Posts by Colin Ritchie
43 posts • joined Sunday 12th April 2009 16:19 GMT
Apps schnapps.
Having used various Android apps on my cheap but cheerful, low end smartphone (£70 PAYG), I have come to the conclusion that anything that can be browser based should be browser based.
Firefox for Android uses less resources and works more reliably than many other specific apps I've encountered, Youtube and Facebook in particular. Strangely enough when Apple Maps replaced Google Maps in iOS I found Google Maps just as useful in Safari. I assume the same situation exists in Nokia land.
As for M$ butchering other company's terms of use and revenue streams for their own benefit, when was that news? 1995 I think. Unleash the lawyers and give Ballmer another reason to chuck his toys around.
Re: Hemp!
Hmmm “higher than commercially available supercapacitors.” much like the folks who will find this story hilarious.....
I went the other way.
Faced with a £3500 bill for a new Mac Pro to my desired spec, I decided to reverse engineer the problem.
Putting OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion on a hand built i7 Hackintosh with the same performance cost me £1200 instead; I'm still waiting for a blue screen or problem 5 months later. Meanwhile the Windows boxes at work crash more often than Lindsey Lohan in a Maserati.
I could put Windows on it too and compare reliability I suppose but I really don't need it thanks.
Maybe if a new game catches my eye...
Re: Anti-audiophile
Gotta agree with the Grados SR60s, on my 2nd pair in 10 years and loving every note.
I went down the old school route to decent hi-fi which cost a fraction of the prices folk want for "proper" equipment nowadays.
2nd hand Rogers LS2a speakers for £115 a pair, NAD 3020i amp for £100 (when new in the 90's!) and a pair of Sennheiser PX100-II for £20 when HMV went bust, which blew away a Bleats by Dr Dre-adful owner at work when I convinced him to swap for 5 minutes....
He was gutted at the trouncing a tiny pair of cans for a tenth of the price handed out to his pride and joys.
Love the old kit it works better, lasts longer and ears haven't evolved any different since.
Are you sure you don't want a nice new Win 8 build ?
When Vista was being ignored by the XP masses M$ released SP3 for XP. It killed all sorts of network functionality on a friend of mine's PC. His NAS and Xbox mysteriously decided to stop connecting to it and M$ suggested he update to Vista to restore his previously happy networking situation. He preferred a clean reinstall of XP and blocking SP3 on the updates list. M$ made sure SP3 nagged and attempted to be applied forever more.
I can't help thinking that Win 7 users will suffer a string of unhelpful and increasingly buggy patches till the herd accept that this crap isn't going away till they buy in to Win 8 and are properly assimilated into the collective.
Re: @ Colin Ritchgie However....
I suggest neither, I only speak from personal opinion. I have not and will never pay Microsoft for any of their software. Having said that I have bought and loved 2 Microsoft USB mice, the best things M$ ever made imho and a steal at 26 pounds each. The software is and always was extortionately priced mutton dressed as lamb.
As for your milked Apple fanboi assumptions, I'm posting from my Hackintosh. The Jobs is dead, long live the Jobs!
Dirty Dells Done Dirt Cheap.
Slipping buy out competitors millions of company dough to make competitive due process?
Why does this sound corrupt to me? Do Mike and the board intend to drive Dell's ailing share price even lower by behaving badly in public till Wall St. takes fright?
If corporate America runs like this normally, no wonder the financial institutions investing in them take a bath so often.....
Re: However....
Pay for an office suite for my Mac? Seriously? ROFLMAO!
OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, LibraOffice.... Take your pick and don't feed the beast.
It's fat enough already.
I use OO.o and work use M$ Office, no problems either end and both convert to .pdf files smoothly when required.
They don't mind Google docs either, come to that. Paying for M$ Office is looking sooooo 2003 to me.
Re: Fail == Fail
I see where you are coming from Eadon but M$ have attempted to integrate mobile and desktop ecosystems with Win 8. The unfortunate differences between 8 Pro, WART and WinPhone only confuse the masses but ultimately most of these devices serve to do the same thing for the majority of people: poke at the interwebs. That is the market to view for share imho. I suspect it is also the market that M$ are striving to make headway in, following the money into mobile.
