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- BLINGMW - 04-07-2008
:lol: :lol: oh yeah! 601. OWNED. Sorry I've been :beer:
DAm I gotta look it up now!
32MB upgrade in 1996? Well you sir were a baller. I think I had 24 meg total in '96. Got that 7200/90 for college, I remember holding out because they had just moved away from NuBus. Put a PCI 100(?)mhz PC card in it because VaTech required a PC and I just couldn't bring myself to buy one. :lol: My roommate did the same with his 7200/75, as far as I know we were the only two students in engineering with Macs.
How's them stripes?
I was recording radio stations all night on that vast 350mb drive when I first got it just to fill it up, I mean, damn, what was I going to do with all that? Having come from a 40 or 80 I think in the family LCII (upgraded to 33MHZ WITH FPU, HOLY CRAP), it was just insane.
- Hunter - 04-08-2008
SethM Wrote:Just installed iWork '08, Final Cut Studio 2, Parallels with WinXP SP2, and Toast.There's the difference, the first programs I have installed have been MATLAB 2008a (holler), Latex, office, and a dynamic C compiler. I'm a huge dork.
- HAULN-SS - 04-08-2008
matlab < maple =\
- SethM - 04-08-2008
I wanted one of those OrangePC cards so bad when they were out, but the Performa 637CD was a heap with no FPU and no slots big enough to hold one. Then I got a Umax C500 (200mhz 603e) in 8th grade for Christmas and ended up painting it black, and dremeling holes for four 80MM fans after I installed a G3 233mhz upgrade. It looked hilarious but finally ran cool enough to play Diablo II. 8)
- Hunter - 04-08-2008
HAULN-SS Wrote:matlab < maple =\Whaaa? Well I guess to each (nerd) his own. Maple is definitely better for symbolic computation and pure mathematics, but I think MATLAB is a more powerful overall tool. I guess I'm just coming from the engineering side of the fence where Maple isn't used too frequently.
- damnit458 - 04-08-2008
fortran > * :lol:
Since I've used both for small tasks this means absolutely nothing (not that thats ever stopped anybody from posting on here), but I preferred matlab.
- Jake - 04-08-2008
BLINGMW Wrote::lol: :lol: oh yeah! 601. OWNED. Sorry I've been :beer:
DAm I gotta look it up now!
32MB upgrade in 1996? Well you sir were a baller. I think I had 24 meg total in '96. Got that 7200/90 for college, I remember holding out because they had just moved away from NuBus. Put a PCI 100(?)mhz PC card in it because VaTech required a PC and I just couldn't bring myself to buy one. :lol: My roommate did the same with his 7200/75, as far as I know we were the only two students in engineering with Macs.
How's them stripes?
I was recording radio stations all night on that vast 350mb drive when I first got it just to fill it up, I mean, damn, what was I going to do with all that? Having come from a 40 or 80 I think in the family LCII (upgraded to 33MHZ WITH FPU, HOLY CRAP), it was just insane.
I had a IIsi with an 80 MB hard drive and 17 megs of RAM. That was pretty ballin' for third grade. Then I moved up to a Centris 610 which was the same as the Quadra 610 but minus the FPU - no CD drive either. Got one from my school and put it in but didn't have a front bezel, so it was sitting there all hacked together.
After those two, I ended up with a 7200/120 and OS 8.5. Got that one up to 40 megs and a 2 GB drive... and here I sit on my Core2Duo MacBook Pro with 2 gigs of RAM and a 160 GB drive - times have changed :lol:
- JackoliciousLegs - 05-14-2008
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I guess i'm not the only apple fanboy. Oh, and sidenote, I just bought a new one after my last one got stolen from hannah's house. It's the $2000 model. I got it NIB on CL for $1300 cash. The screen is SO ridiculously bright, I can't even describe it. I have a design monitor at work and this thing glows like the dickens compared to it. If you use it at night, you have to turn the brightness down. Crazy LED backlights are amazing.
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- Apoc - 05-14-2008
We have a blog, written by a Mac user, asserting that Mac will have 50% of the notebook market in a year? Why is this a good supporting argument?
Re: Can't recommend all models
You can, depending on your use. That sort of configurability is a benefit, in my opinion. If I want to spend $500 for a laptop, I can. If I want to spend $2000 for a laptop, I can. I'm not sure where he's coming from when he says that's not what customers want. Some people just want to buy something and be done with it but you pay for that sort of "make it go!" lack in involvement in the config process.
I'm not arguing that they're not capable machines, they are. The people who use and love them, however, tend to be in a specific industry with specific responsibilities. Yes they're great at multimedia, but not everyone cares to make uber-movies. Until I can do the same thing (read: work) on one for the same price, you're not going to convince me they're better.
- JackoliciousLegs - 05-14-2008
I wasn't trying to convince you, but there is a large paradigm shift happening in technology right now that's moving towards usability and Apple is leading the way. It's not specifically targeted at any one field. It's more that we now have a better understanding of what usability means in general. In computing during the 90s, we thought it was options. Now we think it's "less is more." Even Windows is trying to move in that direction by obscuring less commonly used features.
