I'm sure it'll be ported eventually. And I'd happily live without it for all the benefits of OS X (I haven't decided if Aqua is one of them yet, but that's a whole notha convo). It's just an example of the kind of thing a lot of people are griping about. Relearning all the OS basics is going to be a pain. But so so worth it!
I think the most ironic part about the whole OS X thing is that the people who are angriest and the people who are the most excited are the same group, the power users. I don't think most average home imac-owning types are really aware that there'll be that much of a difference in the underpinnings of their OS. Nor do I think they'll care really. All of the interface complaints and the mouse button battles et. al. don't really matter to most of Apple's target market. they just want to be able to email thier kids at college on something that'll be easy for them to use. As for the hardcore, the sysadmin's are psyched and the graphic designers are pissed. You get used to all the shortcuts and crap in an OS and it's a huge, time-consuming pain to relearn them all. Just listen to the whining about the loss of the Apple menu. I'm going to lose a handy little add on (GoMac) that puts a windows-esque start bar on my Mac. I can guarentee you I'll be wasting valuable mouse time wondering why nothing's popping up when the cursor's sitting in the bottom of my screen, but you know, whatever. Muscles are retrainable, habits are breakable and power users are notorious cry-babies.
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off the top of my head...
Blue Submarine 6: traditional animation mixed with CG better than anything i've ever seen. good story line, amazing character design (that shark thing freaked me out).
Shin Getter Robo: an update of the series that started my anime adiction problem. i used to watch it in LA on the japanese channel as a kid. great old school anime design but with modern technique. awesome fight scenes.
Tenchi Muyo: flawlessly animated. of the big-eyed cute school but hell that only makes it better in my book. cool cool cool design. good cat fights. any of the movies or the series.
Urusei Yatsura: Old and not as well animated. Also big-eyed cuteness abounds but hilarious and a total classic.
Project A-Ko: Superman's daughter and a mad scientist high school girl in a lesbian catfight over an obnoxious blond airhead with perhaps the biggest eyes to ever hit anime. So so so good. Older so the animation's starting to look a little dated but funny as hell.
Martian Successor Nadesco: Great series. Yet more big-eyed cuteness (anyone sensing a pattern here?) but well animated and notable for the old school giant robot anime subplot. The follow-up movie is sorta crap though.
a last note. everything should be bought (or...um...copied) in subtitaled form!!!!! dubbing always kills it. there's been like maybe one or two animes that didn't suffer for the dub job. especially A-ko. do not under any circumstances settle for a dubbed copy of Project A-ko.
wait lemme guess, you're on a dual-celeron box, right? i mean, c'mon x86 is about as outdated as a you can get but that certainly hasn't stopped Intel from taking over the world, has it? chip architecture has very very little to do with sales in the real world, except as a tool for marketing people.
I think what this move proves is that IBM is more interested in IBM. If Apple went solely with IBM we'd be using G3's as the liscensing for the G4 and atlivec prevents IBM from selling directly to Apple. Maybe we'll see a superfast Powerbook or iMac 6 months to a year from now but don't hold your breath for an SOI G4. The whole AIM alliance is just way too crazy.
i really wish there was some objective way of measuring levels of delsusion and fanatacism cause then we'd finally know who's worse off, the linux freaks, the mac freaks, the be freaks or the amiga freaks.
i'm sorry but i have to say it. "think different", although it is a sentence fragment, is just as grammatically correct as saying "think blue" or "think victory." ya, it's marketing speak but it's an example of really good marketing speak. god that was a great ad campaign.
then what should the internet be used for? i mean, is Sega's gaming network going to interfere with you bandwidth-hungry project to feed the world's starving masses? what is an acceptible use of bandwidth?
A lot of cooments seem to read this as AMD seeling G4's directly to Apple. Not gonna happen. Motorola would be hiring AMD as a foundry to make chips for them, which they will in turn sell to Apple. Motorola has been doing this all over the place lately. Something like 30 or 40% of Motorola chips are produced by third parties. I like the idea. Anything to preserve AMD while the Athlon gains ground.
apple is trading at 64 right now. analysts predict it will be at 90 by year end. they are producing better products at a lower pricepoint now that they ever have before. their marketshare is growing. they have something like 3 billion sitting in the bank. i hope your dad didn't bother to listen to you.
a) K, you got me there. But SPEC doesn't translate to real life performance. I'm not even saying the K7 won't be faster, I just want to see a thourough comparison of the 2 somewhere. I think it would be really interesting (I also think it would be great for AMD for the K7 to become the PC industry benchmark for maximum cpu performance rather than pentium). B) I'm of the opinion that Altivec should be included as part of the measure of performance for the G4, as the vast majority of Mac developers will support it now or in the near future. It's too easy not too. I guess I'll have to wait for a bit though. If 3DNow was supported at that level, I think it should be included as well.
