To add to this, I simply believe that technology marches on, and our society in general gives a shit less about music and art. At least if it involves paying for it. Hey, MS is in the same boat. If not for law enforcement, no one would legitimately buy and support Windows. Look at China as a...
We need to do something. As an artist it pains me to see basically jack and shit for art now. Why? Because people can get it for free. This has nothing to do with morality, it has to do with the ease of access of getting it for free. Why would people pay for something that is just as easily...
This is my entire point. Thank you. Enjoy guys. I got a rehearsal tomorrow, and my new MBP gets here. Love the H and will be back to discuss stuff soon. You guys have a great day!
It is not marketed as a notebook replacement. It is marketed as a netbook replacement. A god one at that. Netbooks are ugly, unintuitive, and suck. They do nothing well. Period. By the time you get to a decently designed one, you are in a full blown very nice notebook territory which is not the...
No different than gamers and video cards. You drop 400-500 for that top of the line Video card and 6 months later Nvidia and ATI blow it away with the latest card. Absolutely no different as far as I am concerned. And there are guys on here who drop a cool 1k+ for a dual or tri SLI setup so I...
Let's also see what happens once the iphone is on all major networks. The reality is Android programs are not nearly as prevalent as Apples. Period. 65000 apps versus under 100. Plus brand recognition. Tell me, if you are developer today, do you want to deal with a market where the basis of your...
Fair enough. My IT remark is more formulated to the elitists on this forum who look down on those who simply are not as technically savvy as they are.
I understand this, and to a certain extent there is a place for hacking, modding, etc. However, for me my Apple products are my communication...
Not in the same area code of the iPad sorry. You get what you pay for. Not sure how I can be an Apple fanboy when I have 3 desktop PC's and build my own. I simply prefer Apple's Consumer Products to those available from other companies. Again, integration is key, and Apple has it. Period. 15...
And how many tablets have been sold relative to the iPad which is the point of this discussion? Like I thought, you got a bag of nothing but PC/IT Haterade. Wake me up when MS or Android or whoever does something significant for the post PC consumer market...
Uhm, Android programs are so unstable it is a joke. It also helps to be fluent in terminal, and have some skills at programming. I seriously do not understand how people do not get that people want one click shopping for apps, and want ease of use, and a uniform user interface. Android flat out...
Or you make a lot of money:D Seriously, why the Apple Haterade here? If you were being forced to buy it I would understand. Why hate people for not wanting to hack and mod and figure things out? Some people just want their email and facebook. Nothing wrong with that I don't think.
If Apple was...
Really? And pray tell which tablet is better? Just curious.
Seriously dude, get over it. I bought the Macbook Pro too for a huge price. Tell me when a Windows machine with a 2820QM gets over 7 hours of battery life and a decent screen while you are at it.
People that waste time rooting a...
First off, I am an opera singer not an IT guy. Really. Second, I got the first one for free using credit card points. I had no intention of buying the first gen till I realized I could get it for free with my points I wasn't using anyway. Thirdly, the damn thing is really useful. Have you...
Thought I would go ahead and type from my iPad here. The reality is that people here don't get it because you don't see a use for it. Not my problem. I like it, use it, and it serves my purposes just fine. Oh and the ordering the pizza part is easy as pie on an iPad. Reality is Apple= Consumer...
Let me phrase it another way. IT Guys are irrelevant, I would market nothing to expert users because they represent no market share, and are not relevant to what is important: Consumers. Have you worked in IT? The execs are stupid and computer illiterate by and large.
The point to products...
And there is the rub. You are .1% of the population. Programming is BORING. Hacking is BORING. Overclocking for a majority is a WASTE because it requires too much time and energy for most. This is REALITY. You market for consumers not IT guys.
It saved us on that long flight from Europe to America let me tell you. Also, when I want my two year old daughter to sit still for a haircut? Priceless.
