you just look at the size of the download and assume that means the program is 3X the size? Also its about compression of the downloaded file. Need to look at the actual program size... basicaly look at the full install directory. Mine appears to be 50.2 MB on OSX. Havent installed it on Windows yet...
I had the same exact symptoms before off a Dell laptop playing to a TV. on a cloned screen it was showing on the built in screen, but just the window being solid black on the TV. I put it to expaneded desktop and could drag the Window over to the TV and it would still be black. I pulled the DVD out and closed the player, switched it over onthe laptop so that the TV was the only screen, popped in the DVD and it auto played and came up on the TV just fine and i watched the whole movie.
sorry about the post, just ignore it, havent used HTML in years and screwed up remembering how to make line breaks... then after the first testing, i accicdently hit submit intead of preview....
this posting system is kind of stupid, even when i tried plain text it wouldnt put line breaks in without the tags... requring anyone to post a decent looking long post to know HTML.
Then the people that dont, that think their comments look fine when they right them, get them all in a big jumbled mess after they post and tons of people start yelling at them for making it a jumbled mess... when they attempted not to.
I've never had a problem. I pretty much like finder and the Dock... The main problem people have, and i can tell from your complaints, you are used to something else, and youdont know how the Dock works very much.
The Dock is not a window list of open windows, its not meant to be. Expose can cover that, or you can use keybaord shortcuts. CMD Tab will switch between open apps. If you hold down CMD and dont let it up after hitting Tab, you get a menu you can keep hitting tab thorugh and find the app you want then let up the buttons and it switches. If you need to switch between open windows in just that one App, its very similar but you use Cmd+` key right above Tab. When you get this down you can switch very quickly between open windows, or Expose is very fast too if you get that down (and do it with all keyboard and not the mouse)
You dont have to hold down the mouse button for a second or so if you dont want to, thats just a way that was added for easier 1 button mouse use. Right click does the same thing.
You can put links to folders and files on the right side of the bar onthe Dock by the trash can. Likei have a notes.txt file in my documents directory for when I'm on the phone and need to jot something really quick. I just click the notes.txt on the dock there and poof its open. If you put a whole folder there you can then right click it and it'll pop up much like a Windows start menu and show everything in that folder, and you can even go into sub folders. If you organize everything, or use Smart Folders, you can make some very quick shortcuts to hundreds of Apps with barely anything on your Dock, and never open a Finder window.
If your wanting to switch between windows in your last example a lot, you might want to get Expose down. Can do it rather quickly and with only keyboard buttons.
I've never had a problem. I pretty much like finder and the Dock... The main problem people have, and i can tell from your complaints, you are used to something else, and youdont know how the Dock works very much.
The Dock is not a window list of open windows, its not meant to be. Expose can cover that, or you can use keybaord shortcuts. CMD Tab will switch between open apps. If you hold down CMD and dont let it up after hitting Tab, you get a menu you can keep hitting tab thorugh and find the app you want then let up the buttons and it switches. If you need to switch between open windows in just that one App, its very similar but you use Cmd+` key right above Tab. When you get this down you can switch very quickly between open windows, or Expose is very fast too if you get that down (and do it with all keyboard and not the mouse)
You dont have to hold down the mouse button for a second or so if you dont want to, thats just a way that was added for easier 1 button mouse use. Right click does the same thing.
You can put links to folders and files on the right side of the bar onthe Dock by the trash can. Likei have a notes.txt file in my documents directory for when I'm on the phone and need to jot something really quick. I just click the notes.txt on the dock there and poof its open. If you put a whole folder there you can then right click it and it'll pop up much like a Windows start menu and show everything in that folder, and you can even go into sub folders. If you organize everything, or use Smart Folders, you can make some very quick shortcuts to hundreds of Apps with barely anything on your Dock, and never open a Finder window.
If your wanting to switch between windows in your last example a lot, you might want to get Expose down. Can do it rather quickly and with only keyboard buttons.
and you could buy a Dell that can only have 1 optical drive... you cant buy a motherboard off the shelf to throw in them either, they wont fit or have the right mounting... and blah blah blah.... your main point is right, building a machine yourself out of standard parts has many benefits over buying from a large computer company.
uhhh... what?
I dont understand your post at all...
