Screensavers OSX Plug

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murbotmurbot
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I don't know if this is old news or what, but it caught my ear this evening...



On the Screensavers on TechTV tonight, this guy calls in with a printer question. He says he just bought a new LCD iMac after making a 8 hour round trip drive to the Mall of America. He replaced his main Windows XP machine with the iMac, because he wanted to use OSX for so long.



Leo (Laporte?) jumps in saying "Me to! I abandoned Windows XP for Mac OSX, it is just an amazing operating system."



!!!!



I knew Leo had some Macs, he's mentioned having a Cube with LCD, and an Apple laptop with Airport (don't know if it's an i or TiBook), but saying that he's abandoned XP? Damn, that's pretty cool to see. That can only help the cause - the show has quite a large audience.



Anyway, just a little thing I noticed tonight and thought I'd share...

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  • Reply 1 of 12
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    damn you. Now I definitely have to watch the rerun at 1am
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  • Reply 2 of 12
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    It's somewhat old news, but it's still cool to see every time. Leo, Brett (of course), and Megan are addicted. TechTvLabs are the ones that have totaly supprised me in a way, but it's not that supprising. They test, and review/compare just about every thing made, and Apple stuff gets great reviews compared to similar products that are available for oter platforms.



    If you like to see Mac's in use almost exlusively you should start watching AudioFile. THey are everywhewre,
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  • Reply 3 of 12
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    In the ZDtv days, it seemed Mac was a four letter word there, and I think it turned a lot of the faithful off.



    Over the past 1 to 1-1/2 years, though, Techtv in general and The Screensavers in particular have become much more Mac-friendly. They do a heck of a lot more to promote Apple on their channel than Chiat/Day does on any other.



    Jeff



    Edit-didn't mean to parrot Onlooker, he replied while I typed mine up!



    [ 03-27-2002: Message edited by: jeffyboy ]</p>
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  • Reply 4 of 12
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Yeah, the screensavers are cool. Just yesterday in Leo's boot camp there was a caller asking about the 24hour clock in OS X. First time I saw them giving a tip on boot camp about OSX. They also have ALOT of demonstrations using Macs, like photoshop (last time I saw one it was a demo of PS 7!), and some animation apps. It's pretty cool to see. And, of course, Megan and Leo (even Patrick plugged QuickTime yesterday) always talk about how they love it. Soon Chris Pirillo will be singing the praises of OS X when he gets his new iMac.
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  • Reply 5 of 12
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I'm sure you guys saw the ScreenSavers the other da ago when they had the guy from AppleFritter bring some of his mod'ed Macs.



    Huh huh, let's explode a LED!! Heh heh, kewl!



    <a href="http://powermacg4dual800.stures.iastate.edu/powermac7100/maccasemodsvs.mov"; target="_blank">get it here</a>
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  • Reply 6 of 12
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    That guy's laugh ruled!

    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    Jeff
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  • Reply 7 of 12
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Another cool one from tonight... Kevin mentioned a Boot Camp question coming up after the break...



    "Joe wants to know how to get digital video into his computer."



    To which he later said "Well, I would tell him to get a Mac, but that's just me."



    Of course he got a few cat calls over the statement... Patrick asked him how many Macs he owned, and he admitted "none".



    But he did say he's getting one soon - a G5 - when it comes out.



    Nice to see alot of Mac talk on that show - it's getting kind of cool.
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  • Reply 8 of 12
    u2o_quicksilveru2o_quicksilver Posts: 3member
    yeA techtv is starting to get more macintohs action, i think it is good for apple. people are finaly relizing that the mac is th' best!



    by the way please check out and join my forums...



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  • Reply 9 of 12
    g4dudeg4dude Posts: 1,016member
    Too bad the PC users that listen to Leo and try out a mac will be dissapointed to find that OS X is as slow as a Yugo going up hill through the snow.
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  • Reply 10 of 12
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    [quote]Originally posted by G4Dude:

    <strong>Too bad the PC users that listen to Leo and try out a mac will be dissapointed to find that OS X is as slow as a Yugo going up hill through the snow.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    That really depends on what they are using OS X for
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  • Reply 11 of 12
    mac gurumac guru Posts: 367member
    [quote] That really depends on what they are using OS X for <hr></blockquote>



    EXACLTY!!!!



    I use OS X on an iBook 500 (DualUSB) and it runs fine, nothing drags on for hours, or any of that crap you guys keep rehashing, I work for HOURS on end in OS X as a graphic designer and I have YET to hit a road block.



    Mac Guru
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  • Reply 12 of 12
    mrmistermrmister Posts: 1,095member
    Leo is a great guy...I'm on the show once a month doing some schtick, and he let's me do Apple-centric pieces. In the last one my best friend impersonated Steve Jobs.
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