Apple-haters please cut down on the drugs a bit and remember this is just a company and if you don't like their products just don't buy them.
The MBP design is getting a bit old but it's still great - in fact, it's timeless. If you have ever looked at the detail on these you will have to admit that it's the product of a deep obsession with design; even the tiniest screw on the MBP is perfect.
Evidence of timeless design: I have a 5 year old laptop which looks better than any PC laptop out there - sexier, sleeker, thinner, just hot, a titanium PowerBook. It can't just "keep up" with the latest from Asus, Sony, Acer - it beats them hands-down in the looks department. Same is true for my 5 year old iPod. It looks as cool today as it did back then. That's because it's not following some fashion trend but because it's a design classic.
Blast Apple on their control-freakery or their initial quality, but not on design - that's just dumb.
ra ra ra... wake me when the FTTH or ADSL that can actually deliver 100Mbps comes out.
Until then these pre-n routers increase the already-fastest link in the chain, while leaving the actual bottleneck unchanged.
The reason I am not buying one is that all laptops that then want to access this gloriously fast network need special pre-n cards in them. Of course they are backwards compatible, but if you access them with plan 'ole 802.11b/g you lose any speed advantage
I am using a Nokia Symbian and I am not that impressed. It's Oh-key, but has a lot of annoyances and the user interface is definitely inferior to the old bare-bones Nokias. It definitely doesn't feel like it's the s*** for mobile apps.
The one thing I don't get about Samsung phones is the text on the center button. It's OK to not have any text on this, for chrissake! I never bought a Samsung because they had the retarded italics-i on the center button. Both an eye-sore and completely useless if internet on the phone is A) extremely expensive and B) completely useless.
Now they finally got rid of the "i", but replaced it with "OK". Why, oh why? Especially since the rest of the Samsung phones have a very nice design.
the only thing worse than Apple-fanbois are Apple-haters.
more or less buttons is not better or worse, it just depends on the application. the traditional negative example for too many buttons is Word. a negative example for having too few is BMWs iDrive - it has only one button for everything, and is almost impossible to use, especially when driving.
cell phones or the original iPod are good examples of the "right amount" of buttons. it's more about the functionality than the number of buttons.
if you think about it, using your fingerprints as password is a strange concept. it's like leaving copies of your password pretty much everywhere you go. yeah, that's secure!!!
and guess which part of the laptop has a perfect fingerprint on it? that's right, the fingerprint-scanner of course.
same goes for DNA scanners, actually...
looks like passwords will be the most secure for a while to come. because they leave no externally measurable traces...
re battery life: I sure hope the MBP is better than 2 hours! c2d has roughtly the same bat life. however, it's the graphics card which really kills things... i have the x1600 in my pc laptop and get 3 hours on max on c1d even though it has a big fat 9 cell battery.
c2d is out, but by no means wide spread - i see tons of notebooks on sale with c1d and p-M and c-M.
i will decide whether i want it or not when it's out - i just sold my powerbook and i am looking for a replacement mac.
but this time around i will wait at least 45 days after it's released and scour the forums for any problems before making a decision. it's true that mac users are a particularly picky bunch but the last few releases were plagued by problems. it should also be said that Apple has taken care of all of them, in due time.
yes, networking is cool and something people want, but i think we all know that it will happen only if it doesn't suck. and the implementation on the zune sucks.
expect to see iTunes-like sharing capabilities in the iPod soon, e.g. somebody can browse and use your iPod library freely as long as you are around.. exactly the way it works on iTunes.
For those who don't know: iTunes allows you to share your library with the entire local network. The way it works: You turn on sharing. Everybody else on the local network has you machine show up in their iTunes. Simple as that. Zero-configuration for real! It's just a streaming connection though, so when your machine is gone, your library is gone as well.
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Apple-haters please cut down on the drugs a bit and remember this is just a company and if you don't like their products just don't buy them.
The MBP design is getting a bit old but it's still great - in fact, it's timeless. If you have ever looked at the detail on these you will have to admit that it's the product of a deep obsession with design; even the tiniest screw on the MBP is perfect.
Evidence of timeless design: I have a 5 year old laptop
which looks better than any PC laptop out there - sexier, sleeker, thinner, just hot, a titanium PowerBook. It can't just "keep up" with the latest from Asus, Sony, Acer - it beats them hands-down in the looks department.
Same is true for my 5 year old iPod. It looks as cool today as it did back then. That's because it's not following some fashion trend but because it's a design classic.
Blast Apple on their control-freakery or their initial quality, but not on design - that's just dumb.