Ha! MacBook Pro FTW if I can afford it. I am still using my old PowerBook G4 which is so slow!

grrrrrrrr i tried SO DAMN HARD not to start an apple vs M$ thread.

Apple wouldn't do half the stuff they do if they weren't fighting a monopoly.
And anyway they put DRM in iTunes because otherwise the labels wouldn't deal with them. Come on, this is like internet arguing 101.

The "mac-only world" works great with every digital camera and mp3 player i have ever plugged in to my powerbook, regardless of manufacturer.

Bill Gates is "only the CEO"??? Riiiight.

Bill Gates is less selfish than other rich people, so... I should forgive him for making shitty products and monopolising the market?

"blue screen/malaria.. blue screen/malaria" ... jesus christ, if we took all the money wasted by his shitty software, it would add up to GAJILLIONS. That is money that should be in the economy doing something useful. You actually think the "inconvenience" of a blue screen of death is "paying" for malaria treatment? whoah, the economics on your planet are crAzY!

If you really want to help africa, give the cost of a copy of windows DIRECTLY to a charity and then install linux.

Fuck him. Go watch the other video where he brags about his Porsche. If you have a gajillion dollars, it is MUCH easier to give away a gajillion dollars (and of course you make sure you leave yourself a few million for beer money) (and remember to set up your own charity so you don't actually have to give the money away at all, other people might spend it "wrong")

(and remember that millions of healthy africans = millions of POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS!!!) i'm not even joking.

My technogeek son is turning into a vintage Mac collector. I gave him a Powerbook 520c for Christmas that I bought off of ebay for 10 bucks and he's happier than a pig in shit with it. And I'm a PC man. I think I may not be his REAL father.

yes this ad is great because Leopard has no bugs and nobody is downgrading to Tiger and I don't still use 10.2 for fear of toasting my powerbook.

^that's the most common objection i think... they are moved to stupid places. i guess you could remap. but it just gets more complicated.
there's plenty of keyboard shortcuts i do without thinking, and if you put the Q where the S is then you can get problems with ctrl!

like most things in this world, it's better to use the stupid out of date universal standard rather than use the better version on your own, so better standards die. I'm looking at YOU flash video. gggrrrrrrrr.

So anyway where were we looris? You are on a mac, so am i, ye olde powerbooke G of the fourthe, running a version of OSX so old I can't remember what jungle animal it's named after.
anyway i am looking into the remapping thing, it would be ace to get my curly bracket back

thumbnails are great (especially on my olde powerbooke which hates processor hog flash) but on the right is the worst possible place to put them. would rather they were DELETED than on the right.
arrggghhh my eyes!!!!!!!
autoplay is a good idea.

blah blah blah mac vs pc

all i know is that every PC i have seen has been glitchy or FUBAR, including my coder/network engineer's, and my powerbook is still running, however much porn i surf.

it's called "Real World Testing". I wish I could email my grannie more often, but she got a PC.

As for the topic, i had a while a couple of weeks back where pages would hang while trying to connect to some non videosift server (very web 2.0) but i blamed the ISP and now everything is ok, even in the latest firefox.

it may work, eden. it does say ppc (powerbooks) on the page.

so cool, I have a humble old PowerBook, so no splashy fun for me

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I'm not a big fan of Apple PR either, but the proof is in the pudding. To refute something just because people are raving about how great it is - is not quite right.

I have to admit, I'm guilty of being one of the ravers, but it's not just because I've drunk the Steve Jobs kool-aid. I spent years on Windows before makng the switch, and the relief was palpable - so it's more about my personal experience.

I used Linux quite a bit too. Ubuntu is not bad, but you can't beat a laptop where are all the software works seemlessly with the hardware. Try it, try it- Sam I say! You might like it - yes you may!

In reply to your comment:
“No can do, Xbox and their ilk don't even come close to the kind of experiences you can get with PC gaming. That's not to say I don't have a few consoles, 'cause I do, but they're for different things.

The way Macs are preached is actually a huge turn off for me. I really hate things that people go out of their way to tell you how good they are. It normally goes along with politics, religion, etc... but when it hits technology, my BS meter goes all beepy. I like a good UI, which is why I'm happy MS is starting to leave the stone ages in that regard, but it's not a system seller for me. Also, seriously, I NEED to be able to get my hands dirty with the hardware in my PC and the lack of options over at apple-ville bothers me. If they were to license their OS to be sold stand alone to run on any PC, I might dual boot it just to give it a shot, but until that day, bleck to it. Bleck to it all hardcore.

