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  • I believe what Mr. Cook is/was upset about is people cynically making money off the memory of a personal acquaintance of his (if not a personal friend) who happened to be very famous. That's what he meant by "opportunistic". If Mr. Sorkin the aute…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by d-range Maybe you should educate yourself about Java a little more before you make statements like that, because the piece you quoted in your reply is full of factual errors. That said, I know a fair bit of Java mys…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by dreyfus2 There are certainly third-party conversion tools that can bridge this gap, e.g. Voltaic HD should be able to help you here. Many thanks for the tip--Voltaic does indeed do what I was looking for. 90% less …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I dunno, on a consumer HD camcorder, the benefit of recording 1080p seems kind of iffy. I have a couple and the lenses just don't lend themselves to getting good detail at 1080p. Might as well save as 720p and…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard1183 I was wondering if I could buy all the components separately to build a mac pro? Is it possible to buy the apple components from different sites and would it be cheaper to build myself rather than buy one al…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Advil in the time from posting this thread til now (less than an hour) it's gone down even more. how?!?! That does seem rather odd... is the machine getting hot? Try shutting down completely, let the machine…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by bbwi Apple has made no announcement as to the release date for Snow Leopard other than "September" To repeat something mentioned on another thread, the upgrade offer has usually extended 90 days before release, and …
    in New to Mac Comment by nccyr August 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by ontheinside Here's how you can tell if yours has it by running the following command: ioreg -p IODeviceTree -w0 -l | grep firmware-abi If your result says EFI64 then welcome to the future. ... Also the MacBook4…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by japtor Mac mini 3,1 is showing EFI64 with that line as well. My late 2007 MacBook shows EFI64 there too. Thanks for the one-liner to find that!
  • Quote: Originally Posted by melgross 12 years after Windows and Linux? That's a joke. Which versions of Windows and Linux did people buy 10 years ago? From what I can tell (history's getting a bit foggy now), Red Hat Linux 2.1 for DEC Alpha (f…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Mario Yes, it's a big deal, since system function calls are much faster on 64 bit kernel. All I can say is if 64 bit kernel is not supported on all 64 bit CPUs then they can take the Snow Leopard and shove it. It's …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by stonefree I'd be curious to know if Vista 64 bit (or even 64 bit Linux), which have 64 bit kernels can be installed on the Macs that supposedly are unable to install a fully 64 bit SL. I have Ubuntu 9.04 x86-64 (aka…