DaveGee
Sep 13, 01:29 PM
16 Weeks till MWSF...
Heh when you say it like that it doesn't sound all that far off at all. Hey, not that it's a lock we will see updates to the iBooks @ SF and who knows we could see updates before then... Oct? Nov?? Guessing is a total crap-shoot.
heck going into the weeks before MWNY everyone was SO SURE the PowerMacs would be updated... They weren't... then one month later... they were (not a great update but they were updated).
Fact is you can't base your buying habbits on rumors... You'll be no better off and just drive youself crazy.
Second guessing Apple HW/SW releases? You'd have better luck playing LOTTO. :D
Dave
Heh when you say it like that it doesn't sound all that far off at all. Hey, not that it's a lock we will see updates to the iBooks @ SF and who knows we could see updates before then... Oct? Nov?? Guessing is a total crap-shoot.
heck going into the weeks before MWNY everyone was SO SURE the PowerMacs would be updated... They weren't... then one month later... they were (not a great update but they were updated).
Fact is you can't base your buying habbits on rumors... You'll be no better off and just drive youself crazy.
Second guessing Apple HW/SW releases? You'd have better luck playing LOTTO. :D
Dave
Mr. Anderson
Sep 11, 05:41 PM
How's this for speculation -
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2002-09-09#3391
translated at altavista-
Love Juce – Desktop Wallpaper
floral wallpaper tile.
desktop wallpaper tiled. Tile
wallpapers HD Tiles
tiles pink wall wallpaper
tiles cyan wall wallpaper
desktop wallpaper tiled. a
Desktop wallpaper created by
wallpapers HD Blue Tiles
Tea and Tiles
Wallpaper pool
Seamless Tile Wallpaper
tile them on your desktop.
Wallpaper Desktop 1.4
blue wallpaper tile.
wallpaper tile background
Wallpaper Tile Series in
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2002-09-09#3391
translated at altavista-
Catfish_Man
Oct 22, 03:27 PM
Originally posted by MacCoaster
javajedi:
Then do physical 900MHz DDR chips run on it? or are you limited to phyiscal 450MHz DDR chips? ...800MHz of it is usable, so it will probably use dual channel DDR400.
javajedi:
Then do physical 900MHz DDR chips run on it? or are you limited to phyiscal 450MHz DDR chips? ...800MHz of it is usable, so it will probably use dual channel DDR400.
spencecb
Mar 4, 06:01 PM
I do it to heat my room... oh, and cure stuff too. ;)
haha, that is so true! I had a much smaller bedroom last year, and I swear when I had my iMac folding it made the room a couple degrees warmer.
haha, that is so true! I had a much smaller bedroom last year, and I swear when I had my iMac folding it made the room a couple degrees warmer.
jettredmont
Oct 29, 02:17 PM
Originally posted by aratke
iPod turned into a usefull 'hub'.
- USB port
- ability to transfer pictures from digital cameras to iPod (all cameras like in OS X) --> just think ... ENOUGH MEMORY for vacation pictures!!
Huh? A USB port on an iPod?!? USB devices have enough trouble getting Windows and OS X drivers written for them; you expect device manufacturers to make an iPod driver too?!?!? Yes, there are common HID device interfaces like keyboards and mice and external HDs (digital cameras work because all modern cameras use this HID), but put a USB device in there and people will be wondering why their printer won't work off the iPod!
IMHO, USB is the WRONG choice for a "secondary hub" like the iPod would be. What is the right interface? Something like FireWire would make more sense, maybe. On the other hand, the whole "secondary hub" idea seems a bit off the point.
iPod turned into a usefull 'hub'.
- USB port
- ability to transfer pictures from digital cameras to iPod (all cameras like in OS X) --> just think ... ENOUGH MEMORY for vacation pictures!!
Huh? A USB port on an iPod?!? USB devices have enough trouble getting Windows and OS X drivers written for them; you expect device manufacturers to make an iPod driver too?!?!? Yes, there are common HID device interfaces like keyboards and mice and external HDs (digital cameras work because all modern cameras use this HID), but put a USB device in there and people will be wondering why their printer won't work off the iPod!
IMHO, USB is the WRONG choice for a "secondary hub" like the iPod would be. What is the right interface? Something like FireWire would make more sense, maybe. On the other hand, the whole "secondary hub" idea seems a bit off the point.
realityisterror
Jun 21, 10:02 PM
You do realize that's the Canadian site right? Crazy Canucks do that kind of stuff. :cool:
Kidding, kidding. I love Canada. :)
Kidding, kidding. I love Canada. :)
Over Achiever
Sep 8, 08:30 PM
Superdrives in laptops...easy.
