you said: Scanners, speaker systems (which function without needing a sound card), modems, mice and keyboards. Digital cameras too
Well, all those items (with the exception of the speakers) had to be used via USB on the iMac's, they didn't exist solely for Win98 as you make it sound, so I don't quite see your point. I know very few Windows users who have USB devices, and the ones that do mostly have mice. I have one friend who has a USB QuickCam, but that's his only peripheral, and USB was not a deciding factor in the purchase. I own a scanner, a digital camera, a couple mice, a keyboard, a joystick, and a quickcam for my iMac, and while that's a really really small sample group, I think you see my point. I have several x86 mobo's with pinouts for USB connectors, but they'll never get used, and it looks to be the same situation with my friends.
I think a big factor keeping USB from being really ubiquitous is that vendors still ship thier computers with PS/2 Mice and Keyboards. Insignificant as that may seem, most "users" don't know what the heck the USB ports are, simply having a couple things to plug in to it would raise awareness a lot, I think. A user-friend of mine thought they were ethernet....:)
You said: The top-end iMac ($1499) features digital video editing and authoring software built-in, as well as FireWire (the only iMac to have it).
However, that is false. The $1299 iMac DV comes with FireWire and DVD, and the iMovie software. The $1499 iMac DV Special Edition features 128 MB of RAM and a larger (13GB) HD as well as FireWire and DVD.:)
I know very little about Germany, but I do know a little, feel free to correct me at will. As far as I know, in Germany the driving laws are very strict and require expensive training/certification to get a license, much more than America, at least. Aslo, I was under the impression that the cars had to pass very strict certifications etc. So, I was wondering, and hoping some Deutschlanders would input, how closely does this parallel the automobile situation in Germany, if at all.
While I know TV's resolution sucks, I am interested in this question because I rented a Dreamcast a while ago. Anyways...
Did you use the RF modulator when you tried it? The RCA's produce a much much much higher quality picture... Didn't come with S-Video or I would have tried it...
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I've done a CD for 30.
CD's don't have that much metal in em...
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you said:
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Scanners, speaker systems (which function without needing a sound card), modems, mice and keyboards. Digital cameras too
Well, all those items (with the exception of the speakers) had to be used via USB on the iMac's, they didn't exist solely for Win98 as you make it sound, so I don't quite see your point. I know very few Windows users who have USB devices, and the ones that do mostly have mice. I have one friend who has a USB QuickCam, but that's his only peripheral, and USB was not a deciding factor in the purchase. I own a scanner, a digital camera, a couple mice, a keyboard, a joystick, and a quickcam for my iMac, and while that's a really really small sample group, I think you see my point. I have several x86 mobo's with pinouts for USB connectors, but they'll never get used, and it looks to be the same situation with my friends.
I think a big factor keeping USB from being really ubiquitous is that vendors still ship thier computers with PS/2 Mice and Keyboards. Insignificant as that may seem, most "users" don't know what the heck the USB ports are, simply having a couple things to plug in to it would raise awareness a lot, I think. A user-friend of mine thought they were ethernet....
I figured it was called 1984 because that was the year Winston thought it was...
Uhm, it's not a defective product because they're fixing it before they ship it...
You said:
:)
The top-end iMac ($1499) features digital video editing and authoring software built-in, as well as FireWire (the only iMac to have it).
However, that is false. The $1299 iMac DV comes with FireWire and DVD, and the iMovie software. The $1499 iMac DV Special Edition features 128 MB of RAM and a larger (13GB) HD as well as FireWire and DVD.
Well, in America, you don't have to prove you didn't do anythign wrong, they have to prove you did.
I know very little about Germany, but I do know a little, feel free to correct me at will. As far as I know, in Germany the driving laws are very strict and require expensive training/certification to get a license, much more than America, at least. Aslo, I was under the impression that the cars had to pass very strict certifications etc. So, I was wondering, and hoping some Deutschlanders would input, how closely does this parallel the automobile situation in Germany, if at all.
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While I know TV's resolution sucks, I am interested in this question because I rented a Dreamcast a while ago. Anyways...
Did you use the RF modulator when you tried it? The RCA's produce a much much much higher quality picture... Didn't come with S-Video or I would have tried it...
If you count the subwoofer it wasn't...