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Why aren't Apples any fun? When they were colourful, they were a little more fun, and they sold better. Now they aren't colourful, and tipping the iMacs display is fun for about 30 seconds. Useful for years, but fun for half a minute. Why aren't any…
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No kidding. Every time I buy an Apple computer, from my first Apple IIgs on, I jealously hoard the two included stickers, waiting for precisely the right thing to put them on. One can always run off one's own contraband at silkscreening shops and…
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"Randy Cassingham, a Dvorak keyboard nutball...." --John Dvorak (no relation), PC Magazine
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An old, worn out idea? Come up with something completely new? What exactly do you want? Do you want Apple to make rocket ships and call them personal computers so they'll be innovative enough? Maybe blenders? A personal computer is a specific…
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Lime and tangerine were definitely odd, but my blueberry was darling and the indigo was stunning. On the indgo the translucent plastics were replaced by a snow white matte far brighter than the current iMacs... the contrast with the deep colour comp…
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"The synthesis quality is outstanding, seemingly able to handle emotion quite well. " Even if the application weren't a fake, this is. There is no way, absolutely no way at all, that a computer can keep track of what is happening in a story and t…
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Nope. Not worth it, at least with the middle-range models I've tried (above $100 and under $300). If they're IR they're line of sight, which is very inconvenient as one moves around. If they're 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz EM then there's too much interferenc…
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We can say hell? Why wasn't I notified? I've been using tarnation!
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Try switching the RAM with another PC 133 chip. If the RAM is just a little slow or broken, it can miss cycles and slow your computer down to half or a quarter of the speed it should be at. It happens from time to time.(time to time in the world, no…
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Your computer doesn't even have to be broken for it to be useful. The hard-drive or CD-drive can get noisy and you can sometimes get it replaced. On the original iBooks the drive was as noisy as a grizzly before his morning coffee-drinker. Turned ou…
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On the whole, iBooks cost less than similarly configured PowerBooks. That is, a PowerBook with 30 gigs HD and 256 MB Ram will cost about twice as much as an iBook with those same specs. The PowerBook will be faster, but because buying an iBook i…
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[quote]Originally posted by pyr3: just got my new powerbook. 10.2 CDs were with it. My friend is jealous that the CDs he ordered haven't come yet, but I have mine already. I got the Dev Tools for 10.2 with mine as well, but I'm ADC so it figur…
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Sure, you can have a second chip do all the other Quartz calculations. Just buy a DP tower. You need a generalized chip to do the calculations that aren't compositing, because a program can draw pretty much anything.
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I haven't been in touch with OmniWeb recently. I think I haven't used it since the OS X beta. I just never got around to switching. This thread encouraged me to try it out again... Well, it's creepy. I've been web-browsing for about five hours us…
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If you have a scanner that won't be getting an OS X driver, VueScan is the absolutely indispensable replacement driver collection.
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Oh, by the way, trying to change display drivers while a program in the early stages of developing that is processor intense and uses a special display mode is a terrible burden to put on your computer. There's no reason the DVD player should work w…
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I don't have crashes, precisely... as far as I know OS X hasn't ever crashed out from under me. I have found myself stuck because of problems with the iBook's external display hardware, particularly with supposedly carbonized emulators. Both screens…
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Here's what's really funny: none of you have yet touched on what the green button does in iTunes, Sherlock, DVD player, or QuickTime. These are the mysterious "stainless-steel" applications. In iTunes, the maximize button switches between a user siz…
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Oh, I'll be there either way. Still, paying for iChat? It's AIM, for goodness sakes. That's FREE. So are many multi-system clients. iChat doesn't begin to enter in the chargeable features set. New network drivers and a new feature for thos…
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It really isn't unreasonable to think they'll do the same thing they did with 10.1. They did it once for a reason. It's been done. It isn't imagination or fairy-wishing. They did it. They gave away an entirely new version of the operating system so …