macs never crash

[ARCADIOS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig1qtduR ... re=related

[garyb]

and this is a total lie.

my son's g5 powerbook runs much better on xp than osx. osx has some wonderful features for consumers, however and feels a little smoother, if much slower. the main thing is that macs are made of quality parts, not some random experiment. macs are not more powerful than so-called pcs they are about the same or just a little slower(vista is a little slower than osx). if you built you xp machine the same way as the mac is built, quality parts and moderate performance, it would be stable as can be, too.

i can leave my computer on for a week with works in progress, never saving until the end, and not worry about loss of data or crashes. certainly, i can MAKE it crash, but macs can be MADE to crash, too.

[Zer]

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=cFOcjff9CVM

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=yqKNNLadj_M

[astroman]

... I think it was Tom who always could explain that the legend stems from the OS9 times...

pre OS9, Stardust - way back in time, when there were cavemen, cavewomen, troglodytes ...
OS9 was just a piece of poo to torment people so they'd be willing to switch to OSX
still the pain wasn't enough
in other words: even the the most crippled remainder of the Mac OS let people stick with it
until Apple lost patience with the rest of us
forgetting they owe the survival of the company to exactly that us more than one time...
they hardcoded the disability to boot OS9 into the Roms of the machine, as it was the only way to stop the misbehaving
then there were Intel Macs and eventually the rest of us enjoyed the same Asus boards as the rest of the PC world
Happy Sad, Happy Sad, Happy Sad

the miraculuous versions of the Mac OS responsible for the legend are numbers 7.1 to 8.2
those dogs were hunting, as the proverb goes...

cheers, Tom

[astroman]

no problem, it was computer stoneage anyway
but then... wasn't Arnie so much better as Conan than on his current job ?

cheers, Tom

[Neutron]

They are exactly the same thing except the mac has a DRM chip to allow osx to run. its not even good hardware. the new macbooks use Nvidia chipsets!

great for those people who have USB audio where almost every manufacturer says "intel usb host recommended"

[ScofieldKid]

Just a point of clarification... when you say "use NVIDIA chipsets", just to be clear, I don't believe they are using NVIDIA core chipsets. We're just talking NVIDIA GPU here. The dual-Nvidia GPU is a single chip on the mobo. So I expect Apple kept the hardware/drivers etc. for other devices fairly similar to the previous model. (I'm not overly enamored with the dual-GPU idea, but it looks like a fairly good notebook GPU nevertheless.)

Notably, only get a FW800 port on the 15" new one. And express card slot on the 15" new one. You can cable-adapt to connect FW400 to FW800, btw. So seems like an evolution of the last model...

[Neutron]

No it is an actual nvidia chipset, i am sorry to say.
the GPU being nvidia is a good thing, the chipset, not so much.

[ScofieldKid]

Uh, is there a source where you saw this? I can't find one. And I suspect people in the press are just confusing the fact of an NVIDIA GPU with the mobo.... The preview stuff on Anandtech made it appear that the mobo's were next-to-identical.

[ScofieldKid]

Oh Dang! You were absolutely right!

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3435&p=2

Gotta read the review... but wow, uh wow!