doktorfaust

About

Username
doktorfaust
Joined
Visits
0
Last Active
-
Roles
member
Badges
0
Posts
18

Comments

  • Quote: Originally Posted by gobble gobble I encourage you to leave your compound in Montana and visit places like China, Burma, Iran, Syria, or Libya. Maybe then you'll have some idea what a police state is really like. While I agree with you…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by mowenbrown There are already Sony cameras that do this - have a little fob that clips to backpack or belt loop - it uses the GPS to record where you are at given intervals, and if the clock is synched with that of your …
  • Quote: Originally posted by MacGregor It would only be a disaster for the 13 idiots who would actually use them when running or driving. My point here was that I would guess that the market for 3 inch portable TV players is substantially small…
  • Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison I just don't see where a video iPod addresses a pent up demand in consumers. I agree with this completely. Portable video every where you go just isn't practical. It'd be a disaster for runners and a dis…
  • Quote: Originally posted by nsousansousa Here is what I see as a breakthrough communication PDA. Whadayathink ? I like it. Here's what I've been thinking about. In the future (maybe distant future), I think a total convergence device would…
  • Quote: Originally posted by emig647 I almost agree completely. Honestly if this is the computer that is going to be released, then i'm pretty pissed off. No ram upgrade, No Graphics Card upgrade, No Case upgrade, No HardDrive upgrade, just a 400m…
  • I always figured that a Video iPod type device's primary purpose would not be for viewing videos on a built-in scren, but instead simply for keeping a video collection small and portable. Apple creates a small multi-gigabyte device with firewire …
  • Quote: Originally posted by hawkman My e-mail reads the same (10-15 business days) and my order status moved up from 9/26 to 9/22 At least their timing is consistent... 14 business days from today is 9/22... I suspect, that we can believe thi…
  • Quote: Originally posted by qazII Weird. I have 2 order status windows open. One says 8/29 and one says 9/26. Reloading updates the timestamp, but does not change either date. I just managed to do this too. I open Camino, it gave me the ne…
  • Quote: Originally posted by hardcore The only thing that worries me is disk speed. I haven't owned an IDE drive since 1994 and I know it's not going to be _slow_ but still. I have 5 18GB SCSI drives laying around and I may just put them in an e…
  • According to http://www.pricewatch.com/ you can get a stick of 512MB PC3200 for $59....
  • Quote: Originally posted by qazII So it seems that though Thinksecret is right, those of us with "On or Before 8/29" ship dates will be getting our machines soon. I guess I have little bit of a hard time believing that Apple can move tens of t…
  • Quote: Originally posted by steve666 The only problem with the low end ibook is its 12 inch screen. The Powerbook has a 15 inch. Can you hook up an external monitor with the low end ibook? I think the Powerbook has a 14 inch screen, and gives …
  • ...if you want even cheaper and don't care about portability, look at Apple's special deals section: eMac 700MHz/128MB/40GB/CD-ROM - Refurbished $599.00 Refurbished, yes, but it does come with the one year warranty... That's a G4 with 17inch m…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Bogie If it has FireWire then it has Rage128 mobility graphics with 8MB of VRAM and 2x AGP. Its a FireWire/Pismo/2000 model PowerBook G3. Its an excellent Mac. Right now I am running 10.3 on mine. It is running faster …
  • Quote: Originally posted by ast3r3x its not actually the OS that is making the speeds greater, but the fact apple has decided to add a turbo light to their new macs Actually, there's a nice little shortcut to do this for you: just hold down …