Do a search for Ken Bell and Apple. You'll find I'm not the only one who has had problems with him.
No you never mentioned this before and I still think its interesting that you have only now brought up his name - find it googling by chance and threw it in here.
Its funny that only a few months ago you were damming people for synthetic bench marks - and what do you give.
Why would I use Coverflow? It's slow, bloated, and just generally isn't useful.
Sorry but I find it very useful - especially when I'm teaching.
Actually, I did mention that before. I did in my posts discussing the problems I was having at that point in time. You have a have a habit of stalking me so I'm surprised you missed those posts. Or are you selectively remembering things as you have before?
Your little insults are always expected - please quote where you have said anything before about being yelled at before by Apple.
Oh, and we discussed the customer satisfaction thing before. Like I said, you have people here who have been dragged through the mud by Apple yet they're still satisfied with Apple just because its Apple. Apple's numbers are heavily skewed in its favor because of an overly loyal fan base.
And you've said that PC users have no loyalty - Well except for you and the increasing user base of HP users you stick with HP regardless of the fact that their customer rating is actually falling - If that isn't loyalty I don't know what is. If you'd prefer to stay with a company whose customer ratings are falling then fine.
Thats what disc carriers are for. Most notebook bags I've seen and have owned have had space for at least a dozen discs. And with blu-ray you don't need to worry about scratching.
I know that I still don't want to carry discs about - you can if you want. On the road - how is the battery life of a PC running a BR.
Downloads might eventually overtake physical media for movies. But that is a LONG way off. Why? A number of reasons. DRM is a huge issue. People don't want to be locked to one device. I can't tell you how many people I know have been interested in iTunes movie downloads only to instantly be turned off the moment they find out they can't burn it to a DVD and watch it on their DVD player. The average person almost always replies with "I can burn music I download from iTunes, why not video?" Another reason is bandwidth capping. Charter and Comcast already have bandwidth caps. Time Warner backed off, but AT&T hasn't stopped their testing of capped service either. Other countries have had capped service either always or for years now.
And of course, theres the quality issue. An iTunes "HD" purchase costs as much as a blu-ray disc but is only half the resolution, sometimes 1/10th the video bitrate, and has sub-DVD quality audio (Dolby Digital at a lower bitrate than the DVD Dolby Digital track).
I agree....... see its not difficult - you should try it some time
Two problems with yours. One, Vista SP1 drivers weren't finalized by then. Two, they're using FRAPs which adversely affects performance all around. You're also quoting ZDNet which, really, people who are knowledgeable about hardware wouldn't trust as far as they could throw the building they're housed in.
Heres proper benchmarks for a website that is run by people who actually know what they're doing and talking about:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302500,00.asp as you can see, Vista SP1 is equal to XP SP3.
I loved this bit though "It's clear that driver issues in Windows Vista have been largely ironed out, as the five to 10 percent performance drop compared to Windows XP is virtually gone. In fact, the only test out of these three in which Vista didn't match its predecessor was in the pre-SP1 World in Conflict - I thought there were no driver issues on Vista - and Vista is still not completely there yet. Maybe one day
Must have made the mistake of buying one with an Intel GPU. All of the nvidia and ATI/AMD based HP's of the last several years have HDMI. Mines a little over a year old and, guess what, it has HDMI.
Looks like you're wrong again. When he gets back from his travels I'll check his exact model - I know its a Pavillion and its AMD.
I wouldn't call adding your own code into the WYSIWYG editor "good results". I did things like that back in the 90s with Frontpage Express.
I would call it imaginative - but iWeb is only a WYSIWYG editor to easily get people a web page - its never gonna run Amazon. I don't see what you're arguing about here.
As soon as you post that list of bands using Garageband to make money. I've been waiting for that list now for what? 6 months?
It was actually September of last year that I first posted the list - but here it is again. PS - You saying they are not respectable still doesn't mean anything. They have all made plenty of money
Oasis
Justice
Radiohead
plus a few other established musicians
Courtney Love, Limp Bizkit, Panic! At The Disco and Scout Niblett
Nine Inch Nails
Erasure
Rihanna
Kate Nash
Dave 'Deptford' Pine, (head of Point Blank music college, whose CV includes work with The Smiths, Massive Attack and Leftfield.)
Fall Out Boy
Mountain Mirrors
Phantom Music Box
Draz
Cricket Rumor Mill
Blue James Band
Rantings of EVA
CM4TBLY NUMB
Imaginary Maps
Seven Reasons
Lo Mass Republic
They are all professional and making money and the list hasn't changed since I posted it back in September of last year.
So where is your list of professionals that think Garageband is rubbish - Quotes would be nice.
Thank you for reminding me about that. I forgot all about that post.
Of course you did
And as I said before, when someone mentioned that about bad build quality. It's funny someone would say Asus has bad build quality, when (up until the MacBooks), Asus was a primary builder of Apple systems.
You recommended a laptop as an example of PC quality - that PC users demand - but lots were complaining - no aplogies from you please.
But now I need to go over there and put Polaris in his place again.
Arrogant and wrong too - how nice.
Anyway - good luck trying to convert us all. Do you think it will work? Keep ranting though