Not anymore. One of the upgrade card vendors found a way around it. Oh, and by all previous owners, you mean owners of the Blue & White Powermacs don't you? Yes you do. My beige G3 will take a G4 just fine (not that it will ever have the chance. i WILL have a new G4 by next year dammit!).
"Apple has made quite a bit of revenue off their more frequent MacOS upgrades since they started charging for them. It's quite profitable. "
It's been said many times before, but I'll say it again. Software accounts for 5% of Apple's total revenue, which includes non-OS products like Web Objects and Final Cut." It's not the money that keeps Apple addicted to the MacOS. It's that if you use it (the OS), you keep buying Macs. Linux fluency would mean people could move to eMachines or some other cheap-as-expletive dreck computer. Unless you need a Mac (and there are many many reasons you would), their price would probably keep you moving down the aisle towards the PC section.
Gee, that'd be real smart. Then their new game console would be incompatible with the hundreds of thouseands of Firewire/iLink video cameras they've sold. Also, it's no longer even remotely proprietary. Apple released the patents to a consortium of companies that act as a governing body. There is no "Apple tax" anymore. Funnily enough, Intel is part of the group.
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I'm sure it'll be ported eventually. And I'd happily live without it for all the benefits of OS X (I haven't decided if Aqua is one of them yet, but that's a whole notha convo).
It's just an example of the kind of thing a lot of people are griping about. Relearning all the OS basics is going to be a pain.
But so so worth it!
I think the most ironic part about the whole OS X thing is that the people who are angriest and the people who are the most excited are the same group, the power users.
I don't think most average home imac-owning types are really aware that there'll be that much of a difference in the underpinnings of their OS. Nor do I think they'll care really.
All of the interface complaints and the mouse button battles et. al. don't really matter to most of Apple's target market. they just want to be able to email thier kids at college on something that'll be easy for them to use.
As for the hardcore, the sysadmin's are psyched and the graphic designers are pissed. You get used to all the shortcuts and crap in an OS and it's a huge, time-consuming pain to relearn them all. Just listen to the whining about the loss of the Apple menu.
I'm going to lose a handy little add on (GoMac) that puts a windows-esque start bar on my Mac. I can guarentee you I'll be wasting valuable mouse time wondering why nothing's popping up when the cursor's sitting in the bottom of my screen, but you know, whatever. Muscles are retrainable, habits are breakable and power users are notorious cry-babies.
off the top of my head...
Blue Submarine 6: traditional animation mixed with CG better than anything i've ever seen. good story line, amazing character design (that shark thing freaked me out).
Shin Getter Robo: an update of the series that started my anime adiction problem. i used to watch it in LA on the japanese channel as a kid. great old school anime design but with modern technique. awesome fight scenes.
Tenchi Muyo: flawlessly animated. of the big-eyed cute school but hell that only makes it better in my book. cool cool cool design. good cat fights. any of the movies or the series.
Urusei Yatsura: Old and not as well animated. Also big-eyed cuteness abounds but hilarious and a total classic.
Project A-Ko: Superman's daughter and a mad scientist high school girl in a lesbian catfight over an obnoxious blond airhead with perhaps the biggest eyes to ever hit anime. So so so good. Older so the animation's starting to look a little dated but funny as hell.
Martian Successor Nadesco: Great series. Yet more big-eyed cuteness (anyone sensing a pattern here?) but well animated and notable for the old school giant robot anime subplot. The follow-up movie is sorta crap though.
a last note. everything should be bought (or...um...copied) in subtitaled form!!!!! dubbing always kills it. there's been like maybe one or two animes that didn't suffer for the dub job.
especially A-ko. do not under any circumstances settle for a dubbed copy of Project A-ko.
wait lemme guess, you're on a dual-celeron box, right?
i mean, c'mon x86 is about as outdated as a you can get but that certainly hasn't stopped Intel from taking over the world, has it?
chip architecture has very very little to do with sales in the real world, except as a tool for marketing people.
