These guys were for-profit pirates who sold this stuff and made money. I have no sympathy for people selling bootlegs. However, bittorrent and such is a different story as I don't make any money by sharing copyrighted goods.
As someone who claims he was raised on Macs you show surprisingly little insight.
Mini - $600, not $700. It just got an upgrade so that it's a half-decent little machine. Not great, but plenty adequate for a homebody. It's also tiny, nearly silent, and eats less juice than most laptops. That's not a big deal to some. It is to others.
iMac - Yes, it is a bit steep for what you get.
Mac Pro - This is a workstation, you dolt. It's not a "desktop". It's a Xeon/ECC workstation. Spec out a Dell in the same class or even try to build your own for the same price. You'll be very hard pressed to do so. Over the top CPU? No shit. It's for people who will actually use that kind of horsepower.
Macbook Air - Take a look at the prices on other tiny notebooks. No, not netbooks. Dell's Adamo is even more expensive.
I'd also love to see a nice Apple midrange tower, but you're acting like GPU is a huge factor. Guess what? For most people, it isn't! Most people don't really care about awesome 3D performance because the most they do with their GPU is watch a movie. Gaming is a relatively small segment of the home computer market.
You couldn't pay me to live there. The funny thing is that I know some Mormons who feel the same way. I guess Utah Mormon is a bit of a different breed than Mormons from almost everywhere else. It must be the effect of any one group having a majority. They get to be assholes.
Define "particularly well". I can't watch Netflix streaming on the Mac because of the constant stutters. Every 5-10 seconds or so, the video will stall for about a second, then catch up. It's not a connection issue as it's buffered out fine. It's not a speed issue as I'm on a 2.8ghz Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. It's just shitty software.
That defense actually WORKED? Sorry, but that is nothing more than "locker room talk". If silly bits and pieces like that are valid in court, then the idiotic judge just opened a massive can of worms. Nice precedent, asshole. No more joking on the internet because someone could take it seriously!
Any white iMac with a Core 2 Duo is the same. A Core Duo iMac tops out at 2GB. A Core 2 Duo iMac has the same 3GB/3.5GB/4GB limitation that any of the Santa Rosa-based Macs had.
Oh, I know this as I'm also an Apple tech. It's just a pain in the ass having to clean the damn things for ten minutes to finally get them speck-free. That and the screens scratch VERY easily, so you have to be very careful in getting the screws around the display bezel out. And the 24" white iMac was actually easy to get open. I can't fathom why they didn't use the same design on the other white iSight iMacs.
Yep, and those $1000 PCs will NOT be using high-end Xeons or ECC RAM. You're comparing commodity parts to a workstation-class machine. Not even close. That and you can BTO better video cards into the machines if you want to.
And a portable clean room to prevent/clean any dust particles off the inside of the glass panel and the surface of the LCD. It's fucking horrible to work on.
And it'll still run like utter shit due to the card being bottlenecked horrendously by the PCI bus. The fastest computer with a PCI video card would get stomped by the new Mini.
Yeah, the 32MB PPC Mini would run WoW...as a goddamned slideshow outside of any low population/old world area. I 100% guarantee you that the 9400M will utterly destroy the Radeon 9200, dedicated video RAM or not.
Um, playing WoW on the GMA 950 means turning the video all the way down and struggling with crummy framerates in low population areas and a slideshow in higher population areas. Raiding is utterly out of the question. The new Mini should actually be able to handle WoW reasonably well at moderate settings without choking halfway to death like the old one.
Not exactly. The previous generation Mini officially topped out at 3GB. Technically, it can address around 3.5GB due to chipset limitations. It will recognize 4GB, but wont use all of it.
Because the Macbook Air is certainly the only laptop Apple sells, and it certainly doesn't have a model for less than $2000. The trackpads give you extra "buttons" by placing extra fingers on the pads. It works surprisingly well. Maybe you should look a little further than the front window the next time you check out the local Mac store.
Actually, Nvidia's drivers for OS X have essentially been shit since late Tiger. The 8600GTs (and other cards) performed like utter ass until the 10.5.2 graphics update. Then look at benchmarks outside of games, such as Apple pro apps. ATI utterly rapes Nvidia cards on OS X. For a while, a 2600 Pro/XT would destroy an 8800GT in that arena. There has been some improvement, but the gap is still pretty damn big.
Um, no. The iSight-less G5 iMacs were simple to open. Any iMac with an iSight camera is a pain the ass. The aluminum iMacs are almost impossible without Apple's clean room kit.
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These guys were for-profit pirates who sold this stuff and made money. I have no sympathy for people selling bootlegs. However, bittorrent and such is a different story as I don't make any money by sharing copyrighted goods.
Very well, Mr. Andrew Ryan.
Can you safely whack off with the bionic arm? It's like giving yourself a stranger!
Not shit! Energy!
