Well, it's more like 18 months now and since I get the family pack and have 3 macs it's more like $66 bucks each per 18 months. Spotlight alone was worth that for me last time and I use dashboard at least once a day so yeah, worth it.
This does seem to be the conventional wisdom but as a Mac fan(boi if you like) I always get the first gen - can't help myself. I've been like this since the first PPC. (6100/60)
I know it's supposed to be foolish but I can't help it. The fact that every product (including this Mac Book Pro I'm typing on) has been flawless has not persuaded me to stop.
Guess I'm lucky though and "Apple user happy with 1st Generation products" does not make headlines.
I agree. The guy pulls out a macbook - ALL of which have a built in card. No one would be using a third party one. I guess the impact would not have been the same if he pulled out a four year old 'book and had to blow the dust off it first.
This is a driver vulnerability, not an apple one.
Next./resume smugness.... ahhh my eyes, cigarette..... burns
Same here. I just gave my 2 year old Albook to my Mrs and it looks like new! The last time I did that (with a TiBook) it looked like it had been drop kicked all over the road!
I once had this heat pump that like totally broke down all the time because of pump viruses and the man said like you know I can only use the heat pump for pumping heat in some places and I said like that sucks but then someone told me about their heat pump that doesn't break down and they can use everywhere and looks so great you can stick it in the middle of your living room without your friends going "yuk man, that heat pump looks like crap" and so I went to the store and saw the really cool people with really cool heat pumps and said "I gotta have one" and now I do sure it runs hot, but it's a heat pump!
I logged a large number of hours on WoW when it dawned on my that my Mrs might actually like the immersive nature of the game.
I raised the idea and she was not too keen as she perceived it was all hack and slash.
I bought her a sub, set her up and now she is totally addicted too.
We spend a lot of time across the table playing it together. In many ways it reminds me of playing cards or something like that. For much of the game intense concentration is not required. Put some music on, have some wine, play some WoW, go on quests and chat together. It can be a real togetherness experience as you are in it together. IMHO meaningful times.
I've never had this experience with any other computer game before.
A bit tongue in cheek, but since everyone is only playing WoW and the Mac has a perfectly in sync version, does this mean the Mac is now a more viable gaming platform?
I have a Macbook Pro and thought about a bootcamp partition to play games. "Why bother" I thought "I only play WoW and I get 60-99FPS on the MBP in a window under OS X"
So the theory of opening up my world to a host of new games has actually resulted in the practice of playing WoW natively on the Mac.
Slashdot Mirror
Speak up, Steve can't hear you over the clanging of the cash registers.
Actually scents over IP would indeed be novel and worthy of a patent - not sure about the other 3 though, I think that's been done before!
ahhh it's just the thin end of the wedge!, That DNA sample could pop up in some RIAA lawsuit years down the track.
Don't give me any of that "oh we'll just use it for logging in purposes" either!
sorry...
"Let's see what happens to "security" if the market share ever heads north of the 80% mark."
Now THERE'S a security problem Apple would like to have...
Microsoft are about to make their big entrance to the digital music party.... ....again.
......... guys, I said "TA DAH!" .....over here with the scroll wheel thing that isn't.....
Ta dah!
Well, it's more like 18 months now and since I get the family pack and have 3 macs it's more like $66 bucks each per 18 months. Spotlight alone was worth that for me last time and I use dashboard at least once a day so yeah, worth it.
We've had two of these go.
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I have a photo on our blog too:
http://homepage.mac.com/skingsley/xemaybe/C193547
About 4 headlines in.
You'll notice from the blog I'm pretty much an Apple Fan Boi (tm) but even I in my Appleuphoria can see that this is a problem.
Ah, I stand corrected.
"It's technically possible to make monkeys fly out of people's asses too"
I'm not sure that's right...
Don't forget Virtual PC.
They took the market leading Mac PC emulator and relegated it to insignificance.
Offtopic, Offtopic?
.... wait my auction just came in...
It's about Mac gaming, it's a succinct point about.... something
I'm one of the 40% addicted to WoW.
There's a Mac version already.
This does seem to be the conventional wisdom but as a Mac fan(boi if you like) I always get the first gen - can't help myself. I've been like this since the first PPC. (6100/60)
I know it's supposed to be foolish but I can't help it. The fact that every product (including this Mac Book Pro I'm typing on) has been flawless has not persuaded me to stop.
Guess I'm lucky though and "Apple user happy with 1st Generation products" does not make headlines.
Similar but CC require you to have the original movie.
I agree. The guy pulls out a macbook - ALL of which have a built in card. No one would be using a third party one. I guess the impact would not have been the same if he pulled out a four year old 'book and had to blow the dust off it first.
/resume smugness .... ahhh my eyes, cigarette ..... burns
This is a driver vulnerability, not an apple one.
Next.
Come on moderators - that's at least smile worthy, not troll
"Apple's copy-protection technology makes media companies into its servants"
and all the artists say "see how that feels"
Same here. I just gave my 2 year old Albook to my Mrs and it looks like new! The last time I did that (with a TiBook) it looked like it had been drop kicked all over the road!
I once had this heat pump that like totally broke down all the time because of pump viruses and the man said like you know I can only use the heat pump for pumping heat in some places and I said like that sucks but then someone told me about their heat pump that doesn't break down and they can use everywhere and looks so great you can stick it in the middle of your living room without your friends going "yuk man, that heat pump looks like crap" and so I went to the store and saw the really cool people with really cool heat pumps and said "I gotta have one" and now I do sure it runs hot, but it's a heat pump!
I'm Joe Public, iPump owner.
...so the "we make the software and you guys make the hardware" thing not working out so well in this market?
Other companies need to market "Games to play on WoW server maintenance day".
I guess it depends on how you define meaningful.
I logged a large number of hours on WoW when it dawned on my that my Mrs might actually like the immersive nature of the game.
I raised the idea and she was not too keen as she perceived it was all hack and slash.
I bought her a sub, set her up and now she is totally addicted too.
We spend a lot of time across the table playing it together. In many ways it reminds me of playing cards or something like that. For much of the game intense concentration is not required. Put some music on, have some wine, play some WoW, go on quests and chat together. It can be a real togetherness experience as you are in it together. IMHO meaningful times.
I've never had this experience with any other computer game before.
A bit tongue in cheek, but since everyone is only playing WoW and the Mac has a perfectly in sync version, does this mean the Mac is now a more viable gaming platform?
I have a Macbook Pro and thought about a bootcamp partition to play games. "Why bother" I thought "I only play WoW and I get 60-99FPS on the MBP in a window under OS X"
So the theory of opening up my world to a host of new games has actually resulted in the practice of playing WoW natively on the Mac.
"Microsoft is more successful"
In the software market, yes.
In the legal media download market, Apple is taking them to the cleaners.