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Who else is in the Apple family?
Here, here...
Just to troll yer thread JW lol.
Im a Shiba type of person... Toshiba FTW. :D
10.5.6 FTW here.
I used to be a geek so I am running Hackintosh 10.5.6. The XXX Final Release on a Quad Core.
Runs ten times better than vista or anything else I have had.
Plus I can do video editing on it in FCS2 and work in Logic and aperature.
GO mac and never go back.
cheers
Astrid
wow...and you only had to pay $3000 for your mac???
Macbook Pro here. Never had a problem with it, unlike when you run Microsoft shite.
Fuck Microsoft.
So agree with you, Astrid! I love my Apple :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by astridgirl
your point?Quote:
Originally Posted by ilovetgirls36
Not to be argumentative or anything but..
Windows OS(s) aren't really all that bad, the problem with them for a majority of people (it seems like from my perspective) is that people don't know all the really arcane and/or obtuse aspects to fix their OS when it decides to go AWOL on them.
Admittedly that's a problem with the Windows OS systems I agree, but once a person surpasses that issue, then the OS tends to run *very* smoothly and efficiently.
no disrespect since I have both operating systems (as well as a few others) but with the exclusion of the beta Windows 7 every Windows operating I've owned or used has had weird issues that OSX never had. I'm not saying that OSX is perfect by any means, let's face it there are some companies that refuse to program their software for OSX but the time I've spent on it has been enjoyable without lockups, crashes, viruses, etc.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Bandomar
I'll be following Astrid with a Hackintosh build this month with a windows (probably 7 when its really ready) on a separate terabyte drive so I can still do silly things like torrent downloads, gnutella file xfers, etc.
things I really can do on my mac but prefer not to
Got a 24" iMac, works well, had to bootcamp it though, and threw win7 on there.
Also got a Hackintosh running. I use Win7 more than any other OS at the moment, but the screen on the mac is great for my photography.
You know what I love most about my Mac Pro? It runs as fine and fast today 2 years into service as it did the day it arrived. The PC I have in the other room, had a fresh install of XP loaded 3 months ago. It runs sluggish, buggy, and will need another fresh install of the OS in a couple months to keep the machine usable.
I will gladly pay additional monies for a product that continues to perform day in and day out at the same high level. My employeer buys me a new Mac Pro this fall and the PC in the other room goes in the garbage can...
Mac User since OS 7. I think this is my 7th mac (maybe more). black Macbook with 10.5....though I'm thinking about going back to the desktop world.
Imagine running a marathon in perfect weather on a level dry track, thats life with a Mac.
Now imagine running it uphill, in pouring rain and a foot of mud, that's Windows.
So they cost a lot, so what, so does a Ferrari compared to a Kia.
You get what you pay for.
:D
Comparing Mac to Ferrari = instant fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by altarica
Mac is more like the Smart car, functionally its great but instead of telling people "you're rich & possibly having a midlife crisis", you know its leading people to wonder if you're secretly gay.
Windows is all about control, mac is all about taking control away. If a mac were a car it wouldn't give you a choice in where you're going, it would always be an automatic, and it wouldn't even be happy about you selecting the paint color.
Count me in. :) I love my Mac Pro! I am very lucky to have it.
It's a small price to pay for quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by ilovetgirls36
Love...
Cinthya.
Last time I checked OS X was built on a UNIX core...probably one of the most open-sourced OS systems out there. If you know what you're doing, you can pop open the Terminal and hack about to your hearts content. The options open to developers and users because of this connection make it one of the most accessable Operating Systems out there. Your argument may have been true pre-OSX...but not as much these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
lol....you macs are so funny...guess im just jealous i dont have $3000 to spend
Actually in the pre-OSX days, iTunes was easily skinable (to the point where a noob could easily do it). Then Apple noticed with sites like resexcellence that people were messing with the colors with iTunes and rewrote the GUI to discourage iTunes skins (this was around 2004). Apple made a public statement at the time talking about their decision to kill the iTunes skins, and said something to the effect of "here at Apple our philosophy is to discourage stuff like this because all these skins could end up confusing users by changing colors or the appearances of buttons or menus from what they're used to."Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycanuck
I can think of quite a number of things that Apple has changed, just with OSX- since 10.2 to make it harder, not easier, for end users to manipulate the "look & feel" of the OS.
That said my post was made half jokingly tongue-in-cheek, I really wasn't being that serious about it.
Fuck the mac if your paying 3 grand no offense. Id much rather get AlienWare. Such beautifully Designed Computers/Laptops
That's ok, in the end it's whatever tool you're comfortable with. About the iTunes though, you're thinking of Soundjam. iTunes never had the ability to skin (mind you...you can hack it yourself or with 3rd party apps). That being said, I miss those Soundjam days. Napster...soundjam. So much more innocent (innocent in that you could rip songs off). Interesting story behind the acquisition of Soundjam and the "almost success" by Panic.com with Audion at http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
I have heard stories of people breaking into apartments, seeing a mac & an alienware on the same desk- and stealing the mac because they didn't know what the alienware was and figured the mac would be easier to flip.Quote:
Originally Posted by ef9hatchman
Lol...Alienwares are beasts.My friends little brother has one(geek status) but he owns online games shit is sooo clear 200fps on counterstrikw is what I saw last time I was estaticQuote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
Wrong, iTunes v1 & v2 was skinnable. I probably still have skinned copies and some skins on my external HD somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycanuck
v2 was the version that apple had out during the cross over period when they were still making dual boot machines (v2 worked in OS9 or OSX). Most people didn't even know it was skinnable, but it was.