Yeah, that way you could smash the guitar at the end of every performance and not have to worry!
So he's going to be up and out of that wheelchair in no time, eh?
As someone who claims he was raised on Macs you show surprisingly little insight.
Mini - $600, not $700. It just got an upgrade so that it's a half-decent little machine. Not great, but plenty adequate for a homebody. It's also tiny, nearly silent, and eats less juice than most laptops. That's not a big deal to some. It is to others.
iMac - Yes, it is a bit steep for what you get.
Mac Pro - This is a workstation, you dolt. It's not a "desktop". It's a Xeon/ECC workstation. Spec out a Dell in the same class or even try to build your own for the same price. You'll be very hard pressed to do so. Over the top CPU? No shit. It's for people who will actually use that kind of horsepower.
Macbook Air - Take a look at the prices on other tiny notebooks. No, not netbooks. Dell's Adamo is even more expensive.
I'd also love to see a nice Apple midrange tower, but you're acting like GPU is a huge factor. Guess what? For most people, it isn't! Most people don't really care about awesome 3D performance because the most they do with their GPU is watch a movie. Gaming is a relatively small segment of the home computer market.
Meh, only in southern Utah.
Then again, there be lotsa slutty Mormon girls who will do everything but vag...
You couldn't pay me to live there. The funny thing is that I know some Mormons who feel the same way. I guess Utah Mormon is a bit of a different breed than Mormons from almost everywhere else. It must be the effect of any one group having a majority. They get to be assholes.
Define "particularly well". I can't watch Netflix streaming on the Mac because of the constant stutters. Every 5-10 seconds or so, the video will stall for about a second, then catch up. It's not a connection issue as it's buffered out fine. It's not a speed issue as I'm on a 2.8ghz Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. It's just shitty software.
That defense actually WORKED? Sorry, but that is nothing more than "locker room talk". If silly bits and pieces like that are valid in court, then the idiotic judge just opened a massive can of worms. Nice precedent, asshole. No more joking on the internet because someone could take it seriously!
Precisely. There are already 22x burners on the market. Hell, most DVD-R discs don't go above 16x anyway. What a yawn of a story.
Any white iMac with a Core 2 Duo is the same. A Core Duo iMac tops out at 2GB. A Core 2 Duo iMac has the same 3GB/3.5GB/4GB limitation that any of the Santa Rosa-based Macs had.
Oh, I know this as I'm also an Apple tech. It's just a pain in the ass having to clean the damn things for ten minutes to finally get them speck-free. That and the screens scratch VERY easily, so you have to be very careful in getting the screws around the display bezel out. And the 24" white iMac was actually easy to get open. I can't fathom why they didn't use the same design on the other white iSight iMacs.
Yep, and those $1000 PCs will NOT be using high-end Xeons or ECC RAM. You're comparing commodity parts to a workstation-class machine. Not even close. That and you can BTO better video cards into the machines if you want to.
And a portable clean room to prevent/clean any dust particles off the inside of the glass panel and the surface of the LCD. It's fucking horrible to work on.
XBench is shit for benchmarking video cards. The results are inaccurate as hell.
And it'll still run like utter shit due to the card being bottlenecked horrendously by the PCI bus. The fastest computer with a PCI video card would get stomped by the new Mini.
Yeah, the 32MB PPC Mini would run WoW...as a goddamned slideshow outside of any low population/old world area. I 100% guarantee you that the 9400M will utterly destroy the Radeon 9200, dedicated video RAM or not.
Um, playing WoW on the GMA 950 means turning the video all the way down and struggling with crummy framerates in low population areas and a slideshow in higher population areas. Raiding is utterly out of the question. The new Mini should actually be able to handle WoW reasonably well at moderate settings without choking halfway to death like the old one.
Not exactly. The previous generation Mini officially topped out at 3GB. Technically, it can address around 3.5GB due to chipset limitations. It will recognize 4GB, but wont use all of it.
Because the Macbook Air is certainly the only laptop Apple sells, and it certainly doesn't have a model for less than $2000. The trackpads give you extra "buttons" by placing extra fingers on the pads. It works surprisingly well. Maybe you should look a little further than the front window the next time you check out the local Mac store.
Actually, Nvidia's drivers for OS X have essentially been shit since late Tiger. The 8600GTs (and other cards) performed like utter ass until the 10.5.2 graphics update. Then look at benchmarks outside of games, such as Apple pro apps. ATI utterly rapes Nvidia cards on OS X. For a while, a 2600 Pro/XT would destroy an 8800GT in that arena. There has been some improvement, but the gap is still pretty damn big.
Probably because of the triple-channel Nehalem chipset. It's either 3GB or 6GB if they want to keep triple channel working out of the box.
Um, no. The iSight-less G5 iMacs were simple to open. Any iMac with an iSight camera is a pain the ass. The aluminum iMacs are almost impossible without Apple's clean room kit.