>> The thing was almost three years out of warranty
OK, so I know I'm helping turn this into a Apple-praise session, but here we go...
Several years ago I bought a PowerBook 5300c refurbished. It had some major problems down the road. (The 5300 had lots of known issues.) Easily three or more years after purchasing it, I took it to the local Mac Store (The Computer Store, then.) They sent it off to Apple and about a week later it came back with a new motherboard and part of the plastics replaced, at no cost. I didn't even pay shipping.
Agreed. I recently picked up one of the 'older' iSkins for my second-generation 20 GB iPod. It's great that you can operate all the controls without ever taking it out of the case. And if the thing geats really beat up you can just get a new one, and meanwhile your iPod stays in pristine condition.:)
I occasionally buy music from the iTunes store
because it's cheaper and I don't have to get every track. If they hike it up to this new proposed price range, buying half the songs on a CD will practically cost as much as the whole disc would in a regular store. So what's the point of buying them online anymore? Convenience alone is not a big enough motivator for spending more money for lower quality audio that doesn't come with a physical backup copy.
If they raise prices this much they're not going to increase profit from online music sales, they're going to kill online music sales. Of course that's probably what they'd like anyway.
Personally I don't know what I'd do without employee-owned tech. I often use my own cell phone and iBook instead of the shared phones and RAM-deprived OS 9 machines that many (including actual designers and techs) are relegated to at work. If I didn't bring in my own hardware, I'd never get anything done in a reasonable time frame.:)
At risk of sounding redundant, I also suggest an iBook or small PC laptop. They're small and easy to get out of the way (could even be stored in a desk drawer when not in use) but you don't have to sacrifice having a real keyboard and you get to have a display larger than 2 or 3 inches.:)
I have been using FreeBSD on my secondary computer for a while now and I really like it. It's hard to speak for non-geeks but it makes a nice desktop for me.
I love the ports system. Don't get me wrong, Debian and Gentoo's package systems are very nice, too. But I love FreeBSD Ports for reasons I can't really explain.
Since you're apparently a Linux fan, I'd expect you to agree that a relatively small market share doesn't necessarily mean something is "also-ran." The fact that more people use Mozilla doesn't make Konqueror bad, and so on. I prefer Firebird myself, but that doesn't mean KHTML-based browsers are worthless.
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>> The thing was almost three years out of warranty
OK, so I know I'm helping turn this into a Apple-praise session, but here we go...
Several years ago I bought a PowerBook 5300c refurbished. It had some major problems down the road. (The 5300 had lots of known issues.) Easily three or more years after purchasing it, I took it to the local Mac Store (The Computer Store, then.) They sent it off to Apple and about a week later it came back with a new motherboard and part of the plastics replaced, at no cost. I didn't even pay shipping.
Agreed. I recently picked up one of the 'older' iSkins for my second-generation 20 GB iPod. It's great that you can operate all the controls without ever taking it out of the case. And if the thing geats really beat up you can just get a new one, and meanwhile your iPod stays in pristine condition. :)
Just download from here. No installation necessary. Just drag the package to /Applications and make sure you have Apple's X11 installed.
Probably redundant. Oh well...
I occasionally buy music from the iTunes store because it's cheaper and I don't have to get every track. If they hike it up to this new proposed price range, buying half the songs on a CD will practically cost as much as the whole disc would in a regular store. So what's the point of buying them online anymore? Convenience alone is not a big enough motivator for spending more money for lower quality audio that doesn't come with a physical backup copy.
If they raise prices this much they're not going to increase profit from online music sales, they're going to kill online music sales. Of course that's probably what they'd like anyway.
Troll? Looks like someone hasn't seen Alien... :-p
...blah, forget it.
Personally I don't know what I'd do without employee-owned tech. I often use my own cell phone and iBook instead of the shared phones and RAM-deprived OS 9 machines that many (including actual designers and techs) are relegated to at work. If I didn't bring in my own hardware, I'd never get anything done in a reasonable time frame. :)
At risk of sounding redundant, I also suggest an iBook or small PC laptop. They're small and easy to get out of the way (could even be stored in a desk drawer when not in use) but you don't have to sacrifice having a real keyboard and you get to have a display larger than 2 or 3 inches. :)
My G4 also plays Jedi Knight II quite well.533 MHz, 640 MB RAM, 64 MB GeForce4 MX. I find it hard to believe an iMac/800 couldn't handle this game.
> It would be, if darWINE actually used Bochs... It does. Code from Bochs will be used to handle the emulation side of Darwine.
The roadmap originally had it due in December. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/roadmap.h tml
I expect it'll be ready pretty soon. I have been using the trunk nightly builds and they seem really stable.
Can't hurt to try it. I've used 1.6b at work (I run Firebird at home) and it never crashed. The final version should in theory be even better. :)
I have been using FreeBSD on my secondary computer for a while now and I really like it. It's hard to speak for non-geeks but it makes a nice desktop for me.
I love the ports system. Don't get me wrong, Debian and Gentoo's package systems are very nice, too. But I love FreeBSD Ports for reasons I can't really explain.
1. It seems feasible that something based on KOffice could be the fancy new AppleWorks you mentioned. (This is speculation only, on my part.)
2. OpenOffice is more widely recognized, sure. But so is Mozilla and that didn't keep them from using KHTML instead for Safari.
Not trying to be overly critical. You have decent points there. Just something to think about. :)
Since you're apparently a Linux fan, I'd expect you to agree that a relatively small market share doesn't necessarily mean something is "also-ran." The fact that more people use Mozilla doesn't make Konqueror bad, and so on. I prefer Firebird myself, but that doesn't mean KHTML-based browsers are worthless.