... (neither) The Palm Pre, nor the Hackintosh community, present a huge competitive pressure on the Apple juggernaut. But, money is money, and if you can hamper the ankle-biters with little effort, why not?...
You have no idea about how Apple operates if you think they care about "the money" to the extent that you seem to.
Apple is a product based company. The profits fall from the skies when they make good products and they are literally rolling in piles of cash.
They just don't think the way you think they think.
It is ok, I enjoy Windows 7 on my Dell Mini Netbook. The best feature being the HDMI port that I use to connect to my HDTV and stream Netflix to. It is quite awesome. Apple is missing the boat here.
The Dell feels a bit cheap but it works fine. The only thing I miss on the netbook is bluetooth.
It is ok, I enjoy Windows 7 on my Dell Mini Netbook. The best feature being the HDMI port that I use to connect to my HDTV and stream Netflix to. It is quite awesome. Apple is missing the boat here.
The Dell feels a bit cheap but it works fine. The only thing I miss on the netbook is bluetooth.
What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.
Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.
the atom is the crappiest cpu on the market, via included.
I don't want to spoil it to other people, and I appreciate the efforts of the hackintosh hobbyists.
That said its very obvious most of them are doing a diservice to themselves by not buying a superior apple products. Although with most of these computer modders/geek guys it's much less of an actual attempt to get a working computer to get their job done and more of a perennial moding/testing thing, a sexual thing really, subverted.
Btw to that guy who runs windows 7 on that dell atom...well good luck...let us know how long it will take you to switch to the next tab in the browser after you 've open 10-15 tabs, less than 15 minutes?
The best netbooks on the market are the powerbook g4 12" and the air, I don't accept the category, the rest are just plain crap. Get a thin and light laptop or a smart phone, netbooks are an abomination. Let alone crap pc netbooks running os x.
In any case the atom will be buried very soon by some fantastic ubber power conservative and powerful arm chips as well as I am pretty sure some beauties from in house apple designer pa semi. These guys had far better tec than any "mobile" cpu like the atom by intel four years ago, they did custom business with the us army and intelligence, imagine what they have right now, four years after. Expect to be amazed.
OS X has no reason to support the Intel Atom, any more than it needs to support the Intel 386.
The question to that is, why did they not also cut out the code for Centrinos? or Pentiums? Singling out one line of processor like that means they either are going after hackintoshes or they're doing explicit work to that code that requires it to be broken off for now. It's always possible that the Slate will be powered by Atoms. Or the next AppleTV.
What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.
Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.
Yes, I know the Mini and Macbook can hook-up to HDTV. I've heard it plenty of times. There are many converter cables but I like the simplicity of one cable. That is especially important on such a small device where every bit of real estate is precious. On at least the Dell Mini Netbook there's no optical drive but there's an SD card (sound familiar?).
I'm talking about Apple missing the netbook boat. Windows 7, even the starter edition on netbooks, is a good OS. Is it as good as OSX? I my opinion not quite but pretty close. Hopefully Apple will distance themselves from Windows 7 in the next OSX release.
So for a $349 base price I can do what the Mini can and have a keyboard, glidepad (mouse essentially), and a monitor for $250 less. I could almost buy two of them. And the Mini is visually more appealing.
The cons of the Mini are that it feels cheap on the glidepad, there's no optical drive (that's extra), and Dell clutters up the display with their own Mac OSX dock rip off. Other than that it is a rocking system. Apple only needs to introduce their own at $599 with similar specs and they'd sell like hotcakes. Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess. They feel they don't need to but maybe they would be in the top 5 computer manufacturers in the world if they did.
I'm still a Mac OSX fan and will always be but I'm also a Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, RIM, and HP fan when they make good products too.
Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess. They feel they don't need to but maybe they would be in the top 5 computer manufacturers in the world if they did.
They would like be in the top 5 but how much would it increase their value as a company if they are now selling Macs with razor thin margins? How would it hurt the long term value of the Mac brand if they sold Macs that compete with the cheaply built netbooks? Could Apple even compete with these cheap machines without resorting to selling out to 3rd-party vendors by loading crapware on the systems?
The bottom line is that Apple doesn?t want to be in that business and running Mac OS X on a netbook is simple. You can DL 10.6.1 builds right now and in a few days you?ll get the bug updates of 10.6.2 with the support for Atom on the torrent sites and newsgroup. Nothing has changed.
So for a $349 base price I can do what the Mini can and have a keyboard, glidepad (mouse essentially), and a monitor for $250 less. ... Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess.
Profit?
Because netbooks have been so successful for Acer, HP and Dell
Mini towers, while I wouldn't mind a small one or two slot Mac mini tower, I don't think they are ever gong to do it. The new i7 iMac's just about put a nail in that coffin.
Blades - the Mac platform as a server is just too small, and there is no virtualization of Mac OS - just not enough profit to return on the investment in the product line.
Mini towers, while I wouldn't mind a small one or two slot Mac mini tower, I don't think they are ever gong to do it. The new i7 iMac's just about put a nail in that coffin.
An i7 Mac mini would be nice. Maybe in a slightly bigger form factor (4" height vs. 2" for mini) to allow for an optical drive and two hard drives; discrete graphics would be nice too.
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... (neither) The Palm Pre, nor the Hackintosh community, present a huge competitive pressure on the Apple juggernaut. But, money is money, and if you can hamper the ankle-biters with little effort, why not?...
You have no idea about how Apple operates if you think they care about "the money" to the extent that you seem to.
Apple is a product based company. The profits fall from the skies when they make good products and they are literally rolling in piles of cash.