He simply stated that he hasnt had a problem in many years on Windows because he doesnt run always in an Admin account... on Windows. Are you just saying that he shouldnt even point that out. if people didnt describe what they wanted to explain in detail, all articles would be one sentence.
Or maybe you skimmed through and thought me meant OSX? no idea
whats wrong with the MacBook Pro wrist rests? i really dont get what your talking about because i have no issues with mine.
Connectors on the back would rule out the nicer hinge, and have to divert cooling to the sides and bottom... meaning it would have to sit up higher too, possibly make the whole machine bigger like similiar thinkpads. Also, if the USB plug is in the way on one side, try plugging it into the other side. Ive never had it in the way, even on an airplane tray, because if i put an external mouse so close that the plug is in the way, id be bumping the computer all the time anyways.... but i dont even use a mouse anymoe since the trckpads on these are so wonderful... I wish someone made one like this i could hook up to a desktop, but no one does, just crap ones like on Dells and Thinkpads.
Why are you waiting 30 seconds every time you close it to make sure its gone to sleep? Every time i close the lid it goes to sleep. If i have many things going sometimes it takes a little longer than others, but i dont sit and watch it. Every time I've closed the lid and came back later to get on it, it was always alseep. Are you used to things not working, so you have to double check and make sure it does?
And "best" is an opinion. i much perfer the keyboard on my MBP to the Thinkpad keyboards.
you must have a really low end D800... and poor taste
The D800 I have only runs cool when your not pushing it hard, when I'm pushing it hard the bottom of that thing gets hotter than my MacBook Pro's does.
Also the D800 is built like crap. the magnisum alloy frame work is kind of nice, but other than that its built way too huge with emtpy space inside, and is flimsy, the whole keyboard moves and bends... I really dont get how you can say its designed better, if i hadnt read your whole post Id think you were being sarcastic.
And to your workstation thing, sure Dell makes more options, and Apple limits you to a few options, i think everyone knows that. yeah wow, your whole point there was that Dell makes a workstation thats higher end than Apples only workstation... yeah, ok now i get why you said the crap about a D800...
and your only going by the specs that are importnt to you. If some of the specs of the MBP arent important to you, than sure, get what is more important. Its not the same for everyone. biggest thing, the MBP is almost half the volume of 15" inspirons...
yes, buzzing is a bad inverter board. i had the same issue with mine, but i work for an AASP, so i didnt have to send it anywhere, i just got the part form apple and swapped it out myself many months ago, no more buzzing since then.
ok, to be more clear, the wording and keys are the same between say safari and firefox2, but they dont actually do the same thing. If you have a single tab open in Safari, or in Firefox 1, and you hit CMD+W it closes the whole window, tab and all, but not the program. On firefox 2, if you hit CMD+W on a window open with only a single tab, it will just blank the tab out and leave the Window open. Per wording i can see how someone thinks thats right, but thats not how other Mac software works. If i hit Cmd+w to close a tab, why is a tab still open?
I have FireFox 2 on OSX, and it uses Firefoxes methods, not OSXs... even the drop down menus list what the shortcut keys are and arent what they should be to meet standard Apple guidelines
I really try to use Firefox, since i use it on Linux and Windows, but i just really like Safari better. I have Firefox installed but 99.9% of the time it stays closed. I dont think I'll even keep Firefox2 on it since they are breaking away from standard Mac interface and going to a standard Firefox interface. The main thing that stops me from using it, is Cmd+W no longer closes the last window, it just closes tabs down to a single last blank tab, and they want me to push shift+Cmd+W to close the actual window... Mozilla is so full of themselves now they think they can not follow standard interface rules for OSX and everyone will still love them.
well the current Mac Pro is Xeon 5100 series chips, which are made off Core 2.... but You'll not see a Mac Pro use a normal Core 2 chip, as they want to keep the dual sockets going.
Now Id love to see a machine by another name thats built like a smaller Mac Pro with 1 socket and Core 2 Duo's... yes... they would sell like hotcakes.... Apple really needs to drop the stupid iMac.
WRONG PROCESSORS!!!!
you put two 3ghz Xeon 5050 chips in your config. those are Netburst old P4 chips.
