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Gah. Should have tried some movies after 1985... VLC's sound isn't quite up to snuff on some of my discs. Make up your own mind on the player issue. Play with the options. Probably be flexible and choose on a per-disc basis. [ 07-08-2002: M…
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Those are complex questions. You can run at 800x600, and 1024x768, and sometimes you can trick 640x480 or other resolutions out of it. OpenGL seems to handle whatever you throw at it, though I've not tried very arcane choices. Everything gets filter…
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Oh, durability. You're absolutely right. I dropped my book five feet onto a steel floor the first day I had it. The battery plastic is the only part of the computer that was affected at all, and it just moved over 1 mm so it sticks out a little. I t…
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Luca, save your money. PowerBooks depreciate really quickly because they're priced so high. From your list of requirements you're a perfect candidate for an iBook with a 40 GB hard drive. Fil makes an excellent point. A dorm room is small, and be…
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It's not impossible to do video editing with an iBook, but if you have the money a TiBook is obviously much better for video. Still, get a laptop or an iMac. If you aren't going to school in your own town, something people don't talk about much…
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I guess you've smoked me out, I'm a Photoshop user. I use applications where I'm working in one very big window for a very, very long time, or a few windows I'm cutting and pasting between. I'm also an essayist, and so I'm ecstatic that a Mac will s…
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When you're uploading something using iTools, you're dealing with network latency. Believe me, the calculations involved could all be done thousands of times a second by an Intel 486 if a constant back and forth of negotiating wasn't necessary. I h…
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The insistence on a one-button mouse is one of the world's ultimate mysteries. People have theories. Some people say that since not all programs can read a right-click Apple doesn't want to ship inconsistent hardware, but considering the hodge-podge…
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Good surfaces are relatively natural surfaces, like leather or cloth, that either have a unique texture at first or develop one trhough the wear of the mouse moving daily. Also good is any mouse pad that lets you "personalize" the surface by sli…
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Keyboards are very personal. Optical mice, however, perform very well indeed, far better than ball-mice. It is, as mentioned, simply a matter of tracking surface. Printed surfaces like conventional mouse pads are bad for tracking because under re…
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Firewire just seems to be for what it's for. Even Firewire webcams aren't very popular, though 640x480 is definitely what I'd call minimum for reasonable video-conferencing. I'd guess that it isn't quite common enough on PCs, so only uses that r…
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That's no mystery, and it's barely luck. That's the batch of keyboards they had available. Apple doesn't make bad products, and some of its parts are outsourced so when they fail it is hardly Apple's fault, but mainly it just takes a while to fig…
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You know, the computer on Captain Picard's desk actually looked like an iMac without the second hinge. Same domed bottom, same approximate screen size and location.
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There isn't a good cross-platform benchmark. On any pure test of number crunching with the exact same algorithm optimally coded on each system the PowerPC will perform better. In general, though, the instruction set you're running on one machine is …
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I find it really hard to imagine that the iBook will be bumped only two months after a significant increase including a graphics card update, especially since they are selling so well. iMacs are piling up, but a friend of mine ordered a custom iBook…
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Unless you have a very specific need to have the absolute maximum speed and storage when travelling, the TiBook is way over-priced. You can buy two iBooks for one TiBook with the same memory and storage. Buy one iBook now, sell it and buy the other …
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Ok, granted we all see through it. This has to be one of the most ridiculous fakes ever. I think it's meant to be a "milk-through-the-nose" design. Parts of the computer keep appearing an disappearing in the mock-ups, every picture is a close-up…
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"I need a computer, mainly a laptop, that will be so powerful that I won't even think about buying a new laptop until 4 years from now when I enter the job market and get a job." I don't understand why you want to buy a computer that will barely …
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Well, three to four years. The catch is that if you buy the second from the bottom of the Pro line you'll get almost exactly that same result. Apple puts a huge upcharge on bigger drives, more memory, and a particularly large "bleeding edge" tariff …
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$3,000 to $250 to $99 in one day... next somebody's going to know one for a dime!