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Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Notebook
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PowerShell - Get-Child-Item and Select-String. If you add PDFSharp library here is an amazing thing you can do [Taken from this blog ]
[ My 300,000+ person company has already moved to Win 7 btw.]
Code:Add-Type -Path C:\assemblies\PdfSharp.dll Function Merge-PDF { Param($path, $filename) $output = New-Object PdfSharp.Pdf.PdfDocument $PdfReader = [PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfReader] $PdfDocumentOpenMode = [PdfSharp.Pdf.IO.PdfDocumentOpenMode] foreach($i in (gci $path *.pdf -Recurse)) { $input = New-Object PdfSharp.Pdf.PdfDocument $input = $PdfReader::Open($i.fullname, $PdfDocumentOpenMode::Import) $input.Pages | %{$output.AddPage($_)} } $output.Save($filename) }
Also - I am a long time *NIX user - still deal with HPUX, Solaris, Linux at work exclusively for the most part. I understand and applaud UNIX but I don't think I could ditch Windows from the desktop because it is not UNIX. Tera Term and remote Linux/HPUX/Solaris boxes solve that problem for me decently without having to try and run Youtube on UNIX desktop!
LOL. Yeah, that's a lot simpler than cat [files] | grep [pattern] | enscript [parameters] ;-)
Here's the good news - you get real UNIX *and* you get to run youtube on a Mac!
That's the beauty of OSX! A *NIX developer can have at it just the same as a grandma who has never used a computer before. I like to think of OSX as a *NIX distro with the most polished GUI.
More like choosing to stick with "the devil you know than the devil you don't."
Gee, the time you waste yammering here must really cost you a small fortune.
Honestly, anyone making that much money should have better things to do. In any case, your idea of 'some of us' and being in touch with reality for the vast majority of the world is probably skewed just off the deep end of the edge of the Universe (that's over $1 million a year with a standard work week). In short, you cannot relate to normal people.
I'd really be curious to know what you do that it's worth $550 an hour, BTW.
I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous comment. I've had FAR more crashes in OSX over the past few years than Windows (and I mean XP SP3 here) and more often than not, it's an Apple program (like iTunes or even OSX itself) that causes the crashes/kernel panics. And if you want to talk about poor performance, just talk about OSX gaming.
OSX has its strong points, but Windows bests it in more than one area and isn't nearly as bad as some of you want to make it out to be. Frankly, this is why fanboys get a bad name. I prefer OSX to Windows for several reasons, but OSX is far from perfect and that is completely Apple and Steve Job's fault for ignoring those areas.
I think that Apple will do away with the 13" Pro, which will make people desiring 13" models go after the 13" inch air. This 15" ultra-thin notebook will probably be a MacBook Pro, considering the Airs were recently updated. I bet the ultra-thin notebook will be thinner, but not as thin as the Air. It will probably also have a lot of the "Pro" features that the current models of the MacBook Pros have, like FW800, several USB ports, great storage, Core i7 processor, etc. Let's just hope that Apple doesn't get rid of the optical drive yet. Though it may be a bit outdated, it is still needed for listening to CDs, watching DVDs, etc. I find that would be a bit premature.
And if you want to talk about poor performance, just talk about OSX gaming.
I didn't buy my Macs for gaming. I bought them for *NIX stability, security, performance, interoperability, partitioning, package management, and command line just to name a few important things an OS should do well.
At 100% CPU usage, while burning both battery and your lap - way to forget *that* part
My Win7 machine on the other hand has been running Flash videos for past couple hours and there is no fan noise whatsoever - working h/w acceleration ftw!And the code to actually find files and text and create a pdf using PowerShell can be made simple one liner if you so wish - I was just showing what is possible - the extensibility, the nice for_each, the nice OO touch etc.
Gee, the time you waste yammering here must really cost you a small fortune.
Honestly, anyone making that much money should have better things to do. In any case, your idea of 'some of us' and being in touch with reality for the vast majority of the world is probably skewed just off the deep end of the edge of the Universe (that's over $1 million a year with a standard work week). In short, you cannot relate to normal people.
I'd really be curious to know what you do that it's worth $550 an hour, BTW.
I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous comment. I've had FAR more crashes in OSX over the past few years than Windows (and I mean XP SP3 here) and more often than not, it's an Apple program (like iTunes or even OSX itself) that causes the crashes/kernel panics. And if you want to talk about poor performance, just talk about OSX gaming.
OSX has its strong points, but Windows bests it in more than one area and isn't nearly as bad as some of you want to make it out to be. Frankly, this is why fanboys get a bad name. I prefer OSX to Windows for several reasons, but OSX is far from perfect and that is completely Apple and Steve Job's fault for ignoring those areas.
Lol. That $550/hr doesn't go to me. It goes to my bosses, who pay my salary. Which is a lot less that $550/hr, sadly.
Btw, my mac plays YouTube videos at low CPU utilization - I just don't use flash.
Not doubting you, but I find that fascinating. The last kernel crash I experienced or witnessed was when OS X was in beta. Since then, I've administed dozens and dozens of Macs with nary an OS related problem. It is OS X's rock solid reliability that makes me confident to recommend Macs to friends, colleagues, and complete strangers when asked.
Now, I noticed that you are running a Hackintosh and an upgraded PowerMac G4. Very nice (I have a 500 MHz G4 PowerMac that I still put to work)!
Maybe it is because I update the hardware every three to five years for those people that want/need to run the newest OS that I have avoided that instability. I tend to be conservative about running an OS on a machine that is awfully long in the tooth, though I am not implying you do because you are running XP. Now if you told me you were getting panics on your MBP, I'd be pretty surprised.I'd be curious to see what any crash logs show. The next time one occurs, please send me a copy if you remember. Not a challenge, but merely to satisfy my curiosity.
