batchtaster
Apr 6, 01:09 PM
Hopefully they fix the constant Outlook database corruptions.
Loa
May 1, 11:24 AM
Hello,
I don't want to start a Mac/PC/Hackintosh debate. Yet what those hackintosh prove is that Apple is charging a "Mac Pro tax" of around 1000$, +/- a few hundreds depending on configuration. Even if that tax was only 500$ +/- a few hundreds, the question remains: why?
Now don't answer that it's the general Apple tax. How can Apple sell the iMac, which offers very good power (some even rivalling the MP), very good graphics on everything but the base model, an incredible display, more RAM than the base MP model, for a very very good price? Add to that the fact that iMac are rumored to be upgraded in the next few days/weeks with Sandy Bridge.
So again, why does Apple charge that MP tax?
Loa
I don't want to start a Mac/PC/Hackintosh debate. Yet what those hackintosh prove is that Apple is charging a "Mac Pro tax" of around 1000$, +/- a few hundreds depending on configuration. Even if that tax was only 500$ +/- a few hundreds, the question remains: why?
Now don't answer that it's the general Apple tax. How can Apple sell the iMac, which offers very good power (some even rivalling the MP), very good graphics on everything but the base model, an incredible display, more RAM than the base MP model, for a very very good price? Add to that the fact that iMac are rumored to be upgraded in the next few days/weeks with Sandy Bridge.
So again, why does Apple charge that MP tax?
Loa
pubwvj
Mar 29, 04:19 PM
Nokia: the company that litigates instead of innovates.
fixmymac
Oct 6, 12:32 PM
I am quite surprised that few posts here mention the delivery of software on media other than CD/DVD.
Jobs has made it quite clear that we ain't going to see Blu-Ray on Macs. Digital delivery is the Apple-preferred way. This is backed up by the massive data centre under construction in the USA.
Broadband internet, gaining in speed all the time, is the obvious method for future delivery. Even creaky old BT are rolling out 20meg at their exchanges. Virgin offer 50meg connections in some areas.
Apple have always been a year or two ahead when it comes to things like this. The floppy drive disappeared on Macs well before most people thought it would. Who could argue they were wrong to do so? Digital cameras came along and you could soon no longer fit an image file onto a floppy. We needed CD writing capabilities. iMovie/iDVD meant we needed DVD writing soon afterwards (Still back in the day of the 2nd gen iMac).
Our trusty CD was next in the firing line. iTunes Store showed the future well before the record companies were ready to accept it. Stop for a second and think how big your CD rack would be if all of your tunes were not downloaded? IKEA would have dedicated CD rack shops!!
Standard Def Movies on DVD's soon died and we can now own TV Show episodes via iTunes. Internet speeds and technology allow us to download HD content. 1080p content will arrive, eventually.
Apple are simply doing what they have done for the past 10 years. They are staying 1/2 to 1 full step ahead of the game.
It appears that they have skipped over Blu-Ray and i think they will kick CD/DVD in to touch quite soon as well. As the cost of flash memory drops, the overall savings of delivering software will fall. USB3 and/or LightPeak devices will be the next step and the final nail in the coffin for software on CD/DVD.
As internet speeds increase, the attraction of electronic delivery also increases. The ISP's will need to change. They will have to if they want to survive.
Electronic delivery of Music, then Movies, then TV Shows and Mobile Phone Apps brought savings to all involved. The creators don't have the production and distribution costs. We benefit as well with lower prices. How much of the final price for Logic Studio covers the fancy box, manuals, DVD's and logistics around the world? Digital delivery also ticks the boxes for their Green credentials.
Digital delivery of major software is just over the horizon.
The CD/DVD/Blu-Ray is dead. In fact, other than the user and the computer, everything physical is dead or dying.
Jobs has made it quite clear that we ain't going to see Blu-Ray on Macs. Digital delivery is the Apple-preferred way. This is backed up by the massive data centre under construction in the USA.
Broadband internet, gaining in speed all the time, is the obvious method for future delivery. Even creaky old BT are rolling out 20meg at their exchanges. Virgin offer 50meg connections in some areas.
Apple have always been a year or two ahead when it comes to things like this. The floppy drive disappeared on Macs well before most people thought it would. Who could argue they were wrong to do so? Digital cameras came along and you could soon no longer fit an image file onto a floppy. We needed CD writing capabilities. iMovie/iDVD meant we needed DVD writing soon afterwards (Still back in the day of the 2nd gen iMac).
