reviews.cnet.com— CNET reviews the MacBook Pro compared to the Acer Travelmate 8200 in design, performance, and several other categories. The results are amazing.
May 3, 2006View in Crawl 4
a high end monitor doesn't fix the windows registry. It still exists. It's still terrible. It still gets f'd up constantly.fiddling with settings doesn't fix the fact that a "power user" has to be a power user otherwise their computer will be worthless after going on the internet for a month or so.I think you' who havn't seen the vast majority of windows users. Most of them should be using a mac (with the EMI bios) and OS X because they know not what they do. Due to the UNIX based os, it's sort of hard to really F' up a mac. At school I used to charge people for fixing their XP based wintels. When everyone would plug into the network at the beginning of the year almost everyone got a virus. I fixed an entire floor's PC's once.I was only asked once by a girl with a mac if I could help her with her photos.photos...not cleaning up virii or fixing MBR's or laughing because their BIOS came configured from the manufacturer incorrectly, etc.I think you should spend some time with a mac...and while you're at it check out the kororaa live cd. It's pretty sweet. Oh and Ubuntu - currently my favorite flavor of linux ( debian is my friend, seriously. I mean. I know her. We eat lunch sometimes. )
> r3zonancethe term s/pdif merely defines the protocol and format that the digital data is in, ie, which sub-channel the timecode is in, etc...optical, coax and even aes(at least consumer grade) are s/pdif signals as they all conform to the protocol and format, only differing in connection types. if you are familiar with the Sony portable DAT machines, they utilize a 7pin interface, but it is still s/pdif.granted, when most people refer to s/pdif they mean the rca coax connection, as that has been the most common interface until relatively recently, but that is not the only s/pdif connection type.and I'm not even going to get into ADAT via lightpipe (which is also optical...)
Here's a comment from MilkFilk, a bit further down:"OSX is based on mach/bsd. If OSX isn't built from the ground up then Solaris/HP-UX/Linux/Windows isn't either. Nothing is. 0.01 Linux kernel was built from the ground up and it didn't do anything. Sadly, I think this article tried to be fair but kinda missed a few things.OSX renders everything through a small pdf engine. Icons are vector based, the default dpi/scaling is higher. Sure the Acer does 1680xwhatever but can you read it without turning on Large Fonts in XP? I can't on my 15" 1920x1280 laptop... pretty bad. OSX has the equivalent of the Clearfonts tuner built in (like Gnome).Mac is far from perfect. I'm a Unix admin so I just love sudo, vi, symlinks and the fact that an app is a special file. Want to remove Firefox? Move it to the trash. Want to run Firefox from the trash? Go ahead. No add/remove programs and no zillion flavors of Install Shields or whatever. Anyone who's worked with MS's MSI installer format would embrace the .dmg -> drag and drop Mac way."
Sorry, I posted this in the wrong placeHere's a comment from MilkFilk, a bit further down:"OSX renders everything through a small pdf engine. Icons are vector based, the default dpi/scaling is higher. Sure the Acer does 1680xwhatever but can you read it without turning on Large Fonts in XP? I can't on my 15" 1920x1280 laptop... pretty bad. OSX has the equivalent of the Clearfonts tuner built in (like Gnome).Mac is far from perfect. I'm a Unix admin so I just love sudo, vi, symlinks and the fact that an app is a special file. Want to remove Firefox? Move it to the trash. Want to run Firefox from the trash? Go ahead. No add/remove programs and no zillion flavors of Install Shields or whatever. Anyone who's worked with MS's MSI installer format would embrace the .dmg -> drag and drop Mac way."
MACS SUCK. APPLE Originally sold macs to computer illiterate people. (noobs)so why are you leet overclockers want your little macbook pro to win. THEY LOST SO HAAH!
