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New MS Laptop Hunter Ad
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I think he means that in OS X, you can uninstall an entire application by dragging the launch icon into the trash.
I wish Apple would take more heart to these commercials and get with the times. The commercials are true and I believe they have the ability to offer an even better product if they took these real world situations and applied them to there product.
P.s. the new macbook pro needs a quieter mouse pad, and the cd burner sounds like my old xbox overheating,...I wish I didn't get rid of my old pro
P.s. the new macbook pro needs a quieter mouse pad, and the cd burner sounds like my old xbox overheating,...I wish I didn't get rid of my old pro
I know how you feel. I really thought the design of the previous gen macbook pro was the best combination of good design and a professional look. They pretty much had perfection. The new one is way to flashy looking for my taste.
Gaming is a huge business, Apple would love to have a share of it, I guess.
And what about 3D modeling?
I would love to have 3ds Max and SolidWorks for OSX,...
FCP on old macbook
I edit professionally every day on my 13 white MacBook. 2.0 Ghz Core duo with 2gb of ram. there are times i hook it up to a 20" Cinema display but on the road editing is what I mostly do. Works like a charm.
Chris
I edit professionally every day on my 13 white MacBook. 2.0 Ghz Core duo with 2gb of ram. there are times i hook it up to a 20" Cinema display but on the road editing is what I mostly do. Works like a charm.
Chris
Amen, and amen. Apple ad: we're better than you, sorry. Microsoft ad: Oh yeah? I'm a cheap date!
Customization and removing bloatware/installing security patches, installing antiviral software, defragging, check for registry errors, etc are different.
——and those points that you quoted are recommended by reputable tech news organizations. (plz see the links a few pages back...)
Mac users are often walked through a quick setup procedure that can be called "customization". This "customization" does not involve fixing anything that Microsoft left out and removing bloatware.
Actually that is true. Apart from a few plist files that you might want to keep, yes, that uninstalls the whole application.
I'm guessing if it weren't for the tight hold Microsoft has on DirectX... Or else they would've lost gaming too--
Really? Last time I had to reinstall it was because of hal.dll corruption... hmph...
Partly because of the inconsistency of where the drivers can be downloaded from?
We've been over /Library/Application Support and other nonsense already.
Lets hope nothing makes it into /bin, /sbin, or /usr/bin.
Most of the other apps don't use them. If you want to be sure though you can always use AppZapper but that's for some of the other apps that put files in Application Support. Even so they'll make such a minute difference that you can free up more space by just deleting a document from your downloads folder.
And no. I've never seen anything making their way into /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin if they're one of the "simple" drag-the-app-from-the-dmg-to-app-folder apps...
I'd blame the software developer for that one.
No that's not Microsoft in this case. In OS X you'll get a something similar in the Application Has Unexpectedly Quit dialog if you want to dig into it.
NoI believe his point is that DLLs generally create more problems than they solve. Esp. since that the problem they're created to solve is now gone.
(why compile them into libraries when you can easily troubleshoot file by file?)
I think this would be a more thorough explanation. Regardless my experience was that going into /Library and ~/Library or going into the Applications make troubleshooting easier than DLL's...
Please....
Apple RAM though not the cheapest ever, is not that expensive. You can upgrade the RAM at time of purchase and Apple will buy back the RAM in the machine.
But like I said why would she want to install a third party one when Macs are all about "it just works". Also you do realise it's not only the OS that needs RAM. OMG Mac hardware is the best. Apple is NOT overpriced, but just in case buy the base setup and go to the third party for HD and RAM because they're cheaper. Funny.What happened to superior and non-overpriced hardware? If she asked Apple to upgrade her RAM, the machine would definitely be out of her budget.
Apple RAM though not the cheapest ever, is not that expensive. You can upgrade the RAM at time of purchase and Apple will buy back the RAM in the machine.
File corruption =/= DLLhell.
DLLhell refers to cross-application depedency on shared resource files and libraries, that one application might modify, update, or move, breaking compatability with other applications.
