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Meh. Much hand ringing, little real substance. The fact is the G5 cost less than an equivalent Dell when it was released..... and it still costs less. The pricing is not outrageous, they are still good deals for what you get. We'll see on wednesday …
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I love the original Unreal. The tournament games just don't have the atmosphere of the original. Myst is a classic Mac game. If you like RPGs, the Fallout series is good. Falcon 4 if you like flight sims (be sure to apply the patches).
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Why not just create a 20MB or so disk image and use the floppy images to do a universal install to it? You should be able to burn the resulting image to a CD and just copy the files across. Throw the System 8 folder in the trash and copy the new fol…
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The ultra-rich are all on first name terms. My boss (once removed) is worth several billion, and is on a first name basis with Jobs, Gates and many, many others. It's a big club. I don't think they are good friends or anything though.
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I Appleworks!!! I have Word, but I'd rather code my own office... you know. I do everything in Appleworks and then copy/paste it into Word. Text just looks so much better in AW. Lend27: congrats on the new machine! Much better than the 1.6 for a…
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Well your claim was that there are 3 times as many linux as MacOS X desktops in use, and that's what I'm disputing. In any event, it really doesn't matter. I disagree with your math, we'll leave it at that. What I find interesting is that the art…
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Wait a minute, you said MacOS X has a 1% market share, not installed base. MacOS X has a 3% market share, and probably about a 2% installed base (due to the longer lifespan of a Mac vs x86 box). Multiplying an Apple installed base figure by a google…
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Quote: Originally posted by stupider...likeafox Your telling me that doing the same thing for less money isn't better? If it did the same thing then maybe, but it doesn't. That's the entire argument as to why it isn't ready for the home! Qu…
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Quote: Originally posted by stupider...likeafox * Runs on cheap x86 hardware that people already own better than Mac OS X. * And has less security issues (viruses, trojans, spyware etc.) than Windows. * Better at being free (and Free) than both…
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I'm sure 1394b was what he meant.
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They are faster (than USB2 or FW external hard drives). There are many on this site that tend to bash barefeats testing, but here's a link to a test, for what it's worth. You can pick up FW2 drives at OWC and LaCie as well as elsewhere. The LaCie…
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Quote: Originally posted by stupider...likeafox If you don't have any other good reason to not like Linux (pathological hatred of geeks, allergic to the GPL, your brain simply can't handle the concept of something free being better than something…
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Well you're already going to have 2x256, so just add another 2x512 and you'll have 1.5GB of RAM, more than enough for pretty much anything. At that price level an extra $175 isn't going to break the bank and will provide a nice speed boost over the …
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Quote: Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes And as for the just typing comment... common man... Linux can be used foe many if not all server jobs. Linux is not limited to just typing in the office... Sorry about that... I know Linux is a great …
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Quote: Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes Font handeling and rendering is easly managed within desktop environments like KDE and Gnome... I think they do a great job at it too... ... Anyway... Red Hat made it simple for me to connect to the net..…
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Quote: Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes True but linux is not that bad, experience wise, if the user is open to learning a new platform. Ah, but I think you're talking about the user interface, which is really quite similar to Windows. I'm tal…
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This could be good and bad for Apple. First the good: the desktop share is growing because of business and office, not because of home users. This means that there will be many people using linux at work and windows at home, which might allow them t…
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Every two to three years: 1989: Mac 512ke 1992: Mac IIvx 1994: Power Mac 7100 1996: PC Bowerbase 180 1998: Power Mac G3 2001: Power Mac G4
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I'll have to say that the problem porting games to the Mac really has nothing to do with the processor. Even if the port makes extensive G5 optimizations a large limitation will still be the DirectX assumptions made by the original developers, and t…
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Quote: Originally posted by Merovingian It already has UNIX installed. Clueless, absolutely clueless... But wait!!! Unix is cool and totally uber-1337, so by definition a Mac can't have it installed. Plus, unix is amazingly configur…