Mac Users Of Mtc (apple: Go Ahead, Take A Bite!)

[boomouse]

boomouse

 

You don't have to whine about blowing your wad on a MacPro. the new iMac may look sleek but nothing beats the MacPro when it comes to performance. You don't get all the space for upgrades from hard drive, memory, and other expansions in an iMac. The MacPro may not look as nice but it sure got a lot more juice when it comes to performance.

 

IMHO

 

Thanks for trying to ease the pain but I have once again come to my senses and will have to admit that I was wrong in buying the 'Pro'. Who am I fooling? I kept trying to convince myself that it will make a great video editing platform and with 8 cores and that monstrous 1tb hard disk, I am sure I can even do an entire tear jerker series for ABS CBN.

 

But you know what? All I needed was to get from point A to point B. I've been digitizing and editing and dumping on to DVDs my family videos from Betamax (yes, I still have a unit--that once expensive Camera with the separate tote-along player recorder), to C/VHS, to Video8, Hi8, and everything after that. I just realized that for what I wanted to do, this iMac would have done it with the same speed almost and same quality and I might still save enough to put up the downpayment on a car. An Apple Cinema Display alone is the price of a low end iMac.

 

No. I was a fool. I now feel like the guy who owns a Porsche but could not drive it to fetch his extremely pretty and precocious med student of a girlfriend in UST because Porsches do not like the surging floodwaters of España Blvd.

 

Maybe if I bought a surplus Scud missile, the Mac Pro can run the guidance and targeting system... now if I only had a target.

 

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On another note, I have recently upgraded my home WIFI from a DLink DI-624+ which likes to hang all the time to an Apple Airport Extreme. And let me tell you gys the performance and reliability and ease of use is just pure joy.

 

The AAX has 4 UTP ports, a WAN port and an USB port. This last one is what justifies the fact that it costs more than twice a dLink router. You bung in any old USB hub on the thing, connect a USB printer and an external USB hard disk. You ran the Airport Utility, and bang! it sees everything. Macs and windows, wired and wireless print to seamlessly. The hard disk is so accessible immediately you start worrying about whether it is secure enough in its friendliness.

 

Oh, for Windows machines, you do have to download Apple's zero-configuration utility called Bonjour. Once installed, Bonjour takes the hassle out of Windows printer sharing. You ran it, it comes up with a dialogue showing the printers accessible through the router and then it will use your own print driver each time you print. When a Mac prints, it uses a Mac driver. You can connect as many printers as your USB hub will allow. For as long as the printers will work with a Mac you should be able to print from a Mac (some models of Sharp and Konica are Windows only). And its WIFI N so even the neighbors have called to say that they like the speed of the new router.

 

The power supply on the AAX is small and cool in both respects. The design is nice and it actually runs cool. The only negative issue? The color. White gets dirty plenty fast especially for a device that is usually left alone until it starts acting up. Having to wipe it and clean it once a week taints what could have been a truly zero maintenance device.

Edited August 9, 2007 by boomouse

[thirteen]

I don't get it....why isn't apple using the new C2Duos Intel released last month? Wouldn't that make more sense considering they've already gone through the trouble of totally redesigning the iMac? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the processor speeds listed in the Press Releases don't correspond to the newer Intel processors (E6550 = 2.33Ghz, E6750 = 2.66Ghz, E6850 = 3.0Ghz).

[boomouse]

I don't get it....why isn't apple using the new C2Duos Intel released last month? Wouldn't that make more sense considering they've already gone through the trouble of totally redesigning the iMac? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the processor speeds listed in the Press Releases don't correspond to the newer Intel processors (E6550 = 2.33Ghz, E6750 = 2.66Ghz, E6850 = 3.0Ghz).

 

Released last month you say? The new iMacs would have been in production by then. I would not be surprised if these are the same processors but tuned down a bit to reduce heat (Apple hates fans and will keep their use to a minimum) in the tight package. On the other hand, 2 ghz and 2.33 ghx is an insignificant difference. No one will notice the difference. Thats just oneupmanship. If you've got a Mac you're already up on the guys on Windows.

[thirteen]

Released last month you say? The new iMacs would have been in production by then. I would not be surprised if these are the same processors but tuned down a bit to reduce heat (Apple hates fans and will keep their use to a minimum) in the tight package. On the other hand, 2 ghz and 2.33 ghx is an insignificant difference. No one will notice the difference. Thats just oneupmanship. If you've got a Mac you're already up on the guys on Windows.

 

While the new iMacs would have been in production last month, prototypes of the newer chips would have been issued to hardware manufacturers months earlier than the actual market, to allow them lead time to design new boards to support the new chips. I have a feeling a "new" round of faster iMacs will probably be launched in January or Feb.

