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- Auzy, on 03/01/2009, -22/+64So this means new Apple computers might come out with the Radeon 4XXX cards and Core i7's? Isn't this kind of obvious?
Its not as though Apple has made a breakthrough or anything. If anything it simply proves Apple is far behind the competition, as Windows has supported these for ages now. I'm guessing when OSX finally supports CrossFire/SLI, that it will make front page too?
Can you guys stop digging every post about Apple finally catching up with everyone else? - Nickolassc, on 03/01/2009, -6/+48Making Hackintosh easier. Nice.
- xXMetalJesusXx, on 03/01/2009, -7/+45Every time a Microsoft and Apple article makes the front page it seems all these dumb asses come out of the woodwork to spread their ***** to flame the "OS War"
Can you all please stfu already or at least attempt to post an intelligent comment? - RedS0x, on 03/01/2009, -9/+27OS X is cheaper than windows.
- anonymousmedic, on 03/01/2009, -2/+17Nothing can play Crysis.
- MacParrot, on 03/01/2009, -5/+17So you base how useful a computer is on what "games" it plays. That says quite a bit about you.
- MacParrot, on 03/01/2009, -3/+15That's stupid. Not every Apple story on Digg makes the front page. Get over it and filter it out if it really bothers you or STFU
- betrayed, on 03/01/2009, -4/+15Whoah! Watch out! Bleeding edge comin' through!
- MacParrot, on 03/01/2009, -2/+11Um...yeah this is mostly a story about an update for 10.5 which if you already have it installed is free. The side story that it recognizes hardware not yet available (officially) from Apple simply means that when it comes out, the OS is ready for it.
So...enjoy your Dell with Windows or whatever. All the reasons why I prefer a Mac over Windows sounds like it might be a little past your reasoning skills. - luchid, on 03/01/2009, -1/+8Did you even read the article? It's a free upgrade. Jesus H ***** Christ do you Windows people even bother reading?
- t0ny, on 03/01/2009, -0/+6"So now they can charge hipster fanboys out the ass for the latest technology, and inflate their smug sense of satisfaction?"
Did you ever read your own comment any or by other Windows fanyboys? You know how much of a smug ass hole you are seem like right now? I rarely at all if any see that level of smugness from any Mac fanboy.
"Doesn't seem bad to me. I mean, if they want to pay 3x what someone paying for the same performance from Dell or a Whitebox manufactor pays, not my problem. Helping the economy, you know?"
When I bought my MBP I was comparing it to a Windows based laptop and it was only $400 more. And that $400 is well worth it, the Mac is well designed and not cheap plastic and also if I have any problems I can call someone in America that speaks english and no some one in India that hates Americans. - NeoDreamer, on 03/01/2009, -1/+7VJ4mes, Auzy, and deadbaby,
Ad hominem attacks are logical fallacies. - t0ny, on 03/01/2009, -0/+6There is a lot of Windows fanboys out there that think computers are only good for playing games, looking at porn and bashing Macs.
- Radan, on 03/01/2009, -1/+6I hope you understand that you are right now complaining about news concerning Apple are posted in the Apple section on Digg. What do we do with categories that we are not interested in? We block them is the correct answer, not complaining in the comments about how much we would prefer not to see articles from that category on the front page. Because, that is foolish.
- NathanCH, on 03/01/2009, -0/+5I agree with you. But the same people who are digging you up are digging "and it will only cost $9999."
Funny how that is. - mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -0/+5MacParrot is polite, so i'm just going to call you a moron.
- poxonyou, on 03/01/2009, -1/+6Were you guys frozen in the 1990's and just dethawed yesterday? The "Macs have no games" argument is irrelevant. You've been able to dual boot Windows on a Mac for years. You have 3 choices to run Windows while running OS X as well.
Also, not everyone is a spoiled 10-23 year old who (whose parents) buys computers to play first person shooter//MMOG games. - VJ4mes, on 03/01/2009, -13/+18If you don't like Apple, it's products or their business practices. ***** off and stop trying to troll every Apple post on Digg. I mean for *****'s sake it was bad enough when every Apple/Linux fanboy from here to the moon was dumping ***** on Windows. Now you've got every Windows ***** this side of the universe dropping ***** on Apple and in the same breath giving Bill Gates a virtual blowjob. Take your ***** and post it elsewhere, maybe on a Windows fanboy website which out of curtosy I won't visit just to insult your preferance in Operating System.
Get a ***** life, repect the decisions and practices of other people and their systems and keep your trolling ***** for 4chan. - BossKey, on 03/01/2009, -1/+51996 called and they want their nonsensical reasoning back:
"The Mac is not a serious computer"
"Why not?"
"You can't play games on it" - deadbaby, on 03/01/2009, -1/+5I would say if you wanted a gaming computer you made a big mistake buying an iMac. Be more careful next time before you make a purchase. K?
- Radan, on 03/01/2009, -0/+4You amaze me. You managed to in one single comment both complain about Apple not supporting the latest and greatest video cards, and complain about when Apple actually start supporting those cards that there are no games to use them with. Then why should they bother making their computers even more expensive and ship them with cards that the typical user wont have use for? Video cards are like the Megapixel war equivalent of computers.
- xXMetalJesusXx, on 03/01/2009, -3/+7Solitaire: Game ***** sucks...play chess
Paint: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/
or http://www.gimp.org/ - waydee, on 03/01/2009, -0/+4Because they intend to use it in future models maybe?
- mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -9/+13You missed the point, if they are adding hardware support to a point update, new hardware is coming soon.