Getting it to be slot loading and under an inch thick? Give it a couple of years...
Unless the pb form factor changes back to pismo like days, no superdrive this year.
Getting it to be slot loading and under an inch thick? Give it a couple of years...
Unless the pb form factor changes back to pismo like days, no superdrive this year.
MacAztec
Aug 27, 09:39 PM
I miss the old days of when I first joined the site. I remember you jef, and eye, and Kishba I believe.
There were like 15 main posters. It was awesome.
There were like 15 main posters. It was awesome.
jamesi
Apr 26, 11:41 PM
He caused the atrocities.
He almost seemed to become his worst nightmare. He's very intriguing.
Oh, btw, am I the only one that thinks that there is a very find line between dictatorship and communism? :o
lol no you are the only one who thinks there is a fine line between communism and a dictatorship. i mentioned that it could be argued that robespierre became a dictator b/c its entirely plausible (tho i dont think so) and many historians have written about it.
He almost seemed to become his worst nightmare. He's very intriguing.
Oh, btw, am I the only one that thinks that there is a very find line between dictatorship and communism? :o
lol no you are the only one who thinks there is a fine line between communism and a dictatorship. i mentioned that it could be argued that robespierre became a dictator b/c its entirely plausible (tho i dont think so) and many historians have written about it.
timswim78
May 4, 10:47 AM
The formatting bars look a lot more useable than those in Word 2003/XP/2000.
jared_kipe
Mar 18, 04:07 PM
More like the wrath-of-Jobs! :rolleyes:
Same thing.
Same thing.
leftbanke7
Mar 28, 10:47 PM
Darn, I was hoping for a 2GHz dual-core PowerBook G5. :rolleyes: ;) :)
That will be coming Tuesday the 11th.
That will be coming Tuesday the 11th.
Nermal
Dec 22, 03:49 PM
I downloaded this last night. I don't use it much, but noticed that the menus are now in the right place, and it doesn't quit when you close the last document. The interface is still ugly though, but I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.
dalvin200
Apr 20, 04:50 AM
TheRegister has an interesting article (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/20/portalplayer_loses_flash_ipod_deal/) about the future of iPod and the chips it uses..
Probably most logical steps, but may be a confirmation as well..
Probably most logical steps, but may be a confirmation as well..
MacRumorUser
Mar 23, 01:04 PM
error page not found..
I guess no-one. ;)
I guess no-one. ;)
4JNA
Jul 8, 02:53 AM
I'm not sure I get why it is so funny?
it's only funny because the OP missed the 'community discussion' forum by one line. :rolleyes:
move down one thread, nothing to see here... :)
it's only funny because the OP missed the 'community discussion' forum by one line. :rolleyes:
move down one thread, nothing to see here... :)
darkwing
Mar 21, 04:29 PM
You mean delighted ;) I'm sure :p
I'm sure they will patch / fix the vunerability quickly - if they havent already done so.
I wish someone will steal my account and add some more achivement points out of pity for my score.... :D
Actually I'm not delighted. I never really cared about online anything. 99.9% of the gaming I do is single player. I just kinda had a desire to play VT online. :P
I may get a 360 for Trusty Bell, so I'd like to know I'd be safe if I chose to use xbl. I probably won't, though.
I'm sure they will patch / fix the vunerability quickly - if they havent already done so.
I wish someone will steal my account and add some more achivement points out of pity for my score.... :D
Actually I'm not delighted. I never really cared about online anything. 99.9% of the gaming I do is single player. I just kinda had a desire to play VT online. :P
I may get a 360 for Trusty Bell, so I'd like to know I'd be safe if I chose to use xbl. I probably won't, though.
technocoy
Oct 18, 03:48 PM
well first of all i asked him if they were gonna sell the power4 lite to apple or not, and he said it was a DONE DEAL.... Cool as HELL... I'll buy my powerbook now and by the time I need a desktop..... OH, Yeah:D new processor time..... interesting tidbit.... i kept saying power4 lite and he kept saying... no its the power5:confused: anyone else heard this??
more later....
my boss is here;)
technocoy
more later....
my boss is here;)
technocoy
zap2
Mar 24, 12:21 PM
:rolleyes: people bitch way too much around here. Of course Sony is gonna say its "last-gen" or it doesn't work with their SIXAXIS because they didn't wanna pay the bill. Any other company would do the exact same thing.
