apple rotten?

[Vimto Rolf]

You mean you have a power pc cpu because you have an older mac...

i made a poor decision and bout it literally a week before they moved over to intel but im happy with it

At the end of the day, it's a computer (a personal computer, no less ) which runs software (OS X in my case). The software it runs does the things I want. Changing to a Mac in my case was a considered decision, after years of using Windows (and Linux, and FreeBSD).

minust the linux and freebsd :yeahthat:

Buying a new Windows PC would have got me Vista, which I don't particularly want.
I have to deal with Windows and its problems all day at work - I don't want more of it when I get home!

bought a windows vaio last year and its great also but vista in partic vista business has too manty flaws

 

[hmallett]

Not just "near the same" processors. The same. A Mac and a PC are the same inside, and have been for a few years.
The Operating System is different, but then that's what the Mac difference is now, and always has been really. Except OS X is pretty good (though not perfect), whereas OS 9 and previous were less good....
If you're referring to the USB Human Interface Device thing for mice and keyboards, that's the same on PCs and Macs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_class
I've never (that I can remember) seen it referred to as anything other than a keyboard, except when you plug it into a USB port (on Windows or FreeBSD) and it says it's found a HID.

 

[306maxi]

Fanboys - you're all the same - blah blah blah about pretty products that you want to believe are the pinnacle of technology when underneath they're running the same hardware as everything else except with more restrictions

By the way, have you checked to see if you have an INTEL processor in your mac? :devil:

Don't argue with a Mac zealot dude. It's pointless. you can make a sensible argument till you're blue in the face and they still won't listen.

 

[custard]

A PhD student at Carleton University in Canada, Atif Shamin, has out-thought Apple by inventing a ‘transmitter system on-package’ that significantly extends the battery life of mobile devices. It all has to do with the connection between the circuit board and the antenna.

Instead of using wire, he designed a high frequency micro-transmitter and receiver that avoids the usual loss of power through a wire. That’s a significant breakthrough in energy efficiency in mobile devices. He created a module that replaces all of the wires connecting a phone’s electrical circuits and the antennae, making them all communicate wirelessly.

This mod, ups the device’s efficiency by a whopping 12 times, dramatically improving battery life. Apple should hire this guy immediately.

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2008/12/student-increases-iphone-battery-life-by-12x/#more-15514

 

[306maxi]

I smell an Apple lawsuit