Are you telling us he is carrying a Mac Mini in that lunch box???
It obviously isn't carrying his apple.
Posted on 01/13/2005 12:28:42 PM PST by ambrose
It is the coolest computer to open too. Push in the handle and whooshes up, grab the handle and pull the core. Put it back in, push in the handle.
Sort of like those scenes in the movies where they pull the core of a nuclear weapon...
You can get a wireless card built in for an extra charge. You don't need the slot. Macs had wireless internet before PCs had it and it still works better on a Mac.
A month or so ago I was at a business meeting held at a major University, which is making a specialized piece of scientific equipment for my company. There was a Linksys wireless access point in the conference room where we held about an 8 hour meeting.
I pulled out my Mac powerbook (2 years old by now) and in under 30 seconds was connected to the internet.
A subcontractor making a presentation had 3 guys with 4 PCs at this meeting. During the course of the 8 hours each of the subcontractor's guys asked me how I got onto the network because in an entire 8 hours not one of them could get even one of the four PCs to connect.
In a nutshell this is the difference between a Mac and a PC. The fool thing just works. No BS, no fiddling around, it just plain works.
These threads amuse me. Other than people who program for a living, folks who make money with their computers never regret using Macs. People who play games, write programs, and want to build their own computers use Windows.
People who buy Windows because they think it costs less end up with a cheap computer. And most likely get exactly what you would expect from a cheap computer.
Big companies like PCs. Why? Well, they have IT (Information Technology) departments. When a company has PCs they have big IT departments, when they have Macs they have small IT departments. If you have a big IT department the manager gets paid more. This is great if you are the one collecting the salary, but not so good if you are the one paying it. I use Mac at home & PC at work. No matter how fast the processor is, the slowest link in the process is the human being. Because my Mac works in a much more logical way, with fewer mouse clicks and better thought put into the interface I do more work with it than with the PPC.
Are you telling us he is carrying a Mac Mini in that lunch box???
It obviously isn't carrying his apple.
Acutally Macs are excellent for programming. The Cocoa API combined with Unix under the hood gives you lots of power. Currently I'm working on a project that will have Mac and Windows versions. The guy doing the Windows version is going through a long and painful process to get an IE COM object to display HTML. Me? One line of code using Cocoa and WebKit.
Wooly,
I have updated dozens of XPs to SP2... two have had issues with the upgrade. This was a standard IBM ThinkPad... and it is SYSTEM software that the upgrade trashed. That is unacceptable. Unfortunately this is not rare. The primary problem is the fact the owner does not have the original install disks so that this can be repaired easily.
LOL. For the record, there are plenty of small PCs out there, as well, if size is the problem. There's the Shuttle size, roughly a 6" cube, and also a handheld size smaller than the new Mac if size impresses you that much.
All that said, this new Mac does look cool and will probably sell like popcorn. And I do love my iPod.
MM
Yup, there sure are. And every one of them comes with the virus called "Windows".
I know the poor college student feeling.
It is so tempting to run out and get a laptop, but I better not. My tower is just fine.
Lugging around a monitor for the Mac Mini would be a problem...
you still need a monitor, don't you?
Yep, you do. Unless they build the screen with it, it is still too much to lug around in a backpack.
I agree. It's surprisingly easy. Read a little at www.anandtech.com, buy parts at www.newegg.com, assemble the parts. Takes a couple of weekends at most and then you understand and can upgrade your own PC for years to come, in addition to having a better box for your money.
YAWWWWWWNNNNNN. Strange that despite all the security hoopla, I've never had a Windows machine go down or even have any noteworthy difficulties due to a virus or any other security issue. I'm running seven Windows boxes right now.
As I said, I like my iPod. I may even buy one of the new Macs to tinker with; I do digital forensics work and it'd be nice to have an up-to-date Mac to be familiar with. But guess what? The world runs on Microsoft Windows and that's gonna continue to be the case for a long time.
The anti-Microsoft zealotry, whether manifested by Mac fans or Linux fans, is one of the silliest, most ridiculous things I've ever seen. Say what you will, but Bill Gates changed the world and as far as I'm concerned, the change was largely positive.
MM
I guess I'm not making myself clear. I've many times watched a DVD while burning a CD, in some cases, two different CDs at the same time on the afore mentioned machine without video and/or audio stuttering.
On several occasions I've burned CDs, scanned photographs, and watched a DVD all at the same time without stuttering. None of these activities came close to loading the machine up enough to noticeably affect responsiveness and usability, much less become unbearable. Perhaps you should take a closer look at your hardware and software mix.
that is sweet
My mix is fine--though I'm sure there are better burning applications than Roxio, I've yet to find any as intuitive. Nero is an overcomplicated mess.
I'm glad your configuration works well--for the rest of us, it ain't going to work.
One DVD drive, one system.
It's my real-world equivalent of the One Ring.
Sucks to be poor...
That's because the "owner" probably never had it to begin with.
So it was the computer's fault when the BBS continually crashed over and over?
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