More Geekiness!
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Yesterday I featured a video showing how Microsoft would have done the iPod. Well today I have more Apple/Microsoft goodness for you. I promise, this will be the last one (for this week).
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The original ad that that samples/parodies is a box of shit.
Everyone with half a brain knows that apart from designing good furniture, Apple make ordinary computers that operate at half the level of WIntel boxes, and are fundamentally lacking in terms of software support. I remember a day, not long ago, when the best game on a Mac was Nanosaur, a free game that impressed me less than one of it’s contemporary internet flash games. All the while, we PC peeps were blasting away on Half-Life/Quake3/Unreal, unaware of the mediocrity forced upon our Mac wielding friends.
*Cue Mac-Brigade Protest*
” Oh but we’ve got Halo! And our machines happily interface with PCs!…Woot! ”
or
“Well Macs have better video and audio software(Photoshop/CueBase)”
PCs interface with PCs and Macs (albeit unhappily, nonetheless it’s a moot point) and Halo isn’t really worth the fuss…so shut up!
It’s like Nintendo kiddies waxing lyrical about the virtues of Super Mario to people who’ve played a real videogame with balls…anything up from an 8bit version of SpaceInvaders. Bugger the Princess, if she weren’t such a prick tease, then Wario wouldn’t have kidnapped her. So have a cry…I’m going to go and eat a pokemon.
And as for specialist software, it’s no surprise that design products have flourished on the Mac platform. Not because PCs are/were unable to perform the tasks, but designers, who we know are wankers(they’re the people that tell us Macs are better than PCs), are of course going to choose Apple’s admittedly superior aesthetics over a beige steel lump, despite the lump’s technical superiority.
I’m going to solve everyone’s problems right now. Ignore Macs, theyre crap. The installation of Intel x86 architecture in them is an admission of this. Go to http://www.lian-li.com/main.htm , hook yourself up with a cool case, go home, transpose the guts of your (surely) fantastic x86 PC gear and gloat to the following people (and any others):
Oskar
Hannah
Tim
David (depending on his mood)
Steve Jobs
The bottom line, I don’t like them, so neither should you.
You KNOW it makes sense, I’m Tom Harris-Brassil.
First. Whilst your points about Apple hardware being crap may have once been true (though this is debatable), since the move to the Dual Core Intel chips they are unarguably some of the best out-of-the-box machines you can buy. Yes they are expensive, but still…
Second. Since this week’s announcement by Apple of their new Boot Camp software which allows fully supported multi-booting, MacTels have become the ONLY machines available that can run any operating system natively.
Third. In Super Mario, it was Bowser (or King Kooper, depending on which game and how high up the evil chain of command you want to go) who kidnapped Princess Peach, not Wario.
I don’t profess to know the ins and outs of those silly Mario stories…it’s all green dinosaurs and magic mushrooms to me…
As for Boot-Camp, this obviously is in response to ordinary (actually ultra-nerds beyond Dave or I, who are proud of their inverted genitalia) people having already achieved this.
It makes sense that people would want to take sexy hardware and fast chips (Intel) and put decent a OS (XP cum Vista) on it all, however for months Apple has been trying to prevent this by locking down those chips with all sorts of authentication and security systems. Which naturally, people have got through, because Apple programmers blow. Righteous.
Really, all you’ve done is confirm what I’ve said, that until RIGHT NOW, Apple has sucked. And by sticking Intel chips in, they’re proffering an admission of this.
However because the new Intel/Apple motherboards don’t have a traditional BIOS(Basic Input Output System, used for executing bootstrap sequences(jargon anyone?)) chip and rely on the new equivalent, called EFI, (which is not supported by Windows XP without a compatability support module which MacTels don’t have)they WILL NOT NOW NOR EVER boot independently any Operating System you might happen to pop in.
It WILL boot (hope/pray/whatever) the current flavour of MacOS (I don’t bother to keep up…where are we now? Warthog?) and if the weather is good, scrape together a bodge version of XP 64bit, but not 32bit(the one normal people actually use due to 64bits atrocious driver support).
It seems that BootCamp requires a dualboot system whereby both MacOS AND Windows co-exist on the one computer. Windows CANNOT run without MacOS. This is clearly a workaround to the above problems and despite what the press release says, is therefore NOT native.
Furthermore, it’s a tacit admission that their own OS is flawed, that it’s pitched at the lowest common denominator of computer user, and that they accept that the only reason people buy Macs is because they look nice. Which they do.
Tom Jones has the hairiest arse in the world, bar none.
It makes sense that people would want to take sexy hardware and fast chips (Intel) and put decent a OS (XP cum Vista) on it all, however for months Apple has been trying to prevent this by locking down those chips with all sorts of authentication and security systems. Which naturally, people have got through, because Apple programmers blow. Righteous.
Wrong. Since the introduction of the Intel chips, Apple has specifically stated they would not prevent anyone installing Windows on Apple boxes. It was Windows’ own faults which prevented this until someone bypassed it.
However because the new Intel/Apple motherboards don’t have a traditional BIOS(Basic Input Output System, used for executing bootstrap sequences(jargon anyone?)) chip and rely on the new equivalent, called EFI, (which is not supported by Windows XP without a compatability support module which MacTels don’t have)they WILL NOT NOW NOR EVER boot independently any Operating System you might happen to pop in.
