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Bit of trivia: In this vid he's responding to Kevin Pereira of Attack of the Show on G4.
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>> ^lucky760:

Bit of trivia: In this vid he's responding to Kevin Pereira of Attack of the Show on G4.
Maybe we should add a new monocle smile emoticon to the Sift using something like:


And it pops up with his face?

Bit of trivia: In this vid he's responding to Kevin Pereira of Attack of the Show on G4.

Maybe we should add a new monocle smile emoticon to the Sift using something like:

>> ^budzos:

I care very little about the argument directly. Most people who care about this argument are just marketing victims and/or pretentious twats.
I'm CONSTANTLY meeting people - often clients unfortunately - who know very little about computers or using computers, but feel very strongly that I should be using a Mac if I'm genuinely creative. And these people are actually ascribing less creativity to me in their internal assessment. It's hard to express the contempt I feel for anyone who expreses this opinion to me. Some people even package it in the form of advice. Beware people of the world: If you have this opinion, you're most likely a fucking pretentious twat. Honestly. It's like caring deeply about what colour lightbulb your accountant uses.


This is where things got really lopsided for me in regards to Macs. When I was in college in an early digital media related class they were using G4s with OS 9.1 (?) which at the time was standard (OS X had *just* come out a few months earlier). I had a portable firewire drive I would use to take projects back and forth on my PCs at home and would always get garish looks from the instructors and other students as if I was poisoning their inner sanctum.

What really got to me is that OS 9 was hardly a model of stability and there were often problems with hangs or snags yet nobody really cared about it... I would just be present for class and just do all my damn work at home when I could on the PC version of say After Effects which was comparatively much more reliable. I talked to one of the lab veterans who had been there a while and what they had was light years from the previous base of PowerMacs which were apparently guaranteed to not run for more than an hour without eating shit in some fashion.

Understandably things are much better today for Macs hardware and software wise but that year of experience forever tarnished my view of the community itself. I don't mind the equipment thats being put out even as a hardcore PC user I can't knock the unibody MacBook Pro for being a well built machine.

Some of the most vocal users just need to dial down the anti-Microsoft or anti-anything-thats-not-Apple bile, thats all. Oh by the way Endgadget users, posting with "Micro$oft" or "M$" is so 1997.

I own a G4 TiBook (circa summer 2001). It really was the biggest waste of money I've ever spent on a piece of computer hardware, though it did remain sorta-functional (with abject babying--most of my classmates, who were less careful, had theirs literally falling apart at the seams within a few months) up until 2008 or 2009 or so. I'm a lot more pleased by my T61p from Lenovo, two and a half years into its life, though I have a few issues with it as well.

In fact, I think the TiBook cost me as much as my Lenovo and my last two desktops combined.

some interesting fox news coverage
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4186793/drug-bust-gone-awry?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r4:c0.000000:b0:z5
*doublepromote

I recovered graduate work off of a G4 that wouldn't boot by putting it into firewire target mode (hold down "t" at and hit power), and using another computer to run recovery software.
Good luck!.... I know the feeling.

The iPad. Still sucks. I can see Jobs having another purpose for it besides it just being a large iPod Touch, and I'm thinking that would (or should!) involve tv and movies. I would hope he's thinking of something more than what it currently will be. Otherwise it will fall into the land of misfit toys like the Apple TV, the powermac g4 cube, Apple's weird iMac "hockey puck" mouse and the Newton.

Either way, if it fails it won't hurt the company. Apple has created a fantastic array of tech toys and computers. My Mac Pro Tower is awesomely fast! The MacBook Air is great for typing while I shit, which I'm doing at the moment. And you're welcome for the image.

I own a Droid and my gf owns an iPhone. I still like aspects of the iPhone's usability and interface better. I wouldn't want an iPhone, though. I like my Droid, and it has things that I like that Apple's Iphone doesn't have. I can literally press a button, say "map to tacos" and have the first Google searched result come back as a map that I can then send right into their built in GPS! That's brilliant! Also it makes phone calls. Okay, time to wipe.

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Appartantly it was not rejected - In the words of the creator Aylmer666

"...Hey I just saw this on G4 - they got my name wrong!!! Also they mistakenly said that this video was outright rejected. No, the MUSIC was rejected. This video played at every game, albeit with Dr. Feelgood instead of Highway to the Danger Zone."

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The Macintosh Titanium 800mghz G4 laptop I bought in 2002 sits right next to me, and runs Logic Pro and Ableton like a fucking champ.

Yes, I spent a lot in 2002. Seven years later the thing is still solid.

Here are a few more commonly fucked up phrases and their prevalence on the interwebs for your edjutainment.....

"For all intensive purposes" 446,000 pages
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%22for+all+intensive+purposes%22&aq=&aqi=&aq=f&aqi=g4&oq=&fp=d6985f0b1643625b

"Commander and chief" 2,090,000 pages
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%22commander+and+chief%22&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&fp=d6985f0b1643625b

"Could care less" 2,270,000 pages
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%22could+care+less%22&aq=&aqi=&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&fp=d6985f0b1643625b

"In it of itself" 3,320,000 pages
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%22in+it+of+itself%22&aq=f&aqi=g1&oq=&fp=d6985f0b1643625b

"By in large" 12,500,000 pages
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%22by+in+large%22&aq=f&aqi=g4&oq=&fp=d6985f0b1643625b

"Bold faced lie" 18,500,000 pages
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22bold+faced+lie%22&aq=f&aqi=g1&oq=&fp=d6985f0b1643625b

"One in the same" 436,000,000 pages
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%22one+in+the+same%22&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&fp=d6985f0b1643625b

Snow Leopard is supposed to be a refinement of Leopard that takes better take advantage of the Intel chip. The system is only available for Mac Intel chip machines - a change from the last two systems offered. So Mac Users who want to use the new system will be forced to get a Mac with Intel chip.

When new systems come out, my Mac Users Group usually advises users to wait for the bugs to be worked out before upgrading. I'll wait until those in the know say "ok, upgrade."

In '05 I purchased a white iBook G4 while I was evacuated in Memphis. Once back home in the New Orleans area, a friend, who used to repair Macs, told me that he had a lot of clients fry their iBook G4 hard drives. He says the laptop only has one fan, whereas the metal laptops have two fans. Anyway, I have yet to fry my iBook. The main problem now is that it runs slow.