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• Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Your statement of "crappy design" points to your misunderstanding the purpose of the SD card slot in Macs. It is not designed to be a boot drive or integral to the Mac's operation, but as a way to transfer da…

  in Apple releases new MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt, backlit keyboards Comment by aquatic August 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by karthakon The BootCamp Assistant can be still be used to create a BootCamp Partition, if no other BootCamp Partitions exist. It creates a FAT32 partition just like it did in Snow Leopard. You can install directly to t…

  in Lion won't let me install WinXP via Bootcamp Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H To expand on what Marvin said, I'm sure the design is quite deliberate - no moving parts maximises durability of the port, and not having to accommodate the whole depth of a card or an eject mechanism minimises t…

  in Apple releases new MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt, backlit keyboards Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot You might consider taking your sense of humor in for a check-up. LOL. This was seriously funny!

  in New iMacs to feature grayscale screens. Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross It reads really oddly over here. It may be correct either way there, but not here. LOL you are both awesome. I agree with Mr. H though, the way the SD card reader is designed is so un-Apple. It's hard to…

  in Apple releases new MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt, backlit keyboards Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Uh, what? That works perfectly well in Lion. Just use it. That's because it's the backdrop of the OS at the fundamental level. People would get visually confused if they could use linen or any of it…

  in Little annoyances in Lion (and how to mitigate them) Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Was there a valid reason not to include Rosetta? I wonder if some enterprising Mac hacker will eventually port it over.

  in Lion will not run many applications Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Then it's a botched installation, because it runs perfectly fine on others' machines of the same model. You did something wrong. Or something went wrong because of some bug and it is not stratokaster's …

  in Is Lion faster than SL, or slower? Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Amazing how retarded Apple sometimes is. Even MS isn't this dumb. Imagine if Word 2010 didn't open Word 2003 documents. Although the inability to save .dbf files is beginning to severely annoy me in Office 2010... iFinal Cut '11.

  in Dissatisfied Final Cut Pro X customers receive refunds from Apple Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Thank you, internet lawyers. I'm sure your analysis will be a key part of this case. Apple is more and more becoming The Man. Not sure how to put that in legalese but that's how it looks anyway.

  in Apple fires a "cease and desist" letter to GetJar, latter gives the finger Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by sranger I do not expect Verizon to allow people to remain on the unlimited plan for more that a year or two. I suspect that as soon as your contract expires, you will be forced to the new plan.... In that case, my …

  in Verizon confirms unlimited iPhone data plans no longer offered come Thursday Comment by aquatic July 2011
• Resolution Independence is one of those awesome things that just works... On Windows 7. Ouch. When will they get with the program at Apple. C'mon Steve, you wear glasses man! You know what we are talking about here! (yes I know it's "fake" in Win…

  in What's this travesty with resolution independence Comment by aquatic June 2011
• Question on the new Airs. Because my fiancee will be getting either the new one or the current gen. at discount. As wizard69 has mentioned TurboBoost allows the new CPUs to run very fast but only when needed. Thus, I assume the Sandy Bridge CPU w…

  in Intel lists new Sandy Bridge CPUs aimed at MacBook Air Comment by aquatic June 2011
• pff who cares about Windows Phone Mobile Zune 7 SP1. MS is like allergic to mobile products, they just don't "get it". But the Nokia N950 and N9 looks sweeeet. A laptop and a phone. Kind of like a different take on an Android platform, where the …

  in First Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone 7 to arrive later this year Comment by aquatic June 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse A common myth of the right wing. Wealth is accumulated, not created, and it starts very simply by paying workers less for their labor than its value in terms of production. To accept that fact doesn't requir…

  in With more than $70B in cash, Apple could buy Nokia, RIM, HTC & Motorola Comment by aquatic June 2011
• Does Lion have ability to undo .7.x upgrades?

  in Leaks suggest new MacBook Airs coming Wednesday, voice recognition in iOS 5 Comment by aquatic June 2011
• So the consensus here is that the CPU (Sandy will be faster, but the CPU (Intel crap) will be much slower than the current NVIDIA graphics, yes? And both are important, e.g. OpenCL isn't supported by Intel's crap gfx but is by the NVIDIA on board n…

  in Apple poised to build nearly 400K next-gen MacBook Airs this month Comment by aquatic June 2011
• yes whether it's faux or real I love the Resolution Independence of Windows 7. It zooms what matters...text and window controls. Icons look ugly though in the task bar.

  in Apple to begin production of Thunderbolt MacBook Airs next month Comment by aquatic June 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by zoetmb I will never send a Tweet in my life. I don't understand the entire concept of sending out 140 bytes of meaningless trivia about your own life that no one else should care about. And I especially don't unders…

  in Apple rumored to add system-wide Twitter photo integration to iOS 5 Comment by aquatic June 2011
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