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laurentius
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Helsinki, Finland
Jun 2001
time: 07:25
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Originally posted by Asher
What blew you away about Tiger?
And of course a "smaller" company like Apple can roll out "incredible software" like iLife -- MS may be a larger company by far, but they compete in far more markets with far more products.
MS doesn't have the same "I'm gonna show you cool stuff now!" style when announcing products, and maybe they should. It obviously wins over some people.
I really love how iPhoto can now do things Picasa has always done, and it got a huge cheer frm the crowd. Or the "new features" in QuickTime 7, like an overlay control while in fullscreen...or more than 2-channel audio...stuff that's been in WMP for I-don't-know-how-long... or the ability to make hierarchical folders/albums in iPhoto...
Or the total stupidity behind the iPhoto Albums, which I honestly doubt anyone uses except for a handful of people. Interesting he didn't have sales statistics for those.  |
Tiger appeared to be at the same time extremely disciplined and organised and surprisingly laid back. You dont for example need to organise your documents, pictures etc strickly into hierachical folders, it doesnt matter if you just threw them up somewhere, you can still find it instantly with the Spotlight.
The dashboard was very nice and the overall sleekness how everything works is just amazing, and the neat graphical effects only make it look more cool. iChat - wow. Garageband - 
The only thing that didnt impress me much was the QT 7 to wich I hold permanent grudge at due to QTs horrible performance on Win XP and the annoying way it ALWAYS asks if I'd like to upgrade 
Overall:
Mac 
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:25
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Originally posted by laurentius
Tiger appeared to be at the same time extremely disciplined and organised and surprisingly laid back. You dont for example need to organise your documents, pictures etc strickly into hierachical folders, it doesnt matter if you just threw them up somewhere, you can still find it instantly with the Spotlight. |
But that's the thing -- Spotlight is MSN Desktop Search. The only thing it has up on MSN Desktop Search is apps can expect it to always be on the computer, so they can integrate it into their own apps (so you can use it inside other apps). MS would love to do this, but they're not allowed to bundle MSN Desktop Search on the computer.
What is important IMO, is how Spotlight and these Desktop Search things are all hacks. You still have a hierarchical file system, and it only supports basic keyword matching.
WinFS -- whenever it'll come out -- is a full-out database. Hierarchies are there if you want to use them, but that's not how the data is actually stored. You can search your computer just like you would an SQL server...
You know like how labels work in Gmail, virtual folders in Outlook (and the ripoff feature coming in Apple's new mail client in Tiger)? It's like that. But for every file across your computer.
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The dashboard was very nice and the overall sleekness how everything works is just amazing, and the neat graphical effects only make it look more cool. iChat - wow. Garageband - |
iChat's video chat effect was definitely cool looking.
What wasn't cool looking was the terrible audio quality that cut out a few times (and this is under optimal conditions at a demo), and still blocky video. He talks about how awesome it is they're using H.264 as the codec, but what he doesn't mention is H.264 and its kin are only really good when it can read ahead 10-30 frames and see what's coming. Otherwise it's actually rather crap as a codec.
And seeing as it's impossible to see the future, the quality is kinda lacking in a video conference.
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Verto
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I checked out the laptops at Best Buy. Unfortunately, all of them had some kind of Best Buy garbage on it that only let you watch advertising and "look how neat this is" videos, so I couldn't get a feel for how it responded, or how the speakers sounded, or really see the display. They also had various security devices installed, and most had the battery removed, so it was impossible to weigh them, see how heavy they were, etc.
They had Toshiba, Sony, Compaq/HP, and Gateway, no Dell, no IBM. Very disappointing experience, and one that makes me less likely to buy a laptop from Best Buy.
Now, I've had Compaq PCs in the past and really don't have any plans to buy from them in the future, as general consensus seems to be they have gone downhill with their products.
How good is Gateway? Do they have a known history for good/bad computers?
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Jon Miller
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can the X-series run linux?
I am in the mode for laptop buying also
I am also impresed by the powerbook, but I don't think I would ge tone until the G5 comes out
I also like the x-series by IBM
I have seen too much that Dells are hit or miss
maybe I should check out Toshiba again
Jon miller
(price really isn't an issue, but would like the cheapest of course)
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Jon Miller
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I like the protege
it would be cool to be able to write down physics equations and stuff on the computer (can it do that??)
Jon Miller
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Jon Miller
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the toshiba is the most expensice, the apple is the least expensive...
I don't require that high of performance.... (of course I want the best offer I can get)
Jon Miller
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Jon Miller
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and than have them enter into mathematica or maple or some publishing software like latex or word?
JM
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