Oh no, I'm starting to like macs .. :(

ando · 07-07-2002 6:20pm #1

oh no, I can feal it coming ... ah no wayyyy...

I'm just about to become an mcse in windows 2k, and I'm starting to like Macs... AHHHHHHHHHHH.. been supporting macs for almost a year now and I'm starting to get a craving to be infront of one ????? what the hell is wrong with me.. I used to hate 'em?

... Before anyone asks, yes I'm bored :rolleyes:

timod · 07-07-2002 8:44pm

Just gettin sensible in your old age...

As for the MSCE, I hear it makes great toilet paper.

Hecate · 07-07-2002 10:11pm

Yes I'm also getting a craving for Macs. On the verge of purchasing an iBook, mainly because of how sweet OS X is (a properly integrated desktop OS with a BSD-based kernel, what more could you ask for?) and the iBooks ultra-portability, well the 12" version anyway.

..must be those 'switch' ads.

po0k · 07-07-2002 11:55pm

I've been using the 500Mhz iBook for the past week.

it isn't fast enough.
The command line is lovely, I have BitchX running on it.
Divxes seem to play kinda slowly (picture) and the sound is out of sync. Using the DivX mac codec off www.divx.com

phobos · 08-07-2002 12:30am

OS X is pretty sweeet, but I'm pretty stubbourn

I could never see myself buying a mac, I'm too much a PC person. Macs are too end-usery for my taste. But I will admit I didn't realise that OS X was running on a BSD-based kernel until recently. That is pretty impressive, but then again it's just the OS. Christ look at all the stuff we've done, and still have to do on PCs. If you have the money and want to look like your using a machine fresh out of a Hollywood high budget tech movie, by all means, knock yourself out. But I don't see any other advantage to macs apart from their fancy GUI's and RISC processors.

^ = my 2.54c

;-phobos-)

Dustaz · 08-07-2002 4:13am

and the fact that symbols like € ™ and © are built into the system:)

Hecate · 08-07-2002 2:21pm

The older (< 500mhz) iBooks had Rage 128 mobility boards in them; so they would be slower for stuff like playing divx's etc..

Newer iBooks have a 16mb Radeon mobility....nice

po0k · 08-07-2002 5:49pm

The graphics card has little to do with the performance.
I'm using the DiVX 5 codec,which I've heard is very CPU intensive, whether decodin flics encoded in Divx5, 4 or 3.
also, it can't play divx .avi's that have mp3 audio streams, you have to convert it to the standard .avi audio format first using the Divx Validator. That fixed the sound syncing proble?ms, but the frame rate was still choppy, though thsi could have been down the the TFT screen not being able to refresh quick enough.

The actual build quality, styling and litte touches are very appealing, but I don't think i could use the machine as a main computer.

OS9 sucked donkey balls thoughr a straw.

where's the hash key on this keyboard Dusty?
Where are my context menus?
Whyc can't i easily choose to simply download a media file (moive, or sound etc.) without it trying top play them and leaving me unable to save them in their native format?

ando · 08-07-2002 7:44pm

no but the problem is that i havent really touched osX, I've just been supporting os 8.6 upto 9.2 ... thats whats got me worried.. once I get my hands on osX, what will happen to me

Ahh the Humanity

alastair · 08-07-2002 8:17pm

Originally posted by SyxPak
Whyc can't i easily choose to simply download a media file (moive, or sound etc.) without it trying top play them and leaving me unable to save them in their native format?

No, it isn't really up to the job of playing divx's, but the codecs haven't really been developed/adapted properly for the mac platform - period. The next version of quicktime has greater support for mpeg4, but no specific divx support. DVD support has also been a bit iffy on the mac, but they have lots of positives as well.

You can download (rather than open) by option selecting a link, or clicking on it without releasing for about a sec, rather than just clicking on it.

Dustaz · 08-07-2002 9:36pm

Originally posted by SyxPak

where's the hash key on this keyboard Dusty?

alt-3 probably.

Where are my context menus?

ctrl-click probably.

Whyc can't i easily choose to simply download a media file (moive, or sound etc.) without it trying top play them and leaving me unable to save them in their native format?

Maybe they dont want you to save them? Is it a QT movie thats Kiosked?

ando · 09-07-2002 6:58pm

I know i started this topic saying I am starting to like macs, so i think I'll end it with something I really hate about them:

The way the bloody mac only does one thing at a time, the mouse curser turns into a cirle of 4 quaters and goes around and around.... dedadum, what the hell am i suppose to do while I wait for this to finish ???
at least in a pc, you can minimize a program when installing and do something else !

No 'ShowDesktop' :mad:

Ah, now I'm starting to feel better

:cool:

Dustaz · 09-07-2002 9:37pm

[Elitist Mac Snobby mode]

Duh, Option click the desktop and that hides everything BUT the desktop. Likewise, option selecting Show Desktop in the apple menu will do the same thing

[/elitist Mac Snobby mode]

If the App in question wont allow you do anything else, then maybe its just as well you cant play jigsaw while it renders something intensive

As a Mac>Pc user, one of the things that REALLY annoys me is that you cant close every window on the pc dsktop with one click. Option clicking the close box in a mac closes all windows. Shift clicking the close box on a pc only closes those windows in the same hierarchal tree...sometimes...iof your lucky

ando · 10-07-2002 6:37pm

alt+F4

Not exactly one click, but its easier than dragging the mouse about the screen

Dustaz · 10-07-2002 7:01pm

Um last time i checked alt-f4 only closed one window, not all.

Unless your talking about going to the desktop? um altf4 closes not minimises.

po0k · 12-07-2002 7:58pm

Sound Dusty.

And I think he means hitting Alt+F4 repeatedly.

i get my terminal running like a PC one now, so I'm sorted.
Got the "Alt" key to function like an actual "Alt" key.

And Trojan, it was a bog standard .avi file.

the option key is the one right beside the space bar, with what looks like a flower on it, right?

nahdoic · 13-07-2002 1:04am

Originally posted by Dustaz
As a Mac>Pc user, one of the things that REALLY annoys me is that you cant close every window on the pc dsktop with one click.

windows key + m

Dustaz · 13-07-2002 1:50am

Originally posted by nahdoic
windows key + m

I love you and am willing to have any amout of your children you might desire.

edit: wait, hold the children, I want something to close all windows at once.

nahdoic · 13-07-2002 2:22am

well we aren't half fussy are we?

hold down ctrl

left click the programs in the task bar you want to close.

right click one of them.

left click close.

and your done.

Dustaz · 13-07-2002 12:26pm

OOooohhhhh.... So close

Thats the closest things ive seen yet. I want a single click close-all tho damnit

nahdoic · 13-07-2002 12:47pm

yank plug out from socket. all closed.

nahdoic · 13-07-2002 2:05pm

if you're really that obsessed, it's called Kill Win Pro. free to try, $15 to buy. You can set up any hot key, such as ctrl + alt + t to close all windows. Happy now?

It can also do some other cool stuff with it too, like if you have been in active on the net for 30 seconds, it will start beeping, and if you don't do anything for another 30 seconds then it will disconnect you.

info: http://www.borgking.de/bk-soft/killwinpro.htm

download: http://www.borgking.de/bk-soft/kw-pro.exe

Oh no, I'm starting to like macs .. :(

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