Re: Fail == Fail
Windows 8 has many haters from inside the Windows community, the trolls from outside are largely superfluous in any argument about the merits or negatives of all the different Windows versions they are outside the experience by their own choice. Conversely there are quite a few Windows lovers who like everything about whatever has been recently released from Redmond. Sometimes I even hear defenders of Win8/phone describing how tasty their new interface looks, I think the best description of folks like that would be Windows lickers.
But seriously folks, the real reference I'd measure the popularity of any system would be the usage share of OS on the net, wikimedia measures Feb 2013 like this: Win 7 34.72%, iOS 23.75%, Win XP 14.28%, OS X 6.98%, Android 6.03%, Vista 4.3%, Win 8 2.23%, Linux 1.42% and Win Phone 0.79%.
M$ still have a 56.32% market share so they don't need to worry what they call their next OS or how it performs, it will still be part of the biggest herd. Only just mind.
Re: Don't blame Apple for the price drop
I posted this in 2010 when APPL share prices were rocketing:
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"Stock Markets are greedy just like people.
I'm no financial expert and the only person whose previous actions I regret are my own. Damn! I shoulda put £2000 in APPL shares in 1996 when they were in double digits and the stock wasn't split... twice over.
Hey hindsight is a wonderful thing, but let us look at what makes this news newsworthy and how it relates to the "real" world we live in, posting on geeky forums.
Share price is relative to market confidence and previous performance, Wallstreet loves a player who plays to win and looks good in the process.
As long as Apple keep producing products that trigger lust in the general public and sell their highly sexed image with even higher priced kit as fast as they can develop it, the stock will rise.
If Steve Jobs goes mad or dies the market will turn on APPL like a wounded bear. Fact.
If Apple manages to throw all their current tech sex appeal down the toilet in a Vista moment® the same will happen but probably not so savagely.
For now we can all bask in the knowledge that somebody makes a phone even a moron can look smart using and an operating system even my 64 year old mother isn't intimidated by.... much.
Why Paris? See the previous sentence. :)"
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Since then I built myself a Hackintosh for a third of the price of an equivalent Mac Pro and bought a £70 Android smartphone which works just as well as an iPhone for what I need it to do.
What have Apple done to surprise and delight their customers in the last year? I think the share price changes reflect that well enough.
Now who's been left looking like a bunch of quants? Rich quants mind.....
Posted in Review: Sony Xperia Z
Re: Should be nice and hackable...
Have to agree with the anti Sony sentiment, a once mighty player in audio quality brought low by underhanded practices. £500 for a phone they will support for less time than a Ferengi 2nd hand shuttle dealer's warranty.
I remember a mate buying a Sony Ericsson phone and taking it back to the shop 3 days later,
"It takes shite photos!"
"Yes sir, they all do that." said the salesmen. No refund, no replacement, no repeat business.
The 18 month headphone lifespan is particularly shameless, much like the Skullcandy models made out of candyfloss and Dr Dre Beats cans that cost £189 but sound worse than a pair of £40 Sennheiser PX 100 you could buy for as little as £20 from a HMV store if you were quick....
2 Headphone manufacturers stand out for their customer service, Koss give a lifetime warranty on some of their models and Grados Labs offer to repair any of their models for a fixed fee whatever the damage. My Grado SR60i phones are $25 to fix and sound like aural sex.
Sony who? I remember you, in the 70s and 80 when you were good to know.
Paris, expensive, reasonably waterproof, but ultimately unreliable too I suspect.
Posted in New nuke could POWER WORLD UNTIL 2083
Best choice so far, compared to shivering in the dark.
The UK's government has been wasting huge amounts of money for decades trying to make a waste reprocessing power plant or a useable fuel from the crap they already have and are still producing. If this is a legitimate and proven design of reactor they will jump at the chance.
Daily Mail readers have had Nuclear Power Stations inefficiently powering their well lit homes for decades, they won't stand in the way of a cheaper more efficient method, but the Flat-Earthers might.....
Paris, because she thinks she's atomic but she's just a waste too.
