I HATE APPLE

Zero trouble here too...

I only got the 20" iMac because I figured it had been in production long enough that they ought to have worked out any major problems.

The rest of "all this awful shit" is pretty much OS X being 100% crappier than advertised. Shit, Ableton & Firefox run on Windows too, I'll just get a core duo ugly machine, at least they don't obfuscate the living shit out of their fucking directory structure and I CAN USE THE TAB KEY TO ENTER DATA INTO ALL FIELDS, TEXT OR OTHERWISE, WHEN I'M ON THE INTARNERT. HOLY SHIT LET'S NOT LET PEOPLE DO THAT, LET'S INVENT A MOUSE WITH A NIPPLE ON IT INSTEAD.

First attempts prove unsuccessful:

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I CAN USE THE TAB KEY TO ENTER DATA INTO ALL FIELDS, TEXT OR OTHERWISE, WHEN I'M ON THE INTARNERT. HOLY SHIT LET'S NOT LET PEOPLE DO THAT, LET'S INVENT A MOUSE WITH A NIPPLE ON IT INSTEAD.

PREFERENCES, KEYBOARD AND MOUSE, KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS, FULL KEYBOARD ACCESS. THE END. (WORKS IN SAFARI AND FIREFOX)

THANKS THOUGH MAYBE I'LL GET TO TRY IT AFTER I GET A BRAND NEW ONE FROM THE GENIUSES THIS AFTERNOON

Any ideas on what I should do with my old cyan G3 - i just don't think i can part with it (even tho the thing is 100% dead). Maybe fill it with skittles or turn it into a toaster?

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there were other small bugs including the fact that my audioscrobbler wouldnt work (it kept asking for my password and when i provided it a dialogue box would come up telling me it was already saved in my keychain followed by another DiagBox asing for my password).

most importantly for me, but not for you, was the fact that my arch drawing package powerCADD wouldnt run at all.

Do you not realize that Apple basically ships computers with JUST enough RAM to run the OS and core apps??? The first generation G4 towers had 64 MB for Chrissake!!!

Now he's replacing the RAM and running SECRET TESTING in the back room which is frankly extraordinary, if I had taken this to the old Apple Store in Clarendon I'm sure those folks wold have just packed it up and shipped it off and not even told me they were sorry.

Although I do remember there being a fairly competent Britishers genius replacing ipods left and right when I was there.

that's weird: the only remotely useful CS dude i've dealt with recently was a bloke called ryan in the states somewhere.

plus ca something-or-other, or something.

Based on the (admittedly) small sampling of laptops and work environments I've run across, I'll give you even odds that most MacBook Pro users are only using Microsoft Office - specifically Entourage, Word, and PowerPoint. Most of them don't care how much RAM they have, they only care that it's not the "low end" model, it runs PowerPoint, can connect to an Exchange server, will output to some sort of LCD projector, and connect to an iPod.

Even in graphic, video, film, audio freak central here in LA - most of the users I run across are Office people and that's it. The geek crowd are already going to max out their RAM from Kingston or Crucial so there's no incentive for Apple to put more RAM in it - especially given the constant volatility of the RAM market.

They "heard it was better."

Seriously, that's the reason they give. I wasn't going to argue with them since they were paying me to set things up, but in a few of the cases the client bought an iPod at a Apple store (because iPods are an It Item) and then decided to buy a new laptop while they're at it.

Meanwhile, they want to connect it to a corporate network via some weird VPN protocol, connect to an Exchange server, sync to their Blackberry, blah blah blah. To be fair, I like these types of clients more than the OS jihadists though.

it's this amazing new invention called "choice".

sorry, kyle, what's your point here? i'm not exactly a power user. should i not be allowed a mac either? fuck's sake, we should be happy people are buying the bloody things ... ten years ago i'd have bet good money apple was on the way out.

But then, nowadays they have a hugely bloated OS. My PC runs fine in 512M, and has quite a lot more stuff running on it than your average Mac.

I've always been appalled that Macs don't come loaded to the gills with more RAM.

Also, grimley, I'm fairly certain his point was "Why purchase a more expensive machine if it will only run Office?" and, quite frankly son, your answer needs work.

ps the real answer is that theoretically the damn things should work better than that, kyle.

The video shows Ellch and Maynor targeting a specific security flaw in the Macbook's wireless "device driver," ... While those device driver flaws are particular to the Macbook -- and presently not publicly disclosed -- Maynor said the two have found at least two similar flaws in device drivers for wireless cards either designed for or embedded in machines running the Windows OS. Still, the presenters said they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security."

"We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something," Maynor said.

nah, that's a "they" meaning "they", not, er, "they".

kyle?

and hey, i think keeping a major corporation alive is a dandy reason for buying a mac. i mean, it's apple! lookit the little stripy logo and ... it smiles when you turn it on! and you have to hug it to find the switch! and ... HEY, HANG ON, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FUCKING MACS I KNEW AND LOVED?

cunts.