That'd have been the $1499 model, so these are (obviously) Canadian prices.
XE's Currency Converter says $1299 Canadian is US$815. So the US price for the entry-level iMac stays at $799 and the high-end model with DVD burner would be $1800 Canadian or US$1099.
This is what happens when you buy Superdrives and flatpanel displays in quantity.
There's an Apple Menu, just not a customizable ione.
Custom "Apple Menu" for OSX:
Create a folder with aliases to everything you'd want in the Apple Menu. Be sure and include aliases for for Recent... folders.
Paste an appropriate icon onto the folder (hint: do it in the Get Info window.
Drag said folder to the Dock, I recommend at a convenient spot - my Dock is on the right, so my Apple Menu folder would be at the top.
Right-click on the folder in the Dock and voila ! Instant Apple Menu (control-click for single-button mice).
The downside is that this isn't in the same place as it would be under OS 9. Or you could use some third-party "extension" to add in the old Apple Menu features. But the old Apple Menu will probably never die.
At a guess, the retailers are paying over $200 for the units at wholesale. 25% or smaller margins for videogame units were standard back in the SNES days (just before I escaped retail). SNES cartridges had a $10-$15 dollar margin on the average.
I have no idea what the margins are like today; and my last retail master (Software Etc.) was poorly managed, so maybe they were paying more.
in there.I've got a G3 - 300MHz or a bottom of the line blue & white tower g3. It ran OS X 10.0 acceptably, if a bit on the slow side for a professional machine. 10.1 should (dead drive) run just fine on it.
And the expansion capacity is fine too, I have a second video card and second HD
OS X is as good a multi user system as any other Unix, and more usable. It's also the only Unix or Windows OS a sane person would trust to a teacher or an aide [1]. If you just stay in the GUI and NetInfo it's hard to break the thing, and it's hard for students to break their accounts [2]. It, of course, has all the problems you can assign to any computer in a school: administration, kids, distraction from real education, etc. But the engineers at Apple know these things wil be used in that environment, and build with that in mind - sometimes too much for the hardcore Unix admin to stomach, they did a lot of it on purpose.
[1] A certain number of schools will be lucky enough to have competent people on site, or the budget to hire them.
[2] A certain other number of schools will be unlucky enough to have students capable of wreaking havok with a student account, probably a large number.
This might be phase two of sticking it to the middlemen, and it's a pretty cold corporate move. The interesting thing is that this should pay off sales dividends in next years back-to-school spree. And next year they ought to have second-revision G5's (1.6-2.0GHz) running OSX 10.5. Even if Motorolla still has troubles and they only get first revision G5s (1.2-1.6GHz)out, that's still a nice bump, and has a goodly sized number in front of it - then double it for an SMP system and Appple can put out a 2.8GHz system.
God only knows what the iMac will look like by then, or how extensive Superdrives (DVD-Writer) accross the product lines. A Powerbook with a Superdrive would be invaluable in the film (anachronism) industry for location shoots; dump everything to DVD and FedEx copies home. We'll see 2.0 GHz G4s in Powerbooks before the G5; that's not gonna be a mobile chip for a while.
Aqua isn't just a collection of bitmaps and alpha channel effects. The behaviors of the objects and widgets has been pretty carefully designed and well implemented (ok, in 10.1), so the whole feel of the interface is cleaner and more responsive. If you hate the Dock, it's just another executable, and replacements are available. Taken as a whole, Aqua is a step up from Xfree in every respect, except software availablity -for now.
It's a pity Apple doesn't support skinning, being able to skin that window manager would be a treat.
And it's a free Unix, even if Aqua and the API's aren't. And Apple's hardware is very well made (get your hands on a G4 case if you haven't yet), and (usually) very well supported so the effective lifetime and uptime make the (large-ish) extra sum of money worthit. So there, in advance.
I've been known to use "abuse@" and cut myself out of the loop completely, while getting the spammer to report him/herself to the bofh dept. of a major ISP.
George Lucas' reputation as a director stems directly from his ability to get mediocre actors spouting Really Hackneyed lines to come off as drama - or anything not comic. Try reading the cript to EpIV sometime - terrible dialogue but it works onscreeen. Only a gifted director could get that to work.
Linksys makes very nice routers. My Flowpoint 144 was online for 14 months with just one reset to force the other end to reset the connection. After installation, I some how managed to get the thing out of Bridge mode. Linksys tech support walked me through the fix. In the next two days I got four followup calls makign sure everything was working. That's good customer support (not like Earhlink's interminable holds).
