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  • SciFrog
    Oct 20, 10:28 PM
    With similar hardware, is Umbutu faster at Folding?
    I saw some strange results on the Folding forum.

    Any chance to get GPU via wine in MAc OS X?





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  • medazinol
    May 3, 09:02 AM
    I just sold my previous 27" iMac and I'd like to order one of these new ones.

    Can anyone tell me if I should get the 2GB GPU option considering I have an external 27" Cinema Display hooked up the iMac?

    If not I'll spend it on extra RAM and a third-party SSD drive.

    Thanks





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  • Steve121178
    May 3, 08:19 AM
    Not really sure why Apple can't bring themselves to put an i7 by default in a $2,000 machine. That's kind of ridiculous.

    Profit!





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  • WeegieMac
    Apr 14, 03:35 PM
    You're not alone. This happens for me too, including with this update. Even after a reboot. It didn't do it with any of the 4.0.x releases either. It started with 4.2 I think. Tap an app icon, freezes for a second, then the app appears with no animation. Or a very choppy animation.

    I've tried both rebooting and restoring (as a new phone). I had less than a gigabyte free so I tried freeing up some space thinking that might help and even with ~2GB free it still does it.

    4.2 was fine for me with regards to UI animations. It was on 4.3 that it all started.

    UI navigation is definitely, for me, vastly improved over .1 in .2, but still the third party app "bug" exists.



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  • timmillwood
    Oct 24, 08:58 AM
    The 17" is cheaper by the way if you opt for the 100GB drive. In the last revision you didn't get a price drop on it. Now you do. With a higher education discount I could get a beast of a machine for the price of a 15" MBP.

    I wish they offered the 120GB HDD i dont need 160, but 100 is too little, 120 is just right + would save me nearly �60





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  • Matt-M
    Apr 28, 04:31 PM
    Maybe you should have a look at the rest of the comparison (http://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fryancash.net%2Fpost%2F5019047695%2Fwhite-iphone-4-is-thicker&t=1304024405) photos.

    I just did that, and loaded one of them into Photoshop for a little measurement. Here is what I got:

    http://www.marulla.com/files/thickness.png



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  • jhande
    Nov 11, 11:04 AM
    One of my main reasons for getting the MB vs. keeping my iBook was Parallels.

    I develop for several platforms, so this was 'made in heaven' if i worked.

    Well, after a month of testing and developing I can say that Parallels has been an unqualified success.

    Currently I'm running Ubuntu, Solaris 10 (Dtrace, zones and ZFS rules, but that is another debate), and Win2k. Apart from an issue getting the screen resolution right in Sun's Java Desktop, I have had no problems whatsoever.

    Since I'm not doing any 3D work, graphics acceleration isn't an issue for me.

    It's the best 70-odd dollars I've ever spent.

    Oh yeah, to the guy with stability issues..... I have no idea what you've been doing to your machine, but I haven't yet had a kernel panic of any kind (nor a BSOD in Parallels), so I don't recognize the situation at all. And, believe me, when you rape a system the way I do, running a long compile in the background while at the same time converting a video (just to see the stress handling capabilities - I wouldn't do that normally, compiles take too long :)), you get a good feel for the stability of the system. This baby is rock solid.

    For the record: MB CD 2GB 120GBHD

    /jhande





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  • kiljoy616
    Mar 31, 03:56 PM
    Team? OS X is actually developed by one guy in the boiler room who was actually fired years ago but still shows up to work... :rolleyes:

    Did we get the stapler back? :D



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  • FloatingBones
    Nov 23, 12:46 AM
    That's not why I called him a Communist. I call him a Communist because he acts like a 1-person dictator.

    He's the CEO of a company: accountable to the Board of Directors and the stockholders of the publicly-traded company. There's no comparison between that and a communist dictator. Goofy.

    Anyone who can provide a rational reason why these two things are comparable, please chime in.

    Flash for iOS is no more of a security risk than it is for OSX in general or any other plugin from PDF readers to Javascript.

    That's a terrible argument for having bundled Adobe products on iOS.

    Adobe products are a large risk on Mac OS X. It's unbelievable to me that Adobe Reader is a vector for zero day bugs (http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-273.txt). I really don't know how you do that: it's a PDF reader! The bugs have been around in Adobe Reader for years and Adobe still hasn't fixed them.

