Always?
Hmmm.
Yes. I'm guessing that you're actually posting from another dimension, far detached from reality.
(IOW - no. It downloads updates for THE APPLICATIONS YOU HAVE INSTALLED, when they are ready. So, if you wait to check instead of using the default weekly check, there may have been updates. It doesn't try and install iTunes if you don't have it installed).
Richard
Nobody's mentioned OS/2 yet :-(
(had its problems, but it did mean I never had to experience the joys of 16 bit segmented memory models)
cheers, clive
I know lots of people into self-harm, mutilation, S&M and ball-torture who, co-incidentally, also use VMS.
Richard
That's true - I use both, because I'm driven by the software - 1/2 my life is in the IT world where Windows rules, hence the Windows laptop and the Windows mobile. 1/2 is in post production - Premiere on a PC (economy of hardware) and Logic on a Mac.
All the arguments regarding reliability and stability are irrelevant - my PCs are stable, because they're built properly, configured well and not dicked around with. The Mac is just as stable.
Show me a Linux that is as functional out of the box as OSX and XP, and I'll show you an honest politician.
In this case, it's the industry and home standard benchmark, though.
Have you used them?
Perhaps you'd like to explain how easy the whole iTunes / iPhoto / iSync / iCal stuff makes most tasks for numpty users.
It'll just make me want to kill you.
Anyway, cubes were cool, slabs were less so.
BTDT, and arguably easier - the NeXT stuff is 1991, 25MHz '040s and is well out of development, Hiroshi was updating the WiFi driver until what, 2003? Now, if I can just get GNO/ME to behave long enough to run the nntp client beta (0.3, but stalled since the early 90s), I'll post from my Apple IIgs, via MacIP networking.
Really, getting a Newton online is only marginally harder than getting a Tungsten C to run a third-party app without crashing.
I used to use a 2100 with WiFi as a VNC remote control for iTunes ;) Bit sluggish, though.
Ideally, I want to get the QL online, but I'm reluctant to use a serial lead and Telnet. I want Ethernet on it, dammit (actually, I could use Contiki on the Apple II or Atari XE VGS, but that's just getting silly).
Richard
didn't stop me having one that would dual boot NT...
Not really had any experience of it - other than it being behind some proprietory EPOS applications I've used - but I hear it was bloody good for it's day.
Nearly spat my coffee then!
That depends on your definitions of "functional", "box" , "Linux" and "honest".
So that's why it's becoming more popular because it's actually just as wide open as windows but Apple have just bluffed stupid people into thinking it's secure for longer.
You are both wrong (unsurprisingly), unfortunately the best OS for everyday use is now gone to the vaults of time.
Try running OSX every time there is an update for any component it automatically selects the latest version of iTunes for a download. Sod off I don't want it that's why I didn't download it the last 20 times there was a security hole found in your "secure" OS and I'm not downloading it this time. Also why are OSX security updates so much larger than windows ones?
I don't know we are dealing with a woman who would marry Steve!
You should wait for a MacBook Pro with an Intel Core Duo T2700. This supports Intel's Virtualisation Technology which means that Workstation will have less work to do.
Good god, man... WHY? What possible reason could there be for using ME?!
If you ever want to get that cupboard space back... ;)
Hell, they did that in 19/77/. Little bit of PROM with suitable code on it, plug in a card, and it worked.
(And for comedy - my ImageWriter II is on AppleTalk, and can be printed on from either my Apple IIgs, or my G5 - though I need ribbons now. If it weren't for the lack of a GatorBox, I could even do away with having my Workgroup Server 95 running).
Richard
Heh. That beats my oldest machine to hand - a Mac Classic or an LC.
Ooooh, Dervy will have you for that :-p
I love the Newton OS. It's just a shame Apple haven't picked it up again on modern hardware.
Heh. You sick bastard - a QL, ffs!
Actually - what's the odds of getting a Dragon 32 online? - I sold my Atari XE years ago.
RISC OS was great in 1987.
It was still pretty good in 1994, though not as good as the hardware it was running on (still, for basic tasks it was bloody quick).
Post interweb era, things got wobbly.
And now? Well... I was quite an advocate of RISC OS, but really, it's dead, and people should stop poking it. Leave it it nice, efficient set-top boxes, where it belongs, or put it on a Palm device, where it would flourish.
Richard
Yes, but my slabs died. Well; my last slab's monitor expired, after the HD and I couldn't find a small enough SCSI HD to fix it.
Should have kept it, but hey. I'm pleased enough with my color (currently awaiting a new monitor) and mono with printer, NS3.3 master disks etc. slabs.
Richard
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