I think what this move proves is that IBM is more interested in IBM. If Apple went solely with IBM we'd be using G3's as the liscensing for the G4 and atlivec prevents IBM from selling directly to Apple.
Maybe we'll see a superfast Powerbook or iMac 6 months to a year from now but don't hold your breath for an SOI G4.
The whole AIM alliance is just way too crazy.
perish the thought.
i'm reality-distorted.
go abusurdity!
i really wish there was some objective way of measuring levels of delsusion and fanatacism cause then we'd finally know who's worse off, the linux freaks, the mac freaks, the be freaks or the amiga freaks.
i'm sorry but i have to say it.
"think different", although it is a sentence fragment, is just as grammatically correct as saying "think blue" or "think victory."
ya, it's marketing speak but it's an example of really good marketing speak.
god that was a great ad campaign.
then what should the internet be used for?
i mean, is Sega's gaming network going to interfere with you bandwidth-hungry project to feed the world's starving masses?
what is an acceptible use of bandwidth?
Whoa there cowboy. Forget the valium this morning?
I'm just going to go ahead and be generous and assume this was an attempt at irony.
On another board someone who preordered over a month ago had their order cancelled. I'd love to know how Apple is prioritizing these.
And they'll keep beating they're estimates until they have no more ARM shares to sell.
Shouldn't that be "iTanium"?
A lot of cooments seem to read this as AMD seeling G4's directly to Apple.
Not gonna happen. Motorola would be hiring AMD as a foundry to make chips for them, which they will in turn sell to Apple. Motorola has been doing this all over the place lately. Something like 30 or 40% of Motorola chips are produced by third parties.
I like the idea. Anything to preserve AMD while the Athlon gains ground.
apple is trading at 64 right now. analysts predict it will be at 90 by year end. they are producing better products at a lower pricepoint now that they ever have before. their marketshare is growing. they have something like 3 billion sitting in the bank.
i hope your dad didn't bother to listen to you.
a) K, you got me there. But SPEC doesn't translate to real life performance. I'm not even saying the K7 won't be faster, I just want to see a thourough comparison of the 2 somewhere. I think it would be really interesting (I also think it would be great for AMD for the K7 to become the PC industry benchmark for maximum cpu performance rather than pentium).
B) I'm of the opinion that Altivec should be included as part of the measure of performance for the G4, as the vast majority of Mac developers will support it now or in the near future. It's too easy not too.
I guess I'll have to wait for a bit though. If 3DNow was supported at that level, I think it should be included as well.
It does? You've got a K7 and G4 and have run compared them? Or you read a review of a comparison? Where?
I'd love to see it.
Not anymore. One of the upgrade card vendors found a way around it.
Oh, and by all previous owners, you mean owners of the Blue & White Powermacs don't you? Yes you do. My beige G3 will take a G4 just fine (not that it will ever have the chance. i WILL have a new G4 by next year dammit!).
"Apple has made quite a bit of revenue off their more frequent MacOS upgrades since they started charging for them. It's quite profitable. "
It's been said many times before, but I'll say it again. Software accounts for 5% of Apple's total revenue, which includes non-OS products like Web Objects and Final Cut."
It's not the money that keeps Apple addicted to the MacOS. It's that if you use it (the OS), you keep buying Macs.
Linux fluency would mean people could move to eMachines or some other cheap-as-expletive dreck computer. Unless you need a Mac (and there are many many reasons you would), their price would probably keep you moving down the aisle towards the PC section.
Too bad the G5 is a Motorola product and not an IBM one then. IBM has't announced anything beyond faster G3's.
you're joking, right?
Dolphin = next-gen nintendo console
PSX2 = Playstation 2 (pant!)
a) I personally favor "beyond the among"
b) look for a company named Hypertrans to appear within a matter of weeks.
Actually I believe 7-11 has been serving that sauce for years, but with a chip that has built obsolescence so as not to eat into their margins.
Gee, that'd be real smart. Then their new game console would be incompatible with the hundreds of thouseands of Firewire/iLink video cameras they've sold.
Also, it's no longer even remotely proprietary. Apple released the patents to a consortium of companies that act as a governing body. There is no "Apple tax" anymore. Funnily enough, Intel is part of the group.