    If you only view PDF files, you shouldn't even have Adobe Reader installed on your OS X computer. Apple Preview is better, faster, and far less bug-prone.

    Steve Jobs "reason" for not including Flash is supposedly mostly about performance not security risks.

    It's about both the performance and the security risks.

    It's also about the identity-leaking through Flash cookies. Perhaps you missed that security discussion: more than half of the top 100 websites are now using Flash cookies to track users and store information about them (http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-209.txt). Flash cookies do not honor the cookie privacy settings of the browser; many users don't even know that Flash maintains its own set of cookies.

    It's about the quirky UI interactions with Flash. Scrolling works differently when the mouse is over a Flash region. Certain keyboard shortcuts cease to work. Text that is displayed in a flash window is not searchable with the browser's text-finding feature. My Mac doesn't behave like a Mac inside of a Flash window.

    Then why are they allowing Flash in regular OSX?

    Software is much more tightly-controlled on iOS devices. There is a file system firewall between every app. Third-party apps must be submitted to Apple before they can be distributed, and Apple has the capability to remotely disable any third party app that begins to exhibit a malware-like behavior in the field.

    Some of those controls are about advances in OS development since Mac OS X. Some have to do with the nature of the device: handhelds are more appliances than laptops.

    One other reason to ban Flash on iOS: Flash apps can be packaged as iOS apps. This should be safe because of the way that iOS apps are firewalled from each other and the kill switch that Apple can use if an app is found to be rogue.

    There are fundamental differences between iOS devices and laptops/desktops. Also, Apple no longer ships Adobe Flash on their newest computers. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1034486) I'm guessing that Apple will ship Flash on no computers starting with the release of OS X 10.7 next year.

    By your logic that would mean that Microsoft must be the most incompetent company out there.

    I don't believe you read that headline carefully: Security experts believe that Adobe is going to surpass Microsoft as the #1 target for security attacks (http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-231.htm).

    On the contrary, it indicates they are POPULAR.

    No reason to shout.

    Perhaps it indicates they have some fundamental problems in their software engineering. Did you read the podcast transcript about the latest Adobe bug? Adobe Reader has the same zero-day glitch as Flash. How does a PDF viewer get executable bugs like this?

    How often does Apple update their security? I guess they're clueless too by your account. You won't admit that, however because you have an emotional investment in Apple.

    Apple updates their software when updates are needed.

    The point is that quarterly updates are far too infrequent. Did you read the transcript of the Security Now! podcast? Given the continuing number of Adobe zero-day bugs, Gibson asks:

    "[Adobe:] how is that quarterly update cycle going for you?" (http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-273.txt)

    That is not what I said or what I proposed.

    You proposed that Apple include Flash with iOS Safari and that users could turn it on. How you can possibly ensure that not a single iOS user will not lose anything the next time there's a zero day Adobe bug (http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-273.txt). You can't.





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  • Arcady
    Jul 25, 09:25 AM
    $70 for a mouse? Give me a break.

    I just bought a two button scrollwheel mouse for $1.67. There's no reason for it to cost more than that. $10 is too much.



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  • spaz
    Jul 11, 07:48 PM
    I'm not sure if it's just a bunch of "computer guys" around here, but in the gaming world Xbox 360 has a fair amount of cultural cachet. It's not my cup of tea, but it's pretty dang popular with youth culture. Microsoft already has a highly successful, profitable, and critically lauded online service in Xbox Live, with millions of subscribers.

    I think it's a bit of wishful thinking to claim MS will "screw this up", since the infrastructure is already there, and it's already functioning in a lot of young people's homes.

    Look, I'm the biggest Apple fan I know, but Microsoft has proven over and over that they can move into an arena with another market leader and chip away. They lost hundreds of millions on the Xbox, and went right ahead and made a successor. They don't care if they lose some money, because eventually, they will make money.

    I would love to see iPod continue its success, but, aside from a current lead in marketshare, Microsoft has a lot going for it this time around.





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  • iJohnHenry
    Feb 28, 06:51 PM
    Not sure if the crew gets anything above union wage.

    You mean like eating and shelter?

    The man is a megalomaniacal prick.

    Too smart for his own good.



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  • nagromme
    Jul 11, 02:32 PM
    I still don't get the value of wireless in a music player--not in actual practice (battery life and added bulk, vs. the need to plug in to charge, which naturally takes longer than synching anyway).

