OT: Bill Gates demos "Vista"

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:42 am

It looks very good and I will be buying a copy for all my computers.

Mhm. For the Classic, the Quadra (coming soon!), the iBook and the Silicon Graphics Indy... All will run Vista.

Yessss.

Actually, I can't see the video cos my OS doesn't have flash support. Fucking YouTube.

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:32 am

That's just cruel.

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:44 am

noisetonepause wrote: Actually, I can't see the video cos my OS doesn't have flash support. Fucking YouTube.

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:59 am

Big Mac, Big Mick - who cares?

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:22 am

forge wrote:Big Mac, Big Mick - who cares?

You're no fun!

Come on man! defend M$ and I'll defend those stupid commercials and coffee culture, graphics artist apple stereotypes. What happened man? is the magic gone?

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:39 am

Yeah, it's no fun like this

*sips on Starbucks Caramel Macchiato*

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:19 am

Machinesworking wrote:
forge wrote:Big Mac, Big Mick - who cares?
You're no fun!

Come on man! defend M$ and I'll defend those stupid commercials and coffee culture, graphics artist apple stereotypes. What happened man? is the magic gone?

well truth is, as I'm going to Uni and dont need much power and the mrs totally relies on her laptop in Live gigs and the powerbook's power supply has just gone, plus it's quite old now, so we're swapping when the new power supply arrives so I'll be mac from now on!

actually the

is only because it's a G3 900 and Live never did well on those!

got 10.4 though and I quite like that

it's a Pismo with a 900mHz upgrade in it, 1GB ram, 20GB HD - the only bummer is the 8MB video - but like I said I'm only going to need to run Acrobat, word, safari/firefox etc and the IT course software (dr scheme), and occasionally Live for fun (it'll at least do something) so I'm not too bothered really - quite looking forward to it

might even think about getting that metasynth 4 upgrade!

the best thing about it is the way you can use both bays to hold a battery each

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:29 am

forge wrote:the best thing about it is the way you can use both bays to hold a battery each

I just whish Apple would go back to the concept of bays..... I'm waiting on a eSATA external HD and it will be better than an internal is now 320GB for 94$.... it's insane how cheap HDs are now! the Express card, HD, and external case cost $170 total, and this thing will be as fast as my internal 7200rpm drive!

Anyway, yeah, 900mhz is pushing it, I had an 800 G4 powerbook that ran like one soft synth, and maybe 4-5 fx... but I was pretty happy.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:07 pm

1G of RAM? Hah! I made all my best tunes in 384 with room left for Chess.app!

(Well, maybe not quite... but it's OK, you just need to learn to love it:))

/N

pulsoc · Post by **pulsoc** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:28 pm

I vaguely recall reading that M$ lent Apple like $100 mil recently. I couldn't figure out why. Now it makes sense. Keep Apple afloat as the M$ concept team.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:44 pm

So Vista is actually OSX? That makes sense now

but, that's impossible - maybe we should do a DNA test to prove who the real OSX is...like a on divorce court...doh!

zappen · Post by **zappen** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:26 pm

just to spin the wheel..

some of the beloved OSX features were copied from windows longhorn alpha!
google yourself!

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:05 pm

zappen wrote:just to spin the wheel..

google yourself!

I have googled myself (several times) I just don't see how that's relevant to the discussion

curious?

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:10 pm

We swear we did it all first in an OS no one ever got to use.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:16 pm

pulsoc wrote:I vaguely recall reading that M$ lent Apple like $100 mil recently. I couldn't figure out why. Now it makes sense. Keep Apple afloat as the M$ concept team.

Ten years ago in a few months...

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/2/4/6890