Originally posted by: arsbanned
Originally posted by: ribbon13
second to none???
If by industrial you mean computing power per square inch, your sorely wrong
If by industrial you mean the quality of the PCBs, your sorely wrong
If by industrial you mean the stability of the system/os, you are wrong.
If by industrial you mean the chassis, I'll laugh until I pass out.
Macs are great, but they're anything but second to none.
I'm referring mainly to chassis design, peripheral design. Anyone with any knowledge of what constitutes good design precepts will probably agree.
That is all.
Console or Terminal. They work like a top. And like always, if you run top and do nothing else, top takes an insane amount of relative CPU use.Originally posted by: jspsh
is there even anyway to spawn an unix shell in OS X? i was playing with those powerbooks at compusa and had a lot of trouble finding somewhere to run commands
Originally posted by: drag
Originally posted by: arsbanned
Originally posted by: ribbon13
second to none???
If by industrial you mean computing power per square inch, your sorely wrong
If by industrial you mean the quality of the PCBs, your sorely wrong
If by industrial you mean the stability of the system/os, you are wrong.
If by industrial you mean the chassis, I'll laugh until I pass out.
Macs are great, but they're anything but second to none.
I'm referring mainly to chassis design, peripheral design. Anyone with any knowledge of what constitutes good design precepts will probably agree.
That is all.
Generally, yes. Macs have great industrial design qualities.
I've worked on PowerG4's and they have a wonderfull internal design to their cases.
For example the motherboard is attatched to the door of the box, and the door has the hinge at the bottom.
You unplug the power cord, pull up on the ring on the side, and the door opens to lay flat on your table. Then you plug the powercord back into the back and you can turn on the computer and it is completely functional with all the componates laying flat in front of you.
Even the IDE cables were routed out of the way... thru slots in the bottom which channels them up to the cdrom and harddrives at the top. Freaking wonderfull. There were only a couple wires hanging out, and they were very small.
It makes PC chassis design with the ratnest of wires look like the most asisine way to design a computer.
The PowerG4 case design is equally as great.
And even though the lampshade-style Imacs were ugly the design was clever and they are very quiet. They were VERY ergonomic with the LCD display on the stock and you could do cool things like position the monitor MUCH closer then is possible with a normal computer. That way you end up with a deceptively large screen area with such as small LCD display. You could have the display directly over the keyboard if you wanted.
I own a new Ibook and those things are easy to work on, too. There are two tabs that hold the keyboard in place at the top. You press down and pull towards you then up and the entire keyboard pops out. Underneath that is the little impression in the electronic sheilding were the airport extreme card slides into. It's held by one little wire spring clip. Pop that out, pull on a clear plastic tab and the airport card slides out. Then you lay that to one side and you undo 4 little screws to pop peice of the electronic sheilding up and underneath there is were you pop in the extra memory.
I don't know how that compares to newer laptops, but it was much nicer then any other laptop I've owned or messed around with.
It could be that I'm a little old, because Apple weren't use at the old art school that I attend (it was mostly SGIs), and now I think they uses Windows, Mac & Linux for their graphics, animation & industrial design.Originally posted by: arsbanned
Originally posted by: drag
Originally posted by: arsbanned
Originally posted by: ribbon13
second to none???
If by industrial you mean computing power per square inch, your sorely wrong
If by industrial you mean the quality of the PCBs, your sorely wrong
If by industrial you mean the stability of the system/os, you are wrong.
If by industrial you mean the chassis, I'll laugh until I pass out.
Macs are great, but they're anything but second to none.
I'm referring mainly to chassis design, peripheral design. Anyone with any knowledge of what constitutes good design precepts will probably agree.
That is all.
Generally, yes. Macs have great industrial design qualities.
I've worked on PowerG4's and they have a wonderfull internal design to their cases.
For example the motherboard is attatched to the door of the box, and the door has the hinge at the bottom.
You unplug the power cord, pull up on the ring on the side, and the door opens to lay flat on your table. Then you plug the powercord back into the back and you can turn on the computer and it is completely functional with all the componates laying flat in front of you.
Even the IDE cables were routed out of the way... thru slots in the bottom which channels them up to the cdrom and harddrives at the top. Freaking wonderfull. There were only a couple wires hanging out, and they were very small.
It makes PC chassis design with the ratnest of wires look like the most asisine way to design a computer.
The PowerG4 case design is equally as great.
And even though the lampshade-style Imacs were ugly the design was clever and they are very quiet. They were VERY ergonomic with the LCD display on the stock and you could do cool things like position the monitor MUCH closer then is possible with a normal computer. That way you end up with a deceptively large screen area with such as small LCD display. You could have the display directly over the keyboard if you wanted.
I own a new Ibook and those things are easy to work on, too. There are two tabs that hold the keyboard in place at the top. You press down and pull towards you then up and the entire keyboard pops out. Underneath that is the little impression in the electronic sheilding were the airport extreme card slides into. It's held by one little wire spring clip. Pop that out, pull on a clear plastic tab and the airport card slides out. Then you lay that to one side and you undo 4 little screws to pop peice of the electronic sheilding up and underneath there is were you pop in the extra memory.
I don't know how that compares to newer laptops, but it was much nicer then any other laptop I've owned or messed around with.
I have one of the PowerPC G4 units too. That's partly what I base my sweeping generalization on.
I have a daughter going into college next year on a graphic arts/industrial design major and I keep telling her, "maybe you can get a job with Apple".
Originally posted by: TheGeek
i done it!!! I got my MacMini!!! Its awesome