Safari not even worth trying?
Interesting to see nobody even bothered to attempt cracking Safari, why not?
Isn't 65k of Apple's money enough?
Paris because folks eventually won't bother cracking on to her either.....
Sony, I remember them.....
Back in the 70s the only stereo equipment that was affordable and decent quality was Sony or Phillips, the rest was expensive or crap.... or both. Come the 80's other manufacturers caught up on the hi-fi front and Sony struck out into portable music players, I loved my Walkman, they ruled the pavements for years.
Compact Disc was a Sony or Phillips component in all the other brand's players, they were laughing all the way to the bank.
I even remember when the Play Station hammered all the other contenders, (a Sega what? Dreamcast? Nah mate never hear of it.) long before the Xbox charged over the hill.
Come the millennium the diversity of competition in all spheres of Sony's markets was telling and Sony have had the guts of their business spread over the shop floor to the point where they are just a bit player themselves now.
Every Sony tech item I have used in the 21st century has been an also ran to so many other similar items that were cheaper, better looking or more intuitively menued. Sad but true, I still shudder at the thought of my friend's Sony Vile® craptop I had to reinstall from its hidden partition and then spend hours removing the crapware it filled the visible partition with, just so it could crawl a little faster before expiring from its own ineptitude and needing yet another restore, repeatedly, for years..... All because Sony were too mean to supply an XP install disk you could do a custom install with.
Dinosaur is the right word and I think we can just see the meteor in the upper atmosphere about now.
Paris? Like Sony she won't know when to call it a day either.
Re: Why Paris?
By the time she is superseded, she won't be as skinny as Photoshop will be making her look. :)
Diabollocks
WoW has been the 500 pound gorilla in the MMO mist for 7 years now, it refreshes content regularly and maintains its status/population thus. The sea of Diablo fans who eagerly waited 10 years for D3 will now have to wait for D4 to resume their love affair with 1 shot content. I sincerely hope they didn't spend the last 9 years re running D2 over and over. Ofc not, they were playing WoW for the last 7 instead. Bring on the Pandas already, D3 is over!
Re: Eviscerated?
Eviscerated: Having vital organs or large parts of body mass removed. Much like selling only twice as many devices that use your OS when you were selling over 60 times as many previously. Hey where did my overbearing sales difference go? Kinda vital to the biggest bully in the tech market.
Apple and Android devices have proved that the future is no longer having its balls squeezed in Balmer's vice like grip. Good.
I do real work, I manufacture plastics along with about 200 other people in the same workplace. Only a tiny fraction of them have computers on their desks and the majority of the office workers use their smart phones for the day to day communication of their business, even a laptop is too bulky for the amount of running around they do. So "real" work to us doesn't mean staring vacantly at the Dell crapbox in the corner while it fails to do what you asked it 5 minutes earlier.
I was sitting in a wifi equipped motorway service station cafe answering work email on my iPod Touch when I spotted a woman working next to me on her laptop, then she pulled out her Blackberry, then her social phone to chat with friends, and finally her iPad to do her own project (not work related). So she needed 4 devices to do her tech thing (or at least she thought so) and only a quarter of them were M$ run.
I'll just carry an iPod Touch and an ancient Motorola Razer thanks....
Why Paris? Cos she is doomed to be superseded by slimmer smarter shinier eye candy too.
Posted in Teens break up with Facebook
Facebook, tracebook.
I think several things will put the younger users off Facebook eventually. Older, squarer folks getting in on it can't help. The fact that their parents are on can't be a plus either. Timeline pissed off many users I know and several of them are teens.
Ultimately, a social network site that lets you post a long chronological list of potentially bad press for yourself in the years to come, may cause people to abandon it as they mature anyway.
How long before Facebook is declared to be "Old and smells of wee."?
Paris hasn't the attention span to keep Facebook going forever, why would we expect a generation who wants to emulate her to do so?
When Commodore made a Jack a King.
God bless a man who too few recognise as one of the founding fathers of home computing.
I had a ZX81, I hated it, useless keyboard and limited connections. My friend's Vic20 was awesome by comparison. I ignored the Spectrum and saved up £90 for a C64 to replace the 81 ASAP.