It is not a dumbed down user interface. It is where all user interfaces will go. No one cares about programming and hacking and terminal...
Well, the majority of us do not need a lot of power. What I always find funny about this forum is how out of touch most of the people here seem to be. We as a forum are the POWER USERS of the world compromising basically 0.1% market share.
As a web surfing, e-reader, light gaming, email...
What people here forget is that most people do not care about overclocking, modding, rooting, hacking, etc. a consumer product. This is what the desktop is for. Everything else is a waste of time.
I get that the majority here like to mess with things and change things around. Still, take 10...
The fact that Steve Jobs and Apple can round up so much vitriol from people on this board is testament to the fact that love him or hate him, Steve Jobs and Apple are shaping the way the tech industry moves.
I get my iphone 4 in another week or two. When a device comes out with the same battery...
Uhm, they paid for known STOLEN property. If a guy at a bar steals your phone and sells it to someone that is buying stolen property. It's pretty much common to law....
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24972/
I also believe in telling the truth. As a point of fact, all my desktops are self built Hackintoshes, and I have a MBP from 2008 pre-unibody.
Definitely not a Mac Zealot, but these guys didn't even compare the same processors to each...
The point is if you do not see the fraud and crime committed here, than you are in need of serious help. People should respect laws. And while you can argue semantics, the facts are these people used click fraud to generate profit. Since things do not occur in a vacuum someone somewhere lost...
I bought mine off eBay from a guy called macman812. Totally reputable and I paid 205 for my Macbook Pro.
Here is a link to one of his listings.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Applecare-Warranty-plan-for-Macbook-Pro-Apple-Care_W0QQitemZ120323031966QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item1203230319...
Okay kiddies go to your corners and count to 100. Geez, buy what computer you want. Like I said earlier, I use both, see advantages and disadvantages to both, and that is that.
I love my Quad desktop, and my Macbook Pro is a thing of beauty. Can't we all just try to get along....???
A nice youtube feature on mac:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAGmBRC1dc&feature=related
BTW, I am typing this on a Macbook Pro and I love it. I have a Q6600 with Vista 64 bit running 8 GB RAM and a GTX 260. I believe why not have the best of both worlds.
BTW, my wife found the Mac...
I agree with Serpico here. JUMP on the older Macbook Pros. I own the 2.5 ghz 15" model. I dropped 2000 EU (I live in Germany as an opera singer), and I went over and picked one up for my wife refurbed for $1643 SHIPPED. She will have a MBP now and is quite happy. We have family in Texas (I am...
I am telling you it is coil whine. I have a Corsair as well and thought the sound was coming from the PSU. I tried a second PSU and got the same whine and located the vid card. It is the vid card, and it is fine from the research that I have done. If temps are good and you get no artifacting the...
So I bought a Gainward GTX 260 for 205.95 EU. It is exhibiting coil noise with 2 different PSU's (Corsair HX620 and Cooler Master 620 80 plus certified). This occurs in 3DMark06, ATITool, and Folding@home for gpu.
Quad 6600 8 GB RAM
Raptor 150 2 500GB 1 750 GB and 3 optical drives. So I am well...
I was in the same boat. I am in Germany right now and just picked up a GTX 260 for 205.95 EU shipped. I have a crossfire motherboard (P5KC), but will not be using crossfire. I believe either card will get the job done. For me, the issue with the ATI cards was the heat and needing to use a hack...
Uhm, wow. This gets the most uninformed post of the year for simply posting a complete lie. So you are telling me that the majority of the poor, which by all accounts from Democrats are disenfranchised minorities tend to vote REPUBLICAN? You must be one of those guys that looks at the South (the...
BTW, give me my HTC Kaiser any day of the week with my ability to send MMS's for crying out loud, and REAL connectivity with more than 3-4 hours of battery life. :D
Apple Zealots are like Liberals. Totally lost in their own world, and incapable of intelligent, logical thought.
Apple = Overpriced and Over hyped. Period.