft anymore. What makes people care about the half-arsed 'features' Microsoft tries to wax lyrical about in it's death-throws. They're going down. It sounds like a troll to say this, but I honestly believe in maybe 5 years, 10 at the outset, Microsoft will sell Office, and that's about it. All the techheads/geeks will still have Linux. It will probably have the majority of the desktop, since HP, Dell and all the other big suppliers will start distributing it. For everyone else, who want a computer that "Just Works®", Apple will be there. I see Apple making some fairly large gains back into the marketplace in the next few years, if they play their cards right. Linux too. But Microsoft? Nah. They're dead. Longhorn needed to be out by this summer to give hem a fighting chance. They've blown it, and I think they know it. I doubt Longhorn will ever really see the light of day. I think there's a very good chance that XP will be the last widely-used microsoft OS. In 20 years time, they'll call the last years of the 00's "The Return of the Apple". Although I don't know who's more evil, Darth Bill, or his Steveness!
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