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    Laptop Brands

    Asus does not make hardware, either. The actual hardware is assembled by various individual workers, from components that come from various suppliers. Asus is just the company that employs those workers. See? I can be pedantic, too! :)
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    Do the Intel based Macs finally destroy the myth that Intel are inferior to Motorola?

    Intel sells twenty times as many chips as Motorola or IBM ever did. Therefore, Intel has an R&D budget many times the size of Motorola's or IBM's. The 68k was better than x86. SPARC was better than x86. MIPS was better than x86. PowerPC was better than x86. In some cases, SPARC and PowerPC...
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    AOpen's "Pandora" Mac Mini clone makes it to Canada

    As I recall, the first one came out about four years before the mini, and was called the Power Mac G4 cube.
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    Botched associations on a Mac...

    Forgive me if I'm being pedantic, but...did you empty the Trash? Nothing actually gets removed until the Trash is emptied.
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    iMac went Dual core Intel today

    Cheapest 1.8GHz dual-core laptop I can find. [EDIT: Okay, I've found a cheaper one. Much lower feature set (Integrated graphics, WTF?) , but cheaper.]
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    Powerbook RAM upgrade.

    If you're planning to do anything serious* with it, then yes, get more than 512MB. $180 is the Crucial price, which is worth consideration for their reputation and returns policy, but you could easily knock 1/3 off that by buying from Newegg *Serious = pro photo editing, pro publishing...
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    What is a .dmg?

    You don't need to burn it at all. Just put the file on a thumbdrive (or an ordinary ISO9660/Joliet CD, or an iPod, or whatever.) A Mac can mount the .dmg file as a virtual volume.
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    Pet peeves with OS X

    The point is, it can't be flashed, and doesn't get corrupted the way a x86-PC BIOS could. Which is the important thing in the context of this thread. Saying "Open Firmware is a kind of BIOS" is like saying "A USB port is a type of serial port." It's factually accurate, but generally useless...
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    Pet peeves with OS X

    Open Firmware. You could argue that OF is a kind of Basic Input Output System, but it's not a BIOS in the x86 sense of the word. "Anywhere you don't have write permissions" is a long way from "anywhere." Admin users don't need to authenticate unless they're modifying directories belonging to...
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    What do you guys like about the command line over a GUI?

    1. Pipes 2. Shell scripts 3. Odd combinations of the above. The command line today is more of a programming environment than a user interface. For day-to-day file browsing and copying, the GUI is probably easier. For anything that involves a large amount of repetitive tasks, the command...
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    Pet peeves with OS X

    Get a copy of Roxo Toast to burn multisession disks. Finder CD burning is like XP's built in CD burninig; it sucks, but it's cheap. There's a free script out there for fullscreen in QuickTime. Google it. Or use VLC, MPlayer, RealPlayer, or something else. Windows file sharing on OS X is...
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    Suggestions for a graphics notebook?

    That's not any faster than a PowerBook...the 2GHz P-M's are, but...???
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    need a *nix notebook

    I don't think I missed the point at all. He said "need a *nix notebook" and OS X on an iBook certainly qualifies. Plenty of people use OS X to run "advanced Unix apps." He never mentioned anything about tinkering. If he wants to tinker, experiment, and customize, then he probably shouldn't...
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    Reccommend a good, cheap notebook network card!

    What andrewbabcock meant to say is, the 802.11g standard is backwards-compatible with 802.11b. Any 802.11g card will work with an 802.11b router, although it will be limited to 802.11b speeds when doing so. [EDIT: The 802.11a standard uses a different frequency, and is not backwards...
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    need a *nix notebook

    Maybe because you don't have to futz with it to get wi-fi, brightness/volume, and power management to work with OS X? Maybe because you don't need WINE to run proprietary apps like Word or Photoshop? Maybe because most OSS doesn't really care whether it's running on Linux or OS X, so long as gcc...
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    Power Mac G5 **QUAD** announced today. New 1680x1050 17" PowerBooks too.

    533MHz ECC DDR (Up from DDR400) PCI-Express graphics (Up from 8x AGP) Workstation graphics cards 1MB L2 cache per core (Up from 512K per CPU) Dual independent ethernet ports (Up from 1) Seems like they did all they could to build a workstation around those chips. Pity they don't clock...
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    Damn you Apple

    The dual-core models have twice the L2 cache per core, so they should be faster than the single-core models at the same clock speed. Plus, there's finally a workstation-class graphics card option (nVidia Quadro) instead of the gaming cards. (What, exactly, would we do with a gaming card on a...
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    Worst computer virus ever

    The Internet Worm. (Yes, at one time there was only one Internet Worm. And it was got its name not because it spread over the Internet--it actually brought down most of the Internet. Luckily, back then, there weren't many people on the Internet.) http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html
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    Apple Releases New iPod video and iMac. Also iTunes 6 launched.

