PC or MAC ?

[Liar]

Liar:
Forgive my asking, but have Apple stopped using Motorola CPUs these days ?

Aye. It's all Intel now.

 

[Liar]

But the wholesale trashing and dismissing of Mac stuff and Mac users as fanboy-driven, shiny gadgetry that's all chassis and no bite gets stupid and old.

I do hope you took note that in fact I'm a Mac user.

I'm just not a brand loyalist.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I do hope you took note that in fact I'm a Mac user.

I'm just not a brand loyalist.

If I can't open it up and fuck with it, what use is it?

 

[rgraham666]

Not all of us are hot rodders. Some of us just want to get from point A to point B with a minimum of fuss.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Not all of us are hot rodders. Some of us just want to get from point A to point B with a minimum of fuss.

And who's saying you can't open up Mac stuff to mess around with it? People cracked the lid on the iPods, iPhones and iPads the day they came out.

http://itgrunts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2ipad_full.jpg

Kinda boring to me, but if it moves you, do it. Of course, customizing and tricking out your rig has no limits.

http://gadgetsteria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/old-mac-2.jpg

http://www.applemacbook.com/mods/images/black-keyboard-white-macbook-1.jpg

Flipped-script keyboards on the old black & white Macbooks. Cute.

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/transparent-iphone-thumb-480x341.jpg

Transparent iPhone. Sweet.

http://www.macenstein.com/images/2008/hyundai_genesis_macs_01.jpg

http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2007/10/20/24kt-gold-15-macbook-pro_48.jpg

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/09/gold-apple.jpg

Yeap, that's an actual 24K gold-plated Macbook wit' diamonds in the logo.

 

[Austin8]

And who's saying you can't open up Mac stuff to mess around with it? People cracked the lid on the iPods, iPhones and iPads the day they came out.

http://itgrunts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2ipad_full.jpg

Kinda boring to me, but if it moves you, do it. Of course, customizing and tricking out your rig has no limits.

http://gadgetsteria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/old-mac-2.jpg

http://www.applemacbook.com/mods/images/black-keyboard-white-macbook-1.jpg

Flipped-script keyboards on the old black & white Macbooks. Cute.

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/transparent-iphone-thumb-480x341.jpg

Transparent iPhone. Sweet.

http://www.macenstein.com/images/2008/hyundai_genesis_macs_01.jpg

http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2007/10/20/24kt-gold-15-macbook-pro_48.jpg

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/09/gold-apple.jpg

Yeap, that's an actual 24K gold-plated Macbook wit' diamonds in the logo.

cool pics Irez! how u been man? have you heard from Throbby?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

cool pics Irez! how u been man? have you heard from Throbby?

I beez fine, just been doing a little too much out-on-the-towning lately! I dunno why, but I've got this restlessness bug and have been needing to feed it. Trying to keep it on the cheap, though, I'm no John Paul Getty!

I have not seen hide nor hair of Throbby in a long while, not since our little burgeoning erotic art movement stalled out. The last post of his was a little cryptic, but it read like something went down bad in his real life and he had to break out. Kinki might know more about his situation than me since they were tight, but she's been incommunicado as well. I think real life has been kicking us all in our asses in various ways this year so far.

 

[Austin8]

I beez fine, just been doing a little too much out-on-the-towning lately! I dunno why, but I've got this restlessness bug and have been needing to feed it. Trying to keep it on the cheap, though, I'm no John Paul Getty!

I have not seen hide nor hair of Throbby in a long while, not since our little burgeoning erotic art movement stalled out. The last post of his was a little cryptic, but it read like something went down bad in his real life and he had to break out. Kinki might know more about his situation than me since they were tight, but she's been incommunicado as well. I think real life has been kicking us all in our asses in various ways this year so far.

ive been really busy too, I would post some illustrations but dont have a reliable resizing program at the present time, I may drop kiki an email and see whats up with those guys, glad to see you still here though. your Mac posts are always informative. stay well man.

 

[Liar]

Yeap, that's an actual 24K gold-plated Macbook wit' diamonds in the logo.

Did you see the diamond studded iPad? Hang on while I get an url.

Here ya go.

http://www.mervisdiamond.com/tacori-diamonds

 

[Austin8]

http://www.mervisdiamond.com/media/mervis_images/diamond-ipad.jpg
Wow! sweet!

