the biggest ROFL ive gotten all year

[Glickman]

You mean the two OSes on a dual boot system? Or something else?.

yep. dual boot means you can run either one seperately, but far as ive heard, theres no way to communicate between the OS's (ie. get files from 1 to the other)

if they did come out with some kind of sync, i would probably think about getting a dual boot because all of the mac's ive teched were tanks and usually never required anything but removing the cmos for a hardware installation.

That's true. My 1GHz Powerbook is still doing well, and it's nearly 4 years old.

thats not even the golden years for a mac


mac= "mag"

[quik]

i understood the asian lady. HAHAHAAHHAAHAHAH

[Hexis]

yep. dual boot means you can run either one seperately, but far as ive heard, theres no way to communicate between the OS's (ie. get files from 1 to the other)

File sharing is trivial. OSX understands fat32, so does XP. Setup a shared area for both OSes. Put a file in the shared space from one OS, the other can see it when you are running it. Of corse there is no real time sharing, since they are never running at the same time. Just did a bit of reading and apparently you can read NTFS with OSX, but not write to it.

The other option is virtualization. I'm sure we will see VM ware for Intel Macs that will run XP, or Virtual PC for Intel Macs (with acceptiable performacne), or some other virtualization product/software that will allow you to fire up a Windows app in OSX, and perhaps the other way around. I don't expect virtualization to do well for high performance apps (like Games), but for most things it will work well.

[slade]

haha, CTRL-ALT-DEL FTW. i posted this somewhere else, and was going to post it here but i didnt feel like editing it. thanks for doing the work.

[Lohman446]

go to any college or high school and go look in the multi media room....what do you find? huge mac's.

I call Shenanigans

[Glickman]

go to any college or high school and go look in the multi media room....what do you find? huge mac's.

ah maybe your typical but not RIT.

their game development (backed by SOE and the us army) consists of a few:

[slade]

Basically, what you have on an MAC now is a super secure version of Unix running on very well made hardware. That is why they are so bulletproof, and this is also why they are so expensive. There are no downsides other than cost, and that people just don't know anything about them and assume they must suck.

actually, ive heard of a few G5's overheating because they are too compact, harming the electronics.

ah maybe your typical but not RIT.

their game development (backed by SOE and the us army) consists of a few:

well, youd have to be an idiot to have a gaming development class with macs...

plus, it seems like engineering schools tend to favor PCs. most schools, however, favor macs.

[Kevmaster]

I'm currently running OSX on my Intel MacBook Pro. I have XP installed on another partition of my HD. The Mac OS can view the files I create in XP, but XP can't view my Mac files.

xp SOARS on the MacBook Pro. It looks sooooo beautiful. Then again, I only did it for hte novelty of the thing. I couldn't care less about running XP for long....I'll prolly take it away.

[surfbum]

When I think Mac, the last thing I think is a fast, high performance machine. I think an easy to use, but generally low power computer.

Even though I cannot stand them, I give them credit for being easy to comprehend if you are computer stupid (which I am far from :P)

/nevermind
//macs should die
///anyone remember that fake mac commercial that was made? i forget what it was called, but it was on the internet for a while
////

"generally low power computer"!? are you kidding me

there is a reason why every graphic designer uses a mac

additionally have you seen the benchmark testing for macs vs. pcs?
im sorry but macs are superior computing machines,
granted they are more expensive, but there is a reason you pay more
would you expect a cyborg to be priced the same as a spyder?
i think not

[slade]

"generally low power computer"!? are you kidding me

there is a reason why every graphic designer uses a mac

additionally have you seen the benchmark testing for macs vs. pcs?
im sorry but macs are superior computing machines,
granted they are more expensive, but there is a reason you pay more
would you expect a cyborg to be priced the same as a spyder?
i think not

have you ever used a mac in a school?

thats where this is coming from, even my school's brand new macs are pathetic next to my 5 year old pentium III linux computer.

does anyone know if there is an alternative GUI available for macs? i dont really mind macs and i have plenty of friends who use them, but i just cant get over the GUI, i really prefer windows or linux.

[Jonno06]

lol, good comic.

[Glickman]

"generally low power computer"!? are you kidding me

there is a reason why every graphic designer uses a mac

additionally have you seen the benchmark testing for macs vs. pcs?
im sorry but macs are superior computing machines,
granted they are more expensive, but there is a reason you pay more
would you expect a cyborg to be priced the same as a spyder?
i think not

yep thats why half-life 2, and the solid snake series, and every other game out there was made on macs

i do see mac's overheating, but thats only 2.0 gHz mini macs from poor ventilation

now.

an intel overheating from 7.0 gHz with liquid nitrogen with 2 sets of SLI is a real man's machine


the reason graphic designers use mac?

the answer is that they used macs. if you look at up to date companies, they arent using a g4. they are using a p4.

tell me which company looking for the best would choose 1 (or 2, havent seen that option on a mac yet) 512 graphic card on a mac over 2 sets of SLI (thats 4 cards) running at a true 512 mb buffer?



dont get me wrong, im not anti-mac. in fact, I tech about 10 macs per week, but saying they are "superior" is about 5 years too late man.

[Hexis]

there is a reason why every graphic designer uses a mac

additionally have you seen the benchmark testing for macs vs. pcs?
im sorry but macs are superior computing machines,
granted they are more expensive, but there is a reason you pay more
would you expect a cyborg to be priced the same as a spyder?
i think not

Let's see, Macs have been based on the PowerPC chips for some time. Those chips are the ones that the Intel Core Duo (found in the Intel Macs) are stomping all over in even Apple's benchmarks. There are other measures of the quality of a machine, but in raw processing power, at best Macs are exactly the same as a PC based on the same hardware. There is a reason Apple is switching to Intel. Not only is the Performacne per watt better, but overall the CPUs are way faster.

The reason many (not all) graphic folks use Macs is due to many features of OSX (and other MacOS version) that help a lot. Good color managment, good application selection, good performance, goos stability.

I love my mac. My wife loves hers. My next workstation will run Aperture.

does anyone know if there is an alternative GUI available for macs? i dont really mind macs and i have plenty of friends who use them, but i just cant get over the GUI, i really prefer windows or linux.

Yes, I have seen alternatives to Aqua running on OSX. I have not done it myself, but I know it's possible. Personally there is nearly nothing I would change about Aqua. I find things like Expose and the Dock's easw of use to be far better than any other X or Windows GUI.

[Indignant]

first off, this was done by CTRL+ALT+DEL by Tim Buckley. and yes, funny comercial and funny parody.

ugh, slip up by me i was going through the PA archives since i haven't been reading for a while. i read CTRL+ALT+DEL pretty much every day, even have it on the quick-link bar of my Firefox >_>


/now looks like a douche

[slade]

Yes, I have seen alternatives to Aqua running on OSX. I have not done it myself, but I know it's possible. Personally there is nearly nothing I would change about Aqua. I find things like Expose and the Dock's easw of use to be far better than any other X or Windows GUI.

i know performance wise its fine, but i cant really stand aqua. i hate the dock, id have to tweak it a lot before i could actually be okay with using it.

i also hate how there is a limit on filename sizes, is there a way to change that?