Gasu E.
Oct 18, 11:14 AM
Increased marketshare is good, up to a point. Also, if world marketshare is staying the same, but the US is increasing, somewhere in the world apple is becoming less popular.
Not necessarily. This is likely due to very high growth in the PC market in several emerging economies; e.g., China, India. I am guessing the Mac is very weak there. This would explain the numbers without a loss of share in any particular country market.
Not necessarily. This is likely due to very high growth in the PC market in several emerging economies; e.g., China, India. I am guessing the Mac is very weak there. This would explain the numbers without a loss of share in any particular country market.
Goldfinger
Nov 14, 04:52 AM
I'm not getting the Camera RAW update. Is that because I have Aperture 1.5.1 isntalled ? Could it be that it already has that update ?
Nor am I getting the X11 update.
Done the Firmware update with zero issues (iMac 20" C2D). Firewire still works (I disconnected everything before applying the update).
Nor am I getting the X11 update.
Done the Firmware update with zero issues (iMac 20" C2D). Firewire still works (I disconnected everything before applying the update).
hansiedejong
Jan 12, 10:17 AM
http://www.onemorething.nl/uploads/community/ef5a92b830d8f5fce4288f42e2a4ae0b4f0a3574_0.png
lewion
Sep 12, 11:43 AM
PEEEEEEEEEEOPLE 16 minutes omg READ !!!! omg
cooknwitha
Sep 10, 07:36 AM
Langer, you suck! (how quickly it changes :D)
discstickers
Sep 30, 11:02 AM
Does this work with HDHomeRun?
a.phoenicis
Apr 11, 07:50 PM
You guys are clearly missing the point of this... It is not at all the same thing as the silly 3D movies, where you put on special glasses and get to see things jumping out at you...
This is a 2D image that is simulating depth and parallax perspective in real time based on your movements in the world.
What this means is that unlike any of the 3D effects you see in movies, you can actually move your head to the side and look behind things.
This is way more of a "true" 3D effect than what you get in the movies... That's more of a bass-relief... you never get to see anything that isn't already baked into the image.
With this effect, if there's something in your way, you can move to the side and see around it.
This is really awesome.
This is a 2D image that is simulating depth and parallax perspective in real time based on your movements in the world.
What this means is that unlike any of the 3D effects you see in movies, you can actually move your head to the side and look behind things.
This is way more of a "true" 3D effect than what you get in the movies... That's more of a bass-relief... you never get to see anything that isn't already baked into the image.
With this effect, if there's something in your way, you can move to the side and see around it.
This is really awesome.
MrFirework
Oct 18, 08:53 PM
I'm completely baffled. I posted earlier in this thread and got no replies, so I'm even more confused than when I posted the first time. Why is it so out of the realm of possibility that the 5th anniversary of the iPod would be the release date for the "True Video" iPod?
Everyone seems to be ignoring this time as a great release date. Yes it's early, but they could do pre-orders to ship before December.
I'd love to be told I'm wrong in this speculation, but it's the "why" I'm wrong I'm interested in most. No one is mentining this date!
:confused:
Everyone seems to be ignoring this time as a great release date. Yes it's early, but they could do pre-orders to ship before December.
I'd love to be told I'm wrong in this speculation, but it's the "why" I'm wrong I'm interested in most. No one is mentining this date!
:confused:
Queso
Oct 17, 10:55 AM
I'm becoming sure that however many Macs Apple sells, that market share figure will never climb above the magic 5% limit.
Does saying that make me one of those Mac Zealots I keep hearing about?
Does saying that make me one of those Mac Zealots I keep hearing about?
misterbig
Apr 30, 01:38 PM
I'm on day 4 with my new ultimate 11" and I'm loving this thing. The 26:9 is weird at first but the size, like everyone is saying is great.
Wow how did you get such an ultra-uber widescreen? :D
Wow how did you get such an ultra-uber widescreen? :D
vniow
Jan 4, 05:11 PM
I'm not heading to MacWorld myself, but FWIW I set up a Doodle poll to hopefully help those who won't be there everyday to figure out when it would be best to drop by.
That is way cool. This should be linked in the beginning of the thread among other prominent places.
That is way cool. This should be linked in the beginning of the thread among other prominent places.
mdntcallr
Aug 7, 04:59 PM
I was watching till about 20 mins in, it got unwatchable and then clunked out. i have my own dedicated cable modem. so lame.
cmon apple, if you can't manage streaming some of your own stuff, how do you expect others to use quicktime?
cmon apple, if you can't manage streaming some of your own stuff, how do you expect others to use quicktime?
Hawkeye411
Apr 10, 09:16 PM
I heard that there will be a white version!!!
nicksoper
Oct 25, 11:01 AM
As much as I'd like a new macbook or iMac with a 750gb hard disk, I think I'm going to stick with what I've got until 802.11n and HD/Blueray burners are standardised on the mac.
I'd personally like to see a smaller macbook revision, for ultra traveling, possibly with extra securty for the traveler....
