Any Apple Fans Here?

[ew2x4]

Trying something new shouldn't cost money.

What's your favorite Linux distro?

[Chingon]

Trying something new shouldn't cost money.

What's your favorite Linux distro?

[ew2x4]

Trying something new shouldn't cost money.

What's your favorite Linux distro?

I have no shame.

PS have you seen your sig? It's awesome, but tell me there's not an air of nerdieness about you.

[Chingon]

Trying something new shouldn't cost money.

What's your favorite Linux distro?

I have no shame.

PS have you seen your sig? It's awesome, but tell me there's not an air of nerdieness about you.

crap, I'm a BAMF.   

[pissclams]

Chings said "shade up, bitches" - i put up my shades   

[pissclams]

possible "middle ground" has been found.

[ew2x4]

There are plenty of all-in-ones. I kinda want to play with this one: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/alt/tsalt.html

[pissclams]

There are plenty of all-in-ones. I kinda want to play with this one: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/alt/tsalt.html

thats pretty pimp- i will check it out, GO KATZW

[pissclams]

There are plenty of all-in-ones. I kinda want to play with this one: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/alt/tsalt.html

i went and messed with one of these today, does anyone know anything about them?
my concern is that the touch screen software.  the first thing i'd want to do when i got this home would be to wipe the HDD clean and reformat to get all of the preloaded junk off of it.  assume there's some weird touch screen software that needs to run in conjunction with vista?   

[pissclams]

this is the other option i'm looking at.  apple has fallen out of the race at this point.

and oh btw, intel has done a sufficiently great job of confusing me with their cpu naming convention

[SkinnyBenny]

New macbooks are coming in the next couple of weeks FWIW

When?  Link?

[ew2x4]

As far as the HP touch screen goes, I'm pretty sure all you need is a driver for the touch screen to work. You don't need the software, afaik.

[pissclams]

As far as the HP touch screen goes, I'm pretty sure all you need is a driver for the touch screen to work. You don't need the software, afaik.

cool.  i'm kinda hating the fact that they put crapty mobile cpu's in their entire line of all-in-one's.   

[Catmatt]

I have two PCs and a Mac.  The Mac is for Photoshop, Final Cut, After Effects, Titanium Toast ... all my media software, plus it has three drives and another external drive for boucoup memory.  But I would never use it to write, surf the net, do spreadsheets, etc.

It all depends what your usage will be.

My only beef is, when I make my videos, I have to convert to MPEG4, then put taht on a disk, then down;ad the MPEG4 to my PC before I can upload it to YouTube.  A bit timeconsuming.  But I don't like surfing the net on the Mac, so it is never online.

[pissclams]

can you not upload mac created videos to youtube?

[ew2x4]

As far as the HP touch screen goes, I'm pretty sure all you need is a driver for the touch screen to work. You don't need the software, afaik.

cool.  i'm kinda hating the fact that they put crapty mobile cpu's in their entire line of all-in-one's.   

Mobile? I thought they all had Core 2 duos?

Matt- That's one of my biggest beefs with Macs. RECOGNIZE NTFS! Anyways, why do you not like surfing on the mac?

[waks]

My macbook as given me tons of problems.  Have to restart all the time.  Won't print.  Won't save any kind of document sometimes.  I want to sell it.

Weren't you jerking Macs off like a year ago?

[pissclams]

As far as the HP touch screen goes, I'm pretty sure all you need is a driver for the touch screen to work. You don't need the software, afaik.

cool.  i'm kinda hating the fact that they put crapty mobile cpu's in their entire line of all-in-one's.   

Mobile? I thought they all had Core 2 duos?

Matt- That's one of my biggest beefs with Macs. RECOGNIZE NTFS! Anyways, why do you not like surfing on the mac?

they make core 2 duos for laptops.  i could be wrong but i think that intel cpu's with the T in their name like the T8100 and the T5850 are designated as mobile/laptop cpu's.  they put off less heat but they also don't move as fast as their desktop counterparts.  

hp also put in laptop video cards in them - GeForce 9600M GS HD graphics cards.  

overall it just limits the functionality of the machine but probably had to be done because of engineering (heat) specs.  dunno.

[pissclams]

also- went by circuit city at lunch today and the HP demo machine was broken. 

[ew2x4]

Ahh, I see. From my experience, laptop video cards are actually somewhat comparable to their desktop counter parts. CPU's however seem to lag behind quite a bit. At least for rendering and very CPU intensive stuff like that. Let me know how the HP handles if you find one.

[pissclams]

i did find a working one, at best buy.  it was pretty cool from what i could tell...they had the IQ506 which reset itself when i first started playing with it.  after waiting about 15 minutes for it to reboot and load some software (i think Best Buy loads some security crap onto it), i played with it for a while.  honestly, i'm so used to the mouse as my pointer that the touchsmart almost seemed gimmicky.  very responsive and accurate though, the touchsmart is.  just not sure how practical...

would be hard to know without sitting it down at your desk at home and playing with it for a while...

[PCR]

The Dell Inspiron 1525 is a pretty nice machine for not much money.  I had a coworker who just bought one. 

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transaction completed.  which one did clams buy?   

[rundown87]

Has anyone noticed that all the apple commercials choose to use the worst songs of all time to promote their products?

I tried to do handstands for you, for YOUUOHHHOOHHUUUUUOHHHUUUUUOHUUUUU.

[pissclams]

Has anyone noticed that all the apple commercials choose to use the worst songs of all time to promote their products?

I tried to do handstands for you, for YOUUOHHHOOHHUUUUUOHHHUUUUUOHUUUUU.

until kanye west starts promoting apple, they're no way near picking the worst songs of all time.

[ew2x4]

transaction completed.  which one did clams buy?   

 

[pissclams]

i got the imac 

[Saulbadguy]

 

[greasd up deaf guy]

[pissclams]

LOL- I knew Saul'd throw up.  it's pretty slick.