Wrong. True, the MacTels don’t use BIOS, they use EFI. However, just before the release of Boot Camp Apple released a firmware update which included a CSM for emulating BIOS. This is, infact, the whole point of using an Exstensible Firmware Interface. You can Extend the Firmware to run advanced programs like boot-loaders solely in firmware. Thus, you can load Win XP (32 or 64 bit, Vista (if it ever arrives) and any flavour of x86 Linux - natively. The only thing which is emulated is the initial bios, after the OS has loaded, everything is shipped back into the EFI.
It seems that BootCamp requires a dualboot system whereby both MacOS AND Windows co-exist on the one computer. Windows CANNOT run without MacOS. This is clearly a workaround to the above problems and despite what the press release says, is therefore NOT native.
Wrong (as far as I can tell). It would seem (though I do not have an Intel Mac to test it for myself) that OSX is only needed for the initial burning of the driver CD. This is not a problem, because they come with OSX preinstalled. After XP is installed and all drivers loaded, you theoretically do not ever need OSX again, as everything is handled by the hardware.
I think I have suffiently proven my point. (Being, of course, that you are wrong.)
It is quite clear from the explanation given on Apple’s site that MacOS acts as a go-between for the EFI and Windows. Such that Windows can’t operate without it. THAT IS NOT NATIVE. ‘Native’ means sticking the CD in, installing, and then not having to do anything else. It is quite clearly a dual boot system, read the website, admit that youre (once again) incorrect, and stop swallowing press release dogma…it’s doing that which landed you with a dud Ipod.
I distinctly remember saying a year ago that Ipods would at some point, reduce their owners to tears…firstly by taking planned obsolesensce to a whole new level with the battery being impossible to replace, and then handing out refurnished Ipods to owners who expected a new product. You paid $350 for a brand new Ipod which after 18 months was USELESS, $160 for a refurbished one, which after 4 weeks became equally ornamental.
Anyway, where were we?
There have been many stories in magazines and on the internet of Apple’s attempts to thwart the installation of Windows on Macs and MacOS on Wintels (why you would bother I don’t know). Once they realised it was so easy that a bunch of kids managed it, then they took ownership of the whole shenanigan and gave it a silly name.
I refer you to my statement (and capitalise the important bits) that MacTels WILL NOT NOW NOR EVER boot INDEPENDENTLY any Operating System you might happen to pop in. In a technical discussion David, you can’t simply make sweeping generalisations like “any operating system”. Just to be pedantic, I’ll point out that a Mac will not run MSDOS, Win3.1, Win9.x, Win2000, WinNT, WinME(but no-one ever used that anyway). From what I gather, when Vista arrives, another patch will be needed for BootCamp to run it on Macs. This isn’t a ‘native’ scenario. This is a mixture of emulation, dual-booting and a glossy (ie: MSWIN) frontend.
I accept that at the moment, this is because Mac boards no longer ship with the ageing BIOS chip, and therefore they are technically superior, but note that EFI was designed and promoted by Intel, so theyre still using other peoples technology.
What I won’t back down on is that right up until this week, Macs have sucked, and that BootCamp/Intel Chip usage is a)an admission of this and b)about time.
The only Mac I would buy would be one that was totally stuffed, top to bottom, so i could tear out its components and put in a real computer.
Madonna put it best when she said; “Everyone is entitled to my opinion.”
New post please.
Hey dave pleace post something new, i work 10pm - 6:30am and i spend most of the time playing net games
down with geeking it up!
more games!
more interesting stuff!
frankly, the original offended me
on another note, dave, how the hell long does it take to fix broken pixels? because the david jones guys have had my laptop hostage for 4 weeks now. I bet it takes 5 mins
im putting 5 bucks down that dave will give the time to the nearest decimal
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You cant fix broken pixels with any degree of economy. I’m sure it could be done, whether or not you’d bother or if it’s ever been tried is another issue. Theyre probably stuffing you around.
*awaits ignorant tirade from stage right*
You probably can fix broken pixels, but buggered if I know how. They’re probably just replacing the entire screen, as this would be cheaper and easier. That means they have to wait for the right model of screen to come in, take apart the old one, re-fit the new one, etc etc. It would take a while, but 4 weeks is a bit excessive.
The same thing happened when I was having my iPod fixed, they said 1-3 weeks, and after 4 weeks I got no word. I just went into the shop and demanded they look it up on the system instead of assuming that if they hadn’t called me it wasn’t fixed. They looked it up and guess what, it had been there for a whole week waiting. I still hadn’t been called.
My advice is to hassle them as much as possible. It might already be done, and if it isn’t they’ll finish it just to shut you up.
Orrible appeared on the wrong side of the stage and recited someone else’s lines…
“It’s rude and it’s bad manners” as one esteemed Drama dudette would put it.
lol, “you come in late, you bang on the door, you roll your eyes, its rude and its bad manners!… where are your books for todays lesson?!!?”
ah, just to engrave it in time..
"AND you're in the lift…jeez boys, always trying to skive"