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Quote: Originally Posted by Roc Ingersol Would it have killed them to at least put a *better* laptop video card in the mini? Yes? Think (THERMAL DISSIPATION!!!!) The mini is not a gaming machine.. any modern 9000+ series can do hardware dec…
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Thats beacause nobody wants to admit they are going to FREE WILLY!!! Translation Beige Boxen! I am half serious though.
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Agreed on first point however I do not know about the nic issue that could be cleared up rather simply I would assume though. Mac Mini small yes made with laptop components yes. Unupgradable yes. I do not speak of OEM boxes I speak of buying …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism No, it doesn't. After spending all day working on computers I do like to come home to a machine that is intuitive, stable and secure without any hassle. G5 slow is some BS. benchmarking still shows it's…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bryand Wine would be great if you could get it to work. I have tried it under Linux though and it is just far too difficult to get it to work with anything but the most mainstream applications. I don't think that would…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker Oh jeez. Enjoy your tinfoil hattery. Hey now I am not being paranoid.. There is enough going on out there trying to clamp down what you can and cannot do with computers there is enough reason to be co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker Because most Intel Macs since fall 2006 don't have a TPM, so even if Apple were to ever actually make use of that capability on older Intel Macs, they couldn't on the newer ones. This strongly suggests that the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker Doesn't matter, since Apple doesn't employ that technique, and on newer Macs doesn't even leave the option open. No, that's just you being a kid. How does the newer mac not leave that option open? Care to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe_the_dragon I think think that apple is that evil it is just that they are EFI and the video cards need EFI rom's to work in osx you may be able to flash a pc card with a efi + bios rom but then it may be to big for…
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Quote: Originally Posted by onlooker The problem: Microsoft. They new Apple was using next generation EFI instead of BIOS, and MS was going to as well, but they saw that Apple was gaining momentum in all fields so they decided to stick with BIOS.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin There's a big difference between licensing and stealing. Apple licensed everything legally and remember that most of OS X comes from NextStep (the company they bought) and they improved it considerably. Even tho…
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Come on guys there is no need for mud flinging. Sure there may be copying but your missing one vital clue... ITS FREE!!! FREE FREE!!! we dont have to pay to use it. Keep that in mind before you start slamming projects. This is why mac os is so c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bdj21ya My guess is nil for the first while, then more if they sell enough devices to make it worth it. Well, I take that back, MS likes to develop products whether they will be profitable or not, just so they can be i…
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Quote: Originally posted by mynamehere Ubuntu and Kubuntu are disasters, since everything is integrated into the OS. It's ok for first-time-linux, but starts to feel a bit constricted after a while. I'd suggest Fedora instead. Slackware is also a…
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Quote: Originally posted by DeaPeaJay most techies however use windows more than linux. Linux is not very usable as a primary OS. It has potential, for the life of me I don't know why they don't get on the ball! They need to accept the fact that …
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Quote: Originally posted by Archstudent Yea, but you are clearly talking different hardware here. Clearly differnet hardware yes but for a system that is suposto be the _ultimate_ multimedia system that runs HDTV I kind of find it lacking. An…
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Well when I run say for instance 1080i HDTV on my mac it pukes but when I run it under linux its silky smooth. These are just raw mpeg2 files. This is using Mplayer of course on both systems. None of the things like quicktime even will play it at…
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Short answer: Sekhon screwed up his code. He didn't optimize it for MacOS X, like he had for Linux. In addition, his OS X code was doing a large number of memory allocation/deallocations for no reason. His…
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8723 Seems that mach has alot to do with OSX being slow. I was reading that the other day give it a look over. There are some debunks to it but I dont have a Intel Mac to be able to test it on I would love to hear the …