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I had commented on the max button, but really this sort of nit-picking is pointless. Some people like it one way and some people like it the other way. Steve Jobs isn't going to come consult you about what your preference is for each element of the …
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One of the things I love about these forums is that wishful thinking so often modifies the phrasing of the thread names to sound like spam. "Jaguar free? This sentence says so!" Good for you, sentence. Nonetheless, the faster people have 10.2, th…
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As has been said many times, and will be said again for the innocents like yourself that haven't hit those threads yet, Apple has deliberately crippled this feature. PPC-Linux can run without this limitation on the iMacs and the iBooks, so it is the…
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I'm tired of the predictions too. Hard fact: "Quartz Extreme takes advantage of the OpenGL 3D graphics engine to make the entire desktop a fully accelerated OpenGL scene. A supported* video card can then render the drawing of the desktop, just li…
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Since one can get an AM/FM radio the size of a standard eraser for $10....
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If it runs fast at a low resolution with all the details on and slowly at a high resolution then stepping over 1280x1024 uses a touch too much video memory, exceeds the fill rate of your card, or chokes up the AGP bus. I'm pretty sure a G4/500 is…
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"I read some rumor about this awhile ago. The rumor was that either Connectix or Apple had a PC Emulator (software) that was so incredible it could run Windows software natively and full speed. It is said the project was killed because it became cle…
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If only Apple could learn to make products that cover similar territory without driving each other out of existence as well as Adobe.
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Of course, since an iBook doesn't do spanning, hooking up an external display isn't going to ask the memory to hold anything new... The only issue with VRAM and QE is how many windows you have, and how big they are. 16 MB is 4194304 32-bit pix…
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DSL uploads are supposed to be worse than downloads. I suppose there might be some companies that don't set upload speed to be much slower, but most of them do to save bandwidth. The average consumer uploads only a few megs in a whole day or week, j…
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Considering that Adobe willingly forgoes almost the entire profit on educational packages, that's worse than normal piracy.
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VPC is slow, but it is more than fast enough for its main purpose. The main point is doing small but crucial tasks that won't work on the Mac. For example, you can buy a wireless router for far less than the price of an AirPort station, but the setu…
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I picked up an LCIII with an ethernet adapter for $30. I use it to read 800K Mac and IIgs disks to transfer all my great memories onto my current machine. An imation SuperDisk (no relation to the DVD SuperDrive) drive will read 1.44 MB floppies and …
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Personally, I think Java will survive easily. Microsoft thinks Windows gives it all the power, but all Sun has to do is get Java bundled with AOL. Besides which, tens of thousands of companies across the continent just had old accounting or recor…
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Sure. -If you do a clean install of whatever version of Windows Microsoft is selling in 2004 you won't have Java support on that machine. -Microsoft claims this is because Sun reserves the rights to Java and won't allow Microsoft to change th…
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All this talk of lost data is very deceptive. There's no way that you can get a true recording of a performance. A performance sounds so much different depending on where the listener is in a room, what the size of the room is, which way the listene…
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The thread needs this categorical statement: it is locked in non-volatile RAM now. The OS has nothing to do with it. I don't know if you can unlock it. Movie studios want control over regions for several reasons. The official reason is that movie…
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The local Apple store is running a QuickTime trailer for Galaxies on the 22" Cinema Display. The game looks interesting, though blowing up a postage-sized QT to Cinema size didn't work out so well.
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I only meant that using 9 on an early iBook is in all ways satisfying, not that a 366 MHz iBook can beat a dual 1.25 GHz G4 with a high-end AGP 4X card running OS X. That's 6.8 times as many clock cycles available, plus QE and the Altivec optimizat…
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You can run OS X on it. I did, I didn't mind the speed much, but really, it's much easier to just go with 9. 9 is really really good. All the new things in OS X are peachy keen, but OS 9 on a 366 MHz PowerPC is basically a perfected experience, a fi…