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What can't you do with a mac?
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Actually, I sold my 3 yr old iMac that died (minus the harddrive) on eBay for about $250. How crazy is that you can get that much for something thats fried.
You can't call you old college buddy asking for help because what your computer told you was a virus actually turned out to be pretty bad spyware that is now preventing you from launching any web browser for more than 5 seconds before shutting down, keeping you from downloading the latest spyware removal tools. My buddy called me last and even though I wanted to help and felt bad for him I did remind him, "Didn't I tell you to buy a MacBook?"
i can, mine hits 100°C on occasions (boiling point of water)
its pretty awsome how you can still sell the dead computer, if you were to do that with PC parts i highly doubt you would get squat for it!!
Pretty much my experience with the site and Safari
Anyway, what can I not do with my mac? Grate cheese, though if I had a Mac Pro that might be possible on the front cover
I have about 45%/45%/10% split of different DVD regions in my collection, so then I have to go on extended periods of time just watching movies from a particular region before I change back to another one. So doesn't exactly last in the long run...
I heard about the VLC thing, but it allegedly doesn't work anymore as far as I've understood. Plus the playback quality apparently sucks judging by several posts to other forums and blogs.
Either way, the point is that it was a lot easier on Windows: just downloaded this little application, and it was region free ever since.
Apparently the dvd drive that Apple uses is particularly tricky or something if I understand it correctly. Because to make it region free, you have to make the DVD drive itself region free, but also OS X. Ironically enough, if you install Windows on your Mac you can more easily make it region free. But I don't have a Windows copy so...
And getting an external DVD drive, true, but I don't want any more gizmos to carry around.
So I'll just continue downloading torrents of movies I already own, and continue to be happy with my Mac despite this little annoyancem
Edit: Found the below text explaining some of the difficulty:
the problem with the late power-/i- and new macbooks is that they contain recent brands of matsushita (read: panasonic) dvd drives. those have a really nasty “feature” in their firmware that does an additional comparison of the dvd and drive regions. in case they don’t match, you only get errors out instead of data.
unfortunately, to day, no one has gotten his hands on original firmware to hack and make the drives usable.
the only solution seems to be pulling out the firmware stored on a drive itself and working with that - but noone has undertaken that task yet.
I love my Mac but Safari tends to crash more than any other browser I use, IE is a bit worse than Safari still, but Firefox >> Safari.
You can't read mini-DVDs like the ones my camcorder uses. It's actually quite an inconvenience; all of my photos are on one computer and all of my ripped vobs/ifos/whatever are on my PC, because it's the only computer I have that has both the HD space and the disk tray to support the disks. Though that's really the least of my worries, since the files don't really convert well into common formats anyway. I regret going with a DVD camcorder in general; the 2.4GB disks that I use aren't much bigger than all of the cheap 2GB SD cards I got from Future Shop once.
You can't run autocad natively... (unless you use windows)
get viruses
use isync for my cell phone (samsung m610)... (and many others)
connect properly to a sony or canon HDD camcorder video feed (requires hacking for the sony and multiple programs, kinda messy)
get viruses
use isync for my cell phone (samsung m610)... (and many others
)connect properly to a sony or canon HDD camcorder video feed (requires hacking for the sony and multiple programs, kinda messy)
could you not just plug the camera into your mac ??
I feel your woe though with the disc prices
"You can't get Safari to ever encounter a problem and it needs to close."
bollocks
I think Flock is the best browser (it's based on firefox), mainly for all the built in stuff and especially the clipboard feature. And why does safari always seem to be the slowest out of all of them despite it claiming to be the quickest? The only thing i use Safari for is creating widgets.
bollocks
I think Flock is the best browser (it's based on firefox), mainly for all the built in stuff and especially the clipboard feature. And why does safari always seem to be the slowest out of all of them despite it claiming to be the quickest? The only thing i use Safari for is creating widgets.
Boooo
but THEY make less mistakes than everyone else.
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but THEY make less mistakes than everyone else.
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Well, the UK site is pretty slow for me, but I couldn't get Safari to crash there.
I've not seen Safari crash with just over a year of web surfing now. I'm not saying it can't happen (obviously, it does for some people). It's just never happened to me.
Hmmm, that link works fine for me too.
My flash version is "MAC 9,0,115,0". If you Google "flash version test", you'll find a page that reports what version of Flash you have installed.
i'm confused by the question and then by the responses. Does the OP want to know what OS X cannot do that Windows can do? Or what a Mac can do that a PC cannot do. That is two very different things. Since all macs sold today can in theory (with 10.5 and an intel processor) run Boot Camp and install windows, the only things that would be off-limits would be hardware-based things that there aren't a USB, Firewire or PCIe version of.
Off the top of my head, I can only think of one modern thing that would be included in that list...a Physics Processing card. I'm sure there are others...
However, if the question is more of an OS X vs Windows question, there are TONS of things that OS X cannot do that Windows can do. Any of those microsoft labs special apps requires windows, and I'm sorry, but there is NOTHING like PhotoSynth out there. Of course then you also have dozens if not hundreds of games. There are also probably hundreds of thousands of custom-coded vendor applications out there for retail stores, accountants, distribution companies, subscription services, inventory management and any number of other "serious" things.
Oh, and you can't use a UMAX PowerLook 3000 without a PC anymore.
Off the top of my head, I can only think of one modern thing that would be included in that list...a Physics Processing card. I'm sure there are others...
However, if the question is more of an OS X vs Windows question, there are TONS of things that OS X cannot do that Windows can do. Any of those microsoft labs special apps requires windows, and I'm sorry, but there is NOTHING like PhotoSynth out there. Of course then you also have dozens if not hundreds of games. There are also probably hundreds of thousands of custom-coded vendor applications out there for retail stores, accountants, distribution companies, subscription services, inventory management and any number of other "serious" things.
Oh, and you can't use a UMAX PowerLook 3000 without a PC anymore.
Safari does crash. Nothings perfect and noone can make generalizations (although i think i just did
). Safari's great, but it does crash (even once in a while. u have to admit that.Can't play avi files. I tried downloading some of the suggested programs. they don't work for me. i get sound, but no video.
If it doesn't have video with VLC, it doesn't have video.
Perian allows them to play in QuickTime.