Nope....MS didn't, they were sued by the same company and settled for 26M, never once did they not put force feedback in there system, and they cite the reason as it being "last gen"
Nope....MS didn't, they were sued by the same company and settled for 26M, never once did they not put force feedback in there system, and they cite the reason as it being "last gen"
mkrishnan
Apr 2, 09:23 PM
I know I can't be the *only* one who wants a switch to XP. Come on now!!! :mad:
LimeiBook86
Dec 7, 06:01 AM
Originally posted by dukestreet
not everyone is leaving and its only been an issue becuase people are making a big deal about it - that and the goodbye threads.
relax
not everyone is leaving and its only been an issue becuase people are making a big deal about it - that and the goodbye threads.
relax
ahunter3
May 19, 11:48 PM
PCs were soon running Windows (3.1 or 3.11 for Workgroups) and had VGA monitors, pixel-based monitors like Macs had, and they had mice now: two-button mice instead of Mac-style mice, but mice nonetheless. Double-click things and they open. Click and drag and things move, etc. Windows had overhead menus, too, just like a Mac (except that their menus stayed down when you clicked them), and after the first few iterations started to standardize menu commands, using the Mac standards but mapping the PC's Control key in lieu of the Mac's ⌘ key which the PC keyboard did not have. Speaking of keyboards, the Mac optionally came with an extended keyboard with all those PC keys like Page Up and Num Lock; even the standard keyboard now came with a Control key!
This was highly useful when Insignia Solutions shipped their SoftPC product. A PC emulator that could run MS-DOS on a Mac! You would designate a folder as a shared directory, and the DOS environment would see it as an E: drive or some such thing, and that way you could move stuff back and forth between environments.
Computers had hard drives now, but once again the PC and Mac worlds had adopted different implementations: the Mac had SCSI hard drives, the PC ubiquitously shipped with IDE drives.
Macs, beginning with the SE and the Mac II, could run multiple monitors which worked as an extended desktop. Under MS-DOS, the PC could run more than one monitor, too, but very few people did it, as support wasn't well-integrated into the OS. It wasn't like an extended desktop, it was more like "which screen do you want to be 'on' now?" and it was even messier under Windows: it was an accomplishment to get the mouse cursor to move from one to the other, let alone moving an icon from one to the other.
Common file formats began to be common: there was an internet, if not yet a web, and ".gif" and ".tif" and ".jpg" and ".aif" and ".mod" and other filetypes that were almost as often Unix or Amiga in origin as PC or Mac were soon supported by software on PCs and Macs.
Thursby Systems put out a product called DAVE which put a NetBIOS stack on the Mac and let the Mac participate in TCP-based PC networks. (Less useful for small-biz or home-based PC networks still based on NetBEUI though). Both platforms had some software that would do FTP, though, and internet-based email. Not that internet-based email was big yet � CompuServe and AOL and Prodigy and etc were how most folks emailed � but either way, email was a definite way of linking the platforms.
Removable media got popular, although far more so on the Mac. Bernoulli drives, SyQuest drives, Floptical drives, and later on, Zip drives and Jaz drives and CD-ROMs. The Macs could natively read PC-formatted media as well as Mac-formatted media, and if you could find a PC with the appropriate drive, you could exchange files that way.
Mac folks still formatted a lot of their media Mac-formatted, because Macs could boot from damn near anything (Zip, Jaz, CD, SyQuest, Bernoulli, PCCard, you name it) but to boot from it it had to be Mac-formatted, aka HFS. And because of the resource-fork issue (FAT-16 or FAT-32, the main PC formats, were "flat", so resource-fork info had to be either discarded or stored in invisible parallel folders, which was inefficient).
With Windows95, the PC finally found a use for that extra mouse button, the contextual menu; and alongside of introducing to the PC world a plethora of Mac-like items such as a real Desktop you could save stuff to or store stuff on, a trash can (recycle bin), a customizable menu like the Apple Menu (Start Menu), and icons that indicated what application would "own" it (implemented via a headache called the "registry" since the PC had no resource fork for such metadata), Windows95 introduced the task bar, refined the klunky Win3.x notion of "minimizing" so as to have minimized windows represented as clickable icons on the task bar, and integrated the act of selecting program-type processes with the act of managing files (previously separate under Win3.x), again like the Mac, and implemented some drag-and-drop functionality as well, while rolling out a pair of serious low-level OS infrastructural elements: preemptive multitasking and protected memory. On the PC you could now hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and pick a hung or otherwise unwanted running program and nuke it from orbit.