Any text anti-aliasing is horrible. I don't see what is wrong with nice sharp bitmap text.Here's hoping X 10.5 has the option to disable text anti-aliasing system-wide.
n3wtr0ckn13May 3, 2006
cliffnotes: macbook pro vs. acer...acer won. yak!
h0m3styl3May 4, 2006
a high end monitor doesn't fix the windows registry. It still exists. It's still terrible. It still gets f'd up constantly.fiddling with settings doesn't fix the fact that a "power user" has to be a power user otherwise their computer will be worthless after going on the internet for a month or so.I think you' who havn't seen the vast majority of windows users. Most of them should be using a mac (with the EMI bios) and OS X because they know not what they do. Due to the UNIX based os, it's sort of hard to really F' up a mac. At school I used to charge people for fixing their XP based wintels. When everyone would plug into the network at the beginning of the year almost everyone got a virus. I fixed an entire floor's PC's once.I was only asked once by a girl with a mac if I could help her with her photos.photos...not cleaning up virii or fixing MBR's or laughing because their BIOS came configured from the manufacturer incorrectly, etc.I think you should spend some time with a mac...and while you're at it check out the kororaa live cd. It's pretty sweet. Oh and Ubuntu - currently my favorite flavor of linux ( debian is my friend, seriously. I mean. I know her. We eat lunch sometimes. )
milkfilkMay 4, 2006
At least I can resize the Terminal horizontally. :P I'll take my corporation supporing, false-idol at 180 columns.
niccMay 4, 2006
> r3zonancethe term s/pdif merely defines the protocol and format that the digital data is in, ie, which sub-channel the timecode is in, etc...optical, coax and even aes(at least consumer grade) are s/pdif signals as they all conform to the protocol and format, only differing in connection types. if you are familiar with the Sony portable DAT machines, they utilize a 7pin interface, but it is still s/pdif.granted, when most people refer to s/pdif they mean the rca coax connection, as that has been the most common interface until relatively recently, but that is not the only s/pdif connection type.and I'm not even going to get into ADAT via lightpipe (which is also optical...)
generic109May 5, 2006
Here's a comment from MilkFilk, a bit further down:"OSX is based on mach/bsd. If OSX isn't built from the ground up then Solaris/HP-UX/Linux/Windows isn't either. Nothing is. 0.01 Linux kernel was built from the ground up and it didn't do anything. Sadly, I think this article tried to be fair but kinda missed a few things.OSX renders everything through a small pdf engine. Icons are vector based, the default dpi/scaling is higher. Sure the Acer does 1680xwhatever but can you read it without turning on Large Fonts in XP? I can't on my 15" 1920x1280 laptop... pretty bad. OSX has the equivalent of the Clearfonts tuner built in (like Gnome).Mac is far from perfect. I'm a Unix admin so I just love sudo, vi, symlinks and the fact that an app is a special file. Want to remove Firefox? Move it to the trash. Want to run Firefox from the trash? Go ahead. No add/remove programs and no zillion flavors of Install Shields or whatever. Anyone who's worked with MS's MSI installer format would embrace the .dmg -> drag and drop Mac way."
generic109May 5, 2006
Sorry, I posted this in the wrong placeHere's a comment from MilkFilk, a bit further down:"OSX renders everything through a small pdf engine. Icons are vector based, the default dpi/scaling is higher. Sure the Acer does 1680xwhatever but can you read it without turning on Large Fonts in XP? I can't on my 15" 1920x1280 laptop... pretty bad. OSX has the equivalent of the Clearfonts tuner built in (like Gnome).Mac is far from perfect. I'm a Unix admin so I just love sudo, vi, symlinks and the fact that an app is a special file. Want to remove Firefox? Move it to the trash. Want to run Firefox from the trash? Go ahead. No add/remove programs and no zillion flavors of Install Shields or whatever. Anyone who's worked with MS's MSI installer format would embrace the .dmg -> drag and drop Mac way."
Closed AccountMay 5, 2006
MACS SUCK. APPLE Originally sold macs to computer illiterate people. (noobs)so why are you leet overclockers want your little macbook pro to win. THEY LOST SO HAAH!
deezknotsMay 5, 2006
Microsux
Closed AccountMay 8, 2006
Any text anti-aliasing is horrible. I don't see what is wrong with nice sharp bitmap text.Here's hoping X 10.5 has the option to disable text anti-aliasing system-wide.
rubbermanMay 23, 2006
Mac wins hands down. If you dont like OSX install windows. Its all up for macs.