I dunno, compared to the rate if you haven't a plan at all ($0.001 per kb, if memory serves, or about $20 or so per mb), $50/gb data is still pretty good.
The educational institution that I work for has an IT staff of 5 to support a faculty/staff of 500 and about 3,000 students. Counting auxiliary IT bits (web folks, information systems and other non-support IT roles), we have a total of 10.
Shoot, the Compaq I have which _shipped_ with Vista Home Premium is barely "Vista Capable" in any real sense... what on earth would possess them BESIDES marketing logic over engineers to claim anything less to be "Vista Capable"?
The other bit to remember, at least when purchasing from the Apple Store US online, is that you have to pay local sales tax (6-9% on average depending on locality) if Apple has a physical presence in the state you're purchasing in. That includes almost all if not all 50 states.
That might narrow the gap a bit more, since the UK price includes VAT and the US price doesn't include sales tax.
The presently released intel-based machines do not and cannot have multiple internal optical drives. The iMac and mini desktops don't have the room; the other is a laptop which certainly doesn't.
They haven't intel-ified their tower machines yet.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/wo/StoreReentry.wo?family=iBook
Cheapest Apple portable. $999 ($899 for education purchasers, which a student would obviously qualify for).
You don't have to get a Powerbook (or a MacBook Pro, now) to get the wireless ease of OS X... hell, a clamshell iBook from a couple years ago could do that (albeit painfully slowly by today's standards).
pirating Mac OS X, which is the current only way of obtaining Mac OS X (Intel)
This is hardly the case. There are shipping machines with OSX/x86. Therefore, it is possible to obtain OS X for Intel without downloading it. It requires buying a new Mac, but that doesn't mean that the purchaser of a new iMac CD or MacBookPro will not want to try to install the OS on another machine.
10.3.x is actually significantly speedier than 10.2.x, and you can get copies of that fairly cheaply now that 10.4 is out. Most of 10.4's features will probably not be worth the upgrade on that slow of a machine, but 10.3 would certainly be worth the upgrade.
I've found that installing a combination of the 3ivx plugin (3ivx.com) and the latest Divx/Mac software works fine for most of the avi-mp3 ones. Those that don't _tend_ to work fine in VLC.
And this surprises anyone, that it'll be subsidized? Gotta push those non-US made new sets so everyone can be distracted by the O.C. or (insert sitcom here) rather than what's actually going on?
Not overclocked, you are correct. Although, you're not _quite_ correct on the all-64bit claim (the mini is still a G4, as are all of their laptops), but all iMac and Power Mac models are 64 bit. Doesn't throw your comparison out, simply the claim:)
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On both of the supported platforms (Mac and Windows platforms, that is), MP3s are fully compatible with the iTunes software.
They use it for the first time and realize that it didn't load their iPod with mp3 like it looks like it should have. Then they screw around with iTunes for a while, trying to figure out how you trick this application in to actually putting mp3s on your iPod.
Well, it's not that hard... drag and drop within iTunes. It can't get much easier than that unless you want it to randomly automatically copy mp3s from your hard drive to your iPod...
So a person drops $300 on an iPod after hearing among other things that iTunes is in itself enough reason to buy one. Then they look for a 3rd party application to replace iTunes, which their iPod purchase essentially paid for.
It's hardly the case that most people look for a 3rd party application to replace iTunes for their iPod... since it's out of the box compatible with all major formats with the exception of WMA and some less common codecs like ogg.
Might I suggest getting your facts straight... oh wait, this is Slashdot. Never mind, continue blathering:)
Congrats, you're spreading FUD. Both iTunes and iPods play all mp3 files, in addition to MP3; AAC is the default ENCODER in iTunes (but that's easy to change) and DRM'ed AAC is the format sold, but that hardly means that it cannot play mp3s. Feel free to come back when you know what you're talking about.
What about public libraries, which generally have collections of DVDs for public lending? I can't imagine that they'll be like, let's go ahead and encode every library cardholder onto each DVD...
