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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox MS has basically hung out a welcome sign: your half-assed ports welcome. . I didn't see it that way. In fact I think they went out of their way to say that is NOT how they want apps developed. Certain…
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Before people pass judgement on Win 8 they really ought to give this video presentation by Jensen Harris a look. It really is informative as to the philosophy behind Metro UI and how Win 8 tablets should look feel and function when they hit the mark…
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Quote: Originally Posted by godrifle I sent an email this weekend to Tim Cook, complaining about the lost functionality in the move from MobileMe to iCloud. Specifically, I bemoaned the loss of sync services (syncing application preferences, keyc…
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Another vote for AccountEdge. I demoed QB and the Money Works stuff and I found AE to be the best IMO.
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips True, I just never used them. BTW Can a snapshot be moved to another Mac if required and opened like a duplicated VM? Never have tried but interesting thought. I have done roll backs with VMWare Fus…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips The beauty I find is once the VM is created and Windows 7 is installed you can make a copy and keep it untouched. Then when the inevitable slow down occurs or worse you can trash it. Duplicate the copy …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I'm curious about the reasons people still require Parallels and VMWare. I would like to run Snow Leopard in Parallels on Lion machines. I'm unable to migrate my business Macs to Lion as certain softwa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by filburt Why should cut, copy, and paste be different from move to and copy to? Move to and copy to can be designed to move or copy files and folders to anywhere you want. Ditto for open and edit (hold down drop down ar…
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I must be getting old or Lion's Finder must be all that because I don't get all the love for Finder. Have people here forgotten what FTFF stands for? I think that Finder has gotten better but it still isn't as good at file management as Windows …
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Me too.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil … WANT. NOW. Need a more powerful computer? Buy a second box. Need more hard drive space? Buy a Thunderbolt RAID array. Need a more powerful computer after that? Plug the second box into the Thunderbolt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr.G Crucial - Someone needs to explain this to me. 16GB kit for $800 but 8GB kit (4GB x2) for $54 so two 8GB kits for 16GB of ram is $108 http://www.crucial.com/store/listpar...=Apple&cat=RAM The 16 gb kit is…
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Skip buying a printer with WiFi built in. Get an airport extreme base station or Airport express base station and plug your printer into it using USB. That's the best way to do wireless printing on a Mac.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta There are huge differences: 1. FLIP camcorders were not successful in the marketplace. Moto phones are. 2. No one was likely to pay anything for FLIP camcorders at the time it was shut down. Moto cell ph…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Extremely unlikely. Aside from dissatisfied customers, they'd have a massive revolt from the shareholders. I think it IS likely that Google will sell off the handset business to someone (RIM would be my gue…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 If say roughly 250,000 units can't be sold by Best Buy nationwide and through online channels, something is very wrong with the product. Even if zero sales were made online, an average of 200 units of a bran…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cajun BestBuy has approximately 1200 retail outlets (plus websites) to sell equipment through. That's roughly 200 units per storefront, which sounds extremely high. I don't know about that. Apple sold nearly 10 m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Do note that the MBP that backtomac listed has a 1440x900 rez glossy screen vs the 1680x1050 matte screen you selected in your refurbs. Given that you can get edu pricing I'd get the 2.0Ghz i7 with the 1680x10…
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I just don't get all the vitriol and vinegar against those who wish to wait till .1 or .2 before adopting Lion. It's not like they're slamming Lion as a weak upgrade.
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot ...is not necessarily a fact. So I have to submit scientific proof to hold this belief? Regardless of your position on this, many users will wait for a .1 or .2 update before upgrading. It does…