For XP, probably not. For Vista, I would hope so. I recently bought a floppy drive, for 6 dollars. It enabled me to get a deal of 50$ off an ergonomic keyboard, so why not? Guess they want to get rid of their stock too.
Assuming you have the HD space, why would you install a new OS that you have never tested before, and not keep your old, working one? Especially with all the rumours revolving around Vista, its just common sense.
That it would be much more stable would it not? I don't know what kind of power usage it would be, and to hazard a guess, its probably not an improvement, I think they would have mentioned it. But, it might be a more reliable option, in the sense that it might be more resistant to electric surges, from say a lightning storm or something along those lines. I can't see it becoming a consumer level product, but for more specialized purposes.
It is pretty clear that IBM is desperate. Intel has a ton of momentum, and they have to be stopped somehow, even if it means throwing themselves at the rolling boulder. It seems obvious why they would try to reveal their new tech at the same time, when you keep in mind how much of a lead Intel has at the moment.
that does the same thing. it sits on a little charger, and there are no contacts, just some molded plastic, and it charges relatively quickly. It is pretty neat actually. I'm surprised there are all these articles featuring this technology that has been around for some time now. It may be at a larger scale, but theres little difference between the wireless charging technology now and the same technology tomorrow.
What kind of interface does it use? I remember there was a review of a samsung one that used ATA66, not exactly the best interface in the world. Shouldn't these things be able to actually use the capabilities (bandwidth) of SATA2 unlike most HDs today?
When I refer to UF, I'm talking about installations of programs and drivers. I've had much difficulty setting up video drivers and motherboard drivers, and its just not a nice way of doing it. Windows keeps it simple. Its just an executable file like everything else is.
I don't think it should be dumbed down either, I don't remember saying that. What an OS could use today is something of a skill level approach, where it asks you how skilled you think you are, expert, average or beginner, and average or begginer would hold your hand through tutorials or do everything for you, respectively, and expert would be as it is now. There, easy solution and no dumbing down of the system.
You forget that we were talking about those with little computer experience. I completely agree with most of your points, but a lot of them don't relate to those I and the parent posters were refering to.
By games, yes, I am aware that popular games are ported to linux. I made a mistake in saying that it doesn't play any games, when I should have said it doesn't play many games. Yes you are right, I am a gamer, I'm also a computer science major, so I typically use my computer for a lot more than gaming. Also, let us not forget how horribly confusing it is to try and install video drivers for ATI in Linux.. I don't know about nVidia but ATI drivers, I don't even know what to do with the file.
While popular games are ported to Linux, you still miss out on good games. It's similar to a radio station playing popular songs, they might have some of the tunes you like but there could be a lot more they don't play that you like as well.
And on the topic of money.. as a Student, I only had to pay 7 dollars for XP Pro. If I could get some help getting video drivers to work in Ubuntu or Fedora Core (I ordered both, free of course) then I might give Linux another go, but to the average user I still think windows is the way to go.
I'm sorry, but the reality is that Linux pales in comparison to Windows with regards to user friendliness. How is using Wine simpler than just using windows? Why bother emulating it when it comes standard on most pre-built systems that the majority of computer illiterate will be purchasing? Its pointless for those kinds of people. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see ANY OS properly compete with Windows, but I don't see it happening. What will the computer illiterates do with their computer? I'm willing to bet its gaming, word processing (possibly some other apps that come in Office), surfing and chatting, and playing media. Yeah its wonderful that Linux is a very secure OS, but its too bad it doesnt play any games. Games for Windows, no matter how much I despise it, will bring make it even more simple for those who want to game on a PC but have trouble setting up in the current PC gaming world. Windows is on top and it is folly to think its up top without a reason.
I'm lost on the whole "fanbois" thing with operating systems.. its like comparing motorcycles to cars to vans to trucks, etc etc etc. They all have very similar purposes and capabilities but they all have their own areas of strength and some people need to recognize that. I admit I am a windows user, although I do have Fedora, and I had Ubuntu CDs sent to my home, but I just dislike the driver support and the lack of gaming that I just don't use them. I like to explore alternatives, and I just haven't found any yet. But I don't sit here praising MS or Ubuntu or Mac OS X like they are gods or something.
.. the more children will slip through your fingers.
On a serious note, I'm getting tired of all these people trying to be control freaks over their kids. Maybe some kids need it, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure its not helping the situation. No matter how much you think you can you can't control everything they do, so stop trying. It is in their nature to rebel, and you only make it worse by trying to be dictators. How about finding a more mature, adult way of dealing with them? Wow lets spy on our kids, that's gonna teach them a good lesson about maturity. This kind of software at schools, sure, whatever, its widely accepted and is not targeted at individuals. So thats not really doing much for the kids.
As I have been able to observe my little sister's behaviour with my parents, I can tell that control is just not doing what they think it should be doing. She is almost 11, and I have 10 years on her, so I have a relatively unbiased opinion of the situation. I can tell that she has only gotten worse (although that will come with age anyway) but as she gets worse, my parents get worse. It is a vicious cycle, and parents need to learn alternatives to "controlling" their child.
