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Posted on 11/19/2007 3:13:22 PM PST by Swordmaker
A clever new Apple dual-banner campaign, "Give Up On Vista," was spotted by MacDailyNews readers today on CNET (<— click and you might see it, too) and perhaps other Websites as well:
Video via YouTube (please forgive the quality at the beginning - YouTube, ya know - it gets better later when it's necessary):
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Cute but not good enough for a TV ad. Nice web adjunct to the Apple assault on Vista’s credibility.
Hopefully, 7GB of RAM will make everything shiny smooth.
Look into a program called iFreemem, it will clean up all unused memory. Mine started running well with 5G of ram.
On my Christmas wish list this year: ASUS eee PC
Not a Mac user but I upgraded my new vista laptop.
I picked up an issue of “Maximum PC”, which is geared toward PC gaming; they seem to pretty much hate Vista, and excoriated the Zune. Found this on the website:
Got a 30GB Zune? Get an Instant USB Hard Disk!
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/windows_news_mid_november_edition
OTOH:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1041
“Uneasy Silence is reporting that Apple is collecting data on iPhone customers as they use their popular weather and stock applications on the device.”
also in the Maximum PC issue was a quick blurb about USB 3.0 and Firewire 1600. I’ve not had time to look around for either.
http://www.maclife.com/article/apple_tablet_a_first_look_from_mac_life_r_d
...We’ll be revealing four amazing - but purely conjectural - Apple product studies in the January issue of the magazine (check this website on Nov. 26 for the full article). But for now we wanted to share our vision of how this fabled tablet might pan out. We call it the MacBook Flash, and it eschews a bulky hard drive for featherweight flash memory.
Hey, niiiiiiice.
“The touchpad worked fine and the single button mouse was easy enough to use, there’s no need for a right mouse button in this software environment.”
heh... stand up and cheer. ;’)
even the pc professionals in the computer mags are bad-mouthing vista.
Re: OTOH
Turns out Uneasy Silence has been crying “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” prematurely. German security specialists Heise have tested it and it does NOT send any private data to Apple or any one else. Chicken Little Uneasy Silence and a bunch of bloggers who did not bother to check the fscts simply found a URL to Apple in the code and assumed that it was being used to spy on iPhone users. Heist actually “sniffed” the packets.
In 1974, when I was a grad student at MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation gave MIT a very generous gift of RAM. The gift was 2 megabytes, then valued at $1M, and considered a major upgrade to a timesharing system that was supporting 70 simultaneous users.
My friend's upgrade today was 2 gigabytes, or a thousand times as big, so in 1974 it would have been worth at least a billion dollars. Given that the new memory is probably at least 100 times as fast, draws about a millionth the power, and is about 1 million times as reliable, I'd say I can up the value to at least several billion dollars.
Not to mention, these are 1974 dollars we're talking about, so I think I'm safe to say that in 2007 dollars (and 1974 technology) I gave my friend a $10B upgrade today, for DIMMs that cost her less than $100.
“This video has been removed by the user” :(
Good grief. And here I am running perfectly well and smooth on my Lintel machine with only 2G of RAM.
Good grief. And here I am running perfectly well and smooth on my Lintel machine with only 2G of RAM.
Mine has 4 CPUs each with a 1300mHz buss Does that change the comparison ? Yes each CPU has one G of memory and the virtual machine for XP has one G of memory If you compare Apples to Apples :
and OBTW running VMware with XP nailing up 784K of ram.
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