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    Image of Serpentor X Serpentor X
    11/25/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base
    I can see now how Ballmer can sometimes seem so blase about Apple's success.

    I'd rather have Microsoft's money than Apple's.
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    Edited by Serpentor X at 11/25/09 4:48 PM Serpentor X was starred Serpentor X was unstarred
    Image of MonkeyPaw MonkeyPaw
    11/25/09

    @Serpentor X: Actually, Apple makes a killing, too. Keep in mind that just about every Mac sold ends up costing considerably more than the equivalent "PC" from an OEM. Apple not only gets software sales, but also pockets that hardware premium. MS only gets a royalty for their OS, and OEM's don't exactly pay what we common buyers do for the install disc.
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    Scratic promoted this comment MonkeyPaw was starred MonkeyPaw was unstarred
    Image of ThisCharmingMan ThisCharmingMan
    11/25/09

    @MonkeyPaw: My thoughts exactly. Apple makes a KILLING on hardware. The amount they charge for upgraded RAM alone is insane.
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    ThisCharmingMan was starred ThisCharmingMan was unstarred
    Image of shooga shooga
    11/25/09

    @ThisCharmingMan: No kidding. I was disgusted when I had to buy 1GB of ram for my fiancee's MBP a year ago. I believe it was $160 from Apple. I found the same thing on newegg for $50.
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    ThisCharmingMan promoted this comment shooga was starred shooga was unstarred
    Image of ThisCharmingMan ThisCharmingMan
    11/26/09

    @shooga: Yeah, newegg.com is great for that stuff. Apple's prices are ridiculous. I'm actually looking at buying some RAM from newegg for my iMac.

    #speakup
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    ThisCharmingMan was starred ThisCharmingMan was unstarred
    Image of k-napped k-napped
    11/25/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base
    For a long time (at least 6 years) I've always envied the Macs I had to work on as a designer. Stuff was just too expensive to justify getting one (plus I used stuff that was Windows only).

    But, working on both everyday, I greatly prefer Windows 7. I work twice as fast on it than OSX.

    Finally I feel like I'm using a windows operating system that was built this decade... and it only took the whole decade to make!
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    Image of SysRq SysRq
    11/25/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base
    Resident Apple fanboy reporting: Windows 7 is alright with me.

    Still like OS X better, and Windows 7 is still Windows when it comes down to it, but there's some neat stuff in 7 and it's great that people are upgrading. You don't have to be happy with XP anymore.
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    SysRq was starred SysRq was unstarred
    Image of delphinus87 delphinus87
    11/25/09

    @SysRq: Thank you. People need to be more civil about this stuff. All of this fanboy garbage "MAC SUXX WINDOWS FTFW!!!" needs to go. Microsoft users need to concede that Macs are not just style over substance and Mac users have to admit that Windows products are no longer the BSODing virus happy machines they used to be.
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    SysRq promoted this comment delphinus87 was starred delphinus87 was unstarred
    Image of imTheKing imTheKing
    11/25/09

    @SysRq: Completely agree. Still think OSX is better as well but Windows 7 is worth the install.
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    SysRq promoted this comment imTheKing was starred imTheKing was unstarred
    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    11/25/09

    @SysRq: Especially the media stuff. Windows Media Center is something Apple would never bother doing because they get no money out of it. They'd rather you pay for all your TV content from iTunes.
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/25/09

    @dagamer34: I wouldn't be so sure about that last part (about iTunes, but hey, I'm no expert), but yeah, I agree that WMC is much much better than Front Row.
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    SysRq promoted this comment (Starman) Starman was starred (Starman) Starman was unstarred
    Image of gabriele.rizzetto gabriele.rizzetto
    11/25/09

    @SysRq: Right on, brother. I love my Mac, but I finally feel like I can leave XP behind on my Windows boxes and my Boot Camp partition now. It really is a breath of fresh air.
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    SysRq approved this comment gabriele.rizzetto was starred gabriele.rizzetto was unstarred
    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    11/25/09

    @SysRq: From one fanboy to another, well said.
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    Image of SysRq SysRq
    11/25/09

    @(Starman) Starman: I'm not a fan of either, to be honest. I never saw the appeal of a full screen media application. Fullscreen iTunes if you want music, or fullscreeen Quicktime if you want movies, or fullscreen iPhoto if you want pictures.

    #tips
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    SysRq was starred SysRq was unstarred
    Image of PotentChr0nic PotentChr0nic
    11/25/09

    @SysRq: and how would you fullscreen live tv? I guess you're only considering front row.
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    SysRq promoted this comment PotentChr0nic was starred PotentChr0nic was unstarred
    Image of SysRq SysRq
    11/25/09

    @PotentChr0nic: I suppose I am. Then again, I rarely watch live TV anyways, and not just because I'm on a Mac. Hulu is fine for me.