I, too, agree OS X isn't perfect. If we're waiting for perfection, we'd best get comfortable. However, people who hang out here with an indisputable track record of doing nothing but slamming Apple and/or Apple customers (sometimes multiple times a day) should expect people ultimately will take offense and challenge their statements. That's not being a "fanboy"; that's being human and expecting common courtesy from others. It is the same reason I don't hang out at winrumors.com and piss on Microsoft and people that like their products. If someone has no love of Apple, why spend the day here dropping one caustic remark after the other insulting the people that do? I'm guessing suppressed envy. Maybe it regret for all the time they spent getting their MCSE certifications when the world has started moving away from the days when everyone lived in the shadow of Microsoft.
Cheers.
P.S. Not sure what that guy does, but $550 per hour for an IP attorney (often chemical, computer science or engineering degree + law degree = $$$$$$$ education) is pretty reasonable in the U.S.
How about Netflix? Last I tried it was worse on SL and horrible on Lion! Give it up already - you are dealing with a toy OS that works if you stay within the garden
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How about Netflix? Last I tried it was worse on SL and horrible on Lion! Give it up already - you are dealing with a toy OS that works if you stay within the garden
I don't use netflix much other than on my apple tv and iPad.
So I just tried (on my 2011 MBP). Looks to be 45% CPU. But that's Microsoft's fault (it's using silverlight, apparently).
I didn't buy my Macs for gaming. I bought them for *NIX stability, security, performance, interoperability, partitioning, package management, and command line just to name a few important things an OS should do well.
Performance is performance dude. Games are simply a prime example. BTW, nice repeat of the same thing over again. You sound like you read it off a cereal box.
If what you do goes for that kind of money and your bosses are taking most of it, maybe you should consider going into business for yourself, if possible. Nothing like making someone else rich....
In any case, having no frame of reference as to what you do make, it's hard to account for your opinion that it's better to pay someone else to change your remote's batteries.
I agree there are some things that are worth paying someone else to do, but spending 15-20 minutes to change out a hard drive isn't one of them, IMO. It'd take me longer to drive to the nearest Apple store in one direction than to just do it and given what a place like Best Buy charges to install a DVD drive or hard drive, I'd sooner cut off my left arm than pay them to do it (i.e. $50 for what takes around 15 minutes mean I'd have to make well over $200 an hour to not bother to do it myself).
In any case, having no frame of reference as to what you do make, it's hard to account for your opinion that it's better to pay someone else to change your remote's batteries.
I agree there are some things that are worth paying someone else to do, but spending 15-20 minutes to change out a hard drive isn't one of them, IMO. It'd take me longer to drive to the nearest Apple store in one direction than to just do it and given what a place like Best Buy charges to install a DVD drive or hard drive, I'd sooner cut off my left arm than pay them to do it (i.e. $50 for what takes around 15 minutes mean I'd have to make well over $200 an hour to not bother to do it myself).
I have a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and designed microprocessors for Exponential Technology, Sun, and AMD for 10 years. At this point, fixing my own PC is sort of like a busman's holiday.
As for what I do now, I'm an intellectual property attorney.
Whose fault it is - doesn't matter. What matters is what I can get done with the OS without thinking about whose fault, how and finding reasons to avoid doing it. And last I used iTunes to play 720p - I had my fans on. So it's not like even Apple's stuff works great all the time.
[ For Microsoft Flash could be blamed on Adobe and they could just decide to let it suck, so can be various vendor driver crashes - but if you understand what they do working with vendors (instead of working against them or putting all blame on them) in resolving the issues and maintaining compatibility - it is quite great for the user and it pays off for both Microsoft and their vendors. Don't even get me started on compatibility and regression matters. With limited hardware support Apple manages to routinely break stuff and several instances have show how piss poor their testing is. That's really what I am so not happy about. It really hurts when you step outside of browsing/email on OS X and try to use 3rd party stuff.]
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Well, if I paid 3 grand for a laptop to operate silently on battery power while watching videos through netflix (instead of off my own iTunes server), I'd be annoyed too.
But that;s not why I bought this beast, so I'm quite happy with its performance doing the things I actually do.
And to be sure - I am using Windows on top end Macbook Pro 17" - close to 3 grand. Apple still makes better hardware than anyone - form, usability, quality all fronts - I just wish they stepped up the game with OS X instead of just doing gimmicks release after release. Then it would be the best OS out there and I can run UNIX on my desktop with pleasure, as I please
I agree with most of this and just to add the resolution of the 13" pro is definitely a joke; especially when there are 13" laptop screens out there which are 1920 by 1080.
Interesting article here about XP machines being breeding ground for Viruses and Malware:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218722/Windows_XP_PCs_breed_rootkit_infections
and more like: "We don't have the budget to upgrade and can't afford the system downtime afterwards like others during the Vista debacle" or "sticking to XP because upgrading to Windows 7 is a pita"
In many cases upgrading from XP to Windows 7 will require new hardware too.
Back to the subject matter at hand. I for one would like to see this new 15" MBA or whatever it will be called with the Ivy Bridge chipset. And if it does come with Ivy Bridge, how long do you think it will be until the MBP gets updated/redesigned to include Ivy Bridge? Also, do you think there is any chance they will update the MBA to Ivy Bridge soon after it becomes available or will it be 10 months to a year from now since it was just updated to Sandy Bridge?
Doesn't it also require reinstalling all software and starting fresh? (I may be getting my update paths confused).