I think that suddenly shifting your perspective like - after originally claiming that apple was essentially just disabling a port - that is a bit intellectually dishonest for the purposes of this argument. (Your words were "sells the same 20" monitors that Dell sells without the VGA connectors.") Beyond that, the other differences (USB hub on the dell, vs the (different part, I'm sure) USB hub and FireWire hub on the Apple, et cetera) are up to a consumer to weigh and decide which they want - Apple hasn't done any deceptive advertising, have they?
In your other post - the one about the iBook needing a hack to enable spanning (as opposed to mirroring) - have you considered that just because the -video- hardware can do it, that maybe it is disabled because it is not a supported configuration? (For thermal reasons or otherwise). Presumably neither of us designed the iBook, so this may have to be left open - but would you feel less 'cheated' if it was hard-wired to prevent multiple monitors? If they used a chip that did not support it, perhaps?
I don't know enough about monitors to really say one way or another, but I have also heard some people voice a preference for a monitor that doesn't pass the signal through one of these (D-A converters)
The panel for the monitors is the same, but the rest of the hardware is different.
The Dell monitor certainly has price going for it (and I'm assuming that no one is going to argue for the coupon stacking that can be done to be the 'real' price, but even so) but the Apple monitor also has a very nice design - beyond just looks, there's something to be said for having an enclosed design that uses the frame as a heat sink rather than having exposed vents for dust and everything to get in.
There is a larger difference between the Dell and Apple monitors than just 'not including' the vga port - how do you think the panel is displaying both? A D-A converted. This isn't present at all in the apple hardware.
He's not entirely confusing the two - USB2 has a faster theoretical limit, but you'll find in actual practice this is never sustained.
For an end user just copying a few files to a device (MP3 player or otherwise) or making the occasional backup it's not a big deal.
For more serious data-intensive applications, I find FW400 preferable to USB2's theoretical peak of 480. FW800 even more but you'll have to have some nice hardware to saturate that, of course.
This tool is different - You may be right about other ones, but not this one.
It gives constant feedback on how secure a password might be when entered, gives tips like mixing upper and lower case as well as suggesting passwords which are (even the worst ones, in the 'memorable' category) way better than 'commonname132'
While I agree with the first part, the 'book that slipped through time was actually a future edition of the competing Encyclopedia Galactica(or whatever the name was) - wasn't it?
Rez was originally a Dreamcast game, so it's (just) a port in that sense.
People have been finally realizing in this last year the the Gamecube hardware (game library aside) is quite capable - remember when it first came out how everyone sneered and dismissed it as inferior to the PS2 BECAUSE of said 'kiddie games'? Very few people still hold this opinion, but I'm sure there are still some out there blinded to the various weaknesses of the PS2. I say this as a PS2 owner. And a Cube. And XBox.
I'd say the dreamcast was the first recent platform where we really got a lot of the oddball games (though some like Space Channel 5 are likely PaRappa (PS1) influenced)... Seaman anyone?
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Are you saying the maximum resolution that the Mac Mini can support is 1024x768? Because that's simply not true.
I think that suddenly shifting your perspective like - after originally claiming that apple was essentially just disabling a port - that is a bit intellectually dishonest for the purposes of this argument. (Your words were "sells the same 20" monitors that Dell sells without the VGA connectors.")
Beyond that, the other differences (USB hub on the dell, vs the (different part, I'm sure) USB hub and FireWire hub on the Apple, et cetera) are up to a consumer to weigh and decide which they want - Apple hasn't done any deceptive advertising, have they?
In your other post - the one about the iBook needing a hack to enable spanning (as opposed to mirroring) - have you considered that just because the -video- hardware can do it, that maybe it is disabled because it is not a supported configuration? (For thermal reasons or otherwise). Presumably neither of us designed the iBook, so this may have to be left open - but would you feel less 'cheated' if it was hard-wired to prevent multiple monitors? If they used a chip that did not support it, perhaps?
I don't know enough about monitors to really say one way or another, but I have also heard some people voice a preference for a monitor that doesn't pass the signal through one of these (D-A converters)
The panel for the monitors is the same, but the rest of the hardware is different.
The Dell monitor certainly has price going for it (and I'm assuming that no one is going to argue for the coupon stacking that can be done to be the 'real' price, but even so) but the Apple monitor also has a very nice design - beyond just looks, there's something to be said for having an enclosed design that uses the frame as a heat sink rather than having exposed vents for dust and everything to get in.
There is a larger difference between the Dell and Apple monitors than just 'not including' the vga port - how do you think the panel is displaying both? A D-A converted. This isn't present at all in the apple hardware.
He's not entirely confusing the two - USB2 has a faster theoretical limit, but you'll find in actual practice this is never sustained.
For an end user just copying a few files to a device (MP3 player or otherwise) or making the occasional backup it's not a big deal.
For more serious data-intensive applications, I find FW400 preferable to USB2's theoretical peak of 480.
FW800 even more but you'll have to have some nice hardware to saturate that, of course.
This tool is different - You may be right about other ones, but not this one.
It gives constant feedback on how secure a password might be when entered, gives tips like mixing upper and lower case as well as suggesting passwords which are (even the worst ones, in the 'memorable' category) way better than 'commonname132'
While I agree with the first part, the 'book that slipped through time was actually a future edition of the competing Encyclopedia Galactica(or whatever the name was) - wasn't it?
The source -is- released for Freespace 1 and 2, I believe.
Not sure what the licensing terms are, if any.
This is a confusing naming convention because while all clamshells were G3s, not all G3s were clamshells.
The 'icebook' or white iBook naming conventions are generic enough to not exclude any models but also get the form factor across.
Rez was originally a Dreamcast game, so it's (just) a port in that sense. People have been finally realizing in this last year the the Gamecube hardware (game library aside) is quite capable - remember when it first came out how everyone sneered and dismissed it as inferior to the PS2 BECAUSE of said 'kiddie games'? Very few people still hold this opinion, but I'm sure there are still some out there blinded to the various weaknesses of the PS2. I say this as a PS2 owner. And a Cube. And XBox. I'd say the dreamcast was the first recent platform where we really got a lot of the oddball games (though some like Space Channel 5 are likely PaRappa (PS1) influenced)... Seaman anyone?