Apple Status:

[Ravioli]

[ ] NOT TOLD
[ ] TOLD
[X] Told so hard another universe was created from dat toldness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72rGDUn2uo


I dont really want any of these devices, but im just amazed that people still think the Ipad is some gift from god and is flawless and better than all other contenders.

 

[Warped]

lol, Apples big announcement was Beatles music on iTunes today. i think I've had all the albums for years now

 

[Chrash]

I've never taken interest in the ipad, it seems really pointless. I'd take a laptop over that thing any day. That someone would type, do shit with photos, surf the web etc without a mouse and keyboard confuses me. Also, weren't there devices like that a few years prior to the Ipad?

 

[VirusType2]

Lol'd at the javascript rendering at the end.

 

[Stigmata]

That was just sad. The Ipad is so slow

 

[Quixoticism]

lol, Apples big announcement was Beatles music on iTunes today. i think I've had all the albums for years now

LoL, for reals?

I will pay money for an iPad when it looks like this

 

[Remus]

I will pay money for an iPad when it looks like this

But, that's a laptop.

 

[Quixoticism]

Clearly you don't get the vision of what this kind of device could be. Apple doesn't either, but from the opposite spectrum.

The iPad should be an ultra-portable touchscreen laptop. No it won't replace conventional laptops for working/processing/anything system intensive.
But it is great for being able to carry a lite version of your office around(if you work at home like I do), do internet browsing from anywhere, movies, music, etc.

Anything like the Macbook Air becomes a useless, overpriced book holder.

 

[Remus]

The main reason why I make fun of such products is because I personally have no need for mobile devices. If I want internet,music,games,movies,programs etc. I just go to my bulky desktop PC. How retro, right?
Since you work at home like I do, why exactly do you need a mobile device to do all those things?

 

[Quixoticism]

I don't always want to have to be tied to my 'office' when I'm doing work. I also am on the road quite a bit which makes ultra-portables quite attractive.

I first scoffed at the iPad because it was introduced as an XL iPod. That's really all it is.
But I was able to play around with one and that's when I realized that it has incredible potential as a mobile platform, it's just neutered by it's hyper-restrictive iOS. You can't really do anything with it.
For me it would be better than a notebook as I could take media, internet, or work with me around the house(or on the go) and when I need to do anything that requires more serious power I can get onto my desktop.

 

[Naph]

Being a Graphic Design student, I am always in one end of our campus where all the "design computers" and design teachers are. I don't mind working on a Mac at school, not a big deal. But dear ****ing god, everyone in that end of the building is the biggest Macfag. Every professor and just about half of the students are Apple cultists.

I don't mind people who prefer Mac over PC, whatever, but when you hear absolutely ignorant comments everyday from your peers, and worse, from professors about Apple's "superiority" compared to the PC, it drives you nuts. What's worse is you have to shut your mouth during these moments; there is no point in arguing, wait no, not even arguing, calmly explaining to Apple Fanatics why Macs are over overpriced and technologically inferior. It's like explaining evolution to an Evangelical Christian; ****ing pointless.

I tend uni with macfags. But these are the professional macfags that can actually admit to apples flaws. Being a macnoob, I cannot hold a conversation with these people.

 

[VirusType2]

"And if you're working on a Mac, you can just click and drag the photo into photoshop".

And if you use Windows 7, you can do that in all applications, not just Adobe's. Tell him that, see what he says.

(Document to word/notepad, etc.; mp3/video to media player; photo to a photo editor, etc.)

 

[kineaesth]

Even showing solid, irrefutable evidence ultimately leads to the usual, "Well, my mac has never gotten a virus" rebuttal.

Which is hilarious, I got a call at about midnight a few weeks ago from my friend - he'd got a bunch of files from a friend (who had a mac) - mp3s, pdfs, so on; turns out one of the pdfs was infected with something and he honestly did not know what to do.

Also I'm not sure why he called me but that's besides the point

That thing looks swell! And actually small enough to be useful.

 

[Ravioli]

I had a friend who was a major macfag and wouldnt stop preaching about how great it was. We had a Computer Service/Support class together, so we would always argue about computers. Well, a few years later, he comes back to town after being in college for a while. So im all like "so hows your Mac doing?"

"Mac? LOL i havent used one in years, its ****ing horrible. It becomes incredibly slow and cumbersome, and is very limited to my needs"

And ofcourse he denies ever being a Macfag. Now hes a Linuxfag.

 

[Naph]

My favorite is when a prof will be showing something in photoshop or illustrator and make note of one of Mac's "features", for example- "And if you're working on a Mac, you can just click and drag the photo into photoshop".
I kid you not, I have heard that three times in the past year. Really, you're so secluded from PC's that you believe dragging and dropping photos from the desktop into an Adobe program is a Mac exclusive feature.

It was. It really was.

 

[ríomhaire]

"And if you're working on a Mac, you can just click and drag the photo into photoshop".

And if you use Windows 7, you can do that in all applications, not just Adobe's. Tell him that, see what he says.

(Document to word/notepad, etc.; mp3/video to media player; photo to a photo editor, etc.)

Just tried this in GIMP. Works in WIndows 7, not in OSX. Learn something new every day.

 

[Naph]

Just tried this in GIMP. Works in WIndows 7, not in OSX. Learn something new every day.

I think the tutor meant "To click and drag an image into the artboard". Windows 7 doesn't do this, it just opens it in a new artboard. Mac as I remember it had two locations where you could click and drag to, the artboard, which adds the image to it as a new layer, or the file tab space, where it opened it into a new artboard. His, information, is outdated but back when I was using Windows XP on the side of OSX, it wasn't capable of this and I would have preferred OSX vastly.

With the line of work I use photoshop for, this feature was incredibly useful.

 

[ríomhaire]

I think the tutor meant "To click and drag a image into the artboard". Windows 7 doesn't do this, it just opens it in a new artboard. Mac as I remember it had two locations where you could click and drag to, the artboard, which adds the image to it as a new layer, or the file tab space, where it opened it into a new artboard.

When I drag an image into GIMP it adds it as a new layer to the current image/window/artboard/whatever. When I do it in Paint.NET it asks me do I want to open it as a new image or as a new layer on the current image. It seems to depend on the programme, not Windows 7.

 

[Naph]

When I drag an image into GIMP it adds it as a new layer to the current image/window/artboard/whatever. When I do it in Paint.NET it asks me do I want to open it as a new image or as a new layer on the current image. It seems to depend on the programme, not Windows 7.

My post is directed to the Adobe suite CS4 and below. (I don't use free programs fortunately). CS5 corrected the Windows drag and drop feature which was originally intended to work in CS4.

 

[ríomhaire]

So in other words it has nothing at all to do with the topic of Mac features versus Windows features?

 

[Naph]

So in other words it has nothing at all to do with the topic of Mac features versus Windows features?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8u7px_GzWQ

It was a bug, not a feature. Macfags just say it was a 'feature' to piss people off.
Come to think of it, my previous posts may have been a bit misleading. Calling it a feature time and time again.