“The first thing that startled me about the MacBooks were not their glossy white or matte black finishes, nor the fact that they had Intel dual-core processors rather than lower-powered single-core ones. I had expected all that. What surprised me was the price: they start at $1,099, even lower if you are a student,” Wilson Rothman writes for Time Magazine. “The MacBook has most of what its pricier sibling the MacBook Pro offers: a built-in iSight camera, the Apple Remote so that you can access music and videos from across the room, the break-away magnetic power cable, even wireless Bluetooth support for cell phones, cameras and certain types of mouse. It can even support an external monitor in addition to its own screen. It is, of course, missing some of the features of the Pro, such as the light-up keyboard, a light-sensitive display, a dedicated graphics card and an ExpressCard/34 expansion slot for cellular modems, card readers and other devices mostly not yet built.”
“The MacBook gave me an excellent opportunity to try out Boot Camp — that’s the installation of Windows XP as a second operating system, in case you hadn’t heard. On startup, I can choose the Mac OS or Windows, and everything I tried in the latter environment worked as well as it could have. I even tested out MTV’s Urge service with — Jobs forgive me — an iriver clix music player. It all worked together even more smoothly than it had done on my high-powered Dell desktop,” Rothman writes. “The MacBook is a powerful and affordable option, especially for people who are uncertain about their Windows future. The next version, Vista, might be a success, but with a MacBook you can hedge your bet. You get a computer that runs both Mac OS X and Windows XP today, and even appears to meet the minimum requirements for Vista once it gets here. Dell and HP should be very worried indeed.”
Full article here.
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Should’ve read more like this:
Ampar,
Isn’t that just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Aren’t you just the little sesquipedalian.
I WISH THIS SITE WOULD DUMP THE LINK ADS. THEY STINK SOMETHING FIERCE
simple solution, are you ready?
sudo pico /etc/hosts
arrow down to the bottom line and add
0.0.0.0 macdailynews.us.intellitxt.com
control x, y and press return
Reload MDN, goodbye Text ads
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You can block your computer from many sites this way. just search online for “editing your hosts file” works in Windows too. Even get a big list of sites to block that monitor your web habits.
Thanks for the kudos, DoppelStupid. I also just made it to halfway to 88 years old today. Woohoo. No more pleonasms (for now).
(I can also deconstruct sentences. That’s handy.)
I used to say I bled six colors. Now what? I bleed glossy blue?
Here is a nice big list of sites worth blocking
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
and instructions for Windows (works for us too)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
127.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.0 work basically the same way. One number just assigns your computer and the other assigns nothing to certain web sites you enter in the list.
“#” means to tell the computer to “ignore this line” comes in handy to put your comments in the /etc/hosts file.
A extra program to get is SafariBlock from Macupdate or VersionTracker.com. It’s a plugin that you can right click on annoying banner ads to make them disappear for good.
Luke are you nuts, I will be one of the last hold-outs when buying a ccd screen, have you ever heard of big brother. Look it up man.
It won’t be long till they might be watching you and you won’t know it.
Think I am paranoid? “They” (the Man) has the power to flag key words, phrases and voice data now. PC or Mac I doubt it will matter.
Snap those mesh stockings? What?
Man, this birthday sucked.
KaramaData – yeah, if you must use Safari then you need to go through all those machinations.
There is a Much easier way:
http://www.caminobrowser.org
Use Camino and disable JavaScript in preferences. ZERO ads on this site (including intellitxt ads). MDN needs to pay the bills, but I have never clicked on one ad on ANY site ever, so I am not singling out MDN here.
For even further functionality download and install CamiTools:
http://www.nadamac.de/camitools/index.php
It adds an additional preference pane that allows much flexibility including automatically downloading a HUGE list of ad servers (daily, weekly – you set it) from: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ and automatically puts them on your blocked list. The list is updated daily.
Camino + CamiTools = NO ADS. BOTH ARE FREE
Yea the Javascipt thing works in Safari too, a bit of a hassle turning it on/off.
Nice plug in though for the camino browser that’s auto-updating has got to be da bomb!!!
Wondering if someone is working on a Safari plugin that works along the same lines?
anyone?
The next Apple ad should reveal that anyone can get porn faster on a Macbook without viruses. That’s the big sell.
Hey, http://www.caminobrowser.org!
Checked out the links, that really is sweet.
Also I can spoof Safari so that I’m letting sites know they better support our platform.
Plug in “cami tools” is also bad ass.
thanks for the info/links.
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Want to know more about the new Intel Core 2 Duo that will be used in up and coming Macs? Loyd Case (and this guy is an EXPERT) talks about it on DL.TV episode 67 here:
http://gearlog.com/blogs/digitallifetv/archive/2006/06/07/13443.aspx
*** Fast forward in to 8:00min if you don’t care about the other stuff
4 instructions per clock cycle, 4MB L2 cache, SSE in one cycle instead of two (video encoders will be happy about this) and more. Very interesting stuff. He also tells a bit about AMD’s newest offerings and sort of does an opinion comparison. About a 5 min long segment but very interesting.
Sorry MacDude, you’re not the only one who can use <span style=”color:#FF00CC;”>colors</span>
<span title=”My Hovercraft is full of eels.”>Of course, the obvious question is will these people just use them as Windows machines or not. If so, it doesn’t really matter that they buy Macs.</span>
Time … Ha. What a bunch of liberal, biased fiction writers. The rag has become required reading for yellow belly gutless lib cowards.
Vista Will be successful for the following reason…
Wtih over 90% of the market share and most business using Windows XP, they will have to upgrade to vista sometime in the future. 5 years or 10 years down the road depending on when Microsoft tells everyone to upgrade. With such a high market share, everyone is at the mercy of Microsoft. When Microsoft says XP is done and no longer supports it, everyone will buy Vista.
That’s the sad truth. The key to winning market share is not just in the personal PC line, but also in the business line.
KaramaData thanks for the tip.
btw… that took all of 14 seconds, not too tough + def preferable to switching browsers or keeping track of plug-ins imho
“Time … Ha. What a bunch of liberal, biased fiction writers. The rag has become required reading for yellow belly gutless lib cowards.”
If you’re going to take meds intended for farm animals, at least have the courtesy to keep your ramblings to yourself… you make thinking conservatives look like morons.
You have to push control shift F10 to get a right click! What a piece of crap!
“you make thinking conservatives look like morons.”
LOL
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
Microsoft has Windows ‘Lock In’. The bastards have to make all Windows software work on Macs and stop this ‘Lock In’.
The people in France and Norway are up in arms over this ‘Lock In’.
What? Boot Camp? Windows works on a Mac?
Oh. never mind.
Ubuntu Linux 6.06 runs on my Macbook great as well! I LOVE my Macbook!!!!!
Squeal!!!!!