In reply to your comment:
“It sounds like you are a bit of a hacker Arrendek - in the good sense. There's a reason why programmers are flocking to Macs, and why Powerbooks seem to be the workhorse of choice at the Googleplex.

I am a Perl and database person historically, and I am so much more efficient on a Mac, just silly things like cutting and pasting code chunks are intuitively easier and more efficient. The UI is a beautiful thing to work in. Granted it's not much for games, but I'm about twice as efficent at work- and that's what my computer is for. Get an Xbox for gaming

Once you go Mac - you never go back.

In reply to your comment:
“Heh, you know I don't complain much. I'm a "too each their own" kind of guy, it's just when "their own" involves constantly criticizing my own that I start to get bothered. Anyways, enjoy your UI, it is very nice, I must admit. I'd consider a Mac if I wasn't an avid PC Gamer and needed to program daily in Visual Studio. The commercials and propaganda though? Even if I used one they'd bother me.

I only use spreadsheets and calculators all day long. That's me.

In reply to your comment:
“wow, that's the best non-complaint ever. ””””

No can do, Xbox and their ilk don't even come close to the kind of experiences you can get with PC gaming. That's not to say I don't have a few consoles, 'cause I do, but they're for different things.

The way Macs are preached is actually a huge turn off for me. I really hate things that people go out of their way to tell you how good they are. It normally goes along with politics, religion, etc... but when it hits technology, my BS meter goes all beepy. I like a good UI, which is why I'm happy MS is starting to leave the stone ages in that regard, but it's not a system seller for me. Also, seriously, I NEED to be able to get my hands dirty with the hardware in my PC and the lack of options over at apple-ville bothers me. If they were to license their OS to be sold stand alone to run on any PC, I might dual boot it just to give it a shot, but until that day, bleck to it. Bleck to it all hardcore.

In reply to your comment:
“It sounds like you are a bit of a hacker Arrendek - in the good sense. There's a reason why programmers are flocking to Macs, and why Powerbooks seem to be the workhorse of choice at the Googleplex.

I am a Perl and database person historically, and I am so much more efficient on a Mac, just silly things like cutting and pasting code chunks are intuitively easier and more efficient. The UI is a beautiful thing to work in. Granted it's not much for games, but I'm about twice as efficent at work- and that's what my computer is for. Get an Xbox for gaming

Once you go Mac - you never go back.

In reply to your comment:
“Heh, you know I don't complain much. I'm a "too each their own" kind of guy, it's just when "their own" involves constantly criticizing my own that I start to get bothered. Anyways, enjoy your UI, it is very nice, I must admit. I'd consider a Mac if I wasn't an avid PC Gamer and needed to program daily in Visual Studio. The commercials and propaganda though? Even if I used one they'd bother me.

I only use spreadsheets and calculators all day long. That's me.

In reply to your comment:
“wow, that's the best non-complaint ever. ”””

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It sounds like you are a bit of a hacker Arrendek - in the good sense. There's a reason why programmers are flocking to Macs, and why Powerbooks seem to be the workhorse of choice at the Googleplex.

I am a Perl and database person historically, and I am so much more efficient on a Mac, just silly things like cutting and pasting code chunks are intuitively easier and more efficient. The UI is a beautiful thing to work in. Granted it's not much for games, but I'm about twice as efficent at work- and that's what my computer is for. Get an Xbox for gaming

Once you go Mac - you never go back.

In reply to your comment:
“Heh, you know I don't complain much. I'm a "too each their own" kind of guy, it's just when "their own" involves constantly criticizing my own that I start to get bothered. Anyways, enjoy your UI, it is very nice, I must admit. I'd consider a Mac if I wasn't an avid PC Gamer and needed to program daily in Visual Studio. The commercials and propaganda though? Even if I used one they'd bother me.

I only use spreadsheets and calculators all day long. That's me.

In reply to your comment:
“wow, that's the best non-complaint ever. ””

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I love my Powerbook, but don't want an iPod. They're just so damn ubiquitous, I would feel like an idiot putting on the white headphones.

Mark my words, when they make the the equivalent of The Wedding Singer for the 00's, the iPod will be mocked heavily as a period fashion bauble.

Can't do anything around here either, these has-beens keep coming over, slummin', raiding the fridge, and stealing the mail! Fuck it, Gettin' a powerbook!!

really nice and cute. wondering why on earth would you risk your powerbook for this...