 

[Liar]

By the way, I'm typing this on a brand new Macbook Pro with Core i7 processor.

For anyone who might be curious about it: It's no difference from the old one. Except it's considerably faster. Macbooks have been 6 months behind the curve in performance lately compared to the top PC notebooks, by nto embracing Core i7 and hybrid graphics, but now they're on even keel again. About time.

Transation for dummies: If you bought a Macbook Pro a month ago, your timing sucks.

ETA: no, I didn't buy it. I borrowed it from work over the weekend. That's one of the perks of my job, there are cool new gizmos lying around now and then to play with.

 

[Tiffany87]

PC. It's cheaper.

 

[rgraham666]

Except time is money. And my experience is you'll spend a lot of time doing things on a PC that you won't have to do with a Mac.

I remember reading an article, in Business Week as I recall, about how Macs were cheaper over the long run. Most PC owners got new machines every three years while Mac owners got them every five. Mac owners used about twice as many programs on their Macs than PC owners. Maintenance and repairs tended to be higher for PCs as well.

So, pay up front or over the long run. That's the choice.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

By the way, I'm typing this on a brand new Macbook Pro with Core i7 processor.

For anyone who might be curious about it: It's no difference from the old one. Except it's considerably faster. Macbooks have been 6 months behind the curve in performance lately compared to the top PC notebooks, by nto embracing Core i7 and hybrid graphics, but now they're on even keel again. About time.

Transation for dummies: If you bought a Macbook Pro a month ago, your timing sucks.

ETA: no, I didn't buy it. I borrowed it from work over the weekend. That's one of the perks of my job, there are cool new gizmos lying around now and then to play with.

*holds back Hulk-like jealous rage*



Yeah, I'm actually glad I held off on my laptop purchase. I might pick one of those bad boys up during the summertime and do the iPad thing for next year on its 2nd or 3rd gen when it'll be able to squirt vodka from the back while you read.

 

[Liar]

Ive said it before and I'll say it again. Technically, there's no difference between a Mac and a PC. None. Zilch. It's the same processor, the same chipset, close to identical motherboards (made by the same companies), the same RAM chips, the same graphics, the same hard drives, the same battery technology and capacity, and she same screen panels.

The difference is entirely in the software. So what Rob is really talking about is not PC vs Mac, it's Windows vs Mac OS. That, and exterior design.

And what can be said about that? That Mac OS is a Rolls, the finest of rides on a nice, smooth road, but an instant wreck if you take it off the tracks. Mac OS has two modes; fully functional, or dead. The reason a Mac, as the myth goes, never crashes, is that there's precious little you as a Mac OS user are allowed to do to make it crash. But if you manage to find a way, it just shuts down.

In contrast, Windows is an old, battered Toyota pickup truck. Never glamorous, and not exactly comfy. Buy you can pretty much drive it across a minefield, steamroll it and drown it, and it will still sputter to life after you manhandle it with a wrench. Windows is incredibly forgiving. You can load it full with bad drivers, spyware, faulty installations, poorly written programs, missing or outdated libraries and memory drainers. And it will sputter and squeak, but still run. Only slower and less and less stable.

 

[DeeZire]

... That Mac OS is a Rolls, the finest of rides on a nice, smooth road, but an instant wreck if you take it off the tracks. Mac OS has two modes; fully functional, or dead. The reason a Mac, as the myth goes, never crashes, is that there's precious little you as a Mac OS user are allowed to do to make it crash. But if you manage to find a way, it just shuts down.

In five years using an OSX Mac daily for music production, my G5 has shut down once. (A five year-old computer running state-of-the-art software? Shhh. Don't tell my clients!) Now and then, I'll do a bad move - nudging the mouse and hitting the space bar at the same time - and cause my music program to crash, but it doesn't freeze the computer, it just makes the program disappear and I'm back to looking at the desktop. Then I restart my program and continue working. How does this equate with your assertion that Mac has only two modes - fully functional or dead? Mine has three - fully functional, fully functional after restarting the crashed program, or dead.

