Not that I dont agree with the principle, it's usually better to wait if you can to be sure any 'creases' are ironed out.
Insanity is a little of an over-reaction though, especially considering this story - everyones getting free stuff!, so their actually better off buying first gen.
I bought a Rev A G5 1.6Mhz when they first came out - never had an issue.
I also had an original bondi iMac, ok it was Rev B, but my brother has that now & still is going strong - again, no issues at all.
The assumption in this discussion is that this move will allow Windows tech to run on OS X, but it could just as easily be the reverse too. OS X software & technologies running on Windows. Optimising Quicktime for Win, iTunes for Win etc etc
BAPCo is "the industry-standard *Windows* benchmarking consortium" because all the members make Windows stuff - now they dont.
So before we jump the gun & assume that OS X will now be assimilated by Windows, consider also the Windows adoption of Apple software.
I can't see either taking over the other, just better interoperability all round.
so really all those comparisons pitting Vista against Tiger were vastly premature - the comparison is Vista with Leopard - and we don't know what that will come with yet.
Woaa, careful! Your falling into the same trap - at this rate it could easily end up being a comparison of Vista with OS X 10.6 Ocelot
It's really a job for the manufacturers of TV's to come up with a decent power saving system. People are going to be as lazy as you let them be. Also there's an issue which no-one seems to have noticed - perhaps not with all TV's, but at least on the two that I own. If I turn them off on the set, they lose the settings. I have to reset the time & any preferences etc.
I do agree that wasting all that power is plain crazy, so why can't the manufacturers just have an on/off on the remote & off means a *tiny* amount of power is flowing just to keep the IR active. All prefs should be saved onto solid state memory that does not require power - regardless of how cheap the TV is, surely all manufacturers can manage that without a cost implication.
I guess Standby is a leftover from old TV's that took time to warm up - that's pretty much gone now & I imagine non existant with flat screen TV's
Seems bizarre really, 2006 & we havent thought of a way to turn a TV off
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Not that I dont agree with the principle, it's usually better to wait if you can to be sure any 'creases' are ironed out.
Insanity is a little of an over-reaction though, especially considering this story - everyones getting free stuff!, so their actually better off buying first gen.
I bought a Rev A G5 1.6Mhz when they first came out - never had an issue.
I also had an original bondi iMac, ok it was Rev B, but my brother has that now & still is going strong - again, no issues at all.
The assumption in this discussion is that this move will allow Windows tech to run on OS X, but it could just as easily be the reverse too. OS X software & technologies running on Windows. Optimising Quicktime for Win, iTunes for Win etc etc
BAPCo is "the industry-standard *Windows* benchmarking consortium" because all the members make Windows stuff - now they dont.
So before we jump the gun & assume that OS X will now be assimilated by Windows, consider also the Windows adoption of Apple software.
I can't see either taking over the other, just better interoperability all round.
- at this rate it could easily end up being a comparison of Vista with OS X 10.6 Ocelot
I'm sure Chief O'Brian has a catch phrase for this.
It's really a job for the manufacturers of TV's to come up with a decent power saving system. People are going to be as lazy as you let them be.
Also there's an issue which no-one seems to have noticed - perhaps not with all TV's, but at least on the two that I own.
If I turn them off on the set, they lose the settings. I have to reset the time & any preferences etc.
I do agree that wasting all that power is plain crazy, so why can't the manufacturers just have an on/off on the remote & off means a *tiny* amount of power is flowing just to keep the IR active. All prefs should be saved onto solid state memory that does not require power - regardless of how cheap the TV is, surely all manufacturers can manage that without a cost implication.
I guess Standby is a leftover from old TV's that took time to warm up - that's pretty much gone now & I imagine non existant with flat screen TV's
Seems bizarre really, 2006 & we havent thought of a way to turn a TV off