Jack was the king of the hill for the years I used it and the Atari ST that replaced it as my teenage gaming hardware. Now I have a Mac but without Jack I would have had er... jack.
Rest in peace, the geeks of the 20th century salute you.
Posted in Game chain sold
I agree with the "Letterbox Revolution"
I don't like download only media, it does indeed suck as a gift for someone else and always seems to take too long or corrupt too often. Having a repair instruction set built in doesn't feel as reliable as physical media you can reinstall if the worst happens. I like the game to be in my hand and under my control.
Blizzard's Starcraft 2 with its punitive DRM and account management or Steam's "you can't play if your internet connection is down even if the game is an offline one." make a very bad case for a streamed media gaming future. Then again, just because they are pants doesn't mean others have to be too.
Having said that I buy all my physical media, games, video and music online and it drops through my letterbox just fine. If I have to pick it up from the Post Office parcel counter, because the delivery ninjas managed to sneak a red "sorry you missed us coming up the drive" card through the door, then that is no problem either.
Game's business model is 5 to 10 years out of date, I give it 5 to 10 years more at best.
To repeat myself: Anyone remember Our Price? VShops? Sanity? Maybe Paris does... no wait....
Posted in Game closes 277 stores
Insert coins to continue.
Having been an avid gamer since the Atari VCS console first graced my parents living room carpet, in front of the TV in the early 80's, I must have spent a considerable amount of disposable income on gaming through the days of Commodore 64, Atari ST and Amiga battering before finally embracing WoW in 2005 and only playing the one true game ever since. My console loving buddies dragged their couch potato asses down to Game and its ilk to trade and spend on new delights far more than I ever did. The smarter ones went to the local maison de geek (called Playaway) which was cheaper and always on the money for getting the right titles in for the even righter price and always on release day not later.
My only misadventure with Game was to buy a Gravis joypad that broke within a fortnight. When I tried to return it I was flat refused by the manager who told me to send it to the manufacturer for a replacement. Gravis refused to entertain such behaviour and insisted I return it via the shop. Both refused to budge so the piece of crap went in the bin and I never spent another penny in that emporium again.
Strangely enough my home town still has 2 booming gaming shops, both off the high rent shopfrontage and neither run as badly as the latest recession casualty we are here to lament.
Condolences to all the staff who just got the bullet, never a nice thing to happen, especially right now. :(
I hope whoever buys it knows exactly what they need to do to fix a very broken business model.
Anyone remember Our Price? VShops? Sanity? Maybe Paris does... no wait.....
Posted in Apple offers cash for old kit
Recycle Macs? Err that is what relatives and friends are for.....
Send a fully functional iMac to Germany for £20? Fuck off. I pass my old kit on to interested relatives and friends who want to dip their toes in the internet without having to fork out for anything more than an ISP subscription. My G3 to G5 iMac cast offs allow folks I know and love, to learn exactly how fun and useful interwebbery is and invariably leads to a more up to date Apple stamped piece of equipment purchased later. Now that is a much more lucrative prospect for the post Jobsian Cult of Smug.
Paris? Cos she has it both ways too I suspect....
Posted in Apple MacBook Air 11in Core i5 notebook
Damn I bought my Mum a MBP 6 months too early.....
Bugger, I should have seen this one coming, I got my dear old Ma an i5 13" MBP Sandybridge when it came out, now Apple just made a worthy replacement for the same price and half the weight. Mum wouldn't have noticed the performance hit and would have loved the weight loss....
How long do you reckon Dell will take to copy this baby?
Paris, cos the original airhead always leads the pack.
Posted in Dell XPS 15z 15.6in Core i5 notebook
Dell wants to be swell too. Fanbois scoff while lawyers cough.
Dell announced their intention to go upmarket earlier this year, possibly last year too depending how much you pay attention to hype and marketing. Unfortunately their innovation and new ideas departments still seem as underdeveloped as their website design and customer support services. So they went upmarket by buying Alienware to gain instant gaming kudos, then realised that fugly behemoth gaming rigs weren't really what anyone with a life wanted in their er.... life. So they decided to copy stylish laptops from the darlings of cool. Genius R&D that. I can hear Tiffany singing "I think we're a clone now." already.
