Applies to about every other company. almost any consumer device today is cheap, of a doubtful quality and disposable.
My dad's VCR is beginning to show its age (it's 22 years old), but that thing is built like a brick. Yes it's a front-load with HI-FI and everything, but it was expensive. Today, you would be lucky to find one that lasts more than a couple years.
A more recent example, Printers. My first inkjet was a Deskjet 500C. That thing was a TANK. virtually undestructible. Today, it's less expensive to buy a new one then change cartridges.
Laptops? I've recently found an old Toshiba T1800 (386 monochrome), and the way its built, I could use it as a traction-aid and it probably would still work. Newer laptops will break if looked at too often.
Everything is disposable now. Lower quality, made in CHINA cheap stuff.
Back in the PPC days, you couldn't install OS X on anything else than a MAC (excluding licensed UMAX and MOTOROLA machines). The day Steve went X86, you just knew installing OS X on a PC would be possible (same hardware)
Heck, I'm typing this on 10.5.8 running on an AMD Athlon X2:)
If you buy a standard PC with similar hardware, it's quite easy to run OS X on it.
The 900Mhz Celeron in your 701 is about the same speed as the 1.6 Atom in my 900HA, and definitely slower than the dual-core Atom in your desktop. The ION chipset should be a hell of a lot faster than the intel 915 in your 701 or my 945, so my guess is there might be something related to your install
I would have to disagree on that. I'm using an N270 based netbook to transfer VHS tapes to DVD using a crappy Dealextreme 15$ capture card (most likely software based), and it works just fine in both XP and OSX. (then again the machine has 2GB RAM)
DDR2 Ram is way beyond SDR in performance, hard drives are faster, and even a GMA945 will blow most 2001 cards out of the water.
Granted it won't run Crysis, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it sluggish.
The first installation was largely based on Gregory Cohen's Blog http://eeemac.blogspot.com/2008/12/installing-osx-on-eee-pc-901-or-1000.html (for some reason, my links come out crap too:) . I didn't bother with the audio thing, I used VoodooHDA. For Ethernet, the Attansic extension.
Since I'm quad-booting that netbook, I used iDeneb 1.4 (10.5.6) so it could be installed on an MBR partition. My machine is a 900HA, about the same exact hardware specs. I swapped the Wifi card though for a DELL 1390 (works natively in OS X and has better reception anyways.) The last Leopard version was 10.5.8. INstalling Snow was easier since I could install it from a working OS X install (after mounting a retail Snow Leopard DVD and changing a package so it could be installed on MBR too). The most important part is to go step-by-step. Once it works, backup... (I use Carbon Copy Cloner, free). Everything works on the netbook, it's a matter of finding and installing.kext kernel extensions (drivers). That one was pretty easy.
Even bought two little Apple stickers from his website, a rainbow old-school one for the netbook and a gray one.
The desktop was a b!tch... I must have reinstalled about 25 times. Basically, since it's AMD, you can't use the vanilla kernel. iDeneb once again, I chose Voodoo Kernel 9.5.0 and the Seatbelt fix. *NO OTHER DRIVERS*... After everything was installed, it was a matter of rm -r the ATI extensions that were installed by default and installing the proper extensions for my card.
One very useful resource is the Insanely Mac forum. It's been a week, just got it working today. Had to remove a USB 2 card, play with BIOS settings and such. A laptop is easier since once it works for a model, all the other ones will work (same hardware). A desktop is nastier, especially non standard configs (eg: my vidcard uses a Rialto PCI-E to AGP bridge)
1- read. google. read again. try (and backup).
the OSX86 project has an extensive HCL, will be a good read too.
2- be (or get) familiar with the command line (you'll need it).
3- Backup once it works:)
4- Don't give up, it's very likely it won't work the first time.
Just don't allow OSX updates on a non-intel machine (or Atom until 10.6.1) or it will bork the install.
It's not always perfect, in fact I'm suspecting even if OSX says the desktop has hardware acceleration (my guess is it's just a modified framebuffer driver), it feels sluggish with HD video (but works fine in XP).
Not a *real* MAC, but a good compromise between an all-in-one iMac and a 3,000$ Mac PRO:)
It does on a modified kernel. I'm currently typing this from a (unsupported CPU) Athlon X2. My desktop now runs Leopard on an (unsupported Videocard) ATI HD3850.