The Mac copied the sticky Windows menus that stayed down when you clicked them as of OS 8, and soon had contextual menus which, in the absence of a second mouse button, were invoked by control-clicking. More and more commercial applications used the same file format on PC and Mac, and increasingly were inclined to stick a PC-style file extensions suffix at "save" time, while auto-recognzing files with the appropriate suffixes as one of theirs even without File Exchange gluing on an appropriate File Type code. And then Macs began shipping with ATA (IDE) drives instead of SCSI, and as a consequence could mount a PC's hard drive on its Desktop as easily as a PC floppy if you had the cables to connect it. And then the NuBus card slots gave way to PCI card slots, which had already replaced ISA card slots on the PC, and now the very same expansion cards could work on a Mac or a PC as long as you had the right software drivers for your OS. RAM also increasingly became generic � whereas once upon a time, PC RAM had been different from Mac RAM (with an extra parity chip for the PC RAM, if I recall correctly), Mac models would generally come out using a RAM specification that was in current use in the latest PCs as well.
Windows95, and its successor Windows98, although they had a memory architecture theoretically supporting protected memory and a threading architecture implementing preemptive multitasking, accomplished both of those as a bit of a kludge. The MacOS of the same vintage limped along with cooperative multitaking (which worked better than it should have, and up until crash time would let Macs run more apps concurrently than PCs as a general rule) and an incredibly old and moldy memory model (which didn't even do virtual memory worth a damn, and which required one to manually designate how much RAM a given app should have, rather than having the OS allocate it dynamicallyu). Even in memory-management, the Mac wasn't totally in shame, as it handled large amounts of RAM gracefully while the Windows PC tended to have problems with that.
This was highly useful when Insignia Solutions shipped their SoftPC product. A PC emulator that could run MS-DOS on a Mac! You would designate a folder as a shared directory, and the DOS environment would see it as an E: drive or some such thing, and that way you could move stuff back and forth between environments.
Computers had hard drives now, but once again the PC and Mac worlds had adopted different implementations: the Mac had SCSI hard drives, the PC ubiquitously shipped with IDE drives.
Macs, beginning with the SE and the Mac II, could run multiple monitors which worked as an extended desktop. Under MS-DOS, the PC could run more than one monitor, too, but very few people did it, as support wasn't well-integrated into the OS. It wasn't like an extended desktop, it was more like "which screen do you want to be 'on' now?" and it was even messier under Windows: it was an accomplishment to get the mouse cursor to move from one to the other, let alone moving an icon from one to the other.
Common file formats began to be common: there was an internet, if not yet a web, and ".gif" and ".tif" and ".jpg" and ".aif" and ".mod" and other filetypes that were almost as often Unix or Amiga in origin as PC or Mac were soon supported by software on PCs and Macs.
Thursby Systems put out a product called DAVE which put a NetBIOS stack on the Mac and let the Mac participate in TCP-based PC networks. (Less useful for small-biz or home-based PC networks still based on NetBEUI though). Both platforms had some software that would do FTP, though, and internet-based email. Not that internet-based email was big yet � CompuServe and AOL and Prodigy and etc were how most folks emailed � but either way, email was a definite way of linking the platforms.
Removable media got popular, although far more so on the Mac. Bernoulli drives, SyQuest drives, Floptical drives, and later on, Zip drives and Jaz drives and CD-ROMs. The Macs could natively read PC-formatted media as well as Mac-formatted media, and if you could find a PC with the appropriate drive, you could exchange files that way.
Mac folks still formatted a lot of their media Mac-formatted, because Macs could boot from damn near anything (Zip, Jaz, CD, SyQuest, Bernoulli, PCCard, you name it) but to boot from it it had to be Mac-formatted, aka HFS. And because of the resource-fork issue (FAT-16 or FAT-32, the main PC formats, were "flat", so resource-fork info had to be either discarded or stored in invisible parallel folders, which was inefficient).
With Windows95, the PC finally found a use for that extra mouse button, the contextual menu; and alongside of introducing to the PC world a plethora of Mac-like items such as a real Desktop you could save stuff to or store stuff on, a trash can (recycle bin), a customizable menu like the Apple Menu (Start Menu), and icons that indicated what application would "own" it (implemented via a headache called the "registry" since the PC had no resource fork for such metadata), Windows95 introduced the task bar, refined the klunky Win3.x notion of "minimizing" so as to have minimized windows represented as clickable icons on the task bar, and integrated the act of selecting program-type processes with the act of managing files (previously separate under Win3.x), again like the Mac, and implemented some drag-and-drop functionality as well, while rolling out a pair of serious low-level OS infrastructural elements: preemptive multitasking and protected memory. On the PC you could now hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and pick a hung or otherwise unwanted running program and nuke it from orbit.
