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Bootz: Please stop!
; )
I personally don't think there is any problem
discussing Pixar on this board but it is that constant whinning and bickering that makes the conversation rather unpleasent.
Bootz: Sorry I don't remember.
I installed it on two computers and I think they were upgrades not install.
Bootz: I bought a Mac mini last week
and a full version iLife 06 was in the box. Not just a Mac mini only version but a full version I can put on any Mac.
tomm: new board info - LOL.
OT: Yofie, in future contests
you should make it subject to a skill testing question. Just to keep the nuts out; )
bootz: I stand corrected. em
LCDs get dimmer with use.
That's why the new iMac looks brighter.
Blue: Check out the two Apple homepages:
http://www.apple.com
http://www.apple.com/ca/
It seems they're in different resolutions. Canada widescreen and US full screen. Weird.
That Forbes article is full of it.
"Apple has already reduced spending on research and development from 8% of sales in 2003 to 4% last year. In contrast, Creative Technology, number two in the MP3 market, with a 14% share globally, spends 7% of sales on R&D, as does Sony Corp.
Lets see 2003 sales was 6.21 Billion represented by 471 million R&D expenses. 2005 sales was 13.93 billion represented by 534 million R&D expenses. R&D expenses have in fact gone up and not down. How can anyone expect proportional growth of R&D expense in a company that has experienced over 200% growth in sales over a short 2 year period. Where should they throw that extra 600 million at? Buying condos and Lamborginis for the R&D team?
dilleet: VGA = RGB
This port here:
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dilleet: just hooked up my TV screen to the DVI out on the G5.
It still works. Make sure your connection is like this: PC DVI out - DVI-RGB converter - RGB cable - TV RGB in. Go to System Preference/monitor and select proper resolution.
A friend of mine installed a
Flash based HDD in a PB a while back. He told me it was blazing fast but drew a lot more power from the PB than a regular HDD. So it has its trade offs.
dilleet: HDMI = DVI
+ digital Audio + DRM all in one interface. It is consistent with Apple philosophy of less cable clutter and I think the mini could go HDMI and bundled with Front Row as early as MWSF06 for the living room crowd.
dilleet: Funny you should ask.
I just purchased a 32" Samsung LCD HDTV two days ago for the amazing low price of $1499 plus tax. This is the TV that I'm planning to hook a Mac Mini to. It comes with DVI (not HDMI like I hoped, HDMI version cost $600 more) and RGB in.
I tried hooking it up via DVI like I did with my big screen but apparently, the computer could not properly detect the display and gave me a whole bunch of interlace resolution, all of which looked fuzzy and jittery and hid the menu bar beyond the screen. Well, in short, the DVI solution didn't work so I went the RGB route. I then found a male-male RGB cable and a ADC-RGB adapter, hooked it up to my G5's ADC port and voila it worked. The computer properly detected the TV and gave me a range of resolution, one of which was the TV's native resolution 1360x768. The TV is being used as my second monitor until I pull TV cables to my bed room. Watched a DVD from my G5 and played some Battlestar Galatica torrent movies on it and they played great. I also played some 720p QT trailers on it. I opted out the 1080p versions because I think they are overkill for that screen. The convergence of PC and TV is becoming reality at least for me.
Now as for your set up, I don't see any reason why the VGA connection didn't work. I suppose you've used a DVI-RGB converter somewhere in that setup. I didn't experiment with the DVI-RGB route. I'll try that tonight and let you know. Forget S-Video, it's a different animal and has no place in a PC hook up.
Keyser: Sony 3LCD rear Projection TV
A friend brought over a video DVI cable (which has a different pins than a PC DVI cable) yesterday night. Out of curiousity, I took my G5 down to the TV room and hooked it up to my two year old 60" Sony Grand Wega TV. Lo and behold, the G5 sensed the TV and connected at 1920x1024 interlace resolution. It even came up with "Sony" color calibration in System Preference. Contrast seem a little high and lacked sharpness but it worked. Played King Kong 1080p trailer really nicely. A Mac mini, BT keyboard and BT mouse would make a great addition to my TV room. Let's hope we get a speedier Mac mini come MWSF.
KC, the dos card
is practically another computer running inside the same box and Apple didn't make those cards, third parties did. If I could remember correctly, these cards cost almost as much as a computer did. Mactel will be a whole different story in terms of cost and practicality.. I don't think you'll be able to run two OSs concurrently though but then you can always stack two MacMini with a KMV switch and still come out ahead of that dos card of yours.
Tomm: I don't see any reason why
Apple would try to keep Windows, Linux or any other OSs, that can run on Intel system from booting in a Mactel. In fact, one of the features Apple touted to switchers was that a Mac can also do Windows with the help of an app sold separately of course. Being able to boot other OSs can only be a plus for Apple:- the risk of switching platform will become lower among switchers and existing Mac users could purchase Macs to do their PC stuff. Apple's only problem is keeping other PCs from running OSX.
tomm, re: board info
Santa must be 10 ft tall judging from the width of the tire tracks he's standing over.
blue, you can simply cover the top
hole with a thin cloth. Glue it, tape it or whatever, it shouldn't affect the bass much. What? Your cats don't jump on tables?
Blue: you're suppose to put
that subwoofer on the floor. Bass travel better on the ground.