    #tips
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    SysRq was starred SysRq was unstarred
    Image of PotentChr0nic PotentChr0nic
    11/26/09

    @SysRq: You lucky yanks!
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    PotentChr0nic was starred PotentChr0nic was unstarred
    Image of SysRq SysRq
    11/26/09

    @PotentChr0nic: Not all Americans are yanks, my friend, I'm from Texas so I take offense. ;)
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    SysRq was starred SysRq was unstarred
    Image of dimadelux dimadelux
    11/25/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base
    Windows 7 FTMFW
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment dimadelux was starred dimadelux was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/25/09

    @dimadelux: FOR THE MUTHAFUCKIN WIN!!!
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    TheSonOfKrypton was starred TheSonOfKrypton was unstarred
    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/25/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I've always wondered what that meant, actually.

    Free Trans Mission Freak Way?
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment (Starman) Starman was starred (Starman) Starman was unstarred
    Image of taniquetil taniquetil
    11/25/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:

    Enough is ENOUGH! I've had it with the MUTHACUKIN WIN, on this MUTHAFUCKIN Operating System.
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment taniquetil was starred taniquetil was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/25/09

    @taniquetil: WELL THIS MUTHAFUCKIN OPERATING SYSTEM COULDN'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT YOUR MUTHAFUCKIN OPINION!

    #tips
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    TheSonOfKrypton was starred TheSonOfKrypton was unstarred
    Image of Benguin Benguin
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo
    It's hard to tell in the context of 15 second clip, but did that have anything to do with the scene, or was it another one of their random "HEY LOOK WE'RE FUNNY" moments?
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    Benguin was starred Benguin was unstarred
    Image of kingbob337 kingbob337
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo
    this is the family guy windows 7 ad I was talking about below. I saw this during a football game yesterday.
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    Danny Allen promoted this comment kingbob337 was starred kingbob337 was unstarred
    Image of Aetius Aetius
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo
    It's hilarious reading serious Apple OSX vs Windows comments on this article's comments section. People, this is a post about a joke in Family Guy. Dont be so serious LOL
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Aetius was starred Aetius was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Faux Affliction! OMG! Faux Affliction!
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo

    via me.
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    Danny Allen promoted this comment OMG! Faux Affliction! was starred OMG! Faux Affliction! was unstarred
    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo
    It's telling me I have to download RealPlayer 7.
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    Homerjay is utterly alone. was starred Homerjay is utterly alone. was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo
    Sadly, that was the first funny, non-racist moment that that show has had in many episodes. That and a wonderful tirade about Brian.

    There's only so many winking racist remarks a guy can make before people begin to wonder if the wink isn't just a nervous tic.
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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of godwhacker, your incandescent leader! godwhacker, your incandescent leader!
    11/23/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: it was nifty to see Brian get hammered, I was nearly convulsing with laughter.
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment godwhacker, your incandescent leader! was starred godwhacker, your incandescent leader! was unstarred
    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    11/23/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:
    I think the beachball clip was a thinly veiled homophobic jab, because it resembles a rainbow and was portrayed with irony, depicted as someone lackadaisical and undecided and superfluous.
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment aerospaceman was starred aerospaceman was unstarred
    Image of n8equalsd n8equalsd
    11/23/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: that quagmire rant was hilarious. But Family Guy has gotten less funny since the fifth season.
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    OMG! Ponies! approved this comment n8equalsd was starred n8equalsd was unstarred
    Image of karelj karelj
    11/23/09

    @n8equalsd: American Dad is way funnier, in my opinion.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment karelj was starred karelj was unstarred
    Image of n8equalsd n8equalsd
    11/23/09

    @karelj: Really? I watch it, but I think it could be funnier with cut-away gags
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    Image of karelj karelj
    11/24/09

    @n8equalsd: Just the fact that it's actually Patrick Stewart doing the voice of the CIA Director is funny as it is.
    Stan's schemes and his solutions to various problems are so bizarre that they are hilarious.
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    Image of lycosman lycosman
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo
    Spinning beach ball of death? Of death?? Yes, because Kernel Panics are so rare that should be considered an easter egg on MacOS X.

    (in my years of Mac I only saw one... at distance)
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment lycosman was starred lycosman was unstarred
    Image of kingbob337 kingbob337
    11/23/09

    @lycosman: OS X does have a BSOD equivalent. It is the GSOD or Grey screen of death.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/23/09

    @lycosman: Agreed. They are as rare as the BSOD is on Windows.
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    Image of lycosman lycosman
    11/23/09

    @kingbob337: Yes. It's called Kernel Panic... -.-
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    11/23/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Pffff... Are you trolling me or are you as stupid as you sound? O_o
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    lycosman was starred lycosman was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/23/09

    @lycosman: No. I'm just saying that BSOD are pretty goddamn rare. Unless you're still running XP SP1.
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    Image of kingbob337 kingbob337
    11/23/09

    @lycosman: Yea I agreee with OMG Ponies. I don't think I have gotten a BSOD in about 8 or 9 years with the one exception of an old P4 machine I had that was running XP and the memory died.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment kingbob337 was starred kingbob337 was unstarred
    Image of aceofcakes aceofcakes
    11/23/09

