Posts by WPLJ42

I cannot help but find this comment offensive: "The average consumer is a blind deaf moron paying too much for content..." For a person like myself, Blu Ray is pretty much useless. I can barely see a difference. I really...

I was not impressed with Snow Leopard. Of course, I couldn't just uninstall it, I had to reinstall Leopard. Doing a clean install of 10.5.0, installing iLife '08, and updating everything took just about as much time as the upgrade to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Be sure you're viewing these images at 100% on your 1920x1080 display to get the full effect: This is DVD, and this is Blu-Ray. If you saw the world the way DVD looks, the optometrist would give...

Maybe someone else mentioned this. There are so many posts now, I have to admit, I scanned them without reading every word. But, if Mac OSX ever grows past the size limits of DVD DL, then Steve will have to surrender to another format,...

Quote: Originally Posted by john galt Most likely that was 64 K, and 8 MHz. Your floppies were 180 K, unless they were double sided (360K). With a little ingenuity, Apple bumped things up a bit with 400/800 (SS/DS) KB...

Quote: Originally Posted by john galt Understood. I bought my Dad a 24" iMac, he has the display configured for 640x480 If the 27 inch were available then I'd have bought it instead. My second-ever hard disk was a Hardcard, a...

John ... I never understood my old G3 iMac, so it went back into the box when I returned to Windows. So, it was left in the dark for years. No wonder it didn't work. It would power up, and the optical drive worked, but the HD was not...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer This is what happens when your device manufacturer gets into the content distribution business; they start not supporting other methods of enjoying content and tell you they know best. You mean...

I am of the humble opinion, optical drives are history. Computers will loose them eventually. I would not want a Blu Ray drive in my computer, not even for the 50 GB it holds. I almost never use my optical drive. Only thing is backing up...

Quote: Originally Posted by john galt Half is still a lot, probably hundreds, even with a broken HD. Drives are cheap. Want to get more? Sell the parts. I sold an eleven year old iMac for $85, hockey puck mouse and all. Overall...