Our trusty CD was next in the firing line. iTunes Store showed the future well before the record companies were ready to accept it. Stop for a second and think how big your CD rack would be if all of your tunes were not downloaded? IKEA would have dedicated CD rack shops!!
Standard Def Movies on DVD's soon died and we can now own TV Show episodes via iTunes. Internet speeds and technology allow us to download HD content. 1080p content will arrive, eventually.
Apple are simply doing what they have done for the past 10 years. They are staying 1/2 to 1 full step ahead of the game.
It appears that they have skipped over Blu-Ray and i think they will kick CD/DVD in to touch quite soon as well. As the cost of flash memory drops, the overall savings of delivering software will fall. USB3 and/or LightPeak devices will be the next step and the final nail in the coffin for software on CD/DVD.
As internet speeds increase, the attraction of electronic delivery also increases. The ISP's will need to change. They will have to if they want to survive.
Electronic delivery of Music, then Movies, then TV Shows and Mobile Phone Apps brought savings to all involved. The creators don't have the production and distribution costs. We benefit as well with lower prices. How much of the final price for Logic Studio covers the fancy box, manuals, DVD's and logistics around the world? Digital delivery also ticks the boxes for their Green credentials.
Digital delivery of major software is just over the horizon.
The CD/DVD/Blu-Ray is dead. In fact, other than the user and the computer, everything physical is dead or dying.
iJohnHenry
Apr 4, 05:03 PM
But then I'm less ugly than the Juke, so what of it?
<citation please> ;)
<citation please> ;)
Gamoe
Apr 28, 12:58 PM
Even if they get death it isn't really that excessive and can be proactive in getting others to follow the honorable path. Think about this country, if we simply loped off the heads of every thief and drug dealer, America would be a far nicer place to live. It is easy to criticize but we have a very high tolerance for crime in the USA and frankly that is something that is relatively new.
Remind me when you break any corporate laws and we'll hold you to the same standard. Download any copyrighted material lately? Maybe you should just get the death penalty and it would be better for everyone. Jerk.
Remind me when you break any corporate laws and we'll hold you to the same standard. Download any copyrighted material lately? Maybe you should just get the death penalty and it would be better for everyone. Jerk.
AppleScruff1
Apr 11, 05:51 PM
Carbon fiber is passe'. Liquid Metal is the future. Remember Terminator 2? The T-1000 was made of liquid metal.
jholzner
Oct 25, 11:38 AM
At Apple's prices, it's hard to understand how any business can justify switching to Xserve. Sorry, but I can buy several Dells with the same CPUs and RAM for what Apple is charging. This is unbelieveable. I canb buy SuperMicro or Tyan 1U barebones and assemble all the remaining CPUs/components myself and set it up in about 2 to 3 hours and probably still come out 1/5th the price of the Xserve. This just makes absolutely no sense at all.
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Does that include unlimited Windows server? I assume you are using Linux though.
:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
Does that include unlimited Windows server? I assume you are using Linux though.
neildmitchell
Sep 9, 09:34 PM
I had my tounge done about six months ago, and it did not hurt near as much as I thought it was going to. It was more annoying than anything for a couple of weeks, and I couldnt talk at all for like three days. But after 2-3 weeks I didnt even notice it anymore. Like now, I forget that I have it all the time, then I catch myself in a mirror or a window and see it and it freaks me out. Kinda funny.
I have thought about my tounge.
I dont think I could do it though. As a kid I had to have the doctor remove a bit of some sort of connective tissue from under my tounge so I could speak properly, guess I had a lisp or something. My under tounge throbbed for a week. Bitting my tounge hurts enough. Plus the fact the tounge is a muscle.
I have thought about my tounge.
I dont think I could do it though. As a kid I had to have the doctor remove a bit of some sort of connective tissue from under my tounge so I could speak properly, guess I had a lisp or something. My under tounge throbbed for a week. Bitting my tounge hurts enough. Plus the fact the tounge is a muscle.
