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Quote: Originally Posted by xwiredtva I know... 28mins to rip a 2hr movie on OS X, over 1hr on Windows... Linux however rips in about the same time as OS X on similar hardware. AMD cpu's seem to do things a little quicker in Ubuntu than Intels. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mcmlxix This carries audio in addition to video? I guess why the new Minis having HDMI would be interesting to me is that I think it would signal Apple finally refreshing the ATV but by merging it with the Mini to c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xwiredtva I've been ripping on a PC. This is good news! Any idea if Handbrake works on OS X (in regards to ripping)? I don't know. I don't use handbrake. I still have to do my ripping in windows as well. It's the on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xwiredtva I think you'll get it. I ordered an external off Newegg yesterday to play with on the Mini in my HT. If it works, I'll post about it. A BD drive works fine in OSX. It will act like a normal drive and you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by geekdad Clive.....you are so right If they release something of a mid-tower then allot of the Hackintosh stuff will go away. I would buy a mid tower that I could swap video cards in a second! As would I. In the mea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ruel24 Are you kidding me? NeXT, owned by Steve Jobs, was bought by Apple. NeXTStep, had the dock, and it's NeXTStep that became updated, gained features from OS 9, and was renamed OS X. Therefore, by chain of ownershi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hillstones I guess you have never heard of NeXTStep, which existed years before the task bar appeared in Windows 95. Mac OS X is a re-write of NeXTStep, which included the Dock. Actually next didn't invent the dock…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BetoB It starts at cripling the software for you to pay more. 1-A Home Premium upgrade will cost $120 ($200 standalone); \ 2-Professional upgrade will cost $200 ($300 standalone); and 3-Windows 7 Ultimate upgrad…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hillstones Wow you are full of shit. Which company is selling more computers than ever, even during a recession? Not Dell, HP, or other PC companies that make piece of shit cheap computers. Netbooks are also pieces …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cmf2 You don't understand User Account Control at all. It asks you every single time you open some programs, and you can't tell it to not ask you again. If the prompts get too annoying, you have to turn it completely o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cdyates That's not the upgrade pricing you are talking about - that's the full version. 119.99 for home premium ugrade 199.99 for pro upgrade 219.99 for ultimate upgrade I agree that their pricing is too high, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism FairPlay and AACS are NOT interchangeable simply because you can call them both DRM. Having FlairPlay in iTunes does NOT make AACS protected media automatically play. I never said they were interchangabl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism They are not the same thing in the least. On top of that, the drives Apple would need for its iMac are still more expensive than other vendors use for their notebooks and Blu-ray is a competitor to Apple?s di…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism All these posts about adding Blu-ray drives. I just don?t get it. Why call for BRDs in the iMac when the Mac Pro doesn?t even have it with its full sized optical drive bay or the fact that OS X won?t be able …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy Just keep in mind that your must have may not be all that important to the majority of buyers. You may find you're better served by another manufacturer's offerings. Speak with your pocket book as well... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna take your own advice as well. what you think everyone needs is not always the truth. this is the dark side of boards like this. folks get up on the soapbox talking about systems have to have this, not ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper Your joking right? Why go back to the CRT "hood and glare screen days" of yesteryears when one can simply remove the iMac's glassy screen with a suction cup? Underneath is a nice, cool to the eyes, m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy you can do it on a laptop unless the task specifically takes advantage of the GPU. but pretty much every mobile GPU these days supports the same feature set as desktop GPU's. you can't run Boot Camp on a la…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Big KC Spot-on. I have no need for the fastest CPU, nor do I want to pay more for it. All one needs to do to confirm Apple's strategy is look at the sales numbers and GP% vs. the Dells and white-box systems out there…
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy only reason to own a desktop if to play games No, not the only reason. What if you do video editing? The more power the better. I do blu ray ripping and such and a desktop gives me the power I need. And…