I'd personally like to see a smaller macbook revision, for ultra traveling, possibly with extra securty for the traveler....
reubs
Jan 4, 02:28 PM
wow so whoever was downloading my set broke my dropbox.. excessive usage :mad: :D
I'll re-upload them somewhere else.
EDIT: Done!
Everyone was DLing your set since you had them hosted on DB. Whenever the page loaded, your stuff came up. Hope it gets fixed!
I'll re-upload them somewhere else.
EDIT: Done!
Everyone was DLing your set since you had them hosted on DB. Whenever the page loaded, your stuff came up. Hope it gets fixed!
.jpg "Firefly Wallpaper Widescreen. christina hendricks firefly. christina hendricks firefly. magicjames92. Aug 20, 03:13 PM. Must be $400 or less.")
nanofrog
May 6, 07:34 PM
Another way to look at it is to compare Apple to HP, Dell, etc. HP, Dell, etc, use big contracts with Microsoft to get lower volume prices for Windows. They also shove in a lot of trialware, shareware, and other forms of licensed crapware to subsidize the cost. Get rid of those aspects and their prices would go up as well.
As far as all the crapware, it's definitely true the consumer systems get loaded up with it (particularly the budget boxes).
But if you order a business machine, it's not there. They know businesses don't want it, nor want to spend the time removing it. So vendors cater to this market ("extras" in terms of hardware may be missing as well, such as SD card readers for example, as businesses tend to see that as a potential security risk). So the profit margin works out.
As per Apple's pricing though, most of it is due to their love of high margins from what I've seen (i.e. Gross Margin of ~41% last I saw). Any discounts on software don't translate to a PC so much in terms of the user, as is applied to the vendor's margins (Dell, HP, ...).
Looking inside a Mac Pro chassis and a $1400 DIY desktop PC that has the same types of internal components (Xeon, et al), the Mac Pro is much better designed - virtually no cables, great cooling... it's wonderful from a technical standpoint and I came from a PC environment, both boxed and DIY setups... even the Dell Precision line - cables aplenty and a poor interior design layout in general. Yuck.
In terms of workstations and servers on the PC side, I've seen both extremes (rats nest to extremely clean and well laid out, even for the same model). So I've always wondered if the sloppy units (not a result of bad design) were the result of the system being assembled on either a Monday or Friday (spaced out/not interested in what they're doing due to weekend activities - daydreaming if you will, and possibly hung over on Monday :eek: :p).
When I think of vendors such as Silicon Graphics, DEC, and Sun of systems' past, I don't ever recall seeing a rats nest that wasn't the result of an IT person. Those would blow the MP away in terms of how well they were laid out, cooled, and ease of replacing components in a hurry. I really miss systems like these....
I've yet to look at a new HP all-in-one device, but I suspect its screen will be a TN panel. Definitely not an H-IPS that Apple routinely uses for the iMacs.
Not sure if this would be the case unilaterally (you've not indicated a model or series), but for the low cost versions, TN would be the way they'd have to go to meet the manufacturing budget. Upper scale versions however, may use the same panel (i.e. Dell uses the same H-IPS panel in the iMac in one of their monitors, so it's not impossible that HP could use it in a product or two either).
Not to mention, fewer Mac owners means they have to pay any difference on top of the rest.
There is truth to this (lower economy of scale), but in the case of an MP, they follow Intel's reference designs for the most part (added FW controller is one exception).
There is no real "Apple tax" as far as I'm concerned. There are, however, subsidies, crapware, Windows OS and its problems (the registry, fragmenting file systems, no native support, etc), et cetera. Windows might be faster at gaming, but that's only as long as the games are DirectX-optimized and the ports made to OpenGL, etc, just remain "good enough".
There's problems with OS X and firmware as well on the Mac side, so nothing is perfect. Macs can even get infected with malware if the user isn't careful, so they're not even immune to this.
I say let the user figure out which platform is best fit for them (system + software + any training that would be involved), and get on with doing whatever they need to do. ;)
As far as all the crapware, it's definitely true the consumer systems get loaded up with it (particularly the budget boxes).
But if you order a business machine, it's not there. They know businesses don't want it, nor want to spend the time removing it. So vendors cater to this market ("extras" in terms of hardware may be missing as well, such as SD card readers for example, as businesses tend to see that as a potential security risk). So the profit margin works out.
As per Apple's pricing though, most of it is due to their love of high margins from what I've seen (i.e. Gross Margin of ~41% last I saw). Any discounts on software don't translate to a PC so much in terms of the user, as is applied to the vendor's margins (Dell, HP, ...).
Looking inside a Mac Pro chassis and a $1400 DIY desktop PC that has the same types of internal components (Xeon, et al), the Mac Pro is much better designed - virtually no cables, great cooling... it's wonderful from a technical standpoint and I came from a PC environment, both boxed and DIY setups... even the Dell Precision line - cables aplenty and a poor interior design layout in general. Yuck.
In terms of workstations and servers on the PC side, I've seen both extremes (rats nest to extremely clean and well laid out, even for the same model). So I've always wondered if the sloppy units (not a result of bad design) were the result of the system being assembled on either a Monday or Friday (spaced out/not interested in what they're doing due to weekend activities - daydreaming if you will, and possibly hung over on Monday :eek: :p).