    Pretty darned hard if you're trying to read filenames on a screen from across the room.
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    why buy the "name branded" notebooks?

    Even if both are assembled by the same contractor, in the same factory, components may be different. Especially LCDs, optical drives, power management circuitry, etc. Even if those were the same, the quality control processes can be different. The big companies have to pay for warranty...
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    mac os 9

    Why? It's like 10-15 years old. Spanked Windows 95 in the day, but completely obsolete now. Runs good in emulation on a PC, though.
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    osx vs osx server

    The core OS is the same as the client version. OS X Server has several bundled server applications. Most of these (including, but not limited to Postfix, SpamAssassin, Samba, Tomcat, Apache) are either included with the client version of OS X, or are Free/Open Source downloads. OS X Server...
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    Time to get a new laptop

    14" Apple iBook. Hey, it fits your stated requirements in every way. $1200 after rebate on Amazon. Just a thought.
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    Old Power Mac

    They gave you a nine-year-old computer at your internship? They must've hated you.
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    Notebook for Video Capture & Encoding

    Any recent Mac with iMovie and a copy of Flip4Mac http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26424 Though I agree with the suggestion of using a real format like MPEG-4.
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    powerbook owners, please comment on battery life

    12", 1.5GHz with airport, bluetooth, full brightness, "reduced" processor performance, while playing a DVD...machine estimates 2:50 with a nearly-new battery. I'd guess about 2:20 or so.
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    Apple Powerbook

    Right. For that matter, everyone at the Starbucks seems to be using HP-Compaq notebooks. Not a Dell or Sony among them, go figure. No PowerBooks either. Plenty of people get along fine with G4 systems...they seriously suck for gaming, but the OS holds up well under a load. For general business...
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    Which laptop to get?

    I suggest you ask this over in the Notebook forum
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    OSX86 Cracked!

    *Yawn* Call me a year from now when the release version comes out and they can crack that.
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    Help find a laptop for school?

    Strange. I was in a technical major, and had two classes that required either A) a Mac B) Linux or C) Cygwin and many ritual sacrifices. Check your college's technology requirements before you buy anything.
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    anyone know a simple HTML editor for Mac's?

    Mozilla Composer (Part of the full Mozilla suite) for WYSIWYG (free as in speech) TextWrangler for syntax-colored HTML editing (free as in beer) and Dreamweaver if you have the cash.
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    Adobe Photoshop CS Lappy

    Photoshop is one of the few apps where a G4 does pretty well; certainly better than a G3. It won't show up a Pentium-M, but it's not weak there, either. Maybe what the CompUSA guy was saying is, "Pro-level digicams have FireWire in addition to USB2. Lots of laptops don't have FireWire, and...
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    Can I use iTunes...

    On a Mac, yes, you can download plugins for Rio, Creative Zen and Nomad, and other players. (They will still only work with regular MP3s, not AACs or Protected AACs.) On Windows, you're on your own.
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    Dual Boot Windows/OS X Intel Machine

    http://news.com.com/Apple+throws+the+sw...100-7341_3-5733756.html?tag=macintouch
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    iBook Warranty

    It doesn't void your warranty necessarily. The computer as it ships from Apple is covered by the warranty. That's a legal assurance that Apple can't just throw out at will. However, if you damage the computer while disassembling it, installing the new HD, or reassembling it, that damage is...
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    Apple Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - ** ANANDTECH'S REVIEW POSTED **

    http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2328&p=6
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    Im looking for a notebook....

    Oh come on, that was uncalled for. iBook meets your stated specs perfectly. Good battery, small size, price < 1200, OK performance. You want Windows, you should have said so. No need for flamebait.
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    Mac Mini Questions and Problems

    Bluetooth can also be added with a certain D-Link USB dongle. (Only a particular model is officially supported.) Apple sells them in its store, or you could look up the model number there and get it elsewhere.
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    Bought a new toy

    Processor upgrades http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_pci.html and XPostFacto http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11168 a hack to run OS X on that box Linux will be much more usable, though. The system bus on that machine is pretty slow, so even with a CPU...
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    Mac vs. Windows

    >> It would seem some people disagree. Nothing wrong with that.