They just don't think the way you think they think.
the update erased my t v recordings on my eye tv by elgato
also all my scheduling
anyone have any help on how to get back my recordings ?
the memory seems to have stayed the same like it is not erased but hiding lol
help
None of these sentences make any sense.
edit: and they aren't even sentences.
None of these sentences make any sense.
edit: and they aren't even sentences.
made sense to me. What's with the rudeness?
You have no idea about how Apple operates if you think they care about "the money" to the extent that you seem to.
Apple is a product based company. The profits fall from the skies when they make good products and they are literally rolling in piles of cash.
They just don't think the way you think they think.
Apple is smart about the battles it chooses to fight.
The Dell feels a bit cheap but it works fine. The only thing I miss on the netbook is bluetooth.
It is ok, I enjoy Windows 7 on my Dell Mini Netbook. The best feature being the HDMI port that I use to connect to my HDTV and stream Netflix to. It is quite awesome. Apple is missing the boat here.
The Dell feels a bit cheap but it works fine. The only thing I miss on the netbook is bluetooth.
What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.
Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.
In any event I'm looking forward to the iTablet big time!
I don't want to spoil it to other people, and I appreciate the efforts of the hackintosh hobbyists.
That said its very obvious most of them are doing a diservice to themselves by not buying a superior apple products. Although with most of these computer modders/geek guys it's much less of an actual attempt to get a working computer to get their job done and more of a perennial moding/testing thing, a sexual thing really, subverted.
Btw to that guy who runs windows 7 on that dell atom...well good luck...let us know how long it will take you to switch to the next tab in the browser after you 've open 10-15 tabs, less than 15 minutes?
The best netbooks on the market are the powerbook g4 12" and the air, I don't accept the category, the rest are just plain crap. Get a thin and light laptop or a smart phone, netbooks are an abomination. Let alone crap pc netbooks running os x.
In any case the atom will be buried very soon by some fantastic ubber power conservative and powerful arm chips as well as I am pretty sure some beauties from in house apple designer pa semi. These guys had far better tec than any "mobile" cpu like the atom by intel four years ago, they did custom business with the us army and intelligence, imagine what they have right now, four years after. Expect to be amazed.
OS X has no reason to support the Intel Atom, any more than it needs to support the Intel 386.
The question to that is, why did they not also cut out the code for Centrinos? or Pentiums? Singling out one line of processor like that means they either are going after hackintoshes or they're doing explicit work to that code that requires it to be broken off for now. It's always possible that the Slate will be powered by Atoms. Or the next AppleTV.
What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.
Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.
Yes, I know the Mini and Macbook can hook-up to HDTV. I've heard it plenty of times. There are many converter cables but I like the simplicity of one cable. That is especially important on such a small device where every bit of real estate is precious. On at least the Dell Mini Netbook there's no optical drive but there's an SD card (sound familiar?).
I'm talking about Apple missing the netbook boat. Windows 7, even the starter edition on netbooks, is a good OS. Is it as good as OSX? I my opinion not quite but pretty close. Hopefully Apple will distance themselves from Windows 7 in the next OSX release.
So for a $349 base price I can do what the Mini can and have a keyboard, glidepad (mouse essentially), and a monitor for $250 less. I could almost buy two of them. And the Mini is visually more appealing.
The cons of the Mini are that it feels cheap on the glidepad, there's no optical drive (that's extra), and Dell clutters up the display with their own Mac OSX dock rip off. Other than that it is a rocking system. Apple only needs to introduce their own at $599 with similar specs and they'd sell like hotcakes. Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess. They feel they don't need to but maybe they would be in the top 5 computer manufacturers in the world if they did.
I'm still a Mac OSX fan and will always be but I'm also a Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, RIM, and HP fan when they make good products too.
Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess. They feel they don't need to but maybe they would be in the top 5 computer manufacturers in the world if they did.
They would like be in the top 5 but how much would it increase their value as a company if they are now selling Macs with razor thin margins? How would it hurt the long term value of the Mac brand if they sold Macs that compete with the cheaply built netbooks? Could Apple even compete with these cheap machines without resorting to selling out to 3rd-party vendors by loading crapware on the systems?
The bottom line is that Apple doesn?t want to be in that business and running Mac OS X on a netbook is simple. You can DL 10.6.1 builds right now and in a few days you?ll get the bug updates of 10.6.2 with the support for Atom on the torrent sites and newsgroup. Nothing has changed.
anyone have any help on how to get back my recordings ?
Restore from your Time Machine backup?
Apple haters in 3...2...1...
On a side note, the update was 200 some odd MB for me. Where do they get this 400MB number from?
Depending on your configuration you either need up to 400MB or less changes made to your system.
So for a $349 base price I can do what the Mini can and have a keyboard, glidepad (mouse essentially), and a monitor for $250 less. ... Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess.
Profit?
Because netbooks have been so successful for Acer, HP and Dell
Mini towers, while I wouldn't mind a small one or two slot Mac mini tower, I don't think they are ever gong to do it. The new i7 iMac's just about put a nail in that coffin.
Blades - the Mac platform as a server is just too small, and there is no virtualization of Mac OS - just not enough profit to return on the investment in the product line.
What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.
Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.
But then you are limited by what audio formats you can support
We are hacked too, because people REALLY do want NETBOOKS - not oversized iPhone iTablets.
The least you can do is give us a 10" MacBook Air !
Mini towers, while I wouldn't mind a small one or two slot Mac mini tower, I don't think they are ever gong to do it. The new i7 iMac's just about put a nail in that coffin.
An i7 Mac mini would be nice. Maybe in a slightly bigger form factor (4" height vs. 2" for mini) to allow for an optical drive and two hard drives; discrete graphics would be nice too.
Or an all new i7 Cube?