Your assertion that Windows allows the user to screw up the OS does ring true to me. Years ago, I was trying to install a usb driver for my cellphone on a 98SE PC (a driver that would have been included in the Mac os if there was one written for the Mac os.) During the automated installation, Windows deleted every driver in my system, rendering the PC useless. I had to take it to a PC tech to have him restore the system, since even the CD rom drive didn't work. And you're saying that's a good thing?

I hear Windows 7 is finally catching up to the ease of use and stability of OSX. It's about time.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

In five years using an OSX Mac daily for music production, my G5 has shut down once. (A five year-old computer running state-of-the-art software? Shhh. Don't tell my clients!) Now and then, I'll do a bad move - nudging the mouse and hitting the space bar at the same time - and cause my music program to crash, but it doesn't freeze the computer, it just makes the program disappear and I'm back to looking at the desktop. Then I restart my program and continue working. How does this equate with your assertion that Mac has only two modes - fully functional or dead? Mine has three - fully functional, fully functional after restarting the crashed program, or dead.

Your assertion that Windows allows the user to screw up the OS does ring true to me. Years ago, I was trying to install a usb driver for my cellphone on a 98SE PC (a driver that would have been included in the Mac os if there was one written for the Mac os.) During the automated installation, Windows deleted every driver in my system, rendering the PC useless. I had to take it to a PC tech to have him restore the system, since even the CD rom drive didn't work. And you're saying that's a good thing?

I hear Windows 7 is finally catching up to the ease of use and stability of OSX. It's about time.

True this. If it weren't for the automatic weekly system upgrades thanks to Updater, I'd never shut down to restart.

And I used to get a few crashes when I got my rig when I overloaded the operations by trying to run an aircraft carrier while downloading porn and playing music loud enough to move a discotheque, but after Snow Leopard? Nada.

To paraphrase the Merovingian in Reloaded: "It's like wiping your ass with silk."

And how sweet is Spaces? I fell in love with my Mac all over again after using them.

 

[Liar]

In five years using an OSX Mac daily for music production, my G5 has shut down once. (A five year-old computer running state-of-the-art software? Shhh. Don't tell my clients!) Now and then, I'll do a bad move - nudging the mouse and hitting the space bar at the same time - and cause my music program to crash, but it doesn't freeze the computer, it just makes the program disappear and I'm back to looking at the desktop. Then I restart my program and continue working. How does this equate with your assertion that Mac has only two modes - fully functional or dead? Mine has three - fully functional, fully functional after restarting the crashed program, or dead.

It tells me your Mac does what I said. It worlds or it doesn't. And the same goes for programs on a Mac. Works or it's terminated. Your music program (which is it by the way?) didn't crash, it did a hard shot down in an orderly fashion, if not for you (I'll bet you'd want to save your project first) then at least for the OS. Something happens to the program and it cancels it's processes. ASIO drivers which many music programs use are for instance notoriously unstable, especially if used to run an USB or Firewire sound board. But they are unstable in a way that means they close and re-initilize their own processes now and then - it doesn't bring the rest of the world down.

I run database engines and development environments on my iMac. Meaning I test beta software, huge publications in Indesign, and dtatbase engines for web development. I have had a handful of full system crashes this year alone, that required nothing short of a full system wipe and restore.

 

[DeeZire]

....Your music program (which is it by the way?) didn't crash, it did a hard shot down ...

Motu Digital Performer with a motu 2408 PCI interface. It helps that the interface and the software are from the same company. My understanding is that it's using core audio rather than asio drivers, and au plugins, rather than VST or whatever. I also use a UAD PCI card for boutique plugins. From what I've read on the forums, my version of DP (4.61) is the most stable in recent history, which is why I'm hesitant to upgrade. It's 4 years old, but still does everything I need with no hiccups.

Beta testing eh? I wouldn't want your job. I prefer being creative, rather than tinkering with the tools that help me be creative. From my anecdotal observations, I've concluded that the true Windows fans are the ones who enjoy the troubleshooting process. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I used to enjoy fixing my cars and trucks - until they started putting computer chips in them.

 

[3113]

And then there is this marvelous new use for the iPad....

 

[Byron In Exile]

I run database engines and development environments on my iMac. Meaning I test beta software, huge publications in Indesign, and dtatbase engines for web development. I have had a handful of full system crashes this year alone, that required nothing short of a full system wipe and restore.

I've had problems, but I've never had to fully wipe and restore a Windows system.