    But whatever it is, I think its chances will depend a lot on whether it can be as slim and light as an iPod, and the same elegant ease-of-use as iTunes and iPod.

    If it has those things, the X-Box name could carry it to some kind of success. But of course there can be more than one successful product in a market--Apple is not in danger.





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  • cherry su
    Jan 2, 01:15 PM
    Emphasis mine. Let's put corn ethanol for vehicle fuel and soy biodiesel aside for a minute. You may be shocked when you find out how much corn and other food is given to livestock to bulk them up for human consumption as meat. It's quite possibly the most inefficient calorie conversion we humans can conjure-- just because we like meat too g**d*** much.

    Vegan: The New Ethics Of Eating by Erik Marcus opened my eyes quite a bit about this kind of thing.

    (Disclaimer: For a period of time, I was vegan because of what I read in that book and other resources. Nowadays I'm "flexitarian", eating meat for only about 10% of my intake, mainly in the interest of family harmony; I could "go veg" again rather easily.)

    Agreed. The documentary Food Inc. brought this to my attention. It's quite freaky, feeding corn to cows. o_o



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  • dba7dba
    Apr 22, 02:52 AM
    Suing one of your biggest customers isn't?

    P.

    Apple contributes about 4% to samsung annual revenue. And how many of apple product line use apple components? Like 95% (pure guess)?





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  • Krevnik
    Apr 15, 04:27 PM
    I like the new iCal :o


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  • extrafuzzyllama
    Sep 15, 08:05 PM
    picked up new ink for printer and an enclosure and two hdds

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  • MacVault
    Oct 24, 08:08 AM
    Here comes the moaning.......... ;)

    Yea... WHERE THE [censored] ARE THE MACBOOKS?! I want a Core 2 Duo MacBook, not MacBook Pro :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:





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  • ghall
    Apr 29, 03:06 PM
    considering that amazon sells mp3 format and apple sells their non-universal format, it still doesn't matter to me. Until apple gets real and starts selling MP3s I will continue to buy from amazon. But I guess they don't care.

    Basically any modern media device can play MP4 which is what Apple uses on it's store. For example I can put music purchased from iTunes on my Android phone with no coversion at all.





    yac_moda
    Jul 12, 06:02 PM
    1 WORDS !!!

    Foam Aluminum nannoMackiBooky :eek:

    http://www.metcomb.com/products.html

    http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=12210
    "Metcomb's foam is approximately 70% to 85% lighter than solid aluminum. Metcomb says typical parts would have a dense aluminum skin."





    DeathChill
    Apr 23, 12:14 PM
    Were you happy when Exxon was making record profits quarter after quarter? Did you go post about it on an oil forum? Did you laugh when they were spanking Shell? As a consumer, not as an investor.

    You're reaching pretty hard there. Apple makes consumer electronics that I enjoy using everyday. They're creating new markets and innovating existing ones. I don't understand how you can think that enjoying that is a bad thing.





    hayesk
    Jul 25, 10:41 AM
    It seems like a major problem with this would be the fact that you get no tactile feedback. However, I have tapping enabled on my iBook and I don't find it odd or uncomfortable at all then I "click" on something. I'm sure it would take some getting used to, but I imagine that it could work.

    The 3G iPod did not have physical feedback, and they worked.

    But the problem here is everyone is assuming that none-touch means you don't even touch the iPod. Did it occur to anyone that it means you don't have to touch the screen? This allows Apple to put a more durable transparent cover over the entire face of the iPod.

    Think about it - a nice smooth seamless iPod face. When you put your finger over the display, the controls appear. Your finger touches the cover, but not the screen underneath. This allows for easy cleaning, and protection of the actual screen.





    cleanup
    Sep 16, 06:58 AM
    Yes, but there has been a massive fail rate in IBM Desktar Models (Hitatchi has bought the IBM hard drive division after). I know the problem won't appear again, and that the current Desktar only shares the name with the problematic one, but I prefer to stay away from Hitatchi drives. There are other brands, and they are priced similarly. I'm losing nothing here.

    I've been using the same 500GB Hitachi Deskstar for about 3 years now. No qualms yet. Of course it's just for file storage. I put my OS and apps on my SSD.

    An imminent upgrade is probably prudent though. :D 3 years is a bit long for any HDD really.





    Eriden
    Mar 15, 08:24 AM
    Line at the Spectrum is now at about 20 people.