Anyways this is why Apple decided to build the Mac Mini, its the almost perfect solution to a lot of entry user's dilemmas. The average PC owner is almost completely in the dark when it comes to most technologies. The average Windows User has almost no idea of what he/she is supposed to do to maintain a Windows OS. They are just clueless.
Linux is a great alternative but a lot of these people (the target audience for the Mac Mini) is just out of their league. Meantion sudo to them and they'll just stare at you blankly. A lot of people have PCs just to do the basic things, Windows does suffice some of the time. But usually there are too many problems. Most people just want to be able to chat, email, surf, print, write papers, organize photos, and so forth. Not all that easy on a Linux box, and more trouble than its worth for Windows.
Don't get me wrong I have a Linux box and a Windows box. I only use the Windows box for gaming, thats all that it really excels at. I use Linux for a lot of my programming, webserving, hosting, and other tech savy needs. My Mac I use for everything else. Its that everything else that Apple is banking on. They know that people just want to be able to do something easily, safely, and quickly.
"Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware does an amazing job at detecting spyware by finding twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot."
Maybe because M$ puts most of that spyware there in the first place?
/ somewhere in the m$ mothership Bill cackles evilly as he drains his customer's back accounts without their knowledge
By Microsoft's standards: The Spyware tool removes everything but Windows and IE.
By our standars: The Spyware tool removes Windows upon installation, wipes IE with a few passes, and installs a copy of Linux.
I don't know, Windows has never been the best OS for anything but incubating viruses. I don't think it'd be the best idea to use it.
So what is it Doc? Is it cancer? Lupus? HIV?
I'm afraid its SoBig.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!/is so going to hell for that.
Also on a creepy note, my DVD-/+RW burner turned on by itself after the installation. Maybe it knew I was going to burn the update to CD.:: checks Library/InputManagers/ for "MindReading" extension::
I did the usual, repair permissions, run Disk Utility's Repair, disconnected the FW400 (911 Chipset) drive which I was worried about, updated, restarted, and ran permissions fix again.
No real problems so far, outside of getting the spinning beach ball at login twice. Outside of that, everything seems consistently faster. Safari loaded before it even got to its second bounce and now it absolutely screaming fast at loading.
REMEMBER TO DISCONNECT ANY AND ALL FIREWIRE DRIVES BEFORE UPDATING.
I'm extremely happy that Firefox is catching on so well. I've been supporting Mozilla since it first started. I've always been touting it as the best browser available.
Although, secretly I've been using Safari. Don't tell.
I wish Mozilla would put out some decals so absolute devotees could print out to iron-on paper for homemade Mozilla shirts.
Is that a 911 based chipset burner? Because Apple only talks about the 922 Chipset in the article. My main problem is my backup harddrive is a 180GB 911 Chipset FW400. Back when Panther was released, it made 911 based drives unuseable completely. Apple of course fixed this immediately with the 10.3.1 patch.
Its been all good until 10.3.6 when a few people announced that their 911 based drives stopped functioning. So because of that I stuck to 10.3.5 and waited for 10.3.7.
No one has made any specific statements about the DVD Player picture being fixed. Since the 10.3.6 update, people have been complaining about the video being blurry. All Apple has stated is they fixed a handful of things for certain GPUs. Nothing that detailed.
Or you could look beyond the little bit of 922 info, and wonder about the 911 FW Chipset problems which is the one that is having the big problem that Apple has been ignoring lately. Or is that too much?
Such as this issue with 10.3.6 having Firewire problems and DVD Player issues has been fixed or not. I'm going to wait a while and see what comes up at MacFixit.com and then decide if I want to upgrade.
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Roblimo: What do you think about the big boss?
Martin: You mean Cthul--errr--Mr.Gates?
Nanobots on a cellphone, near the ear canal, near the brain.
I smell a global domination scheme.
First and foremost we know that the average Windows User is completely in the dark as to how OSes and software works.
Pair that up with the recently rise of malware.
Boom! Sales soar because "Windows Technicians" can't figure out how to get rid of that damn CoolSearch spyware so they buy more machines!
/runs away from impending troll ratings
Sega needs a dictionary, because I think they got the idea of seppuku wrong. [corporate suicide]
Now I can solve all those tough engineering finals with a BFG. Sweet.
Shouldn't it be bananas or lemons for Creative?