    @lycosman: You're a moron. OMG! Ponies! is right, the BSOD in Windows post XP SP1 is very rare and usually it's hardware that is no longer supported or malfunctioning that causes it. If it blue screens on you frequently it's because Windows naturally hates you and well it should.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Edited by aceofcakes at 11/23/09 8:22 AM aceofcakes was starred aceofcakes was unstarred
    Image of iheartpie iheartpie
    11/23/09

    @lycosman: Dunno why the beach ball gets such a hard time (or why its referred to as the beach ball of death) ... it's just a wait symbol; no different than the windows wait symbol; it's never resulted in a crash for me; in my experience if OSX is gonna crash it just goes right ahead and does it.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment iheartpie was starred iheartpie was unstarred
    Image of Ninety-9 Ninety-9
    11/23/09

    LOL, I work with 100s of Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 machines every day, I haven't seen a BSOD in about 2 years. I'm only reminded of them when someone talks about them on Giz.

    Not saying the beach ball is a common thing, but it does have a significant presence in the <20hours of lifetime experience I have behind the wheel of a Mac.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Ninety-9 was starred Ninety-9 was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    @iheartpie: I've had full system lockout from the spinny beach ball where I couldn't force quit and had to hard reboot. This happened quite often for me in Leopard.
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    Nathan Obbards was starred Nathan Obbards was unstarred
    Image of ludwigk ludwigk
    11/23/09

    @Ninety-9: There's a car dealer with a big LED sign on 880 N here near Fremont, CA. About once a week, it'll be sitting there BSOD'ed instead of playing the advert animation. I can only assume that the computer running it is a decade old piece of shit that hasn't been updated once, but it does remind me that BSODs still happen.

    If all you have is a bunch of factory fresh PCs with updates, then BSODs are quite rare. If you're adding and subtracting hardware and software (with kernel extensions and whatever the windows equivalent is, large registry alterations?), its pretty easy to get BSODs and KPs, depending on what it is that you're trying to do.

    If your job is to maintain stability on a bunch of vanilla productivity machines, then preventing BSODs is easy. If you need to allow users to use lots of hardware and software, BSODs become more common.

    I used to work for a peripherals developer. A lot of what we did was write mac drivers for devices that existed on the PC realm, but all of the various hardware and software that we subjected the PCs to would cause them to freak out regularly.
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    ludwigk was starred ludwigk was unstarred
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    11/23/09

    @Nathan Obbards: That can indicate a software process that is waiting for a hardware response from a device that is no longer responding, such as a particular IO bus, or a device on that bus. If you have various devices connected to your mac, I'd try a few different configurations to see if you can narrow it down to a particular device that causes your hangs.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    @ludwigk: It usually happened when I was photoshopping an image from the resident HDD or using Photo Mechanic to look at images on the resident HDD, though sometimes it did happen while accessing the network database. It never happened consistently and always managed ot piss me off because it always seemed to happen when I had a deadline.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    11/23/09

    In reply to OS X's Spinning Beach Ball Makes Family Guy Cameo
    I must say that I am partial to the original beach ball, because it always looked like it was spinning more than the current one is.
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    Image of Tito151 Tito151
    11/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy: Maybe that's Apple's idea of an optical illusion to make you think less time has passed?
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    GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy promoted this comment Tito151 was starred Tito151 was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    11/23/09

    @Tito151: That's also why they added the "throbber" animation to the progress bar. Even when it's not moving, it looks like it is.
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    Image of Nitesh Singh Nitesh Singh
    11/17/09

    In reply to Flash 10.1 Is Good News for Hackintosh Netbooks
    Not to troll, but the "worlds most advanced operating system" (according to them) doesnt support GPU-accelerated video yet? #flash101hacktintosh
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    G.O.B.: Come on! promoted this comment Nitesh Singh was starred Nitesh Singh was unstarred
    Image of Craig Cabrey Craig Cabrey
    11/17/09

    @Nitesh Singh: No, Apple just doesn't open the APIs up for public use. #flash101hacktintosh
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    Don Nguyen promoted this comment Craig Cabrey was starred Craig Cabrey was unstarred
    Image of jonathan.eatherly jonathan.eatherly
    11/17/09

    In reply to Flash 10.1 Is Good News for Hackintosh Netbooks
    Dell mini 10v hackintosh here. Big increase in speed! Mine is not running youtube or vimeo in hd well but southpark studios can do hd fullscreen now.
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    Danny Allen approved this comment jonathan.eatherly was starred jonathan.eatherly was unstarred
    Image of RoseHizang RoseHizang
    11/17/09

    In reply to Flash 10.1 Is Good News for Hackintosh Netbooks
    this update does absolutely NOTHING for macs. read the release notes, the improvements are for windows and linux only.
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    Danny Allen promoted this comment RoseHizang was starred RoseHizang was unstarred
    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    11/17/09

    @RoseHizang: [gizmodo.com] #flash101hacktintosh
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