Again..it's a difference of opinion as I've used Macs in everything since 1994. But to make sure (because even I have a faulty memory at times) I checked the history on wikipedia and found this.Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
So unless my memory is faulty, I don't ever remember it being skinable. Jobs does tend to take a lot of those features away as he's anal about design. Probably another reason I like Macs so much.Quote:
SoundJam MP, developed by Jeff Robbin and Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1999,[6] became the basis for iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000. Apple added a new user interface and the ability to burn CDs, and removed its recording feature and skin support, and released it as iTunes in January 2001.
wikipedia is wrong about when Jobs had the skinnable feature removed, it was 2003 when that was finally taken out of the program.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycanuck
Mac User since 1985, on a Mac 512 ('Fat Mac'). Current machine is a Mac Mini. It's my 5th Mac, but I've managed to collect 22 old Macs somehow.
Typing this on a Win notebook though... which tends to need system work a lot and crashes at least twice a week, while my Mac has yet to crash for the first time in three years (and guess which system gets to do all the heavy stuff).
Ok..here's a version history of iTunes from TUAW. Nothing about skinning in their notes, but a comment from one user...Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
Also...as a final note on this, I found this on the Guidebook Gallery. It's a site that shows screenshots from various applications. Here are all the menu drop downs for iTunes.. http://www.guidebookgallery.org/apps/itunes/menusQuote:
I still have my original copy of SoundJam on my hard drive, just as a relic of tribute. It was fantastic for the time, and had features iTunes *still* doesn't have. Skinning (no surprise there), and a built-in alarm clock, for example.
What's your email? I could send you the .rsrc file from a skinned copy of itunes 2, I found it on one of my HD's.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycanuck
It's not so much a point of being able to skin it. A creative person can skin a program using the .rsrc. In the old days you could use Res Edit to do that. I used to do that with icons. I'm sure you can still do that if you look deep enough. A lot of the graphic items have been moved to the main OS directory. That's not what I was debating. I was debating that iTunes as a shipped product never allowed a user to just flick on a skin. You could change visualizations..but that was mainly it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
Yup..the only way to fly:)
I work on a mac everyday, and use windows on my home machines. And they both have issues. The only reason Microsoft is the big evil company while apple is the righteous underdog adored by hipsters, is that Bill Gates made better business decisions than Jobs did. That's it.
Hey guys and gals
I am using a hacked version of osx 10.5.6 that runs on a regular old PC.
go to osx86project.org and see what I mean.
I spent about $600 on my machine all together and then put the hacked version of OSX on.
If I had $3000 to drop on a real Mac Quadcore I wouldnt be looking to get into porn as much!!! HAh.
Cheers and BTW the guy who was talking about Vista and XP is for people who know what they are doing.
i supported twice as many macs with half the time when I was working on the trading floors in Manhattan. XP, vista, Windows 7 they are all built on a kludged core.
Just my thoughts,
Astrid
My first Mac was a Performa 6400 running 7.5.3
It was the 200MHz model with 136MB/RAM, 2+Gig HDD and a 8X CD-ROM. Thought I was bad to the bone…lol
Afterward in about this order:
8500,
9600,
Blue & White G3 450MHz,
Sawtooth G4 500MHz,
Quicksilver G4 1GHz.
G5 1.8GHz single-core.
What a piece of shit this thing was. Apple put me through the wringer trying to get satisfaction on this lemon. Granted, I KNOW that EVERY manufacture will have a lemon get through QC, but as I said, Apple dragged their heels on this one.
Just for the record, performance was SUPER, when it was working right…
Then I got bit by the do-it-yourself bug. I’ve been a Windows guy ever since with ongoing experimentation with Linux., mostly Ubuntu and Mandriva.
However, work and most play are under Windows XP. I had Vista Home Premium running for a while on my main machine, but went back to XP. I look forward to Windows 7, or whatever it will end up being called. I may even “go back” to Vista depending on what the next Service Pack achieves.
Trust me, I am no Windows/Microsoft fanboi. Weighing the bang for buck factor on Microsoft vs Apple, Windows just happens to be a better choice for me.
Astridgirl, is that your pic?
Stability rocks
Windows 7 is a step in the right direction
OSX is the path to enlightenment.
:mrgreen: Found that in another thread and had to post it.
http://www.hungangels.com/board/files/gay_test_184.jpg
more like a modern alfa which costs a premium, lacks power, has the driven wheels on the wrong end and has form over function written all over it (with the form being an aquired taste)Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG