Recent Comments:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment president deals "death blow" to Blu-ray...not {Engadget HD}
Sep 19th 2006 3:41PM I don't understand why everyone is putting up with the HD-DVD crap. Blue ray holds, and can hold significantly more data than HD-DVD, period. For this reason only, if none other, it will ultimately be the primary choice for technology users, and then everyone who wants to be compatible with them. Would you want to be using blue ray disks and work and HD-DVD at home? I don't think so. And no corporations will back HD-DVD as an industry standard format for DATA, and that is the point. If you can store more data, you can always screw around with the video compressions to get better quality with that amount of data. I really don't understand ANY pros to HD-DVD other than that it is out now and that its cheaper (as with most things - you get what you pay for). but eventually all prices will fall anyways.
Apple unveils 17-inch MacBook Pro {Engadget}
May 5th 2006 2:05AM PRICE PRICE PRICE... The Mac vs PC thing has been done to death and its the same stuff over and over. GET A CLUE: Anyone saying they can get an equivalent PC for X amount of dollars cheaper or more is missing some major things:
None of the posters above have actually compared any real specs. We hear things like I can get a 17" laptop for cheaper. 17" of what? Is the resolution, brightness, refresh rate, etc the same? Most of the time no. For those that its a yes, what is the bus speed on these piece of shit motherboards you are quoting? I bet you don't even know. Graphics cards.. same deal.. how much cache is on them? What are their EXACT specs? Even better.. benchmarks.
Check out sites like www.barefeats.com. They test macs and PCs in detail and show which machines are faster in each test. You'll notice something though.. none of the machines that beat the macs or come close are the cheap peices of junk people are referring to here.
My point is that people here are comparing apples to oranges.. no wait... piles of shit.
The PC world is used to being shitted on so they can't tell. Dell says we'll give you a 2GHz Intel chip for 1/2 the price of the mac, whoopee. What they don't tell you is they'll slap it on a motherboard whose bus speed is so slow it will choke the hell out of the performance of any of the other components, can't make use of faster latency ram - and is likely to break as soon as the warranty is up.
I bought my first mac 4 years ago when they swiched to open-source (a powerbook) and as a software developer have beaten on this machine for years and it has withstood impressive beatings and still works fine. I have been through more PCs in this time than I can count - none of which could make it through a single day without crashing.
I challenge any pro-windows users to a contest. We each put up $1000 so you put your money where you mouth is and not waste time. Now, heres the challenge: I use a PC and you use a mac for the duration of the contest. I can crash any PC (not this program has performed an illegal operation - but total lockup blue screen of death and/or reset - even upgraded to the latest version with all the patches) within a few minutes and just by using a simple text editor and internet explorer, and I bet you can't do the same with notepad and safari. If I win, I take the pot. If we both can crash each others systems we keep our own money, and if I can't and you can you get it. Fair enough?