 

On a side note, I just noticed that the iMacs use laptop memory clocked at 667Mhz (correct me if I'm wrong). The newer chips have a faster bus speed (1333 Mhz). Perhaps apple is waiting for the prices of faster-specced RAM to drop before they introduce the new chips. Speculations, speculations.....

[boomouse]

While the new iMacs would have been in production last month, prototypes of the newer chips would have been issued to hardware manufacturers months earlier than the actual market, to allow them lead time to design new boards to support the new chips. I have a feeling a "new" round of faster iMacs will probably be launched in January or Feb.

 

On a side note, I just noticed that the iMacs use laptop memory clocked at 667Mhz (correct me if I'm wrong). The newer chips have a faster bus speed (1333 Mhz). Perhaps apple is waiting for the prices of faster-specced RAM to drop before they introduce the new chips. Speculations, speculations.....

 

SO-DIMMs what you refer to as laptop memory have been the standard memory format used by Apple eversince the iMacs came out. Only the desktops ever used used DIMMs. This is because the iMacs are really just laptops in a different package.

[boomouse]

frog design inc. hasnt done work for Apple Inc for such a long time already. Johnny Ives and his merry crew do almost all the industrial design of Apple these days.

 

You are right! I'm showing my age. Frog Design were the designers when I was still at Apple. Had you not reminded me, I would have not remembered that Jonathan Ive was responsible for all Apple designs from the first iMac G3. Thank you for the heads up.

[boomouse]

So you worked under John Sculley instead of Steve. What did you do there and are you an Apple millionaire?

 

Yes, I worked for John Sculley, Guy Kawasaki, Jean-Louis Gassèe. I was based in Apple Far East and was Apple's first DTP Champion (that's what they called their evangelists). I was training Apple distributors and dealers from Jakarta to Katmandu, and from Karachi to Guam. I helped convert a few newspapers and magazines along they way to work using Mac-based DTP systems.

 

We were at the cusp of the wave created by the Mac Plus, Mac SE, and the Mac II. South and Southeast Asian then was the fastest growing market for Apple. We experienced double digit growth for most of the late 1980s with a 160% jump in sales in 1987.

 

The employee stock option plan at the time was quite generous, and I opted to take most of it in 1990 to reinvest in a private pension fund and opted for early retirement to move back to the Philippines rather than work in the US. Its easier and safer to raise children in Manila if you want them to grow up as Filipinos. Ten years later, I retired again. Maybe in another decade I'll retire once more. It so hard keeping away from working.

[tricy_25]

hmmm..its seems mahihirapan ako gamitin ang mac na laptop ah,basta help nyo ako pano gamitn un ha..sana me mag tyaga sa akin na mag turo..hehhehe

[boomouse]

hmmm..its seems mahihirapan ako gamitin ang mac na laptop ah,basta help nyo ako pano gamitn un ha..sana me mag tyaga sa akin na mag turo..hehhehe

 

Magsabi ka lang kapatid. Anything you might need about Macs. Pero kung apps PM mo ako.

[boomouse]

i think boomouse would be more than happy to tutor you personally. treat him to a coffee at a coffee place na lang for his time and trouble.

 

Thank you. Maybe it is time I did get an agent. :thumbsupsmiley:

 

On a more serious note, anyone interested in doing a Mac Users EB?

 

If thread posters are interested, we can start by suggesting EB topics so that it is more than just a social event. For example, I have ditched Mac Office for the new iWork 08, there are some teething problems, but I think I am ready to show how I use Pages and Keynote and Numbers and Mail in lieu of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage.

[boomouse]

any free anti virus software suggestions guys?

 

I got ClamXAV. So far, it hasn't caught anything. Which makes me worry. Is it useless? Are people not able to write virii for OS X? Is OS X that good? Oh well, I'd take this anxiety anytime instead of the horrors stories on Wndows.

[Tom Babauta]

Saw the latest iMac at the Apple Store at Bonifacio High. Cool talaga! Kaso may

konting glare from the lights ang glossy screen.

[tricy_25]

Magsabi ka lang kapatid. Anything you might need about Macs. Pero kung apps PM mo ako.

 

sige ba..kasi pag dating dyan sa mga laptop na yan ang alam ko lang mag intert at mag ym..lolz

[tricy_25]

i think boomouse would be more than happy to tutor you personally. treat him to a coffee at a coffee place na lang for his time and trouble.

 

 

hmmm ..thats a good idea..sige pag iipunan ko na yan,kasi matagal ako matuto eh, hopefully me patience sya :upside:

[unprettywoman]

i hope Apple releases a macbook pro the size of a 12" powerbook...

 

*wishin' and hopin'*