/another horrible joke by yours truly.
A haze from crack smoking has unexplainably engulfed Creative's HQ during the statement.
Oh fook.
Anyways this is why Apple decided to build the Mac Mini, its the almost perfect solution to a lot of entry user's dilemmas. The average PC owner is almost completely in the dark when it comes to most technologies. The average Windows User has almost no idea of what he/she is supposed to do to maintain a Windows OS. They are just clueless.
Linux is a great alternative but a lot of these people (the target audience for the Mac Mini) is just out of their league. Meantion sudo to them and they'll just stare at you blankly. A lot of people have PCs just to do the basic things, Windows does suffice some of the time. But usually there are too many problems. Most people just want to be able to chat, email, surf, print, write papers, organize photos, and so forth. Not all that easy on a Linux box, and more trouble than its worth for Windows.
Don't get me wrong I have a Linux box and a Windows box. I only use the Windows box for gaming, thats all that it really excels at. I use Linux for a lot of my programming, webserving, hosting, and other tech savy needs. My Mac I use for everything else. Its that everything else that Apple is banking on. They know that people just want to be able to do something easily, safely, and quickly.
Make is a mook that is really like a book but took the...
::
:: head explodes
those muscle heads when they start pumping iron and they hit an Insufficient Memory error?
"Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware does an amazing job at detecting spyware by finding twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot."
Maybe because M$ puts most of that spyware there in the first place?
/ somewhere in the m$ mothership Bill cackles evilly as he drains his customer's back accounts without their knowledge
...as this doesn't inhibit my freedom to rant on for two days about how frappy my cappuccino is, I'm fine.
Gawd, I'm so lonely...
Worst. Pizza Toppings. Ever.
By Microsoft's standards: The Spyware tool removes everything but Windows and IE. By our standars: The Spyware tool removes Windows upon installation, wipes IE with a few passes, and installs a copy of Linux.
/humming the Ghost In The Shell theme
I don't know, Windows has never been the best OS for anything but incubating viruses. I don't think it'd be the best idea to use it. So what is it Doc? Is it cancer? Lupus? HIV? I'm afraid its SoBig. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! /is so going to hell for that.
Can you tumor me now? Good.
Also on a creepy note, my DVD-/+RW burner turned on by itself after the installation. Maybe it knew I was going to burn the update to CD. :: checks Library/InputManagers/ for "MindReading" extension ::
Decided to take the jump.
I did the usual, repair permissions, run Disk Utility's Repair, disconnected the FW400 (911 Chipset) drive which I was worried about, updated, restarted, and ran permissions fix again.
No real problems so far, outside of getting the spinning beach ball at login twice. Outside of that, everything seems consistently faster. Safari loaded before it even got to its second bounce and now it absolutely screaming fast at loading.
REMEMBER TO DISCONNECT ANY AND ALL FIREWIRE DRIVES BEFORE UPDATING.
Anyways, so far, so good.
I'm extremely happy that Firefox is catching on so well. I've been supporting Mozilla since it first started. I've always been touting it as the best browser available.
Although, secretly I've been using Safari. Don't tell.
I wish Mozilla would put out some decals so absolute devotees could print out to iron-on paper for homemade Mozilla shirts.
14.1" iBook G3 700MHz (Combo Drive/16MB VRAM/Dual USB) Its pretty old now. :)
Is that a 911 based chipset burner? Because Apple only talks about the 922 Chipset in the article. My main problem is my backup harddrive is a 180GB 911 Chipset FW400. Back when Panther was released, it made 911 based drives unuseable completely. Apple of course fixed this immediately with the 10.3.1 patch.
Its been all good until 10.3.6 when a few people announced that their 911 based drives stopped functioning. So because of that I stuck to 10.3.5 and waited for 10.3.7.
No one has made any specific statements about the DVD Player picture being fixed. Since the 10.3.6 update, people have been complaining about the video being blurry. All Apple has stated is they fixed a handful of things for certain GPUs. Nothing that detailed.
Or you could look beyond the little bit of 922 info, and wonder about the 911 FW Chipset problems which is the one that is having the big problem that Apple has been ignoring lately. Or is that too much?
Such as this issue with 10.3.6 having Firewire problems and DVD Player issues has been fixed or not. I'm going to wait a while and see what comes up at MacFixit.com and then decide if I want to upgrade.