How is that a con for the Zune? Who gives a shit about the touch sensitive interface, its just marketing fluff anyway.. oh wow a new way to navigate menus in a less accurate, distracting manner! I always found that annoying with the iPod, I kept over scrolling and messing up. I find buttons much easier and useful. You can easily tell what you are doing, or how many songs you've skipped without looking at the player. That's useful if you need to keep your eyes elsewhere, ie driving with your player hooked up to your car or something, or you just dont feel like taking it out of your pocket, etc. I just hope this brings some decent competition. Creative couldn't do it, can Microsoft?
I disagree. Sure, maybe its crushing the smaller companies, buying them out, whatever, but these people are actually capable of creating competition because of how large they've grown. I find it difficult to believe that there will be any small companies capable of evenly competing with Paypal.. we need well known companies like Google, that people have heard of, and the general (and I say general loosely, for those that dont agree) consensus is that Google is a good and creditable company. Competition is the best thing a customer could ask for.
But there are a lot more desktop gamers. You just don't have the same expandibility, and you can't really overclock. Little things like that drive gamers to desktops. Not to mention laptop keyboards are horrible in comparison to desktop keyboards, I don't think that there are any ergonomic laptop keyboards are there?
The drivers might very well be installed by Sony and DO NOT ship with XP/Vista, but so what? Anyone who doesn't know how to install drivers will most likely purchase a preloaded machine, and anyone who does either buys a preloaded machine OR puts it in themselves. It's just like RAID or SATA drivers for XP.. you have to use a floppy and do some weird things to get it to work which are most likely beyond a typical PC user. So really, I don't think it matters that much. Most new hardware doesn't have driver support in XP, so its not a new issue.
They have dual burners for CD and DVD, so whats to stop BD and DVD? I have doubts sony will prevent us from using DVDs in their burner, whats the point? It doesn't do them any good, for the money they save in not putting an extra laser or something, they will lose in sales due to the lack of backwards compatibility. Besides Sony has been good with that in their Playstations, not only are both CD and DVDs playable in the PS2 and PS3, but they also play their games from PSX, PS2. So I wouldn't bet on them missing out on backwards compatibility.
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For XP, probably not. For Vista, I would hope so. I recently bought a floppy drive, for 6 dollars. It enabled me to get a deal of 50$ off an ergonomic keyboard, so why not? Guess they want to get rid of their stock too.
Assuming you have the HD space, why would you install a new OS that you have never tested before, and not keep your old, working one? Especially with all the rumours revolving around Vista, its just common sense.
That it would be much more stable would it not? I don't know what kind of power usage it would be, and to hazard a guess, its probably not an improvement, I think they would have mentioned it. But, it might be a more reliable option, in the sense that it might be more resistant to electric surges, from say a lightning storm or something along those lines. I can't see it becoming a consumer level product, but for more specialized purposes.
It is pretty clear that IBM is desperate. Intel has a ton of momentum, and they have to be stopped somehow, even if it means throwing themselves at the rolling boulder. It seems obvious why they would try to reveal their new tech at the same time, when you keep in mind how much of a lead Intel has at the moment.
Sounds to me like they went to reach as far ahead of AMD-ATI as possible, to keep their lead. God I love competition.
if it was laptops. That would be interesting, shaving off ~150 in costs.
that does the same thing. it sits on a little charger, and there are no contacts, just some molded plastic, and it charges relatively quickly. It is pretty neat actually. I'm surprised there are all these articles featuring this technology that has been around for some time now. It may be at a larger scale, but theres little difference between the wireless charging technology now and the same technology tomorrow.
Explain to me how hidden shortcuts confuse the hell out of novice users?
Well said my friend, well said.
What kind of interface does it use? I remember there was a review of a samsung one that used ATA66, not exactly the best interface in the world. Shouldn't these things be able to actually use the capabilities (bandwidth) of SATA2 unlike most HDs today?
When I refer to UF, I'm talking about installations of programs and drivers. I've had much difficulty setting up video drivers and motherboard drivers, and its just not a nice way of doing it. Windows keeps it simple. Its just an executable file like everything else is.
I don't think it should be dumbed down either, I don't remember saying that. What an OS could use today is something of a skill level approach, where it asks you how skilled you think you are, expert, average or beginner, and average or begginer would hold your hand through tutorials or do everything for you, respectively, and expert would be as it is now. There, easy solution and no dumbing down of the system.
You forget that we were talking about those with little computer experience. I completely agree with most of your points, but a lot of them don't relate to those I and the parent posters were refering to.
By games, yes, I am aware that popular games are ported to linux. I made a mistake in saying that it doesn't play any games, when I should have said it doesn't play many games. Yes you are right, I am a gamer, I'm also a computer science major, so I typically use my computer for a lot more than gaming. Also, let us not forget how horribly confusing it is to try and install video drivers for ATI in Linux.. I don't know about nVidia but ATI drivers, I don't even know what to do with the file.