One thing that surprised me quite a bit was that amongst all of the Mac web browsers that support tabs, the only one that doesn't open a new tab with a middle-click is Firefox, the browser that made that shortcut popular to begin with. They may have fixed this oversight since last I checked, however.
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I dunno, compared to the rate if you haven't a plan at all ($0.001 per kb, if memory serves, or about $20 or so per mb), $50/gb data is still pretty good.
Only tax revenues are going up. The tax isn't going up, its collection is just being enforced.
For ABP, there is a (Mac-side) replacement: GlimmerBlocker. There's another one out there called Safari Adblock as well.
The educational institution that I work for has an IT staff of 5 to support a faculty/staff of 500 and about 3,000 students. Counting auxiliary IT bits (web folks, information systems and other non-support IT roles), we have a total of 10.
Shoot, the Compaq I have which _shipped_ with Vista Home Premium is barely "Vista Capable" in any real sense... what on earth would possess them BESIDES marketing logic over engineers to claim anything less to be "Vista Capable"?
Vista isn't a server OS, therefore bringing the server versions into this is nonsense.
One version of client OS (as Vista == client OS) offered in two packages: 1-license and 5-license ("family pack")
One version of server OS (as Server 2003 == server OS) offered in two licensing tiers: 10-client and unlimited-client.
Meanwhile, there are 6 versions of Vista (client OS) and at least 3 versions (that I'm aware of) of Server 2003.
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Instant failure.
The old (file-sharing) Napster was NOT a PC-only application. The only version which is PC-only is the current paid version.
And of course, 2x of a common size laptop drive are going to be cheaper component-wise almost certainly than 1x of a larger size.
The other bit to remember, at least when purchasing from the Apple Store US online, is that you have to pay local sales tax (6-9% on average depending on locality) if Apple has a physical presence in the state you're purchasing in. That includes almost all if not all 50 states. That might narrow the gap a bit more, since the UK price includes VAT and the US price doesn't include sales tax.
They haven't intel-ified their tower machines yet.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/wo/StoreReentry.wo?family=iBook
Cheapest Apple portable. $999 ($899 for education purchasers, which a student would obviously qualify for).
You don't have to get a Powerbook (or a MacBook Pro, now) to get the wireless ease of OS X... hell, a clamshell iBook from a couple years ago could do that (albeit painfully slowly by today's standards).
Generally, they're looking for Windows virii. While there aren't any OS X virii (yet), Macs can still carry Windows virus-laden files.
10.3.x is actually significantly speedier than 10.2.x, and you can get copies of that fairly cheaply now that 10.4 is out. Most of 10.4's features will probably not be worth the upgrade on that slow of a machine, but 10.3 would certainly be worth the upgrade.
I've found that installing a combination of the 3ivx plugin (3ivx.com) and the latest Divx/Mac software works fine for most of the avi-mp3 ones. Those that don't _tend_ to work fine in VLC.
And this surprises anyone, that it'll be subsidized? Gotta push those non-US made new sets so everyone can be distracted by the O.C. or (insert sitcom here) rather than what's actually going on?
Microsoft never owned anywhere near 1/3 of the Apple stock; anyhow, it was non-voting rights stock. It was also sold off, as the other reply says.
Not overclocked, you are correct. Although, you're not _quite_ correct on the all-64bit claim (the mini is still a G4, as are all of their laptops), but all iMac and Power Mac models are 64 bit. Doesn't throw your comparison out, simply the claim :)
Congrats, you're spreading FUD. Both iTunes and iPods play all mp3 files, in addition to MP3; AAC is the default ENCODER in iTunes (but that's easy to change) and DRM'ed AAC is the format sold, but that hardly means that it cannot play mp3s. Feel free to come back when you know what you're talking about.
I believe nSync is a solution on the mac (modern) side... it may be portable to Windows (it's open source).
What about public libraries, which generally have collections of DVDs for public lending? I can't imagine that they'll be like, let's go ahead and encode every library cardholder onto each DVD...
Most people don't just keep around Torx T-15 screwdrivers (and it had to be a long shafted one too). Therefore, not a common screwdriver :)