The Mac copied the sticky Windows menus that stayed down when you clicked them as of OS 8, and soon had contextual menus which, in the absence of a second mouse button, were invoked by control-clicking. More and more commercial applications used the same file format on PC and Mac, and increasingly were inclined to stick a PC-style file extensions suffix at "save" time, while auto-recognzing files with the appropriate suffixes as one of theirs even without File Exchange gluing on an appropriate File Type code. And then Macs began shipping with ATA (IDE) drives instead of SCSI, and as a consequence could mount a PC's hard drive on its Desktop as easily as a PC floppy if you had the cables to connect it. And then the NuBus card slots gave way to PCI card slots, which had already replaced ISA card slots on the PC, and now the very same expansion cards could work on a Mac or a PC as long as you had the right software drivers for your OS. RAM also increasingly became generic � whereas once upon a time, PC RAM had been different from Mac RAM (with an extra parity chip for the PC RAM, if I recall correctly), Mac models would generally come out using a RAM specification that was in current use in the latest PCs as well.
Windows95, and its successor Windows98, although they had a memory architecture theoretically supporting protected memory and a threading architecture implementing preemptive multitasking, accomplished both of those as a bit of a kludge. The MacOS of the same vintage limped along with cooperative multitaking (which worked better than it should have, and up until crash time would let Macs run more apps concurrently than PCs as a general rule) and an incredibly old and moldy memory model (which didn't even do virtual memory worth a damn, and which required one to manually designate how much RAM a given app should have, rather than having the OS allocate it dynamicallyu). Even in memory-management, the Mac wasn't totally in shame, as it handled large amounts of RAM gracefully while the Windows PC tended to have problems with that.
knighthawk
Oct 23, 07:43 PM
Because there will always be new computers that are coming out, my philosophy is to buy a new computer at the first half of its estimated product life cycle.
In the case of the iMac, there has not been a "real" new update since they were released in January. I do not consider the current 17" model an update, only a "Special Edition," which allowed Apple to artificially extend the life-cycle by a few months.
There are several thoughts behind this... that Apple was delaying the iMac line update because it was waiting for the technology... which could mean that it is held up by the West Coast Dock issues. However, the opposite could be said with Apple wanting to wait to refresh ANY computers until after January 1, 2003 so that they could enforce the non-OS9 booting policy.
I agree with other statements that Apple does not need to wait for Apple Expos (MWSF) to announce products, but they still may wait until January.
At Clubmac as of 10/23/02 6:00PM PST, there are
2142 of the Base Model iMacs (CD-R)
192 Combi CD-R/DVD iMacs
570 Superdrive 15" iMacs
702 Superdrive 17" iMacs
One thing of note, the Base model is listed as selling for $1150 instead of the $1199 listed at the Apple Store... this may mean that they are very close to EOL.
It can go either way...
Personally, I am itching to get a new iBook, and I just got the money for it this weekend in the mail...
In the case of the iMac, there has not been a "real" new update since they were released in January. I do not consider the current 17" model an update, only a "Special Edition," which allowed Apple to artificially extend the life-cycle by a few months.
There are several thoughts behind this... that Apple was delaying the iMac line update because it was waiting for the technology... which could mean that it is held up by the West Coast Dock issues. However, the opposite could be said with Apple wanting to wait to refresh ANY computers until after January 1, 2003 so that they could enforce the non-OS9 booting policy.
I agree with other statements that Apple does not need to wait for Apple Expos (MWSF) to announce products, but they still may wait until January.
At Clubmac as of 10/23/02 6:00PM PST, there are
2142 of the Base Model iMacs (CD-R)
192 Combi CD-R/DVD iMacs
570 Superdrive 15" iMacs
702 Superdrive 17" iMacs
One thing of note, the Base model is listed as selling for $1150 instead of the $1199 listed at the Apple Store... this may mean that they are very close to EOL.
It can go either way...
Personally, I am itching to get a new iBook, and I just got the money for it this weekend in the mail...
ionisation
Mar 18, 02:38 PM
it was bound to happen, but as of today(ish) we have been overtaken. and we are likely to be overtaken by two other teams fairly soon. such a shame. where has everyone gone? we used to get about 60k a day.
oh well
i'm just pootling along myself, but i suppose it all counts.
oh well
i'm just pootling along myself, but i suppose it all counts.
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