DudeDad
Apr 11, 03:11 PM
I'm sure the movie version is in the works...screenplay by Aaron Sorkin ("Social Network"), not sure who will play jobs, but the Woz MUST be played by Zack Galafinakas!!
kingtj
Apr 6, 01:29 PM
Bah.... I'll agree that trashing a perfectly good iPad is a bit painful to watch, but at the same time -- spare me the environmental guilt trip over it. Blendtek's people paid the same price for theirs that anyone else had to pay to obtain one. Whether the iPad in question was destined for a blender, or for someone's book reading or video watching enjoyment for the next few years is irrelevant. The fact is, its *purchase* is what helped some people stay employed, from the factory workers doing its assembly to the guy paid to box the unit up, to the truck driver paid to deliver it.
If its destruction helped Blendtek sell some more blenders (or even create some additional brand awareness at a budget price), it wasn't a "waste" to blend the thing at all, from their standpoint. It was $500 well spent!
I'm not worried about having to "explain this to someone who has nothing", because such an individual wouldn't really grasp why ANYONE would spend $500 or more on such an unnecessary luxury item as an iPad. You could get a book from a local library for FREE and read it! You could rent a movie for as little as a dollar and watch it on someone's TV/DVD player! You could get on the Internet for free from that same library that loans you the books!
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This pisses me off. It's a horrible example of decadence and wastefulness. Thing of all the energy and effort that went into making this device. From the mining of the metals to the labour to shipping it across the ocean. The truck that drove it to its final destination. If you've ever given any care to the environment, this should make you mad. Imagine explaining this to someone who has nothing. It went through a long journey. Did nothing. Now it's landfill. Sickening.
If its destruction helped Blendtek sell some more blenders (or even create some additional brand awareness at a budget price), it wasn't a "waste" to blend the thing at all, from their standpoint. It was $500 well spent!
I'm not worried about having to "explain this to someone who has nothing", because such an individual wouldn't really grasp why ANYONE would spend $500 or more on such an unnecessary luxury item as an iPad. You could get a book from a local library for FREE and read it! You could rent a movie for as little as a dollar and watch it on someone's TV/DVD player! You could get on the Internet for free from that same library that loans you the books!
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)
This pisses me off. It's a horrible example of decadence and wastefulness. Thing of all the energy and effort that went into making this device. From the mining of the metals to the labour to shipping it across the ocean. The truck that drove it to its final destination. If you've ever given any care to the environment, this should make you mad. Imagine explaining this to someone who has nothing. It went through a long journey. Did nothing. Now it's landfill. Sickening.
Rt&Dzine
Apr 6, 06:28 PM
Count me as anti-semitic also :).. Hence why the USA is falling apart because of the jewish led Bilderburg group of Totalitarian corporations and the architects of the NEW WORLD ORDER.
Pat Robertson, is that you?
Pat Robertson, is that you?
Steve Jobs.
Apr 10, 07:55 PM
only available for purchase on an iPad 3
smugDrew
Apr 12, 03:50 AM
2 JUST came out and people are already wanting a new one? Is the 2 really that horrible?
The camera's do honestly suck. And the lack of Retina display is disappointing.
The camera's do honestly suck. And the lack of Retina display is disappointing.
truz
Jan 19, 02:46 PM
I agree with you here, I want to order a macbook so bad, but the fact of having shared graphics kills me. I work with photoshop and I would like to have a dedicated graphics card, yet a small screen for travel. I'll buy an external lcd when I need a large screen at home or use my 20" imac.
All i want is a smaller MBP.
15 inches is much too big IMO, at least for my needs.
I will be ready to buy around the end of Feb.
Hopefully by then I'll have a new release to spend $$ on.
All i want is a smaller MBP.
15 inches is much too big IMO, at least for my needs.
I will be ready to buy around the end of Feb.
Hopefully by then I'll have a new release to spend $$ on.
Full of Win
Mar 24, 11:41 AM
As expected...we are on the waning end of the "hype arc".
Veinticinco
Apr 18, 04:34 AM
I guess it�s coming with 64 GB... You have to decide to buy an iP5 with 32GB or an shiny white iP4 with 64 GB - your call.
As far as I know there was even a rumor about 64 GB storage.
More than that, there was a decent prototype photo of the 64GB beast. I think the marketing boys pulled it at the last minute, almost certainly due to price points and/or holding it back for the next itinerant as there were already a lot of improvements with the iPhone 4.
That said, I can see this long overdue white iP4 release being marketed as a 'premium' edition model, colour and option of the increased capacity.
As far as I know there was even a rumor about 64 GB storage.
More than that, there was a decent prototype photo of the 64GB beast. I think the marketing boys pulled it at the last minute, almost certainly due to price points and/or holding it back for the next itinerant as there were already a lot of improvements with the iPhone 4.
