Nicely done for a first post. Welcome to AI. I don't know about putting a BR in a Mac Pro as you state, unless you plan on running Windows since there are no BR drivers that I am aware of for OS X.
If you want to work with Blu-ray drive on Mac OS X for data, Toast works and the drivers are there--BD drives on OS X have been USB/eSata plug-n-play supported for at least a couple of years now. I use a Buffalo external BD burner/player on my Mac Pro, dual boot in Snow Leopard and Win 7 Pro, playback of movies/burning on the Win 7 side via Cyberlink Ultra HD suite.
Also, I know that Other World Computing sells internal BD drive kits for the Mac Pro line--was looking at it just yesterday, like to free up the external for use w/ our laptops.
Do those bottom-feeding suits at Microjoke ever have an original idea?
Promise me if someone mentions Microsoft doing IPTV you don't say "do they ever have an original idea" and please, please, please don't repeat this articles title about it being a "response" to Apple TV.
People will laugh at you. Then they will point. Then they will laugh some more. I feel embarrassed for you just thinking of how much they would laugh.
If you want to say something derogatory how about saying "Microjoke have been trying to do that for a decade. What's new?"
if not for the fact that IE sucks....i would say put a full blown browser on it, let me control it with kinect rather than a remote, and you have a winner.
Hand writing input/recognition is a massive selling point. Especially to designers.
Just think how useful the iPad would be if you could use a more accurate pointing device to draw diagrams, input handwritten notes. Designers would lap it up!
But MS doesn't need Courier for handwriting recognition.
This has been a frustrating point for me with Apple and the iPad - Inkwell, the technology that powered the Newton, worked very well. My Newton, once trained, could read my handwriting better than I could! I understand capacitive touch screens don't work well with stylus and that handwriting with a finger is awkward, but I do hope Apple addresses this with later iterations of the iPad as there are times when I would just rather jot and sketch stuff out with a pen/pencil/stylus. I really liked the mode the Newton had where it would straighten up basic geometric objects and lines as you sketched.
Sorry Apple fanboys (again, I own an Apple TV, as well as an iPad, iPhone 4, Macbook etc), but the Apple TV is junk.
For you maybe, but the navigation on the Xbox sucks, and the PS3 consumes far more power than the ATV. I use it for BlueRay only (Picked up a refurb launch 60GB model for under $200 - it plays all my PS2 games natively which was a nice double bonus).
Plus the ATV integrates seamlessly with my pictures. Sure, you can tweak the Xbox and PS3, but it works out of the box with the ATV.
The ATV menus are simpler and far more directed at their tasks, and Netflix looks noticeably better on the ATV than it does on either my Tivo, Xbox 360 or PS3. While the gaming consoles offer good value if you can only afford one device, for me the experience on the ATV is much more enjoyable.
well XBox and ESPN recently made it so that Xbox live users can watch games streamed from ESPN 3 through their Xbox. It seems this is the only logical next step.
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Nicely done for a first post. Welcome to AI. I don't know about putting a BR in a Mac Pro as you state, unless you plan on running Windows since there are no BR drivers that I am aware of for OS X.
If you want to work with Blu-ray drive on Mac OS X for data, Toast works and the drivers are there--BD drives on OS X have been USB/eSata plug-n-play supported for at least a couple of years now. I use a Buffalo external BD burner/player on my Mac Pro, dual boot in Snow Leopard and Win 7 Pro, playback of movies/burning on the Win 7 side via Cyberlink Ultra HD suite.
Also, I know that Other World Computing sells internal BD drive kits for the Mac Pro line--was looking at it just yesterday, like to free up the external for use w/ our laptops.
As for Blu-ray playback on the Mac--haven't tried it, but found this: http://youtubecommunityforum.com/vie...10&forum_id=22 Might be worth checking out--if a bit more work than we'd all like.
Do those bottom-feeding suits at Microjoke ever have an original idea?
Promise me if someone mentions Microsoft doing IPTV you don't say "do they ever have an original idea" and please, please, please don't repeat this articles title about it being a "response" to Apple TV.
People will laugh at you. Then they will point. Then they will laugh some more. I feel embarrassed for you just thinking of how much they would laugh.
If you want to say something derogatory how about saying "Microjoke have been trying to do that for a decade. What's new?"
if not for the fact that IE sucks....i would say put a full blown browser on it, let me control it with kinect rather than a remote, and you have a winner.
huh whay what ??
works great for me
xbox 360 has fine hd
ATV is great of course ..
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bash msft
love xbox 360
still looking for zune anything
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Hand writing input/recognition is a massive selling point. Especially to designers.
Just think how useful the iPad would be if you could use a more accurate pointing device to draw diagrams, input handwritten notes. Designers would lap it up!
But MS doesn't need Courier for handwriting recognition.
This has been a frustrating point for me with Apple and the iPad - Inkwell, the technology that powered the Newton, worked very well. My Newton, once trained, could read my handwriting better than I could! I understand capacitive touch screens don't work well with stylus and that handwriting with a finger is awkward, but I do hope Apple addresses this with later iterations of the iPad as there are times when I would just rather jot and sketch stuff out with a pen/pencil/stylus. I really liked the mode the Newton had where it would straighten up basic geometric objects and lines as you sketched.
Sorry Apple fanboys (again, I own an Apple TV, as well as an iPad, iPhone 4, Macbook etc), but the Apple TV is junk.
For you maybe, but the navigation on the Xbox sucks, and the PS3 consumes far more power than the ATV. I use it for BlueRay only (Picked up a refurb launch 60GB model for under $200 - it plays all my PS2 games natively which was a nice double bonus).
Plus the ATV integrates seamlessly with my pictures. Sure, you can tweak the Xbox and PS3, but it works out of the box with the ATV.
The ATV menus are simpler and far more directed at their tasks, and Netflix looks noticeably better on the ATV than it does on either my Tivo, Xbox 360 or PS3. While the gaming consoles offer good value if you can only afford one device, for me the experience on the ATV is much more enjoyable.