Posted on 03/07/2009 6:44:52 PM PST by Swordmaker
Thanks, I’ll give ‘er a go
And now you can go get FREE Quicktime Alternative and it runs on windows. Uses less memory, no annoying popups or starting up to update (unless you want it to).
Includes RealPlayer Alternative.
Free, small, and lite on memory usage.
Your current computer is running dual Intel Nehalem Xeon processors that retail for over $2000 each? How did you get two of them into your $1500 computer?
I'm not switching from Windows ME for any price. Actually, I use Lynux and Vista Pro on my laptop, but the wife and kids all have Mac Books. My wife's last Mac Book, "Aluminum" ran great but it had a lot of hardware problems. I had to replace the screen, later the keyboard, and then the CD drive, and all after the warranty ran out. The last straw for that one was when the screen started getting white spots and I was told I needed to replace it again. That thing racked up about $2100 in repairs over it's 4 years of life. I could have built two really nice Lynux laptops for that price.
Realistically it takes what system requirements? How much memory?
Which version (distro I guess you call them) of Linux are you running?
Thanks
Your 9500 was five years old when OS X was released in 2001. Apple supported its OS9 for another five years after OSX was released. Exactly how many 5 year old PCs would run Vista when it was released?
This is gonna sound stupid but every time I’ve seen this and there wasn’t a goof in settings at some point, it was a screwy mouse. In your case, could the touchpad be flakey?
Any modern machine should be happy with most distros. The favorites are Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandriva, and Redhat in about that order currently. The cost of playing with any one of them is “FREE” except for the time investment.
Now let’s be VERY honest here. Mac OSX is a Unix derivative just like Linux is. It’s base architecture runs on a “Microkernel” that came originally from Jobs’ Next computers. (Yeah I know Mach didn’t originate with Next...it just got to Apple that way.) Linux is internally very different from OSX, but they have the same basic API as far as running software which is based on Unix. The big difference is really the GUI and the apps you get with each.
The GUI in the MAC is more consistant in how it operates. I don’t happen to care for it - but that is a personal preference. There are multiple GUI’s available for Linux - each with it’s strengths and weaknesses. Most people like either KDE or Gnome.
Now the one thing I REALLY take exception to is the Volunteer User support available for the MAC. I think the Linux world has this beat all to hell just because everything about Linux is done via volunteers.. including creating the OS itself!
Haha have you ever tried to format c with an xp? LoL
Windows is possessed....you need an exorcist to format C. :)
Your problem is editing and storing digital pix on a PC. Use Photoshop or Elements for Mac, save to an external HD, burn DVDs to save in a physically separate location, and you're bulletproof.
Here explains it better than I can ever do it
Technically, we can still behead you for saying that!
Not true. Here is a link to the true story of what happened between Xerox and Apple. Here, also is an account from Bruce Horn, someone who was there, both at Xerox and later at Apple.
Yep, you can. The creators of QT Alt did it legally. They used the same open standards that Quicktime uses and created their own app.
Shouldn’t this be posted in religion?
That's an urban legend. Read below:
In the late 1970s, Apple was experiencing meteoric growth in the mists of the success of the Apple II and significant private investment. Bill Atkinson, a software genius in charge of the Lisa project, convinced Steve Jobs to take a look at the possibilities of the PARC Alto.This gets posted on every Apple thread, so I just keep the facts saved where I can repost them.Jobs was so struck by the power inherent to the PARC that he offered Xerox the opportunity to invest a million dollars in Apple computer if the company would agree to let him and his Lisa team study Alto. Xerox felt that it had nothing to lose. After all, they couldn't sell it. They did not believe the world was ready for the advanced PARC technologies. Apple was about to go public and Xerox's investment branch, Xerox Development Corporation, sensed an opportunity to turn a quick profit. Xerox invested $1 million in Apple by purchasing 100,000 shares at $10 each. Furthermore, Xerox signed an agreement with Apple to never purchase more than 5 percent of Apple's outstanding shares. Within a year, these shares split into 800,000 worth $17.6 million when Apple went public.
With Xerox's cooperation, the Apple team twice visited the PARC facility. Jobs was ecstatic and immediately instructed the Lisa development team to begin working on a graphical operating environment like that of the Alto. The Lisa project was to be Apple's first attempt to built a computer around a graphical operating system and many of its technologies would later find their way to the Macintosh. Unfortunately, the Lisa, aimed primarily at high-end business users, never found commercial success. It has often been suggested that Apple's development of the Lisa GUI primarily centered around copying the Alto GUI. This shortchanges the hard work and brilliance of the Lisa team. Apple did not receive a blueprint from Xerox. What they got was much more profound: inspiration. Xerox had nothing to complain about. They had this wonderful creation that they couldn't sell. A 1760% increase on a one million dollar investment for two peeks at the PARC Alto was about the best the company could have hoped to achieve.
Thanks for the good article. I bought my first mac in 1984 and first pc same year - have had both pretty much all the time since. Current personal pc is a macbook pro, love it, but I have to have a Vista machine to run certain professional software. MS is high maintenance. And of course the neanderthals at the office insist on Dell but at least they gave me an i-phone. If I had to choose only one platform it would be mac.
I believe this to be a very funny satire website that makes fun of Apple products and the people that use them. I know that it is a satire site because Apple makes the world's most perfect products and the people who buy them are the most gifted among us.
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