They are fixable, if you know what you're doing.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

This Is Apple's Next iPhone

You are looking at Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the details.

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http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/04/500x_iphone4_01.jpg

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While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it's clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here's the detailed list of our findings:

What's new
• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It's unclear if it's the 960x640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the "Connect to iTunes" screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

What's changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

Why we think it's definitely real
We're as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and disassembling this unit, there is so much evidence stacked in its favor, that there's very little possibility that it's a fake. In fact, the possibility is almost none. Imagine someone having to use Apple components to design a functioning phone, from scratch, and then disseminating it to people around the world. Pretty much impossible. Here are the reasons, one by one.

It has been reported lost
Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:

So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple — a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.

Obviously someone found it, and here it is.

http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

 

[Austin8]

Prototype iPhone was left at bar by Apple software engineer

By Neil Hughes
Published: 08:45 PM EST

A 27-year-old Apple software engineer who was field testing Apple's unreleased fourth-generation iPhone left the top-secret device sitting on a bar stool after drinking a German beer in Redwood City, California, Gizmodo reported Monday evening.

Revealing the alleged story behind how Apple's forthcoming hardware was mistakenly lost in public, Jesus Diaz said that the North Carolina State University graduate typed one last Facebook update -- "I underestimated how good German beer is" -- into his prototype iPhone before it was left on a bar stool. Diaz noted that while Apple's legendary veil of secrecy usually works remarkably well, this time someone slipped up.

"The fact is that there's no perfect security," he wrote. "Not when humans are involved. Humans that can lose things. You know, like the next generation iPhone."

The report claimed that the software engineer, who worked on the iPhone baseband software, was at Gourmet Haus Staudt the evening of Thursday, March 18, just 20 miles from the company's Cupertino, Calif., campus. The Apple employee allegedly left the bar, and left his prototype phone behind, where a patron who sat next to him found the device.

Gizmodo reported that the person who found the phone began to ask around to see if it was anyone's, but no one responded. At first the hardware did not arouse suspicion because it was encased in a plastic shell that made it look like last year's iPhone 3GS. But when no one claimed the phone, the person began to play around with it, and noticed some issues: the camera crashed repeatedly, and the back of it had two barcodes stuck on it.

The bar patron took the phone home with him, and by the next morning it had been remotely deactivated through MobileMe. The anonymous finder -- referred to only as a "he" -- then realized that something didn't feel right about the phone, and it had a forward facing camera on the front. The person then managed to remove the exterior casing to reveal the true outer shell of the fourth-generation iPhone prototype.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2010/04/340x_custom_1271781148832_jordanhand.jpg

Thief So Desperate for iPad, Rips Off Guy's Finger

"It's like a bad dream," said a newly nine-fingered man who lost an iPad to a robber who pulled so hard on the Apple bag intertwined around his fingers that it stripped his pinky to the bone.

Bill Jordan of Aurora, Colorado purchased an iPad at the Cherry Creek Mall as a favor for a Canadian friend. With the handle of the iPad bag intertwined around his fingers, Jordan walked into the mall parking lot—and was followed by a pair of robbers. CBS4Denver reports:

A few feet from the doors to the parking garage Jordan felt a violent tugging at his arm. He looked down and saw a young man trying to grab his bag.
"He was almost sitting on the ground he was pulling so hard and it was still tied around my fingers; and it wouldn't come off and then finally he gave it one big jerk; and that's when he stripped the skin off my pinky and it went right down to the bone."

"I saw just a bone, all the skin and tendons and everything were off."

A food vendor proffered napkins to slow the bleed. Rushed to the hospital, Jordan's pinky would be amputated. Luckily, you do not need a pinky to operate a touch screen. Unluckily, it doesn't sound like Bill Jordan even owns an iPad, anyway. Point of query: If you sent a friend to buy you an iPad and he lost his pinky finger in the process, how long do you have to wait before you're allowed to ask him to go back to complete the deed? The Canadian friend is still waiting, right? [CBS4Denver via Consumerist, image via CBS4Denver]

http://gawker.com/5520688/thief-so-desperate-for-ipad-rips-off-guys-finger

 

[3113]

Thief So Desperate for iPad, Rips Off Guy's Finger

This is horrible. Can't we go back to the kitty?