You want to talk about DLL issues today, which are an uncommon problem now, think back to the days of 16-bit Windows, when DLL hell was really relavent because every lazy dev in the universe was cranking out apps that grossly missued the tool. Stacking DLL on top of DLL on top of DLL on top of someone elses DLL.
It hasn't been a significant problem since Windows 2000, when Microsoft made several core changes that went a long way to prevent dependency mismatch. Believe me, the issues described in this thread do not even begin to compare to the *****torm that was a daily occurance with Windows 3.
HA ... you think apple wants to do that ... this is a company that up until recently was notorious for overcharging for ram by several hundred dollars. Even today its over priced. Apple wants to sell they expensive ram to people who have lots of money but don't know any better.
These ads are not targeted towards computer people. Look anyone who knows anything about computers has picked a side in the mac PC world and are 90% likely to stick to it ... its not worthing trying to convince them to change. The rest of the world who are pretty much computer idiots (wouldn't know what to do when an error message hits them in the face) are the ones that both apple and microsoft target all their ads to.
Gaming as officially surpassed music and movie sales this year ... the fact that apple is more opening trying to court game devs is really a stupid decision as all of their machines now have proper GPU's in some form or another.
Unless apple embraces customizable user built computers (which it won't) like you can do in windows, its very very unlikely gaming will ever truly come to mac outside of Blizzard. Computer gaming is quite frankly built around users upgrading all the time to be able to run the most graphically intensive games. There will be a new Crysis here soon of some sort that will push the current hardware to the limit. The only recent uptick in gaming on mac has come from advances in emulation software as we all know which requires more power from a mac than comparable PC to run the system.
DLL "hell" is officially off the table. It hasn't been a problem for a VERY long time now. I challenge anyone to go find a DLL problem post in a windows forum around the nets ... if you find more than one i will be surprised lol.
If you want to talk about windows problems. It's mostly caused by BSOD stop errors caused by typically either bad hardware or bad third party drivers.
If you want to talk about windows problems. It's mostly caused by BSOD stop errors caused by typically either bad hardware or bad third party drivers.
My works ASUS notebook has 2gigs running vista. It sits at jsut over 1gig of useage at startup.
I run multiple firefox, thunderbird, itunes, torrent application, digsby, flashget, skype, ie7 (gotta
), word etc... and it stays at a gig of useage.My iMac sits at less useage on startup, but gets to about the gig mark with the apps going...
they seem pretty even to me
OK so i just skim read through this thread so forgive me if this has already been pointed.
I think these MS ads are quite good in getting a point across. Basically not everyone has a lot of money to spend on getting a computer especially with the financial problems the world is having so when they do go and buy one they want to get the most out of their money. The average person might not know what RAM does but they might know/think that more is better. The average person won't know the proclaimed benefits of Mac OSX. The average person goes "oh a Video editor uses that laptop I bet it would be good for me." So what everyone hear needs to remember is that these ads aren't directed at tech savvy people who know about these things but they are directed at people who are short of cash, want the best "specs" with out knowing what is actually better and who don't know much about computers.
So before going "oh why did she buy the HP with 4gigs of ram compared to the Macbook with 2gig when vista drains ram?" or " why did she pick the Hp that cant run final cut" just remember who the ads are aimed at.
I think these MS ads are quite good in getting a point across. Basically not everyone has a lot of money to spend on getting a computer especially with the financial problems the world is having so when they do go and buy one they want to get the most out of their money. The average person might not know what RAM does but they might know/think that more is better. The average person won't know the proclaimed benefits of Mac OSX. The average person goes "oh a Video editor uses that laptop I bet it would be good for me." So what everyone hear needs to remember is that these ads aren't directed at tech savvy people who know about these things but they are directed at people who are short of cash, want the best "specs" with out knowing what is actually better and who don't know much about computers.
So before going "oh why did she buy the HP with 4gigs of ram compared to the Macbook with 2gig when vista drains ram?" or " why did she pick the Hp that cant run final cut" just remember who the ads are aimed at.