The Mac Pro has 2 3ghz 5160 (Core 2 based) chips that cost almost $1000 more per processor to buy
you still did more wrong. I configed the Dell 690 the way you listed and the total came to $7784
i think you used the Xeon 5050 3ghz chips, and not the Xeon 5160 3ghz chips.... huge difference as the Xeon 5050 are $930 less per processor on the Dell config
the 5050 is an old netburst (P4) chip, and the 5160 is the woodcrest (Core 2) chip
back in the day, most all apps could not use multiple processors, and if you wanted the specialized version that could use more, you had to pay more because of the extra development costs and low sales.
Now, they do it because people are used to it, its accepted as norm... It doesnt cost them more but they can charge more just because people expect it. Its simple corp. greed
Microsoft found it cheaper to pay Flip4Mac to allow free downloads of the plugin. MS makes sure that the Flip4Mac item is a free download, but they do nothing to develop it directly. It existed before MS started linking to it
I dont agree at all. most people looking at this are taking it from a complete outsiders perspective. Being a person that plays many gmaes on the Mac, I'm all for Cider.
Ive used Cadega a lot, and it works decent enough, and Cider can only be cleaner since it will be made specificly for the game being sold.
The problem with your arguement is your saying that Cider games will run worse than 'native' ported games. I seriouesly doubt that because most 'native' ported games absolulty suck on performance already. Many are already using built in things much like Cider in some areas so Code doesnt have to be re-written. Then the games coming out are a hodgepodge of poorly written OSX code with windows optimized code thrown in. If current OSX games ran decent, then Id hate Cider, but it really cant get much worse.
not yet. The OS doesnt support it, but the ahrdware should. They actually ahve 4 x16 PCIe slots in the machine and even let you run 2 of the bigger cards, or 4 of the smaller (7300s) cards all at the same time. As of yet you cannot use crossfire or SLI, they run as seprate cards for many monitors.
they will have Xeon 5100s in the high end ones. The core 2 extreme can not run in a dual socket for 4 core configuration. Apple at this point cant afford to skip on a 4 core workstation.
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you just look at the size of the download and assume that means the program is 3X the size? Also its about compression of the downloaded file. Need to look at the actual program size... basicaly look at the full install directory. Mine appears to be 50.2 MB on OSX. Havent installed it on Windows yet...
I dont think that is DRM...
I had the same exact symptoms before off a Dell laptop playing to a TV. on a cloned screen it was showing on the built in screen, but just the window being solid black on the TV. I put it to expaneded desktop and could drag the Window over to the TV and it would still be black. I pulled the DVD out and closed the player, switched it over onthe laptop so that the TV was the only screen, popped in the DVD and it auto played and came up on the TV just fine and i watched the whole movie.
sorry about the post, just ignore it, havent used HTML in years and screwed up remembering how to make line breaks... then after the first testing, i accicdently hit submit intead of preview....
this posting system is kind of stupid, even when i tried plain text it wouldnt put line breaks in without the tags... requring anyone to post a decent looking long post to know HTML.
Then the people that dont, that think their comments look fine when they right them, get them all in a big jumbled mess after they post and tons of people start yelling at them for making it a jumbled mess... when they attempted not to.
I've never had a problem. I pretty much like finder and the Dock... The main problem people have, and i can tell from your complaints, you are used to something else, and youdont know how the Dock works very much.
The Dock is not a window list of open windows, its not meant to be. Expose can cover that, or you can use keybaord shortcuts. CMD Tab will switch between open apps. If you hold down CMD and dont let it up after hitting Tab, you get a menu you can keep hitting tab thorugh and find the app you want then let up the buttons and it switches. If you need to switch between open windows in just that one App, its very similar but you use Cmd+` key right above Tab. When you get this down you can switch very quickly between open windows, or Expose is very fast too if you get that down (and do it with all keyboard and not the mouse)
You dont have to hold down the mouse button for a second or so if you dont want to, thats just a way that was added for easier 1 button mouse use. Right click does the same thing.
You can put links to folders and files on the right side of the bar onthe Dock by the trash can. Likei have a notes.txt file in my documents directory for when I'm on the phone and need to jot something really quick. I just click the notes.txt on the dock there and poof its open. If you put a whole folder there you can then right click it and it'll pop up much like a Windows start menu and show everything in that folder, and you can even go into sub folders. If you organize everything, or use Smart Folders, you can make some very quick shortcuts to hundreds of Apps with barely anything on your Dock, and never open a Finder window.
