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I would like to mention that movies do not need to be in the movie folder to view via FrontRow. If the videos are consolidated in a different folder simply create a shortcut to that folder in the movie folder.
Mentioned on Page 5After a quick skim, there was a bunch of software that was overlooked for this article. There's probably more, but I haven't really carefully read the article yet, so this is just off the top of my head:
Free Mac Office suite (no X11 needed):
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
H.264 will give you better results (provided you have a current Mac that can run it).But all I found was a quirky and extremely limited platform. My mpg music videos looked worse in Quicktime than WMP
Sure it will. You have several options for doing this, ranging from sharing through iTunes to setting your music library to reside on a mapped drive.iTunes won't play songs over the network directly, it has to copy them first.
Sure they do. For finding pictures at a glance choose the icon view -- it's the first button in the Finder window (aside from back/forward). Use column view and it'll give you a live preview of whatever you've clicked on, regardless of media type.Music and pictures didn't thumbnail
wouldnt that be a symbolic link and not a shortcut?
I read this limitation and I have the following question.
Can you drop down the command line and mount something in your home folder path? I'm assuming mount points in os x are like mount points in Linux.
[H] gave Apple a fair shake. The Bottom Line is a little slanted towards the PC enthusiast, and I know many people who would probably benefit from having a Mac instead of a Windows PC, but, from the point of view from most who read this website, it's a pretty realistic view.
H.264 will give you better results (provided you have a current Mac that can run it).
Sure it will. You have several options for doing this, ranging from sharing through iTunes to setting your music library to reside on a mapped drive. Sure they do. For finding pictures at a glance choose the icon view -- it's the first button in the Finder window (aside from back/forward). Use column view and it'll give you a live preview of whatever you've clicked on, regardless of media type.
yes I believe you can mount to a folder just like in *nix. I maybe mistaken though.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
export DISPLAY=0.0
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/pico
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This is where I got an error telling me that the file that I thought I was exporting to didn't actually exist.
OS X is good but so is Windows, they just manage to be good at different things. I think Mac users who make fun of Windows live in an idealogical world. OS X might actually be a lot better than Windows if it did the same amount of things since OS X usually does things better. But in the real world OS X simply doesnt do as much as Windows, so doing things better is a moot point. Theres a big difference between what could be possible and what really is possible.
No true computing enthusiast uses only one platform.
Exactly. It's just that Linux and Windows combined can do everything OSX can, and a lot cheaper.
if you buy ram directly from apple, you're just an idiot. since the hardware's the same as PC's, the ram's also the same, and consequently, so are the prices. I added 2 GB of ram to my macbook for $90. actual macbook ram priceA) upgrading to 1GB from Dell only costs $60 (try to get it that cheap from Apple )
well, the putty knife thing IS annoying, but it does NOT void your warranty.and B) you don't have to pry apart a Dell system with putty knives (and most likely void your warranty) to upgrade the RAM.
Is also completely factually incorrect. Flip4Mac will play WMV files just fine without conversion in QuickTime. I also heard no mention of Perian or NicePlayer.Then I remembered that there was a plug-in called "Flip4Mac" which supposedly allows WMV files to be played in Quicktime. I figured that was worth a shot, so I went to the website and downloaded the plug-in. Unfortunately, this didn't work either. It turns out I'd need Flip4Mac Pro to convert video files - and that is a $29 commercial program.
It makes you feel like a moron because you've never used it before and are trying to apply lessons learned in the windows GUI. Stop that. The mac GUI is different. Internalize that now, and stop expecting it to be windows with a skin. If you want to get comfortable, then spend some time with it, just like you'd need to do with ANY unfamiliar OS.Yes the HD Fantastic Four 2 trailer looked very nice. Too bad it won't play full screen for free....
I am a total MAC n00b, and having to find and change settings for some rudimentary functionality is ridiculous. I am sick of the "all you had to do is click here, here and here or why didn't you install blah blah..." comments.
Come on now! Why does the "easiest" OS make me feel like a complete moron?!! I mean I had to ask our shop's MAC geek how to find another computer on the network! There is no idiot "Network" icon on the desktop or dashboard and trying to be g33ky and typing "\\PCNAME\FOLDER" didn't work in finder either. I mean I seriously need a manual for this thing....wtf
this seriously is the equivalent of saying "OMG, it's NOT windows?! that SUX!" I've never heard someone say that drag and drop installation was 'confusing'. hilarious.After many frustrating attempts, I finally got OSX86 (10.4.8 kernel) running natively. I ended up building a PC with "OSX friendly" hardware.
After the initial dazzle of the pretty graphics and snappy performance wore off, I realized I saved a TON of money by not buying one to try it out.
I can't believe how limited I was in what what programs were available and how terribly convoluted the interface was.
Trying to browse a network share was a nightmare. Shortcuts to shares dissappear off the desktop. Creating a temporary text file was a chore and installing programs like Yahoo messenger was confusing. (Why do I have to drag messenger into the apps folder? Shouldn't that happen automatically? Why is there an icon of a drive of my desktop called Yahoo Messenger that has to be ejected? WTF?)
no, you thought it would be windows with a pretty skin on top.I realize that MAC OS is different, but I made the mistake of assuming everything would just make sense like their marketing implies.
Stability? See what happens to MAC OS when you are browsing a share and the other computer loses its network connection.....
Now here's a post full of odd logic.I don't think their software matters. The biggest problem is that the starting price for a regular desktop box is $2,499.00 and with that you only get a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT video card. So your choice is a couple of pathetic little toy computers or something insanely priced.
I just love this line of thinking. What parts are they trying to copy? It most certainly isn't the underpinnings of the OS. Hell, most of the underpinnings came from FreeBSD and a few bits from Mach. I seriously doubt anyone needs to copy any of those parts, particularly since they're already freely available. The parts that Apple's done on their own (launchd, etc.) are (IMHO) fixes for already-solved problems.I use all three OS'S, but clearly, OS X is by far the best. Next week at WWDC Apple will reveal Leopard and you can bet that Linux and Windows will be bending over backwards trying to copy it too. You just wait and see!
Brian, to be completely fair in your review of switching to a Mac for 30 days you really should have installed every app ever written for OS X.
The amount of applications, both freeware and pay for, that some people wanted you to install and try out is crazy!
Good review. All you ever read is the "great" stuff about Apple. As a PC guy I love the ability to open the case and screw with the internals. Being held down by whatever Apple wants you to have would suck balls!
I LOVE to game. That fact alone will keep me from ever buying a Mac. Last but not least, the whole dang world runs on Windows.
I dunno, I find a lot to disagree with in this article.
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I'm not so sure you really "got it" though I appreciate the "try"
And here's a real kicker.... Mac Pros not only come with a Xeon cpu that PC'ers' can't even buy, its faster and more powerful than any 'mere' Core 2 Duo or AMD chip!
But wait, if and when you are ever allowed to buy the Xeon's inside the Mac Pro, the same Xeon's alone will cost you more than what Apple charges for the entire MacPro system! With my MacPro I can buy the same stuff you can, drives, memory, etc. and at the exact same stores and prizes!
Talk about a subsidy, Apple and Intel gives you a deal you can't match in the PC World.
I really hope you weren't talking about comparing it to other workstations, because I just gave you more memory, more hard drive space on two seperate hard drives which can be raided, and a three year onsite warranty for almost 100 less.
Oh yeah, and it happens to have the same processor as well. Throw in an online-bought 7300 and you're paying the same for more on the HP workstation.
And unless I'm mistaken, 713+713 doesn't equal 2500. But it sure as hell looks like I'm allowed to buy it.