Everything I've thrown at the Desktop and the Netbook so far run perfectly. Desktop is 10.5.6 (for now) and Netbook is 10.6.1 (for now)
[quote] Instant-on is about being able to access your Internet applications in one second. Seven seconds is too long,' Hobbs said. 'There is no such thing as "cold boot" for today's mobile PCs such as netbooks and smartbooks. You should be able to use your netbook like you use your smartphone — a press of a button and you are "on."' Mark Lee, CEO of DeviceVM Inc. [/quote]
I'd like to see a smartphone that boots in one second. Since the phone is already *on*, the netbook will be at a disadvantage if it has to be booted first.
Something that fits in my jacket / backpack / cargo pants will likely be banged up and abused much more than my dad's laptop which is carried with care in a carrying case. It's been dropped a couple times, already had to replace the HDD.
It is a Seagate, so it just might have to being a crap HD though:)
a properly mastered tape will be much better than a CD. CD only has a 44.1k sampling frequency, which amounts to two samples at 22.05Khz or just 4 at 11K. It can't reproduce complex waveforms, and I'm not even talking about harmonics...
High frequencies have a tendency to *roll* at 128k. At higher bitrates, it depends on what was used to compress the album, but it won't be as good as FLAC or analog:)
Digitized music just doesn't have the warmth of an old LP (my opinion)
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THat's what I use here. for MAC, there's NTFS-3G (free) or Paragon ($ but faster on writes).
I use NTFS on both my machines (Win/OS X/Linux) without any problems.
NTFS-3G is also available for Linux.
I can't find it, but hasn't this been discussed earlier?
Amen...
They don't sell a tower, so I built one. Same goes for my netbook.
at 1,000$, I would buy that tower without hesitation. Might even go to 1,500 depending on the hardware.
I found Her (B5 flight sim). Like the show, they use inertia and *real* physics.
Yeah, always liked that quote...
Dunno, but in Farscape Chrichton used WD-40 (another universal tool) on one of the DRDs
Depends how Ghetto it is. With my luck they would take the car and leave the printer there :)
Sure. And MACs do not use cloned images?
unboxing a MAC only involves pluging it in, turning it on and typing some info on the registration *wizard*. So yes, Apple clones drives.
It shouldn't be different because it's the Mighty Steve (c)
Applies to about every other company. almost any consumer device today is cheap, of a doubtful quality and disposable.
My dad's VCR is beginning to show its age (it's 22 years old), but that thing is built like a brick. Yes it's a front-load with HI-FI and everything, but it was expensive. Today, you would be lucky to find one that lasts more than a couple years.
A more recent example, Printers. My first inkjet was a Deskjet 500C. That thing was a TANK. virtually undestructible. Today, it's less expensive to buy a new one then change cartridges.
Laptops? I've recently found an old Toshiba T1800 (386 monochrome), and the way its built, I could use it as a traction-aid and it probably would still work. Newer laptops will break if looked at too often.
Everything is disposable now. Lower quality, made in CHINA cheap stuff.
Back in the PPC days, you couldn't install OS X on anything else than a MAC (excluding licensed UMAX and MOTOROLA machines). The day Steve went X86, you just knew installing OS X on a PC would be possible (same hardware)
:)
Heck, I'm typing this on 10.5.8 running on an AMD Athlon X2
If you buy a standard PC with similar hardware, it's quite easy to run OS X on it.
I think he did and missed the first C :)
Oh noes!!!
:( :)
Looks like I'm gonna have to undo my iPhone's Jailbreak too
Ubuntu then. If your 701 is fine on hardware slower than your ION desktop, then it's one of two things.
1- something hardware related
2- Ubuntu doesn't like something and defaults to a slower driver?
I guess you've tried the same Debian version as on your 701 to compare, right?
The 900Mhz Celeron in your 701 is about the same speed as the 1.6 Atom in my 900HA, and definitely slower than the dual-core Atom in your desktop. The ION chipset should be a hell of a lot faster than the intel 915 in your 701 or my 945, so my guess is there might be something related to your install
???
They don't
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC#Lines_and_refresh_rate
I would have to disagree on that. I'm using an N270 based netbook to transfer VHS tapes to DVD using a crappy Dealextreme 15$ capture card (most likely software based), and it works just fine in both XP and OSX. (then again the machine has 2GB RAM)
DDR2 Ram is way beyond SDR in performance, hard drives are faster, and even a GMA945 will blow most 2001 cards out of the water.
