new MacBook and MacBook Pro on Tuesday, October 14th

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:32 pm

Well, Apple takes 220 Euro extra for a CPU difference that costs only 20 Euro on the market.

I'm still not out on this one, HP Elite Notebooks come with high resolution screens, eSATA and probably replaceable CPUs for that price. If only the people around me wouldn't build their music systems all around OS X.

ava · Post by **ava** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:36 pm

Crash wrote:Well, Apple takes 220 Euro extra for a CPU difference that costs only 20 Euro on the market.

I'm still not out on this one, HP Elite Notebooks come with high resolution screens, eSATA and probably replaceable CPUs for that price. If only the people around me wouldn't build their music systems all around OS X.

That made me laught...

Strange thing is mac users think there the best and original, but bill gates invented the mouse...

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:47 pm

ava wrote:bill gates invented the mouse...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

ava · Post by **ava** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:53 pm

noisetonepause wrote:
ava wrote:bill gates invented the mouse...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

guess im wrong then, it's just that I can remember as a kid bill showing off his mouse on what I believed was an atari.

ava · Post by **ava** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:09 pm

Thats it then im going MAC!!

dont want to use a copy...

ava · Post by **ava** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:15 pm

what i just read up is apple stole the mouse idea from xerox!

"Many say that Bill Gates stole the idea for a graphical operating system and the mouse from Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, who stole the idea from Xerox."

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=74

ava · Post by **ava** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:27 pm

the man who invented the mouse WAS Dr Douglas Engelbart but he did not work for apple, he licenced off his idea to apple. The patent expired just before personal computers became popular.

And ive been wrong for over 20 years!!...

http://www.friedbeef.com/2006/05/09/the ... the-mouse/

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:54 pm

It's no secret that Apple ripped off a lot of things from Xerox (and later NeXT did too - things like networking and object-oriented programming), but they added a few core concepts and more importantly turned it into a mass-producable device that people could actually buy.

You shouldn't think of technological progress as stealing. It's evolution. Nine times out of ten when somebody claims to have a completely new idea, it'll turn out they just aren't familiar with the seven other people who already had the exact same idea, much less the sixteen who've written books about why it's a stupid idea to begin with...

ava · Post by **ava** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:58 pm

atleast I can say Ive invented something... Lighting in music tracks!

hrmnk · Post by **hrmnk** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:05 pm

imo the new mbps are fucking ugly
i was waiting for the new model to come out but it doesnt offer anything new i can use, so i guess i'm buying the latest version of the old design

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:37 pm

so the keys aren't curved anymore on the macbook pros? They use the crappy flat macbook keys now? wow, what an advance. And to me it looks like there's more black space around the screen then there was metal casing before. So is the screen narrower or is the laptop a bit wider?

mr.adl · Post by **mr.adl** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:08 pm

I am a BIG PC user so far but just watched the vid on the apple page and damn...this things are incredible! No need for firewire for me (have an Trio USB interface) and thinking of getting the little one (not Pro). I really don´t wanne switch over to Mac, but this babys are NICE!

Anybody knows how Win XP is running on them since they have intel chips on it?

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:19 pm

mr.adl wrote:Anybody knows how Win XP is running on them since they have intel chips on it?

It runs like shite. Completely unusable, resource hogging and ugly with a crappy user interface.

(that is, it's exactly like any other PC if you put Windows on it, there's no difference)

adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:05 am

noisetonepause wrote:
mr.adl wrote:Anybody knows how Win XP is running on them since they have intel chips on it?
It runs like shite. Completely unusable, resource hogging and ugly with a crappy user interface.

(that is, it's exactly like any other PC if you put Windows on it, there's no difference)

unless of course you actually know what youre doing. then they run trouble and virus free, on dirt cheap hardware. but dont let any facts get in the way of your baseless ranting.

mr Adl, XP runs just fine on bootcamp, performs very well, its just PC hardware after all. Youre paying a premium for the MacOS so you might as well run that if youre going to pay extra for the hardware.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:10 am

adventurepants_ wrote:but dont let any facts get in the way of your baseless ranting

I assure you I won't