When I think of vendors such as Silicon Graphics, DEC, and Sun of systems' past, I don't ever recall seeing a rats nest that wasn't the result of an IT person. Those would blow the MP away in terms of how well they were laid out, cooled, and ease of replacing components in a hurry. I really miss systems like these....
I've yet to look at a new HP all-in-one device, but I suspect its screen will be a TN panel. Definitely not an H-IPS that Apple routinely uses for the iMacs.
Not sure if this would be the case unilaterally (you've not indicated a model or series), but for the low cost versions, TN would be the way they'd have to go to meet the manufacturing budget. Upper scale versions however, may use the same panel (i.e. Dell uses the same H-IPS panel in the iMac in one of their monitors, so it's not impossible that HP could use it in a product or two either).
Not to mention, fewer Mac owners means they have to pay any difference on top of the rest.
There is truth to this (lower economy of scale), but in the case of an MP, they follow Intel's reference designs for the most part (added FW controller is one exception).
There is no real "Apple tax" as far as I'm concerned. There are, however, subsidies, crapware, Windows OS and its problems (the registry, fragmenting file systems, no native support, etc), et cetera. Windows might be faster at gaming, but that's only as long as the games are DirectX-optimized and the ports made to OpenGL, etc, just remain "good enough".
There's problems with OS X and firmware as well on the Mac side, so nothing is perfect. Macs can even get infected with malware if the user isn't careful, so they're not even immune to this.
I say let the user figure out which platform is best fit for them (system + software + any training that would be involved), and get on with doing whatever they need to do. ;)
steve2112
Mar 5, 11:34 AM
I have better sense than to jump up there in the first place.
I believe in people taking responsibility for their actions. The guy should have stopped. The woman should never have jumped up there. But I'm afraid of establishing a legal precedent that says it's okay to put yourself into a bad situation and then blame someone else for how it turns out.
Isn't that the basis of the modern legal system in the US? It's always some else's fault. Preferably someone with deep pockets.
I believe in people taking responsibility for their actions. The guy should have stopped. The woman should never have jumped up there. But I'm afraid of establishing a legal precedent that says it's okay to put yourself into a bad situation and then blame someone else for how it turns out.
Isn't that the basis of the modern legal system in the US? It's always some else's fault. Preferably someone with deep pockets.
BigPrince
Jan 4, 10:06 PM
I'll be there. I've got a Users Conference pass. I went last year as well.
What sessions?
What sessions?
ActionableMango
May 2, 11:26 AM
Higher margins.
Lower volume to spread R&D costs over.
Nice aluminum case.
Apple logo.
Lower volume to spread R&D costs over.
Nice aluminum case.
Apple logo.
Jason Beck
Mar 6, 07:44 PM
http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss133/beck84720/Untitled.jpg
citizenzen
Mar 17, 03:48 PM
Adults that can survive on their own.
Did they teach themselves how to track game? Did they teach themselves how to build traps and snares? Or what plants were edible? How to build a shelter? How to make a fire? How to tend to wounds so they don't become infected?
Who taught these adults the survival skills necessary to make it alone in the wild?
Did they teach themselves how to track game? Did they teach themselves how to build traps and snares? Or what plants were edible? How to build a shelter? How to make a fire? How to tend to wounds so they don't become infected?
Who taught these adults the survival skills necessary to make it alone in the wild?
tomhut
Nov 12, 08:55 AM
I found some more leoaprd (9a303) info on aeroxp
http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=6763&hl=
http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=6763&hl=
Lord Blackadder
Aug 3, 04:16 PM
In fact, I defy you name any type of beer that is better to drink, afterward.
Any decent lager, ice cold, is a treat after strenuous excercise in the heat. Budweiser is not a decent lager though. ;-)
Any decent lager, ice cold, is a treat after strenuous excercise in the heat. Budweiser is not a decent lager though. ;-)
GregAndonian
Apr 18, 09:19 PM
I reckon every kid who has used iMovie in the last few years will start using FCP X in about July. This is the next generation of video editors, and they will far outnumber Avid users. They will be making movies for web distribution.
I see a big downside to Apple's decision to build FCP on iMovie's foundation and put pro editors in the same room with the skater dudes. Apple will be getting tons of FCP feature requests from former iMovie users, asking for things that are easy to use and more automatic, and many high-end things that pros want to be added will take longer to implement because of it. There are lots of things in FCPX that are clearly geared toward the iMovie upgrader who is used to things being drop-dead simple- and yes, they can be turned off, but the time that Apple spent developing them is time they could have spent focusing on high-end pro stuff...
I see a big downside to Apple's decision to build FCP on iMovie's foundation and put pro editors in the same room with the skater dudes. Apple will be getting tons of FCP feature requests from former iMovie users, asking for things that are easy to use and more automatic, and many high-end things that pros want to be added will take longer to implement because of it. There are lots of things in FCPX that are clearly geared toward the iMovie upgrader who is used to things being drop-dead simple- and yes, they can be turned off, but the time that Apple spent developing them is time they could have spent focusing on high-end pro stuff...
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