Every geek has his week spot. Everyone dreams of them. No matter what they cost, how efficient they are or how ‘limited’ they are… everyone dreams of Macs.
Computers still run with one mousebutton, but damn sexy looking and lately very small as well. Mac Mini and Boot Camp open the doors to MS users for a very little amount of dollars.
Microsoft also is jealous obviously. Have a look at the Mac department @ MS. Looks more like they use a Mac Cluster to run the campus as just testing purpose. They are too nicely set up, lets be honest. Those setups don’t look like testing single machines, do they? Or could it be that even MS developpers occasionally dream of an hour of simplicity? Simplicity and stability.
Check it out here. Oh btw, my next putere will also be a Mac Mini, unless I decide to go for a new PowerBook.
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1 krome.obsession // Apr 22, 2006 at 3:43 pm// View all comments by krome.obsession//
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Showing how truly geeky I am, I don’t dream of Macs.
I want a terabyte drive, a gig of ram, and a krome technologies handbag style mini tower. Oh yes ladies, a tower that looks just like a medium sized chrome hand bag, thats me baby.
I’ll stick with the dual boot windoze xandros system thanks, pitty about having to keep the windoze, but thats so Savvie can play her game.
2 Franky // Apr 22, 2006 at 3:45 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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That’s exactly what BootCamp is for. Dual boot on a Mac :P
3 krome.obsession // Apr 22, 2006 at 3:49 pm// View all comments by krome.obsession//
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yes, the problem is that dora the explora doesn’t work on anything other than windoze :P
4 Franky // Apr 22, 2006 at 6:04 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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Well actually that is no problem with bootcamp. Bootcamp (on intel mac) lets you boot windows XP, so everything, and I mean everything, that runs on Windows XP, runs on Mac with Bootcamp. [insert dancing banana here]
5 Danalyn // Apr 23, 2006 at 6:42 am// View all comments by Danalyn//
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Sure they’re pretty…that’s the tradeoff for a fucking sturdy piece of equipment.
Those fucking things got pretty, but they also got cheap…and not in terms of price, either.
I spent the week trying to fix a fucking out-of-warranty ibook which would only boot to a black screen. It turns out the reason it’s acting up is because that piece of shit is so flimsy that handling it too much causes the logicboard to come loose. The fix? Place a piece of foam padding (or cardboard and duct tape) just inside the bottom case to put pressure back on the motherboard.
What a fucking joke.
6 krome.obsession // Apr 23, 2006 at 6:49 am// View all comments by krome.obsession//
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Cheap? In New Zealand a MAC is 3 or 4 times the amount of anything else. Even if Macs were to came in chrome I’m still not convinced that for that price I’m going to love it enough to purchase it. This probably explains why they weren’t popular in NZ, not to mention that only a handful of places in the whole country were qualified to work on them …
7 Danalyn // Apr 23, 2006 at 6:52 am// View all comments by Danalyn//
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No, I meant cheap as in piece of shit. Not cheap as in price = low.
Hmmm…is calling something cheap when it’s a piece of shit an american slang? Never thought of that before…sorry, habit.
8 krome.obsession // Apr 23, 2006 at 7:03 am// View all comments by krome.obsession//
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Kiwis usual call something a piece/hunk/pile or shit/junk/crap, along with saying something like “bugger this shit/crap” .. lol
I need to get use to the difference tho .. or else I’ll forever be lost in America ..
9 Franky // Apr 23, 2006 at 4:12 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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Wench, I couldn’t agree more, but obviously that seems the wy Mac has choosen to be more competitive. A way that has become standard in all their products. Example, iPod. Earphones suck, they really suck. Quality of the display ‘glass’, let’s better not speak about. But even more amazing on the ‘cheap’ iPod are the connections.
Apple, always famous for their fast firewire connections. Where is Firewire (B) on the iPod. I mean you buy a nice Mac and can transfer with 800MB. But not with other Mac products. WTF.
But still. I like the size, noice and performances of the (big) Mac Mini. By the time I’ve made a PC that silent, I have spent around $200 as well, at least then I have really high performance power supply and other equipment. But when you often work with really big Adobe files, you can save with the Mac Mini. Well you could when Adobe will finally release CS3. Before CS3 there will be no universary release anymore.
10 Angelika // Apr 25, 2006 at 4:52 am// View all comments by Angelika//
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11 rob // Apr 25, 2006 at 7:36 am// View all comments by rob//
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There is no denying, everyone wants a Mac. They are everywhere in movies. You will be watching a movie about a family who can’t afford food, but out of no where they pull out a silver Mac laptop. It makes me envious. I guess the advertising is going to pay off. I am giving in to my urges and am going to get a Mac laptop!
12 Franky // Apr 27, 2006 at 9:03 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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In my mood today Apple pisssed me off and saved me $7686 and probably quite some supplementary problems. Twice I was browsing and filling up my cart. Twice their cookies security settings made me restart. The third time when I wanted to checkout I was too lazy and saved quite a lot of money. Or a lost of mensual rates. Bastards.