Woot! Intel Macs Have Arrived!

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MacBook Pro At a Glance
15.4-inch widescreen display
1.67 or 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
667MHz frontside bus and main memory
PCI Express architecture
Up to 120GB Serial ATA hard drive
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with up to 256MB memory on 16-lane PCI Express
ExpressCard/34 slot
Dual-link DVI, VGA adapter included
One FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports
Optical digital and analog audio I/O, built-in microphone and stereo speakers
Slot-loading SuperDrive
Illuminated keyboard, Scrolling TrackPad
Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, and Gigabit Ethernet
Mac OS X Tiger with iLife ’06 featuring iWeb, iWork ’06 trial, and more



iMac At a Glance
Up to 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor
Click, squeeze and scroll Mighty Mouse
Get the big picture with a 17- or 20-inch widescreen flat-panel display
Elegant, modern design
Play fast with PCI-Express ATI Radeon X1600 graphics processor
See and be seen with built-in iSight camera and iChat AV5
Enjoy truly personal theater with Front Row and Apple Remote
Burn DVDs or CDs with 8x SuperDrive
Banish clutter with built-in wireless
Connect your digital life with three USB 2.0 ports and two FireWire 400 ports
Extend your desktop on your TV, display or projector with optional adapters
Connect to a Windows network
Organize and share music, movies and photos with iLife ’06 featuring iWeb
Enjoy Mac OS X Tiger, the world’s most advanced operating system

 

This is a good week indeed.

New iPod software is out.

OS X 10.4.4 is out.

New iTunes and Quicktime is out, as well.

 

Apparently I have latest itunes .....

 

Windows users need not apply I guess.

Mine is 6.0.2.

Yours?

 

6.0.1, guess it'll be improved soon....

 

Cool, glad I didn't go through the last slow, painful upgrade while I was still on dial-up now

 

I want Woot!

 

Everyone wants to be like me. Take a number, and you'll be called up when its your turn.

 

This means Vista should be released any minute now.

Followed by years of Service Packs and patches.

 

Oh goody! Another reason my new DSL is a blessing

 

Nah, 10.5 will be the next major release. This is just a milestone update, or service pack. Whatever they did, it kicks major arse. I was having somewhat sluggish browsing on all web browsers ever since I got this Mac. Now its very, very quick.

 

W00T!

OS X 10.4.4 runs great on my old rig!

 

I believe that

 

I don't.

Why would you?

 

Hope you didn't fall for this hoax message circulating around, with the same exact words, but different posters.

 

Considering iTunes is a huge cash cow for Apple, I can't think of one reason why they would install Spyware?


I don't think whoever posted that has ulterior motives, but rather that they are ignorant.

Qttask.exe is not Spyware, it's a tray icon that simplifies accessibility.

 

that they where accused

 

It's limmerick time,


His name was Adrynalyne, and he was a Mod,

A position of respect, almost a God,

He went out and bought Root,

And when asked Got Woot?

He simply replied with a nod.

 

LOL. Thats signature material

 

i just got a 20 inch I-Mac for Christmas its pretty cool, but my old windows games are useless now and i probably have to throw them away

 

Sweet

I don't pretend Mac is bug free, quite opposite. I've ran into my share of annoying glitches. I just like it better, and its something new for me I just hate hoax posts trying to induce panic on the general public. I like the OS better, and at this point I don't have to worry about viruses, or spyware. That may change, but as of right now, its not an issue. I enjoy not having to worry, for the time being.

The thing that caught my eye is that these new Macs use EFI, and while XP does not support it, Vista will. Which means, there is a really good chance that a dual boot scenario is possible. The new Intel Yonah CPU is supposed to be faster than the Pentium-M, which is already faster than the P4.

Seems like a win-win scenario to me. Mac for productivity, Vista for games.

 

My view on Macs is, and I don't use them, is that they are better in some things, but they also have a huge advantage that Windows doesn't.

As in, all Mac hardware is pretty much the same to a point, which makes writing software a lot easier.

WinTels can be anything, and Windows is expected to run on all of them.

As far as being safer, if everyone used them, that status wouldn't last for long.


If games and other software ran on Macs, I would probably try it.

If finances allowed, a Mac and a Windows machine would be great, but for the foreseeable future, that won't happen for me.


BTW, can we have a Dyson forum, seeing as Adrynalyne and others now have a Macintosh forum?

 

You, I mean, your Dyson sucks

 

We both do.


MA is going to make a Dyson Forum and I'm the Administrator.

Be nice and I'll let you post there.

 

What a bunch of suckers


So they are worth the price eh?

 

My mum has the animal one for all the dog hair, and it's the only one that can pick it up. (her dogs have really long fur, and her hoover and electrolux couldn't)

And yes, they are worth it. Expensive, but extremely well designed.

One of the few products that actually does what it promises.

 

I've got a VAX for Animals.... it's got this crazy attachment that uses the vacuum to spin a brush thing. It makes the most disgusting high pitched noise - maybe it's supposed to act like a dog whistle to tell them to get the hell off your sofa!!!

I used to have a Dyson, and it sucked for quite a while. Then it fell appart. Figures.

 

Well, if you treated your Dyson anything like your PM box, you have to empty it at least once a century.