USB is CPU dependent whereas FW is not.
Communication between devices that have no CPUs, FW is the better choice. People are just reading too much into the iPods have going USB. There are tens of millions of camcorder out there that uses FW. No one can convince me that it is dying until I see SJ physically put it in a coffin on stage at WWDC.
Jim: Apple phone
They'd probably make one based on WiMax if and when it becomes available. WiMax is suppose to bring cell phone and wireless internet access all in one package. Essentially, it'll do away with existing cell phone infrastructure and bring broadband access anywhere. It'll likely bring changes to the cell phone industry whereby anybody can be a cell phone/internet provider, even Apple.
I don't see Apple jumping into cell phones without WiMax. The carriers have too much leverage over manufacturers to accomodate for Apple's vision. With WiMax, it could be a different world, one that Apple can revolutionize.
For Apple to enter this arena, there's got to be some sort of synergy with their products. Apple can probably leverage it with their iTunes and dotMac offerings as well as desktop intgration.
dilleet: "giving away"
The street.com has an article that puts things into perspective:
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/gamesandgadgets/10257325.html
Quote from page 2 of article. Bold mine.
"On the hardware front, retailers sold some 325,902 Xbox 360s in the days after the device's Nov. 22 launch. Microsoft expects to sell as many as 3 million of the game machines in the first 90 days after launch.
But, coupled with widespread reports from retailers of limited supplies and back orders on the Xbox 360, the sales total is an indicator that the bulk of those sales will likely come after the holiday season.
And to put the sales in perspective, Sony sold nearly 535,000 PlayStation 2s last month, even though that console is more than five years old.
Still Sony had little to crow about. Retailers sold 353,434 units of its handheld PlayStation Portable in November. That represents about 17% of the total PSPs it had sold to date in the U.S.
But the device was edged by Nintendo's latest handheld, the DS, which tallied 369,012 units sold. And both devices were outsold by Nintendo's venerable Game Boy Advance, which saw 819,733 units sold.
Little wonder why that is.
With the Playstation the whole world plays westernized version of Japanese titles but with the X-box, Japan has to play mostly Japanese version of American games.
Keyser: I think there is some confusion here.
Rear Projection system is not a flat panel system. Flat panel is one big flat LCD screen like Apple's Cinema Display. You originally mentioned the rear projection system as flat panel.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=8827593
dilleet: Mac to big screen
It would help to know what kind of ports are available on the flat screen. They range from RGB, DVI, to HDMI or a combination of them, varies with manufacturer. Native resolution on most flat screen are about 1280x720 good enough for 780p HD content (1080p reqires 1920x1080 resolution), photos, web surfing etc. I don't know if the Mac Minis can do 780p HD decoding, but if it can the mini will probably suffice. If not, then he might need the G5s or PB. Much of it depends if you can plug the computer's monitor out to the TV. There is an optional adapter for the Mac Mini and iBooks for a S-video or RCA out. Going that route will give you very low quality and resolution video. Not recommended for computer use. Try not to go that route.
Hope that helps.
Keyser, that's not a flat panel system.
That's a rear projection system and I own an earlier version of one.
Keyser: A quick look at Sony's US site
tells me that their biggest LCD flat panel display is only 40"
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start?Categor...
They might have something bigger available in Japan but as of today 40" LCD FP is tops in the US.
Anything bigger than 40inch has got to be plasma.
I don't think anyone sells LCD flat panel displays bigger than that yet. What was that question you asked anyway?
roni: If you want to share one internet connect,
you need a router, period. A cheap wired router can be had for less than $10.
roni: AAPL and home heating.
There is really no need for concern. I use my G5 tower for home heating. When everyone finds out about this little secret, AAPL will shoot thru the roof.
dilleet: Plasma for computer screen.
Kind of late to the party but have your friend check if his plasma screen is safe from screen burn in. Plasma uses phosphorus like a crt and is suspectible to screen burn in. Older generation plasma screens will permantly burn in static images such as computer images and games. Newer generation plasma screens will technology to minimise burn in such as slowly shifting the screen but the best way to prevent burn in is to not use the plasma screen for computer use. LCD screens OTOH, are safe from screen burn in. For computer use, maybe your friend should look into LCD technology.
Blue: You've probably got the
best handle on the numbers but there is the factor of seasonality and the irregular bump up from opening new stores and stagnation after stores have been opened for a while. Maybe after kids went back to school, buying tend to slow down until Christmas comes around. Whichever's the case, I don't think Apple would low ball us with these figures.
It's a pretty big system coming your way and mine. Maybe it'll keep close down schools tomorrow and give kids a chance to buy more songs; )
Blue, Maybe they haven't reached 700mil yet.
They might have just round it down to the nearest 100 million. They did say "over".
BTW, has the snow storm hit you yet?
Blue, I don't know what's up with MacNN
but that info was from Apple's Nov 21st press release. Sort of old news.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/nov/21flash.html
yofal: ROTFLMAO.
I don't think Disney/ABC is involved.
That's not Darwin.
IT'S SANTA CLAUS!
OT: Linda, if you don't want people to make fun of you,
just don't say stupid things. And please don't use me as your reference without my explicity permission because you tend to twist my words into lies. I never said AAPL might hit $80 this year.