If your wanting to switch between windows in your last example a lot, you might want to get Expose down. Can do it rather quickly and with only keyboard buttons.
I've never had a problem. I pretty much like finder and the Dock... The main problem people have, and i can tell from your complaints, you are used to something else, and youdont know how the Dock works very much. The Dock is not a window list of open windows, its not meant to be. Expose can cover that, or you can use keybaord shortcuts. CMD Tab will switch between open apps. If you hold down CMD and dont let it up after hitting Tab, you get a menu you can keep hitting tab thorugh and find the app you want then let up the buttons and it switches. If you need to switch between open windows in just that one App, its very similar but you use Cmd+` key right above Tab. When you get this down you can switch very quickly between open windows, or Expose is very fast too if you get that down (and do it with all keyboard and not the mouse) You dont have to hold down the mouse button for a second or so if you dont want to, thats just a way that was added for easier 1 button mouse use. Right click does the same thing. You can put links to folders and files on the right side of the bar onthe Dock by the trash can. Likei have a notes.txt file in my documents directory for when I'm on the phone and need to jot something really quick. I just click the notes.txt on the dock there and poof its open. If you put a whole folder there you can then right click it and it'll pop up much like a Windows start menu and show everything in that folder, and you can even go into sub folders. If you organize everything, or use Smart Folders, you can make some very quick shortcuts to hundreds of Apps with barely anything on your Dock, and never open a Finder window. If your wanting to switch between windows in your last example a lot, you might want to get Expose down. Can do it rather quickly and with only keyboard buttons.
and you could buy a Dell that can only have 1 optical drive... you cant buy a motherboard off the shelf to throw in them either, they wont fit or have the right mounting... and blah blah blah.... your main point is right, building a machine yourself out of standard parts has many benefits over buying from a large computer company.
uhhh... what? I dont understand your post at all... He simply stated that he hasnt had a problem in many years on Windows because he doesnt run always in an Admin account... on Windows. Are you just saying that he shouldnt even point that out. if people didnt describe what they wanted to explain in detail, all articles would be one sentence. Or maybe you skimmed through and thought me meant OSX? no idea
underwear....?
whats wrong with the MacBook Pro wrist rests? i really dont get what your talking about because i have no issues with mine. Connectors on the back would rule out the nicer hinge, and have to divert cooling to the sides and bottom... meaning it would have to sit up higher too, possibly make the whole machine bigger like similiar thinkpads. Also, if the USB plug is in the way on one side, try plugging it into the other side. Ive never had it in the way, even on an airplane tray, because if i put an external mouse so close that the plug is in the way, id be bumping the computer all the time anyways.... but i dont even use a mouse anymoe since the trckpads on these are so wonderful... I wish someone made one like this i could hook up to a desktop, but no one does, just crap ones like on Dells and Thinkpads. Why are you waiting 30 seconds every time you close it to make sure its gone to sleep? Every time i close the lid it goes to sleep. If i have many things going sometimes it takes a little longer than others, but i dont sit and watch it. Every time I've closed the lid and came back later to get on it, it was always alseep. Are you used to things not working, so you have to double check and make sure it does? And "best" is an opinion. i much perfer the keyboard on my MBP to the Thinkpad keyboards.
you must have a really low end D800... and poor taste The D800 I have only runs cool when your not pushing it hard, when I'm pushing it hard the bottom of that thing gets hotter than my MacBook Pro's does. Also the D800 is built like crap. the magnisum alloy frame work is kind of nice, but other than that its built way too huge with emtpy space inside, and is flimsy, the whole keyboard moves and bends... I really dont get how you can say its designed better, if i hadnt read your whole post Id think you were being sarcastic. And to your workstation thing, sure Dell makes more options, and Apple limits you to a few options, i think everyone knows that. yeah wow, your whole point there was that Dell makes a workstation thats higher end than Apples only workstation... yeah, ok now i get why you said the crap about a D800...
and your only going by the specs that are importnt to you. If some of the specs of the MBP arent important to you, than sure, get what is more important. Its not the same for everyone. biggest thing, the MBP is almost half the volume of 15" inspirons...
