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Next Version of Windows to Incorporate Advanced Touch Features
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Without reading the whole conversation I do wanta make one comment. I personally love macs... but I do think that macs are 'generally' geared towards the home consumer. thats where macs to their best. I hate it when people think that in order for a product to be 'good' it must be the best product for every job, in every situation. Apple (in my opinon) likes to direct its focus to highly focused markets... makeing an excellent product for a select group of people.
In other words macs are great but it doesn't mean that mac are great at everything.
Thank you for chiming in but the question was directed towards Virgil. (Who is still busy with Google to get a clue about what an iSeries is
).
I didn't think there were any games native to OS X that would even benefit from SLI. (I mean no one here uses AA or AF or even high resolutions so what is the point?
So that we can eventually benefit from the games that could run SLI and Crossfire, or benefit from the future developments of the tech. I do agree with you, but just because we don't benefit from tech now, doesn't mean that Apple shouldn't put it in their machines.
OR, Apple could update the pro apps to benefit from both SLI and Crossfire.
I agree about the OS X for PC thing, (though the added benefit of hardware for running Mac OS X would be great) and as stated by you, I and others the progress of Microsoft would be great for the progress of Apple. Look at how far we've come since the 90's.
Honestly, I would love to see MS Touch in a Windows Mobile smartphone that ran on the plethora of devices that already run Windows Mobile. Giving us more options besides the iPhone and forcing Apple to expand their service provider options and features of the iPhone.
If only...
Comparing what a company plans to do in three years with something that happened six months ago is pretty odd. Currently, Microsoft has released an operating system so poor that people actually are reverting back to XP. In the meantime, Apple has released products with the best existing touch screen interface by a significant margin. No wonder Microsoft wants to look to the future.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's actual products have not met their predictions in quite some time. I have no idea what's going on over there, because I know there are some brilliant people at the company.
In the meantime, of course, Apple is quietly accumulating new patents on various touch-screen mechanisms.
Comparing what a company plans to do in three years with something that happened six months ago is pretty odd. Currently, Microsoft has released an operating system so poor that people actually are reverting back to XP. In the meantime, Apple has released products with the best existing touch screen interface by a significant margin. No wonder Microsoft wants to look to the future.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's actual products have not met their predictions in quite some time. I have no idea what's going on over there, because I know there are some brilliant people at the company.
In the meantime, of course, Apple is quietly accumulating new patents on various touch-screen mechanisms.
Windows 7...premature
Maybe they should fix Vista first...it seems like they spent too much money on promotion and marketing to even think about diverting resources to anything else.
Windows OS VII has a nice ring to it...where have I seen something like that before...
Maybe they should fix Vista first...it seems like they spent too much money on promotion and marketing to even think about diverting resources to anything else.
Windows OS VII has a nice ring to it...where have I seen something like that before...
Windows Playing Catch-Up With Windows "Weiner" --
http://greerish.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/microsoft-playing-catch-up-with-windows-weiner/
http://greerish.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/microsoft-playing-catch-up-with-windows-weiner/
And MS have had phones since 1995, but Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch already have a larger web share.
The only reason i like seeing MS rumors on this site is so I can laugh at everyone ripping on them.
MS: "We will blow you away with something in the future with something that's possibly even better but basically the same as what you have now, in the present, from Apple. Maybe."
ok? Congrats man I'm happy for you. I'm thinking of buying buying a new external HD next year, I just wanted to let you know because it's so pertinent.
In your last post I feel like you were fighting pretty hard about Microsoft and telling me to go to a windows forum where I belong?? Now you have nothing against it. I feel like I should have clarified in my last post, by saying "the best part about my mac aside from doing what a mac does, is the fact that it runs Windows." And if you look back at my post, not one time did I call you a fanboy so don't make things up. And honestly the way you flip and flop with your weak arguments, we all know not only the level of your maturity but your education as well.
So please, understand that I love Apple, but as a fellow member of this forum wrote earlier, Apple is not perfect and Microsoft is not the devil. You're welcome.
Amen Clive....Amen,
I mean it's crazy reading some of these posts and people bashing Windows on things they do and praising Apple when they do the same. Rule #27 = Be consistent.
From what I have noticed, Apple's Pro apps are mostly CPU dependent. Unless there were a mass of code that the GPU's would run noticeably faster it wouldn't be worth the manpower/time.
Honestly SLI would be cool. It would have to be available in a machine that was less than $2500 (read xMac). I don't know why they don't offer SLI in the iMac, I would accept a thicker unit if I knew it was packing 8700/8800M GT SLI.
You mean "pen/stylus" based input...
No one said they did. Touch (fingers) is different from stylus input. And all Tablet PC sales in the world probably total less than 100,000 per year regardless of OS, out of 250 million computers sold per year--about 0.015%. So whatever experience you and SiliconAddict claim Microsoft has certainly hasn't been used very much.
No one said they did. Touch (fingers) is different from stylus input. And all Tablet PC sales in the world probably total less than 100,000 per year regardless of OS, out of 250 million computers sold per year--about 0.015%. So whatever experience you and SiliconAddict claim Microsoft has certainly hasn't been used very much.
I wouldn't mind seeing a slightly thicker Pro laptop if they could stuff that in there too, along with dual HDDs as well.
Right on, right on, right on!
The iMac is officially too thin when it hampers the unit's upgradeability... but that's another story.
Oh, I've gone on many-a xMac rantings... when will Apple get the hint?
I don't even care if it's over $1500, I just want a computer I can CUSTOMIZE FOR WHAT I NEED! Get it? APPLE!
*scolds Jobs*
-Clive
Yeah, What we have right now is - uhhhh - we have to admit, a notch off utter brilliance --- yehhhh ---- but just wait until 2010 (or 11, or 12), and, yeh, what we'll have then will just blow you away. The iPhone, which will have stood still for several years, won't be able to compete with our --- uh - tricorders and ---- uhhhh --- intergrated warp drive. Yeah. That's it.
You can its just over $2498 too
.Seriously though, they should make the xMac, but it would be no fun.
Now, see, this sort of behavior is nice for those who like a nice, heated debate... but it DOES have its drawbacks as those who are poor communicators may get flamed...
I'd say this "war" idea is a draw.
-Clive
And Vista was revolutionary?
Sure glad they got rid of that god-awful registry.... oh wait.
Uh... so now when Windows users touch their PeeCee's they can physically receive viruses and will have to go to the doctor's office?
Apple should just sell the company, give the money to the shareholders and go home. Microsofts's superior OS has won again, in the future; in the imagined future.
Your forgetting, although it's not surprising, about the UMPCs. They had touch input before the iPhone.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Origamitpi.jpg