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Quote: Originally Posted by yensid98 I'll agree that an optical drive DVD or BD would certainly add functionality and usefulness but how does not having one hurt the device? It's not like you have to choose between AppleTV or a DVD/BD player. .…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ifail It exists but only via jailbreak since Apple won't approve it for the App Store (obvious reasons, hurts Apples 3G ipad sales and it won't pad carriers pockets with even more money) Apple rejected it for the iP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell What I find a fault in is that Apple actively tries real hard to prevent jail breaking, which limits choice of what applications I can install on hardware I bought and own. It is one thing to not sell an applica…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Woohoo! It's seems to me that Apple is now is just cherry picking it's future customers for a closed and controlled ecosystem. If they are, that's probably a good thing. As we've seen with the Internet as a whole, a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by spliff monkey I think the point is, why would you need the rest of the computer if it only plays media? do you really want a keyboard and mouse hooked up to your TV? Surfing the internet and working on a television dis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Undo Redo Can you REALLY not get your TV to play audio from the Mac mini? With my TV, I can think of three options to make that work. I'm using the HDMI input on my TV and that expects audio to come on the same cabl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison The people that want to hook a mini up to their HDTV are a niche within a niche within a niche. Hardly. What makes you say that? A Mac Mini connected to your TV is the PERFECT solution to setting up a com…
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The more difficult moral question might be to ask what would these children be doing instead of working in a factory... if the alternative is living on the street, "protecting" them from relatively well paid work in a factory might not actually be d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain It becomes my problem when a family is destroyed, homeless and owes the RIAA $2,000,000,000 for having 16 music tracks on their computer that was in the wrong folder. Or are you cool with that? Who owes the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain Stealing????? Heavens no. Free promotion for the artist... yes. I don't charge them for my time or technology to distribute their music. That's not your choice to make. If an artist decides they want to dis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hugodinho No matter how many times they repeat this statement, I can never understand. If anyone does, could you please enlighten me? How is it possible that the model will help them make more money "on every digital s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Scaramanga89 I spend quite a while typing while I surf, for example, what are you doing now? Scrolling and clicking and reading mostly, until I stopped to type just a couple of words in reply :-)
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This looks like it could be a VERY interesting consumer device. Sure, tablets in one form or another have been around for ages, but they were the kind of thing spotty faced geeks might play with for a bit and soon get bored with because they coul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Scaramanga89 Does anyone here seriously want to say they will type for several hours on a flat screen with no feedback vs a keyboard? ... Not a real OS to many people. ...On a proper computer, with a real keyboard, tha…
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$499... that's unexpected
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So... no McGraw-Hill? \
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna due to various banking and legal issues, itunes cards don't work across borders. ie I can't buy a card in the US and use it in the UK, Canadian etc store. Even if the store is in 'dollars' because it is not…
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater What wrong is anyone that knows anything about technology knows early adopters are fools that like to give away their money. Its very hard to argue that point in this case seeing the 4gb iPhone was droppe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aaarrrgggh The money spent on excessive airport screening would go much farther in the air. You're joking, right? The most effective ways of stopping terrorist attacks on planes are, in order:Try not to piss people …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jukes Clearly, but does the SL upgrade DVD refuse to install on an Apple system that does not have 10.5 installed? Is there any mechanism included to require proof of 10.5? I don't know the answers to these question…