Well done guys, keep up the hard work. Imitation is still the sincerest form of flattery, especially if you can make a buck out of it in to the bargain. Thank Jobs you still have Apple to copy for your stylish stuff.
HP has fallen on its corporate hardware sword because Apple spanked them in the Tablet War, how long before Dell and Acer outbid each other to sell their kit at a loss to make up for their inability to read the markets as fluently as the big A. Game on gentlemen.
Why Paris? Hmm do you think the 15z would fool her or not? You decide, I'm really not so sure...
P.S. Macs became PCs the day they learned how to boot Windows natively, luckily it's not mandatory.... yet.
Back to the Future
Been using Mac OS since System 7, this is the first time I refuse to upgrade in over 20 years.
Why? Cos I've been using this bloody OS for 20 years and have so much legacy data and software which survived the last "purge" that removed Power PC architecture (hardware not software) that I would have to spend about £700 on replacing my ancient Rosetta based apps and data.
Second reason, I have stand alone antiquated Macs in a dank cave in deepest darkest Kent. Backwards compatibility means they can share many of the tasks and data my latest Mac Pro (2008) is involved in. Slam the door on all my older machines? Nah.
Why Paris? Cos she's pretty much Team Obsolete now too.
Another BMW with a Lamborghini pricetag.
Anyone who spells losers that badly never won a spelling bee or an argument. ;)
Why Paris? Yet again Apple make a pretty thing with brainless attractions and a pricetag nobody could possibly justify with any remotely sane or economic reasoning. The chavs will drool at the unattainable waste of space/time while the rich play with it.
Meanwhile the fondleslab fans froth and thrash in anticipation.
Remember the Bondi? I have one still running today....
My first Mac was a Rev. B iMac with 96 mb RAM bought in 1998, I LOVED it!
It brought me to the internet and I loved it even more for that alone.
I didn't replace it till 2002 with a G4 800mhz iMac with 1 GB RAM, by then it had gained Mac OS X an iHarmoni 600mhz CPU/FireWire port combo, a Voodoo 2 8mb Game Wizard card on the mezzanine, 80 GB hdd and 512 mb RAM.
Total cost for 4 years of daily use and expansion £1200. £300 a year, my friend's replacement PCs cost him more in the same timespan and still crashed like Lindsey Lohan in a Maserati.
In 2005 when my GF's son's Acer Craptop died at boarding school and they demanded £400 to repair it, the Bondi went to school and did sterling replacement service till the relentless Unreal tournament matches in a confined space cooked the Voodoo card in 2007. It ran Illustrator and Photoshop like a champ for him despite the paltry spec it carried.
I removed the add-on card and it spent the next 2 years as the back-bedroom Mac for when the Lounge one was busy. The screen failed and a £30 (delivered!) eBay hulk took over ownership of the good bits and it soldiered on till I gave it to a friend to get him back online in 2010 when his Packard Bellend tower died of terminal fluff choking every fan and vent possible.
Now it snores in the spare room waiting the next time somebody says
"Fuck! I need an email box my Piece of Crap just died!"
Viva la Bondi. 12 years old and still more reliable than a Vista laptop.
Why Paris? Pretty on the outside, dubious on the inside, but still ticking after all this time.
Dell looks to sell qualiteeee
I use Dell computers at work and Apple ones at home, the quality, reliability and user experience couldn't be more different.
Dell hardware coupled with an ancient and decaying XP based network makes even relatively easy jobs almost impossible feats of effort.
If Dell are actually prepared to improve their design and quality brief/budget to the point where their equipment works as smoothly as Macs the world will be a much better place, or at least my work environment will be....eventually.
Why Paris? Lets hope Dell don't make expensive trashy wastes of space by mistake instead.
Posted in Apple now world's second-largest company
Stock Markets are greedy just like people.
I'm no financial expert and the only person whose previous actions I regret are my own. Damn! I shoulda put £2000 in APPL shares in 1996 when they were in double digits and the stock wasn't split... twice over.