yes, buzzing is a bad inverter board. i had the same issue with mine, but i work for an AASP, so i didnt have to send it anywhere, i just got the part form apple and swapped it out myself many months ago, no more buzzing since then.
so your saying to cancel out global warming with nuclear winter?
ok, to be more clear, the wording and keys are the same between say safari and firefox2, but they dont actually do the same thing. If you have a single tab open in Safari, or in Firefox 1, and you hit CMD+W it closes the whole window, tab and all, but not the program. On firefox 2, if you hit CMD+W on a window open with only a single tab, it will just blank the tab out and leave the Window open. Per wording i can see how someone thinks thats right, but thats not how other Mac software works. If i hit Cmd+w to close a tab, why is a tab still open?
I have FireFox 2 on OSX, and it uses Firefoxes methods, not OSXs... even the drop down menus list what the shortcut keys are and arent what they should be to meet standard Apple guidelines
I really try to use Firefox, since i use it on Linux and Windows, but i just really like Safari better. I have Firefox installed but 99.9% of the time it stays closed. I dont think I'll even keep Firefox2 on it since they are breaking away from standard Mac interface and going to a standard Firefox interface. The main thing that stops me from using it, is Cmd+W no longer closes the last window, it just closes tabs down to a single last blank tab, and they want me to push shift+Cmd+W to close the actual window... Mozilla is so full of themselves now they think they can not follow standard interface rules for OSX and everyone will still love them.
and? that datasheet doesnt say 64 bit because all Core Duo processors are 32bit, not 64.
It is Core 2 Duo processors that are 64bit, not Core Duo.... look for Core 2, not Core.
well the current Mac Pro is Xeon 5100 series chips, which are made off Core 2.... but You'll not see a Mac Pro use a normal Core 2 chip, as they want to keep the dual sockets going. Now Id love to see a machine by another name thats built like a smaller Mac Pro with 1 socket and Core 2 Duo's... yes... they would sell like hotcakes.... Apple really needs to drop the stupid iMac.
WRONG PROCESSORS!!!! you put two 3ghz Xeon 5050 chips in your config. those are Netburst old P4 chips. The Mac Pro has 2 3ghz 5160 (Core 2 based) chips that cost almost $1000 more per processor to buy
you still did more wrong. I configed the Dell 690 the way you listed and the total came to $7784
i think you used the Xeon 5050 3ghz chips, and not the Xeon 5160 3ghz chips....
huge difference as the Xeon 5050 are $930 less per processor on the Dell config
the 5050 is an old netburst (P4) chip, and the 5160 is the woodcrest (Core 2) chip
back in the day, most all apps could not use multiple processors, and if you wanted the specialized version that could use more, you had to pay more because of the extra development costs and low sales.
Now, they do it because people are used to it, its accepted as norm... It doesnt cost them more but they can charge more just because people expect it. Its simple corp. greed
Microsoft found it cheaper to pay Flip4Mac to allow free downloads of the plugin. MS makes sure that the Flip4Mac item is a free download, but they do nothing to develop it directly. It existed before MS started linking to it
I dont agree at all. most people looking at this are taking it from a complete outsiders perspective. Being a person that plays many gmaes on the Mac, I'm all for Cider.
Ive used Cadega a lot, and it works decent enough, and Cider can only be cleaner since it will be made specificly for the game being sold.
The problem with your arguement is your saying that Cider games will run worse than 'native' ported games. I seriouesly doubt that because most 'native' ported games absolulty suck on performance already. Many are already using built in things much like Cider in some areas so Code doesnt have to be re-written. Then the games coming out are a hodgepodge of poorly written OSX code with windows optimized code thrown in. If current OSX games ran decent, then Id hate Cider, but it really cant get much worse.
not yet. The OS doesnt support it, but the ahrdware should. They actually ahve 4 x16 PCIe slots in the machine and even let you run 2 of the bigger cards, or 4 of the smaller (7300s) cards all at the same time. As of yet you cannot use crossfire or SLI, they run as seprate cards for many monitors.
they will have Xeon 5100s in the high end ones. The core 2 extreme can not run in a dual socket for 4 core configuration. Apple at this point cant afford to skip on a 4 core workstation.