Pathways was the first game to spook me. An early incarnation of 3D sound, headphones, playing late at night - some wierd baddie sneaks up behind me and roars. I jump out of my seat and juuuuuuuuust barely manage to regain control in time to survive with some damage. Fun times.
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XE's Currency Converter says $1299 Canadian is US$815. So the US price for the entry-level iMac stays at $799 and the high-end model with DVD burner would be $1800 Canadian or US$1099.
This is what happens when you buy Superdrives and flatpanel displays in quantity.
- Create a folder with aliases to everything you'd want in the Apple Menu. Be sure and include aliases for for Recent... folders.
- Paste an appropriate icon onto the folder (hint: do it in the Get Info window.
- Drag said folder to the Dock, I recommend at a convenient spot - my Dock is on the right, so my Apple Menu folder would be at the top.
- Right-click on the folder in the Dock and voila ! Instant Apple Menu (control-click for single-button mice).
The downside is that this isn't in the same place as it would be under OS 9. Or you could use some third-party "extension" to add in the old Apple Menu features. But the old Apple Menu will probably never die.I have no idea what the margins are like today; and my last retail master (Software Etc.) was poorly managed, so maybe they were paying more.
in there.I've got a G3 - 300MHz or a bottom of the line blue & white tower g3. It ran OS X 10.0 acceptably, if a bit on the slow side for a professional machine. 10.1 should (dead drive) run just fine on it.
And the expansion capacity is fine too, I have a second video card and second HD
Not all of 'em, but enough to notice.
[1] A certain number of schools will be lucky enough to have competent people on site, or the budget to hire them.
[2] A certain other number of schools will be unlucky enough to have students capable of wreaking havok with a student account, probably a large number.
God only knows what the iMac will look like by then, or how extensive Superdrives (DVD-Writer) accross the product lines. A Powerbook with a Superdrive would be invaluable in the film (anachronism) industry for location shoots; dump everything to DVD and FedEx copies home. We'll see 2.0 GHz G4s in Powerbooks before the G5; that's not gonna be a mobile chip for a while.
It's a pity Apple doesn't support skinning, being able to skin that window manager would be a treat.
And it's a free Unix, even if Aqua and the API's aren't. And Apple's hardware is very well made (get your hands on a G4 case if you haven't yet), and (usually) very well supported so the effective lifetime and uptime make the (large-ish) extra sum of money worthit. So there, in advance.
I worked at a dot-bomb. Our VP who did initial page designs did them in... Photoshop !
Then the html monkeys had to replicate his design (Dreamweaver) down to the pixel.
For some reason, the added costs of the more rigorous design and layout were completely ignored.
And I'm out of a job.
I've been known to use "abuse@" and cut myself out of the loop completely, while getting the spammer to report him/herself to the bofh dept. of a major ISP.
George Lucas' reputation as a director stems directly from his ability to get mediocre actors spouting Really Hackneyed lines to come off as drama - or anything not comic. Try reading the cript to EpIV sometime - terrible dialogue but it works onscreeen. Only a gifted director could get that to work.
It must have been routed through New Mexico.
Linksys makes very nice routers. My Flowpoint 144 was online for 14 months with just one reset to force the other end to reset the connection. After installation, I some how managed to get the thing out of Bridge mode. Linksys tech support walked me through the fix. In the next two days I got four followup calls makign sure everything was working. That's good customer support (not like Earhlink's interminable holds).
Admiral Halsey, shortly after Pearl Harbor.
Pathways was the first game to spook me. An early incarnation of 3D sound, headphones, playing late at night - some wierd baddie sneaks up behind me and roars. I jump out of my seat and juuuuuuuuust barely manage to regain control in time to survive with some damage. Fun times.
Not a serious theory, but what the heck.
That'd be bad.
And I busted up laughing when I noticed that they issued their own security certificate.
Yeah, they're getting great interest rates on that borrowed time.
I'm guessing a Linux machine with Firewire and HFS+ coimpaitbility configured would eb able to see it as a mountable drive.
I've found a portable 80+GB Firewire drive to be phenomenally useful in a tech support or sysadmin setting. So I say do it !
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I guess I'll have to put hotmail.com in there too.
I saw Freehand on the shelves (SFSU computer store) today.
Lovely. When Mac users complain about feature parity with Office for Windows, this is not what we mean.