Hey hindsight is a wonderful thing, but let us look at what makes this news newsworthy and how it relates to the "real" world we live in, posting on geeky forums.
Share price is relative to market confidence and previous performance, Wallstreet loves a player who plays to win and looks good in the process.
As long as Apple keep producing products that trigger lust in the general public and sell their highly sexed image with even higher priced kit as fast as they can develop it, the stock will rise.
If Steve Jobs goes mad or dies the market will turn on APPL like a wounded bear. Fact.
If Apple manages to throw all their current tech sex appeal down the toilet in a Vista moment® the same will happen but probably not so savagely.
For now we can all bask in the knowledge that somebody makes a phone even a moron can look smart using and an operating system even my 64 year old mother isn't intimidated by.... much.
Why Paris? See the previous sentence. :)
Posted in Apple sued over hot iPad shutdowns
I'm with Al on this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09I4Mi5IUl4
Why Paris? Cos she gets hotter when the sun comes out and doesn't work either. :)
Interesting viewpoint.
@James Butler: I suspect only the original poster can confirm exactly what he meant, but your conception is as equally valid as mine.
I would say that Mac users are not so concerned about the price of their tech. If they were, they would baulk at the premium cost of Apple's hardware and by a PC.
Likewise if Windows users were truly concerned by security they would buy a Mac, especially as they can run Windows on it as well with an extra option for a less used and less targetted platform along side it.
It isn't Apple that refers to the updates as "Free" that is the media's handle, but I agree with your point of semantics on the Securty Patches, in a paranoid world M$ know how to jerk folks chains.
The concept of Apple giving away stuff started with OS 7 in the early 80's when they gave out free upgrade tokens in the OS box and continued through out the 80's and 90's with OS updates released for free to MacFormat and other magazines for inclusion on their cover discs. This was replaced by online downloads in the latter half of the 90's with the advent of broadband.
So, to date the "free beer" has flowed from Cupertino for a very long time indeed.
Paris again? She likes a drink on the house as much as the next man/woman/insert mammal of choice here.
Free Updates vs. Security Patches
Mac OS updates usually contain bug fixes and compatability improvements as well as security improvements and Java script updates to keep that particular version compliant with the net.
The big ones e.g. 10.3.0 (panther), 10.4.0 (tiger), 10.5.0 (leopard) and 10.6.0 (snow leopard) are paid for as major new versions of the OS at £30-80 a time. Any minor OS update inbetween is free and only changes the last number in the system identity: 10.6.0 to 10.6.1 is free, as is 10.6.1 to 10.6.2 and so on till 10.7.0 is eventually released. It's always remarked on when Apple, one of the greedier Tech companies, does something for nothing. It's been doing this particular free thing for the last 22 years or so.
Microsoft behave just the same way with versions of Windows, you pay for the major updates, 95 to 98, 98 to ME, ME to XP, XP to Vista, Vista to 7, but the Service Packs are free inbetween. The only difference being that 7 seems to finally be worth actually paying for. Pretty remarkable in itself.
Anything that does not majorly affect the running of the OS and generally only enhances security by preventing malware is referred to as a Security Patch and not a Service Pack. Yeah they are all free too
Windows has a hell of alot of Security Patches due to the amount of malware it attracts, being the world's most popular OS for idiots.... I mean computer users.
Why Paris? Cos she doesn't know an update from a security patch either i guess.
Whining about price? Let's compare other made to measure all in ones.....
Top spec i7 27" iMac for £1759, find an All-in-one Desktop PC with the same spec? er... no.
Closest contender on price a 24" Dell XPS for £1400 with integrated graphics, a smaller screen, only 2 gb of RAM, oh.... and a habit of freezing at start up, reaching 90ºc on it's top surface and running the fans at a deafening speed. But wait.... hey! It's got a Blu-ray player.
Next....Sony Vile® All-in-one, 25.5" screen, Core2 quad 2.26 Ghz, 4 gb Ram, 9600 GT graphics
Good comparative spec but fugly and £2109. Hmm those iMacs are just sooo expensive...
