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Quote: Originally Posted by s.metcalf Kinda lame, way funnier ones on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAyBaNwDX8c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ERgZ9dztk Not very original, I prefer the iJam one; in fact, here you have a attempt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lundy Yeah - I should not have fallen for this troll. In retrospect it was a dead giveaway in the first post. I should have banned him for cursing at Aegis. I'll give him credit for obfuscating the troll enough t…
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First, even if you don't know who he is (and he wants to continue to remain completely anonymous) but since he has been mentioned several times in this thread, I want to publicly apologize to my friend for referring to him as a "Mac preacher search…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lundy This must be in the Windoze Uzers Guide or something. I have seen hundreds of anti-Apple posts over the last few years whining "BUT I WANNA DRAG AND DROP WAAHH....." .... - I wanna drag and drop my mp3s that …
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Guys, I think I am spending too much time here. Not that I dislike the arguing but I also need a life! I might be a bit slower answering postings from now on Quote: Originally Posted by iPeon Why would providing a sync application be evil? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign If companies other than Apple want to get on the Mac desktop then it's up to them to make their products Mac compatible. It's not Apple's fault they sometimes choose not to. Again, from the consumer pers…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign Why would we? For that matter why would Windows users either? most of them don't - they buy iPods in their masses. Good hardware is good hardware. What does it matter if there's 100 different media playe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign In what way do you think it is in any way limited? External drives are pretty much OS agnostic. Example, http://www.macfixitforums.com/showfl...&Number=770630 The guy was able to make an extern…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign No, that's not true at all. With Apple hardware you can run the same software as you can HP or Dell. And you can run OSX too. Apple hardware takes the same memory, drives, CPUs and has the same exter…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Seeing as Larry Ellison is Mr. Job's closest friend, among Silicon Valley Executives, I won't be surprised that he will get into the focus of Philanthropy sooner rather than later. When that happens, I'l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Charity is overrated. His presence has allowed Apple to grow by over 12,000 more full-time employees. Jobs created alone should be considered a Charity, but that's not the case. I never questioned the be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lundy 1.64-bit Ultimate is the only Ultimate offered by HP. If there is a 32-bit Ultimate, I would accept that. If you are going to claim that an HP is less expensive than a Macbook, then you have to equip the HP with …
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Quote: Originally Posted by curious_about_mac Yep! And that the guy (Jobs) has an incredible ability to turn technology into useful products. A concept, product, that seems to be forgotten in these days of web 2.0 and web-service talking. Except …
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Quote: Originally Posted by lundy HP dv2700t series Notebook 14.1"/120 GB/1 GB Add: Windows 64-bit Norton Antivirus A/B/G/N networking (free upgrade) CPU to 2.0 gHz $1,104.98 Apple Macbook 13.3"/120 GB/1 GB/2.0 gHz Add: …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Let's be clear on the comments regarding 30 year old OS. The point of leveraging theories and implementations tried and true with a rich proven history of testing is to give this as the foundation for any r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea For which you absolutely needed to characterize it as him being a "mac preacher searching for converts" where you "don't see anything in Mac OS X that I cannot get from either Windows or Linux" but would like to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me Curious. You give links that state without equivocation that HFS (Heirarchial File System) is an Apple file system which was developed by our favorite fruit company in 1985. Your links also clearly show that …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Correction: UNIX UFS. HFS has forever been an Apple Filesystem technology. ZFS compliant filesystem with Mac OS X sprinkles to extend it will be clearly show it's spots in upcoming releases. Sorry! HP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer I'd reduce your assessment of 90% being UNIX to 70% and it's the 30% that was oddly argued which NeXT built into and on top of UNIX which makes OS X such a compelling environment for developing rich applica…
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Quote: Originally Posted by llthomps Your assessment is correct, but like all flavors of UNIX, it's evolved from the base since its inception. The original 10.0 used mostly UNIX systems and utilities, but since then Apple has evolved the Darwin …