Sure thing. I wasn't able to do it, so I'll list my requirements and you find me the hardware.
So I want to be able to install out of the box and have this working. I don't want to have to screw around with wiki pages and googling to get it to work. It must work with a install (I will accept a few apt-get packages to make it work).
I want a notebook with the following stats: 15 inch display 4 gigs of ram high end notebook video card (I like nvidia personally) and now for the thing that got me to move to OSX. This is the big one. Wireless N.
As a plus, it should be able to play the upcoming diablo 3 and starcraft 2, and Hero's of Newerth. I don't play much, but I'm looking forward to those.
I was a die hard linux user. I have not used windows in a long time. Then I realized that spent way more time working on my computer then using it. Now that trend is reversed. I have access to all the applications I loved on linux, plus new ones that I love on osx. The interface is nice, the computer runs rock solid, and I can have some gaming support for the games I like.
yea, I guess my point is that 10.6 was the right direction although the part I cared most about got slower (3d). If it was priced like a normal OS I would of passed.
I think MS is in or will soon be in that same boat.
The same with my 6 year old PC. It's not going to run Win7. Hell it almost doesn't run windows XP. I probably need to boost the ram to 512 megs at some point.
Don't forget that 1.6 years allows them to keep up with existing tech trends and move at a faster pace.
If some new tech comes out it could take MS 4 years to even consider it. Apple doesn't have to wait that long.
I work at a community college, we just added 50 mac's to our environment. Some of our developers (myself included) just switched to mac. Price wise, the mac's we have purchased are competitive with the notebooks we were typically buying the developers. Similarly in the labs the cost was the same. We were also able to finally replace the aging monitors because the imacs came with nice built in 20 inch monitors.
Honestly, I see the entire OS market as a dead end. We have reached a point where they are just reinventing the wheel to continue to try to keep a income.
Really to me just improve the speed and stability and we are fine. I was fine with XP, I'm fine with OSX 10.5. I installed 10.6 and honestly, if it wasn't so cheap I would have skipped it the same as I skipped vista.
Apple does this all the time, and without warning. They made a video update that broke many video games I loved to play. Their response? Oh, we needed to remove those color modes because they were old. Think of the future!!!
I wouldn't have a problem with things like that if apple would EOL something and let you know before you get screwed with no way back.
I work at a small community college with a dell contract. We just bought a new round of computers to replace our 5 year old computers in labs. Everyone one of them is a 64bit capable machine with 4 gigs of ram.
Yea, I use my phone for making 95% of my appointments in my calendar. I really just wanted it to sync with my mac so that my computer would remind me when I had an appointment. So for me it works out great.
If I needed that more advanced functionality I would probably buy an app.
I'm a programmer and I use a mac. I develop for iPhone, the web, and osx. Web scripting/programming is huge on mac with most of the people I meet with in my area. I use linux everyday as well, but the core of my work is done on my mac.
We are about to start working on an android application as well. I'm hoping to use my mac there too.
Simple, I got sick of the state of graphics, gaming, and wireless-N on linux so I moved to mac.
I get to play the games I want (mostly blizzard), wireless N works, and I like the interface. On top of that I can still use all my linux software either osx native or running on X.
Just a FYI, you can now sync your osx calendar to google via calDav for both read and write. I didn't use iCalendar until I found this out because I wasn't going to buy an app to sync them.
For everything I've wanted to do with shareware on my mac I have found a better or just as functioning free or open source replacement.
burn, appcleaner, handbrake, cyberduck, firefox, openoffice, adium, virtualbox, microsoft remote desktkop viewer, etc.
Really, I have bought only 3 applications that I can think of. The first was Viscosity (openVPN client) because I think it is really well designed compared to it's free alternative. The second was iWork because I like it compared to open office. The 3rd was textMate, because I really loved using it as a scripting editor (and I hadn't yet discovered xcode).
I've ran Windows vista 64bit with very few issues. I assume by the time windows 7 is commonplace these issues will be even less.
I'm just saying MS needs to just draw the line somewhere and stop making 32bit operating systems.
My mac is soon to be mostly 64bit with SL coming out. My linux machines have been 64bit for at least a year. Let's get the windows machines up to snuff.
I hope so. I'm locked into AT&T for a little less then a year. So at that point I can switch carriers. Honestly AT&T has the best service in my area, so if they got an android phone I would switch. Otherwise Verizon has good service as well and I would switch to them if they promise to keep the phone open and not impose any kind of special verizon lock downs like they have done in the past with custom firmware on razors and the like.
Exactly, as soon as there is a good andriod phone on a network with 3g in my area that doesn't restrict my ability to install applications I'm going to take it.
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Sure thing. I wasn't able to do it, so I'll list my requirements and you find me the hardware.
So I want to be able to install out of the box and have this working. I don't want to have to screw around with wiki pages and googling to get it to work. It must work with a install (I will accept a few apt-get packages to make it work).
I want a notebook with the following stats:
15 inch display
4 gigs of ram
high end notebook video card (I like nvidia personally)
and now for the thing that got me to move to OSX. This is the big one.
Wireless N.
As a plus, it should be able to play the upcoming diablo 3 and starcraft 2, and Hero's of Newerth. I don't play much, but I'm looking forward to those.
I was a die hard linux user. I have not used windows in a long time. Then I realized that spent way more time working on my computer then using it. Now that trend is reversed. I have access to all the applications I loved on linux, plus new ones that I love on osx. The interface is nice, the computer runs rock solid, and I can have some gaming support for the games I like.