Why Paris? Cos sometimes things that look good can be cheap too... if you look closely :)
Fail to prepare? Prepare to fail.....
Call me Mr Paranoid but after watching Windows users lose data time and time again with security breaches, malware and just plain old hardware breakdowns they hardly need the OS to start losing it for them too.
As an "OhsosmugApplefanboi" I backup manually to internal and external drives on a very regular basis. I don't even trust automatic backup systems. 5 HDDs 2 just for backup, now that's really smug.
Leopard worked fine for all the time I used it apart from a nasty Time Machine bug which meant it wouldn't roll back more than about 2 days when I first tried to use it. Never tried again.
I don't trust a Mac OS to safeguard my data more than any other but I use it in preference due to the lack of problems it gives me compared to Windows.
Strangely enough when I migrated to Snow Leopard I kept my original Leopard build on another drive and still do to this day. Early adopters need to be careful whatever your platform.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Why Paris? Even Macs can have a blonde moment......
Unbaised and fair! Maybe you will go to the WWWDC
As an Apple Fanboy for 20 years anything I say will be biased......
Well done for making a direct comparison and giving both OS a fair report. I sincerely hope all your views are proven right and both platforms perform admirably. I'm upgrading to 10.6 soon and hope all the Vista sufferers get the OS they deserve to make up for it.
Why Paris? Cos sometimes getting a new stuffing does her a world of good too.
Evolution in a Recession.
Why waste shock and awe on a broke public in a free fall downturn?
Steve Jobs could spend the next year dead for tax reasons, then arrive miraculously reincarnated to sweep the fanbois and grrrrls into ecstasy with all singing all dancing toys.
So why do it now when they're all watching their hard earned turn to crap?
Apple have addressed some of their largest critical issues and left what wasn't broken alone.
Only the piss poor AT&T situation remains and I assume even Apple got stiffed with a longer contract than they should have settled for. Human after all then.....
Having upgraded my Macs every 3 years on average it comes as no shock that my trusty G5 iMac will not be changing it's spots along with it's Mac Pro replacement.
I'm not in awe of laptops how ever long their batteries last or how cheap (read less expensive) they get.
So even this rabid Windows dodger can happily let Apple get on with hyping the not very different to last month's offerings and patiently wait for Snow Leopard to be bugfixed.
After all it's what they do best.
Why Paris? She takes up valuable column inches too without having to do anything different either. It's only who's column it is that varies.
College Kids Buy Macs
The lost generation comment in the article refers to the fact that if Vista is still the default OS on PC laptops this autumn, Apple will stay the most popular laptop seller on campus in the states. Low spec white Macbooks with an iPod discount and an OS that doesn't suck as hard as Microsoft's "finest" are popular despite a price premium relative to power.
Why Paris? Because she's white, expensive and feeble minded too. Most freshmen wouldn't say no to her either.
Posted in Apple muffles PC noisemakers
Noise is relative
Used Mac since the Classic SE (no fan but the 20 mb HDD creaked a lot).
In my experience the following has been true:
iMac G3 constant low fan whine (not a problem)
iMac G4 variable speed fan very quiet even when thrashed (even better)
iMac G5 hot chip, hot GFX card, 2 noisy fans that sound like a small remote controlled aircraft is flying around the room (not deafening but bad)
Mac Pro 6-9 fans depending on kit inside absolutely bloody silent except at start up when they run full blast for 3 seconds (stunningly good)
My friends PC gaming towers do Harrier Jump Jet impersonations from start up and get louder the harder they get thrashed. Their laptops are quieter but tend to meltdown and freeze up as they're systems core temp reaches 90ºc. Alternatively you have a laptop with no balls at all so it never overheats...
Liquid cooled monsters are quiet but a lot of work and money with 1 more thing to service too, Apple tried it in the G5 PowerMac towers and then dropped it again.
Noise is relative one man's racket is ignored by another, Apple are not the first to copyright a silly concept go look at Microsoft's list of ludicrous "me first" litigation.
The important thing is if you can live with the equipment's overall ambience.
Mind over Matter: If you don't mind it don't matter.
Paris? Because she knows the importance of a good blow and how much noise you make when your on the job.
