I have a stack of old routers, Dlink, Netgear, Linksys etc that would just straight up stop working for some reason or another. Got the Extreme 2 years ago....it hasnt even blinked wrong. Its awesome.
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I have a stack of old routers, Dlink, Netgear, Linksys etc that would just straight up stop working for some reason or another. Got the Extreme 2 years ago....it hasnt even blinked wrong. Its awesome.
my extreme doesn't like what i do to it, apple says because i'm a power user.
What doesnt it do??
Poser
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i believe you, read reviews on it about 3 weeks ago, it's the real deal.
i'm aiming to buy it on sunday.
edit: did purchase on sunday, awesome.
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wonderings
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If you all saw how much apple branded gear I have, you would think I am a fanboy. I am not, I just think Apple makes great products that work for me. The day Microsoft does it for me is the day I switch to that, so far nothing is on the horizon.
I have a 27 inch i5 iMac 12 gigs of ram
15 inch i5 MacBook Pro 8 gigs of ram
Lampshade iMac - best design ever in my opinion, now a jukebox
iPad
iPhone 4
I use a mac for both professional and personal use.
Apps I use regularly
Adobe CS5 (illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop)
FontAgent Pro
Cyberduck
VMware Fusion for Windows 7 ultimate
Safari - works fine for me no complaints
iTunes
iPhoto
iWork
Office 11
iSquint
Mobile me for screen sharing, constantly back and forth between home computer and my macbook pro, also use it to access and help when issues arise at work with our 99% mac environment.
I have an Airport Extreme, works great and allows me to send out 2 wifi signals, which was the biggest selling point for me. Took me 2 minutes to set up a secure wifi as well as having a guest wifi. Apple express to extend the signal out in our shop, again super easy to setup and get going. Used to be 5 pc's running and 2 macs, now where are basically 100% mac, save for a machine that powers a CTP and only runs with windows. Life is much simpler for me now not needing to worry about anti virus and all that other fun stuff. It really just works.
I have a 27 inch i5 iMac 12 gigs of ram
15 inch i5 MacBook Pro 8 gigs of ram
Lampshade iMac - best design ever in my opinion, now a jukebox
iPad
iPhone 4
I use a mac for both professional and personal use.
Apps I use regularly
Adobe CS5 (illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop)
FontAgent Pro
Cyberduck
VMware Fusion for Windows 7 ultimate
Safari - works fine for me no complaints
iTunes
iPhoto
iWork
Office 11
iSquint
Mobile me for screen sharing, constantly back and forth between home computer and my macbook pro, also use it to access and help when issues arise at work with our 99% mac environment.
I have an Airport Extreme, works great and allows me to send out 2 wifi signals, which was the biggest selling point for me. Took me 2 minutes to set up a secure wifi as well as having a guest wifi. Apple express to extend the signal out in our shop, again super easy to setup and get going. Used to be 5 pc's running and 2 macs, now where are basically 100% mac, save for a machine that powers a CTP and only runs with windows. Life is much simpler for me now not needing to worry about anti virus and all that other fun stuff. It really just works.
frequently have to reset it plus it has issues with 169.x.x.x addresses which is what my isp likes to use on the client side of the modems.
Can it do the 169. addresses out the box or is that something outside of its scope? And if its frequently requiring resets then they should take it back.
sometimes i can get it to do 169 addresses some times i can't... as for taking it back i gave up fighting with apple on it and plugged my linksys back in. it needs to be reset occasionally but not so much.
also not advertised is the airport extreme has a limit of 4 devices (hard drives/printers) and does not support scanning though apple will tell you all in one printers will work (and they will for print only).
Poser
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safari 5
Safari 5 also features a number of performance enhancements, including the new Nitro JavaScript engine, which Apple claims improves JavaScript performance by 30 percent over Safari 4 and 3 percent over Google Chrome, as well as making it twice as fast as Firefox 3.6. They’ve also built in additional speed features such as DNS prefetching and improved caching of previously viewed pages. In addition, the Windows version of Safari can now take advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics and interactive features.
Apple’s spent a lot of time talking about HTML5 recently, and Safari appears to put the company’s money where its mouth is. Included in the update are a handful of new HTML5-related features, like the addition of full screen video playback and closed captions, as well as HTML5 Geolocation and several other capabilities that should allow Web developers to take even more advantage of the features that HTML5 can offer.
The new Safari Reader feature seems akin to Web-based services like Readability, giving you the option of viewing a Web page in a slimmed-down, scrollable view that eliminates many of the distracting elements. Safari 5 can detect both single and multipage articles and allows you to toggle the Reader mode to display the article, print it, or share it via e-mail. (for those of you that dont know about reader, its in the address bar at the right, try it, when visiting a site with a lot of distractions)
Safari 5 also features a number of performance enhancements, including the new Nitro JavaScript engine, which Apple claims improves JavaScript performance by 30 percent over Safari 4 and 3 percent over Google Chrome, as well as making it twice as fast as Firefox 3.6. They’ve also built in additional speed features such as DNS prefetching and improved caching of previously viewed pages. In addition, the Windows version of Safari can now take advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics and interactive features.
Apple’s spent a lot of time talking about HTML5 recently, and Safari appears to put the company’s money where its mouth is. Included in the update are a handful of new HTML5-related features, like the addition of full screen video playback and closed captions, as well as HTML5 Geolocation and several other capabilities that should allow Web developers to take even more advantage of the features that HTML5 can offer.
The new Safari Reader feature seems akin to Web-based services like Readability, giving you the option of viewing a Web page in a slimmed-down, scrollable view that eliminates many of the distracting elements. Safari 5 can detect both single and multipage articles and allows you to toggle the Reader mode to display the article, print it, or share it via e-mail. (for those of you that dont know about reader, its in the address bar at the right, try it, when visiting a site with a lot of distractions)
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Poser
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for those of you that wanna game on a Mac.
i also noticed a lot of discounted prices.
Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac
i also noticed a lot of discounted prices.
Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac
wonderings
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I would rather just have airplay to my iMac rather then need another app. Using a browser for Netflix is no real hassle in my opinion, its open all the time anyways, and would rather that then another app in my applications folder and another icon in my already full dock.
iridebikes
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fook... you really need all that crap in your dock? Mine has 12 icons and an app folder...
wonderings
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I do, they are all things I usual daily. I have more in my dock for the things I use rarely. But those are the bare necessity. Now mind you, thats my work machine, my home iMac is much less as I don't need the pro apps in there.
Poser
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give this a look, http://www.macworld.com/article/151509/2010/05/speedupwirelessnetwork.html
and also download istumbler(.net), it shows what channels your neighbours are using, try to choose what they are not using.
Poser
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I would rather just have airplay to my iMac rather then need another app. Using a browser for Netflix is no real hassle in my opinion, its open all the time anyways, and would rather that then another app in my applications folder and another icon in my already full dock.
download airplayer(3rd on list), http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/
review, http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent..._turns_your_mac_into_an_airplay_device.ht ml
watch the video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQg046aoV9Y
wonderings
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I saw something on that a few days ago. Looks like another app though to have running. Not that it would be a hog, but I like the seamlessness of AppleTV with airplay. I click airplay on my iPad and select AppleTV and it just starts playing there. No need to make sure "this" or "that" is running, it just plays. Does it work the same with Airplayer? Or do I need to have the Airplayer app running? I basically want my iMac/Macbook Pro to work as seamless as AppleTV, if it doesn't, I don't see huge benefits over using a browser.
Poser
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carry on....
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