While popular games are ported to Linux, you still miss out on good games. It's similar to a radio station playing popular songs, they might have some of the tunes you like but there could be a lot more they don't play that you like as well.
And on the topic of money.. as a Student, I only had to pay 7 dollars for XP Pro. If I could get some help getting video drivers to work in Ubuntu or Fedora Core (I ordered both, free of course) then I might give Linux another go, but to the average user I still think windows is the way to go.
I'm sorry, but the reality is that Linux pales in comparison to Windows with regards to user friendliness. How is using Wine simpler than just using windows? Why bother emulating it when it comes standard on most pre-built systems that the majority of computer illiterate will be purchasing? Its pointless for those kinds of people. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see ANY OS properly compete with Windows, but I don't see it happening. What will the computer illiterates do with their computer? I'm willing to bet its gaming, word processing (possibly some other apps that come in Office), surfing and chatting, and playing media. Yeah its wonderful that Linux is a very secure OS, but its too bad it doesnt play any games. Games for Windows, no matter how much I despise it, will bring make it even more simple for those who want to game on a PC but have trouble setting up in the current PC gaming world. Windows is on top and it is folly to think its up top without a reason.
Yeah, thats not self defeating in the least.
I'm lost on the whole "fanbois" thing with operating systems.. its like comparing motorcycles to cars to vans to trucks, etc etc etc. They all have very similar purposes and capabilities but they all have their own areas of strength and some people need to recognize that. I admit I am a windows user, although I do have Fedora, and I had Ubuntu CDs sent to my home, but I just dislike the driver support and the lack of gaming that I just don't use them. I like to explore alternatives, and I just haven't found any yet. But I don't sit here praising MS or Ubuntu or Mac OS X like they are gods or something.
lol WTF indeed. Good choice!
LMFAO! that was awesome
Where are all the "first post bitches"?
.. the more children will slip through your fingers. On a serious note, I'm getting tired of all these people trying to be control freaks over their kids. Maybe some kids need it, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure its not helping the situation. No matter how much you think you can you can't control everything they do, so stop trying. It is in their nature to rebel, and you only make it worse by trying to be dictators. How about finding a more mature, adult way of dealing with them? Wow lets spy on our kids, that's gonna teach them a good lesson about maturity. This kind of software at schools, sure, whatever, its widely accepted and is not targeted at individuals. So thats not really doing much for the kids. As I have been able to observe my little sister's behaviour with my parents, I can tell that control is just not doing what they think it should be doing. She is almost 11, and I have 10 years on her, so I have a relatively unbiased opinion of the situation. I can tell that she has only gotten worse (although that will come with age anyway) but as she gets worse, my parents get worse. It is a vicious cycle, and parents need to learn alternatives to "controlling" their child.
How is that a con for the Zune? Who gives a shit about the touch sensitive interface, its just marketing fluff anyway.. oh wow a new way to navigate menus in a less accurate, distracting manner! I always found that annoying with the iPod, I kept over scrolling and messing up. I find buttons much easier and useful. You can easily tell what you are doing, or how many songs you've skipped without looking at the player. That's useful if you need to keep your eyes elsewhere, ie driving with your player hooked up to your car or something, or you just dont feel like taking it out of your pocket, etc. I just hope this brings some decent competition. Creative couldn't do it, can Microsoft?
I disagree. Sure, maybe its crushing the smaller companies, buying them out, whatever, but these people are actually capable of creating competition because of how large they've grown. I find it difficult to believe that there will be any small companies capable of evenly competing with Paypal.. we need well known companies like Google, that people have heard of, and the general (and I say general loosely, for those that dont agree) consensus is that Google is a good and creditable company. Competition is the best thing a customer could ask for.
But there are a lot more desktop gamers. You just don't have the same expandibility, and you can't really overclock. Little things like that drive gamers to desktops. Not to mention laptop keyboards are horrible in comparison to desktop keyboards, I don't think that there are any ergonomic laptop keyboards are there?
I mean aren't these just upscaled to HD quality? I thought that it had to be recorded in HD or something like that.
They will definitely have support for it: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?p roduct_code=336365
The drivers might very well be installed by Sony and DO NOT ship with XP/Vista, but so what? Anyone who doesn't know how to install drivers will most likely purchase a preloaded machine, and anyone who does either buys a preloaded machine OR puts it in themselves. It's just like RAID or SATA drivers for XP.. you have to use a floppy and do some weird things to get it to work which are most likely beyond a typical PC user. So really, I don't think it matters that much. Most new hardware doesn't have driver support in XP, so its not a new issue.
They have dual burners for CD and DVD, so whats to stop BD and DVD? I have doubts sony will prevent us from using DVDs in their burner, whats the point? It doesn't do them any good, for the money they save in not putting an extra laser or something, they will lose in sales due to the lack of backwards compatibility. Besides Sony has been good with that in their Playstations, not only are both CD and DVDs playable in the PS2 and PS3, but they also play their games from PSX, PS2. So I wouldn't bet on them missing out on backwards compatibility.