Those service packs are usually security related. Beyond IE and Media Player, very little revolution is happening in service packs.
I'm not saying apple does awesome upgrades every release, I'm just saying they have more potential to do it.
yea, I guess my point is that 10.6 was the right direction although the part I cared most about got slower (3d). If it was priced like a normal OS I would of passed.
I think MS is in or will soon be in that same boat.
The same with my 6 year old PC. It's not going to run Win7. Hell it almost doesn't run windows XP. I probably need to boost the ram to 512 megs at some point.
Don't forget that 1.6 years allows them to keep up with existing tech trends and move at a faster pace.
If some new tech comes out it could take MS 4 years to even consider it. Apple doesn't have to wait that long.
I work at a community college, we just added 50 mac's to our environment. Some of our developers (myself included) just switched to mac. Price wise, the mac's we have purchased are competitive with the notebooks we were typically buying the developers. Similarly in the labs the cost was the same. We were also able to finally replace the aging monitors because the imacs came with nice built in 20 inch monitors.
I paid less for my macbook pro then I did for my dell notebook.
FACT. My mac also outperforms my dell notebook with it's inferior hardware.
Sure if you need a sub 1000.00 notebook, then buy windows. But if you want a reliable unix operating system and can spend over 1000.00 buy an apple.
Honestly, I see the entire OS market as a dead end. We have reached a point where they are just reinventing the wheel to continue to try to keep a income.
Really to me just improve the speed and stability and we are fine. I was fine with XP, I'm fine with OSX 10.5. I installed 10.6 and honestly, if it wasn't so cheap I would have skipped it the same as I skipped vista.
I just did a fresh install of snow Leopard. I did a full erase prior to the install. Open safe files was checked.
Apple does this all the time, and without warning. They made a video update that broke many video games I loved to play. Their response? Oh, we needed to remove those color modes because they were old. Think of the future!!!
I wouldn't have a problem with things like that if apple would EOL something and let you know before you get screwed with no way back.
I still don't consider netbooks computers. But yes, this is a valid argument for keeping around 32bit windows. At least for another release.
I work at a small community college with a dell contract. We just bought a new round of computers to replace our 5 year old computers in labs. Everyone one of them is a 64bit capable machine with 4 gigs of ram.
We are not big spenders at all.
Yea, I use my phone for making 95% of my appointments in my calendar. I really just wanted it to sync with my mac so that my computer would remind me when I had an appointment. So for me it works out great.
If I needed that more advanced functionality I would probably buy an app.
And besides, how many people have to say "Hey, I do that!" before it goes from anecdote to fact that many people do that?
I'm a programmer and I use a mac. I develop for iPhone, the web, and osx. Web scripting/programming is huge on mac with most of the people I meet with in my area. I use linux everyday as well, but the core of my work is done on my mac.
We are about to start working on an android application as well. I'm hoping to use my mac there too.
Are you sure, because I have bought 3 macs in the last 2 years and it was enabled on everyone of them out of the box.
Simple, I got sick of the state of graphics, gaming, and wireless-N on linux so I moved to mac.
I get to play the games I want (mostly blizzard), wireless N works, and I like the interface. On top of that I can still use all my linux software either osx native or running on X.
Off topic, I found SynergyKM to be very outdated. I wrote my own script to handle synergy graphically (god I love apple script)
You can check it out http://tacticalcoder.com/blog/2009/05/using-synergy-software-kvm-with-osx-and-linux/#more-7
Just a FYI, you can now sync your osx calendar to google via calDav for both read and write. I didn't use iCalendar until I found this out because I wasn't going to buy an app to sync them.
For everything I've wanted to do with shareware on my mac I have found a better or just as functioning free or open source replacement.
burn, appcleaner, handbrake, cyberduck, firefox, openoffice, adium, virtualbox, microsoft remote desktkop viewer, etc.
Really, I have bought only 3 applications that I can think of. The first was Viscosity (openVPN client) because I think it is really well designed compared to it's free alternative. The second was iWork because I like it compared to open office. The 3rd was textMate, because I really loved using it as a scripting editor (and I hadn't yet discovered xcode).
I've ran Windows vista 64bit with very few issues. I assume by the time windows 7 is commonplace these issues will be even less.
I'm just saying MS needs to just draw the line somewhere and stop making 32bit operating systems.
My mac is soon to be mostly 64bit with SL coming out. My linux machines have been 64bit for at least a year. Let's get the windows machines up to snuff.
Seriously, there are no real technical reasons why we can't just run 64bit operating systems. Let's just stop selling 32bit ones.
I hope so. I'm locked into AT&T for a little less then a year. So at that point I can switch carriers. Honestly AT&T has the best service in my area, so if they got an android phone I would switch. Otherwise Verizon has good service as well and I would switch to them if they promise to keep the phone open and not impose any kind of special verizon lock downs like they have done in the past with custom firmware on razors and the like.
That's all nice, but faster shouldn't be a selling feature. That should be a patch. My computer is already fast and I'm happy with it.
I'm all for paying for new features, more functionality, etc. Like I said, because it's 29 bucks I'll upgrade, but I still feel like it's a ripoff.
I have 3 macbook pro's. I have a pre-unibody, a unibody, and a unibody with a built in battery.
Honestly both unibodies have similar battery life when actually being used and not just sitting there.
The pre-unibody's battery life just sucks. So all the reviews in the world are not going to change my real life experience.
Exactly, as soon as there is a good andriod phone on a network with 3g in my area that doesn't restrict my ability to install applications I'm going to take it.
Apple has burned me and I am waiting to switch.