Granted it won't run Crysis, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it sluggish.
Sure... (not that good at writing though)
:) . I didn't bother with the audio thing, I used VoodooHDA. For Ethernet, the Attansic extension.
.kext kernel extensions (drivers). That one was pretty easy.
:)
:)
The first installation was largely based on Gregory Cohen's Blog http://eeemac.blogspot.com/2008/12/installing-osx-on-eee-pc-901-or-1000.html (for some reason, my links come out crap too
Since I'm quad-booting that netbook, I used iDeneb 1.4 (10.5.6) so it could be installed on an MBR partition. My machine is a 900HA, about the same exact hardware specs. I swapped the Wifi card though for a DELL 1390 (works natively in OS X and has better reception anyways.) The last Leopard version was 10.5.8. INstalling Snow was easier since I could install it from a working OS X install (after mounting a retail Snow Leopard DVD and changing a package so it could be installed on MBR too). The most important part is to go step-by-step. Once it works, backup... (I use Carbon Copy Cloner, free). Everything works on the netbook, it's a matter of finding and installing
Even bought two little Apple stickers from his website, a rainbow old-school one for the netbook and a gray one.
The desktop was a b!tch... I must have reinstalled about 25 times. Basically, since it's AMD, you can't use the vanilla kernel. iDeneb once again, I chose Voodoo Kernel 9.5.0 and the Seatbelt fix. *NO OTHER DRIVERS*... After everything was installed, it was a matter of rm -r the ATI extensions that were installed by default and installing the proper extensions for my card.
One very useful resource is the Insanely Mac forum. It's been a week, just got it working today. Had to remove a USB 2 card, play with BIOS settings and such. A laptop is easier since once it works for a model, all the other ones will work (same hardware). A desktop is nastier, especially non standard configs (eg: my vidcard uses a Rialto PCI-E to AGP bridge)
1- read. google. read again. try (and backup).
the OSX86 project has an extensive HCL, will be a good read too.
2- be (or get) familiar with the command line (you'll need it).
3- Backup once it works
4- Don't give up, it's very likely it won't work the first time.
Just don't allow OSX updates on a non-intel machine (or Atom until 10.6.1) or it will bork the install.
It's not always perfect, in fact I'm suspecting even if OSX says the desktop has hardware acceleration (my guess is it's just a modified framebuffer driver), it feels sluggish with HD video (but works fine in XP).
Not a *real* MAC, but a good compromise between an all-in-one iMac and a 3,000$ Mac PRO
It does on a modified kernel. I'm currently typing this from a (unsupported CPU) Athlon X2. My desktop now runs Leopard on an (unsupported Videocard) ATI HD3850.
Everything I've thrown at the Desktop and the Netbook so far run perfectly. Desktop is 10.5.6 (for now) and Netbook is 10.6.1 (for now)
[quote]
Instant-on is about being able to access your Internet applications in one second. Seven seconds is too long,' Hobbs said. 'There is no such thing as "cold boot" for today's mobile PCs such as netbooks and smartbooks. You should be able to use your netbook like you use your smartphone — a press of a button and you are "on."' Mark Lee, CEO of DeviceVM Inc.
[/quote]
I'd like to see a smartphone that boots in one second. Since the phone is already *on*, the netbook will be at a disadvantage if it has to be booted first.
Something that fits in my jacket / backpack / cargo pants will likely be banged up and abused much more than my dad's laptop which is carried with care in a carrying case. It's been dropped a couple times, already had to replace the HDD.
:)
It is a Seagate, so it just might have to being a crap HD though
I agree on the tape > vinyl > mp3 part, but CD?
a properly mastered tape will be much better than a CD. CD only has a 44.1k sampling frequency, which amounts to two samples at 22.05Khz or just 4 at 11K. It can't reproduce complex waveforms, and I'm not even talking about harmonics...
High frequencies have a tendency to *roll* at 128k. At higher bitrates, it depends on what was used to compress the album, but it won't be as good as FLAC or analog :)
Digitized music just doesn't have the warmth of an old LP (my opinion)
Oh freakin yes... Dott looks really nice on scummvm...
Nothing, the editors probably don't even search before posting a story
The only white button here is the buzzer on my front door. But I don't see how ringing the bell will solve that problem.