That said, I can see this long overdue white iP4 release being marketed as a 'premium' edition model, colour and option of the increased capacity.
cooknwitha
Sep 10, 10:07 AM
We've never forgiven the Aussies for the infamous underarm bowling incident. (http://www.mcg.org.au/default.asp?pg=historydisplay&articleid=194)
I think you'll be pressed to find anyone from either side who is proud of that moment. Even most Australians are appalled with it.
We're still the better team. :)
Did anyone just see that ball?! An outside edge that then spinned past the keeper and went for 4. Nice!
I think you'll be pressed to find anyone from either side who is proud of that moment. Even most Australians are appalled with it.
We're still the better team. :)
Did anyone just see that ball?! An outside edge that then spinned past the keeper and went for 4. Nice!
Full of Win
Apr 16, 11:07 PM
10 months late, wow just wow.
jonnysods
Apr 12, 08:09 AM
This is pretty logical. There is no way they can invest that much into manufacturing and suppliers and then change it so soon, IMO.
tivoboy
Sep 12, 12:12 PM
yeah, no stream here in palo alto, ca. Not found on PC's 404 on macs
nagromme
Oct 1, 04:52 PM
It's working great for me locally. Over WAN I cannot say: NO ports seem to be working (even ones I used last week for VNC) which is not EyeTV's fault. I think it's an issue with AT&T DSL. I hope they haven't started blocking something intentionally. I'll try again tomorrow in the hopes that it's fixed. (I can't even traceroute to my home.)
I'm having an issue with this: no matter what I do I cannot get the phone to connect. It just says "Could not connect to EyeTV service unavailable (503)". This is via the local WiFi/Wired network and/or My EyeTV (which has a green light on the EyeTV preferences. Any ideas?
Temporarily bogged down by unexpected sudden traffic? I couldn't even get the company's Web site earlier today. Seems OK now.
I'm having an issue with this: no matter what I do I cannot get the phone to connect. It just says "Could not connect to EyeTV service unavailable (503)". This is via the local WiFi/Wired network and/or My EyeTV (which has a green light on the EyeTV preferences. Any ideas?
Temporarily bogged down by unexpected sudden traffic? I couldn't even get the company's Web site earlier today. Seems OK now.
JAT
Apr 27, 11:00 AM
Like Waze (http://www.waze.com/homepage/)... seriously Waze is the quintessential crowd sourced mapping application. Everyone should check it out. The one thing I think Apple could improve on is the map creation portion itself.
Is it as sporadic as it looks at 11am in my town? It does look like it could give details on any street, though. That would be better than the FM traffic or even the DOT/camera based traffic used for most things. Esp during road construction when side streets with no other data accumulation become thoroughfares for the summer.
Is it as sporadic as it looks at 11am in my town? It does look like it could give details on any street, though. That would be better than the FM traffic or even the DOT/camera based traffic used for most things. Esp during road construction when side streets with no other data accumulation become thoroughfares for the summer.
SevenInchScrew
Nov 12, 08:11 PM
I more mean that you can pick and chose with Move.... The system scales, based on what you already have, and what you want to have.
I agree I mean look at the Move you can get everything you need for $99 and the same price and extra controller. Its just MS typical Nickle and dime scheme.
These comments are hilarious.
When the 360 and PS3 were both still new, one of the big things that Sony fans always argued was that, even though the PS3 was more expensive, it came with more stuff standard. With the 360, you had to choose if you wanted a HDD, wifi, HDMI, high-def disc playback, etc, all of which came standard on the more expensive PS3. Now, when the situation is reversed, and it is the Sony product in which you have to pick and choose parts for, and the MS product is a single, standard unit, it is seen as a good thing. That is laughable, at best.
I agree I mean look at the Move you can get everything you need for $99 and the same price and extra controller. Its just MS typical Nickle and dime scheme.
These comments are hilarious.
When the 360 and PS3 were both still new, one of the big things that Sony fans always argued was that, even though the PS3 was more expensive, it came with more stuff standard. With the 360, you had to choose if you wanted a HDD, wifi, HDMI, high-def disc playback, etc, all of which came standard on the more expensive PS3. Now, when the situation is reversed, and it is the Sony product in which you have to pick and choose parts for, and the MS product is a single, standard unit, it is seen as a good thing. That is laughable, at best.
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