The old Mac argument that designers are the only ones interested doesn't hold water anymore. The ease of use factor stretches far beyond bleeding edge techies, and technologists in general. My dad's company just moved to all Macs in the office so they don't have to worry about paying a contracted sysadmin. iPhones are about to surpass Blackberries as the corporate phone of choice. Obviously, price is a factor there and we'll see if that last one comes true with, but still... The change is slow, but the good money ain't on MS.
- REED - 05-14-2008
I've done zero research - but isn't the new Blackberry supposed to really be competition for the iPhone
because if it is that would be awesome - there is no way I'll get an iPhone for work, so if I could get something 90% as sweet and have the gov't pay for it I'd be happy
- Apoc - 05-14-2008
JackoliciousLegs Wrote:The ease of use factor stretches far beyond bleeding edge techies, and technologists in general. My dad's company just moved to all Macs in the office so they don't have to worry about paying a contracted sysadmin. iPhones are about to surpass Blackberries as the corporate phone of choice.
I agree with the first sentence.
What's business is your dad's company in? I work for a major IT company and while the publishing folks use macs, there are many more people here who couldn't do their job as easily without a PC, including me and my whole team. You might like this article: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24429150/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24429150/</a><!-- m -->
Hold your horses there on the iPhone. While it may be able to compete on featureset, it's no where NEAR Blackberries in the corporate world. I agree that twenty and thirty-somethings would choose the iPhone but have you seen how many freaking drones in their 40s and 50s have BBs strapped to their hip? It will takes years for the marketplace to mature enough for the iPhone to get picked more often than a BB.
- .RJ - 05-14-2008
Apoc Wrote:have you seen how many freaking drones in their 40s and 50s have BBs strapped to their hip?
They're fucking everywhere. In the bathroom. In their cars. On their bicycle. In the restaurant. At the bar. Everywhere.
Put down the fucking cell phone!!1!1!
I wish I knew why people felt like they have to have their blackberry glued to them 24/7. I'll lose track of my phone for days.
- Apoc - 05-14-2008
.RJ Wrote:I wish I knew why people felt like they have to have their blackberry glued to them 24/7. I'll lose track of my phone for days.
It's an obsession/addiction like any other. People get used to that connected feeling and eventually become accustomed to the hyper-stimulation it provides. I have a Pearl and noticed after about 3 weeks how quickly I was becoming obsessed with it. I decided to turn off all email notifications and refuse to wear a clip so I've avoided the pitfall.
Regarding you losing your cell... are you talking about when you moved?
You're admittedly not your average corporate drone. You talk to friends on the internet, don't have any business calls, don't care about work emails and don't have a family to keep up with. None of those are reasons to be so obsessive but there are at least some reasons to be a little bit more connected than you are.
- .RJ - 05-14-2008
Apoc Wrote:Regarding you losing your cell... are you talking about when you moved?
Well, not talking about when I lost my cell - but I'll go days without seeing it. I'll put it somewhere in the house and forget about it for a few days until I need to make a call. People in my office sometimes call me on my cell, but thats fairly rare - working with the gov't means there's almost never a reason to do anything past 5pm. I also tend to keep up with family via email rather than the phone... I still think I spend too much time on a computer though
- HAULN-SS - 05-14-2008
I'm as anti-gadget as they come I think. is there ever an email you got that was life changing? Probably not, so you probably could have waited until you got home at 6 to check your email. Not carry a cell phone on a regular basis the last few months has been awesome. I wish I had done it back when I had a nagging ass girlfriend.
- Apoc - 05-14-2008
HAULN-SS Wrote:is there ever an email you got that was life changing?
Funny story... In college, a buddy of mine "broke up" with a girl via email. They weren't really dating, but they'd had sex a half dozen times and he wanted her to stop coming to our apartment. She didn't check her email before coming over with friends that night and kept asking us why he was avoiding her (we didn't know he sent it). It wasn't until the next day she read the email and knew why.
- Mike - 05-14-2008
funny that this thread would come up today. apple commercial came on the toob last night and i found myself saying to caitlin "ya know, unless someone had to play games on their computer, i couldn't recommend a pc any longer."
macs rule for day to day use.
- mrbaggio - 05-14-2008
Is there a mac solution for the UMPC market that has sort of emerged. I want a light weight, small, cheap computer. Something like the EEE PC. Is there anything like that in the mac world. I want a new laptop, but I'm looking to spend about 6 hundo. (thanks bush)
- JackoliciousLegs - 05-14-2008
Apoc Wrote:They won't compete number for number for number in the corporate space, but their sales have been outpacing BB's by far and IIRC, they are on track to outsell them overall very soon. I know I live in a vacuum in NorCal here, but I see 10 iPhones to every BB now. Kids have them. Little girls have them. Lawyers... business people.JackoliciousLegs Wrote:The ease of use factor stretches far beyond bleeding edge techies, and technologists in general. My dad's company just moved to all Macs in the office so they don't have to worry about paying a contracted sysadmin. iPhones are about to surpass Blackberries as the corporate phone of choice.I agree with the first sentence.
What's business is your dad's company in?
My dad works for a geothermal energy company that's completely un-tech-savvy. They don't build/design the stuff (well... one guy does some), they just sell it and promote it internationally. Their only clients are gov'ts.