- jcsoc, on 03/01/2009, -8/+12I wish microsoft would hurry up and release an update for windows that allows me to do stuff with my computer
- Auzy, on 03/01/2009, -7/+11No.. I got the point fine. My point is that the Radeon 4xxx series was launched In June last year. You are missing the point. Why are people bowing to a company who is more then half a year behind everyone else?
In fact, ATI is probably close to releasing the 5xxx series now. - bbeep, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Possibly because of the pending litigation between Intel & NVidia:
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/02/intel ...
It would be prudent for Apple to have an alternative GPU possible if the Intel/NVidia relationship goes sour. - MacParrot, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Actually skippy it was about a free update to OS X 10.5 that may support hardware not previously supported. What article were you reading?
- moonmonkey, on 03/01/2009, -2/+5he was joking.
- poxonyou, on 03/01/2009, -2/+5Those i7's will likely only be in Mac Pros, unless they start offering a mid-range tower (everyone has wanted one since they stopped making them, but they've yet to listen). It's too hot for the current iMac design.
Apple is still behind though. Other PC OEMs are offering i7's now, and on mid-range consumer towers, not just insanely expensive "Pro" lines. Also, you've been able to get an affordable Blu-Ray player with a standard PC for the past 8 months. Apple shows no sign of offering one. - mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Specs aren't everything. Your 1/3rd cost box is probably 6x bigger in a sheet metal case. That stuff matters to some people, so don't discount it as if those people are stupid or getting ripped off.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -1/+4Since when? Mac Pros are the only machines where the processor jacks the price up, because they are Xeon chips. It is stupid, i don't like it, i don't see much benefit (other than ECC), but thats the way it is.
They don't overcharge for built in components, they overcharge for build to order options like ram. - multifoiled, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3So they should completely halt all research and development because of a wireless issue? Right. That's very smart.
- t0ny, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3I'm surprised the various fan boys have not dugg you down yet.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -7/+10My time is worth quite a bit of money to me, so OS X saves me a lot of it.
- deadbaby, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Come on... it's digg. No one comes here for insightful or intelligent discussion.
Try a site like Ars maybe for good comments. (although your milage may vary there too but the signal-to-noise ratio is slightly better) - mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3$700? Show me or shut up
- FyberOptic, on 03/01/2009, -1/+3Wait, why does the OS have to support them? Can OSX not just use drivers from ATI to run any card, as long as you have a slot for it? Forgive me of being ignorant of OSX's driver system, but considering OSX86 can run so much hardware that OSX doesn't already support, it seems like this should be a non-issue. It'd be like saying PCs are going to support some new ATI card about to be released.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2Who the ***** said anything about animation? You make no sense.
Again, stop trying to discount things that MATTER as if they don't, they do, you sound stupid. - jcsoc, on 03/01/2009, -2/+4and now you see the problem with owning a mac
- mrsteveman1, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2I think the H is silent
- HappyScrappy, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2People are excited about this because it would seem to indicate Apple is going to release some Core i7 machines soon. And presumably they might be interested in buying them.
Why do people have a problem with that? So you wouldn't buy a Mac. Okay, great. That doesn't mean you have to crap on everyone who might. - Auzy, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2The only reason ATI open sourced their drivers was because their linux drivers were a joke, and the only way to get back in the game, was to open source and get free help. Proof of this is that they only open sourced the Linux drivers, not the Windows ones. If they were really nice guys, they would have open sourced all their code.
If Nvidia open sourced theirs, the community would simply use the code to fix the ATI ones (such as migrate the CUDA code to ATI). From a business sense, it makes sense for Nvidia to remain closed source, whilst for ATI, the situation was vice versa.
Neither company is doing anybody favours. Nvidia however has maintained good drivers for years now, whilst ATI has only open sourced out of desperation, however, I don't think either company deserves to be put up on a pedestal. ATI for instance doesn't actively support drivers for some of their older mobile video cards. But Nvidia don't open up CUDA.
At this point of time, I don't think its right to put either on a pedestal.. - Gnikcjack, on 03/01/2009, -4/+6It's becoming unbearable to read the comments on Digg. The front page is always an assortment of very similar topics, each of which has a limited array of BRILLIANT comments that people can't wait to share. Every time I happen to come across an Apple article I have to brace myself for the 20 geniuses who can't wait to say something along the lines of "LOL STUPID MAC FANBOYS CAN'T WAIT TO PAY OVER $9000 FOR SOMETHING MICHAEL DELL WOULD HAVE PERSONALLY DRIVEN OVER, GIVEN THEM FOR FREE AND THEN SUCKED THEM OFF JUST FOR GOOD MEASURE!" stfu. God damn...
- LiquidSpark, on 03/02/2009, -0/+2Apple charges $1200 for a 4GB RAM upgrade on the MBP. I laughed when I saw it. It's true what they say, there's a sucker born every minute.
- pika2000, on 03/01/2009, -1/+3Err, buried for stating the obvious. Big DUH! Obviously those hardware are the normal progression from the current hardware that Apple uses, so supporting them is logical. If this got into digg's frontpage, imagine how many articles about the same issue can be submitted by saying Windows 7 supports x and y hardware.
- srg13, on 03/01/2009, -1/+3I doubt it - Mac Pros only come with Xenon processors.
- Gnikcjack, on 03/02/2009, -0/+2I agree with you, every article shouldn't hit the front page.
- qbthemc, on 03/01/2009, -1/+3OpenGL LMAO.
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -0/+1um yeah i said "perform" as in performance not "how does it work"
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