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I see the same situation with OSX. Netbooks ARE the future, most people who own computers just surf the net and use email, and finally there exists a really good class of machine to do this. Apple has the wool over its eyes, there is no reason for Apple not to make a stripped down netbook with OSX. Might cannibalize Macbook sales. Maybe. But look at the millions of netbooks being sold. Apple should either start making netbooks and include OSX or even a stripped down version, or they should port OSX over to pc hardware. If I found out that people were running my os on other hardware, with the potential of millions then I would port it over asap.
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Actually it works just fine. Add .flv to the end, and open with Mpeg Streamclip, convert to quicktime, rip just the audio if you want a song, or just watch it. Have fun.
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Saw a suggestion that OS X be opened up to PC's and that iWork/iLife be released for PC's. My question is: Why? I don't want to come off as some Mac fanboy, but we just have to deal with the simple and obvious truth that a company is free to do with its products what it may, but in the spirit of competition, other companies produce systems and software that allow us to do the same exact things in a number of ways. Are you that unhappy with Office? Can't stand Windows? Then I suggests you get a hanky and cork up your water holes, cuz that's just tough dumplings.
I don't like the sue-happy Apple persona all that much. I dislike a lot of their design tactics, and I also dislike their general attitude conveyed in their ads, which was fun at first, but now has grown tiresome. However, I do like the fact that OS X is license code free, and allows me to reinstall at my liesure, without any risk of having an activation bork on me, like Windows can. A fully "open" OS X, would eventually turn into a closed OS that would have a strict machine limit. After the terrible MobileMe fiaso, I don't want Apple having to implement a full on callware DRM in their OS. That would seriously kill one of the things I like about the operating system.
OK I'm sort of ranting here so I'm gonna stop now.
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Now, I have to ask. Let's say that Microsoft's OS did not work on AMD systems. If someone posted a tutorial on how to use Windows on an AMD computer, but included the Pirate Bay to download the software, would Microsoft be wrong to sue? Am I off base? Just asking.
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Directing them to PirateBay is just for the convenience of getting a prepatched ISO.
FWIW, Apple, because I was able to hack osx onto my dell, I decided I liked the OS enough to warrant buying a real apple machine.
OSX86 is cool, but it's not without it's problems. Apple's OS updates are frequent enough, and they tend to break current installs.
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It's not pirating if you've bought a copy of OSX legally. It's just Apple being a bunch of douches.
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The only reason to mention the pirate bay in the first place implies that the audience doesn't already have a copy.
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Never said Microsoft weren't douches.
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If they are THAT good, they should not be afraid of some healthy competition.
And if they hardware is THAT good too, it should not affect they sales much, but rise the software sales a lot.
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Microsoft on the other hand lets the third parties deal with the dirty work of drivers while they just focus on the OS. This is why so many blue screens happen, incompatibilities with users machines because such and such a device pair with x ram and y motherboard = fail.
Apple went down this road before, and it seriously cut their bottom line because the cloners where making the systems super cheap, made Apple look bad because failures on the part of the cloners where looked at as Apple fault and not the clone manufacturers for using a device not sanctioned by Apple, and in the end nearly killed Apple as a company.
Couple this with the major threat of M$ pulling office right on the platform if they where to compete against them and well you have Apple where it is now, stuck in a hard place.
I agree I wish Apple would release their OS for everyone to use. I love their laptops but their desktop systems range from around par to hopelessly more expensive than PC equivalents (Mac Mini and the new 17 inch Macbook Pro come to mind there) and we have a wonderful blade server that easily could house 3-4 dedicated Dell blades with OS X server if Apple would just let us as opposed to having to buy 10,000 dollars worth of xserves. But ultimately its better for Apple not to give into fanboy wishes.
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And OSX Servers.... That is funny....
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I'm a gamer, not professional but I take it seriously. I am on a Vista 64 machine now and Vista is WWAAAAYYYY better for running games. Vista reallocates all of your ram from your previous task, to your current one. So, the games get the full attention of your components and run way faster. I play Crysis, Warhammer, Battlefield 2, 2142, Bioshock and all at full resolution and I get 50 frames per second and sometimes higher which is great considering the human eye can only detect 30. When I'm playing multi-player I'm always the first to enter a zone and I can keep fighting when my friends are lagged out. I'm saying that my oppinion greatly differs and I'm coming from the background of someone who builds machines, uses Vista 64 and games every week.
My machine cost like $620 to build.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 2.83ghz
4GB Ram
Vista 64 Business
Nvidia 8600GT 1 GB dedicated card (cost me like $74)
Gigabyte PCI express motherboard with 6 PCI slots, 1 PCIE
et cetera et cetera.
I think people are so used to hearing and passing on the BS Vista rumors that they begin to imagine they have had issues themselves to fit-in or something, when in reality most have never touched the OS.
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[www.tomshardware.com] (test machine)
[www.tomshardware.com] (9800GX2 results)
What resolution might that be, 640x480 perhaps? And what's that? You think your graphics card or processor makes you 'load into a zone' faster in multiplayer? Never occured to you that your internet connection and ping might have something to do with it?
One last thing. The human eye is not digital. It does not see "frames". Instead, the eye collects data (light detection, pattern detection etc.) which when combined is percieved as an image, and this is all fed to the brain continuously. Furthermore, it can discern the "smoothness" of video/games/etc at a rate of 150-200 frames per second.
Sorry, but your arguements are redundant. While I don't advocate senseless Vista bashing, I've found my Vista rig (Q6700 2.6Ghz, 8600GT 512MB, 3G RAM) to be slower transfering files to and from USB than my XP rig. It also has minor glitches here and there (i.e. double click .jpeg image and it takes almost a minute to load, almost lost my user profile etc.).
Runs games fine. However, since Vista isn't installed on the same rig as XP, I can't compare performance (XP rig has way lower specs). Bottom line though, it's been a rough experience with Longhorn, where XP's been smooth sailing. Millions of people, Microsoft included, will tell you the same.
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It's also microsofts fault that I bought $299 speakers from the back of a van, because it had MSRP $1000 on the box.