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If your using Pro software and need expansion slots what the hell are you doing buying imacs? I understand the Macbook Pro if you have to be portable but all of the graphic designers at my work use MacPros because they need expansion slots.
They just switched us from Mac Pro to some HP workstations a year ago (maybe year and a half) and we have had nothing but issues with software and hardware. It is really annoying now because I spend more time worrying about the tech rather than using the software tools as needed. Its been a complete nightmare.
I've been a mac user since 1996 and I will never give up my MBP as its the best feeling laptop I've ever used but since I recently retired my old Dual G5 at home I've been thinking of building myself a PC workstation for freelance video editing work at home as I just can't swing the price of a Mac Pro while my wife is on maternity leave. Although in my industry I do occasionally land some FCP gigs which require a mac and I'm not nerdy/savy enough to build a hackentosh.
Poser
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it wouldn't be cool to conversate in this thread, unless it is mac related, i only said what i said to make sure that remark doesn't show up again, pointless.
its just fair to readers to not read thru stuff like that, you know.
i see in the mac app store, you can purchase individual apps, instead of buying iLife '11(iPhoto,iMovie,Garageband), you can purchase them separate(obviously cheaper), good idea.
SweetOnion
Well-known member
What about starting a big stink with other users on the Mac forum combined with trying to demand a driver update to support it??
Our company deployed hundred of HP Printers all at once... we had one massive broadcast domain. I guess HP didn't realize that all their printers would keep talking to each other, causing collisions on the network and effectively created a broadcast storm that brought our head office down several times, before getting new firmware created for the devices. I don't know if it was paid for by us, but HP fixed it.
We don't need the expansion slots, my expansion slot info was regarding a really DIRTY work around for the lack of Jumbo Frame support on the onboard ethernet.
The Hackintosh route would be my choice in a second, but not hardware based, I'd do it with virtual machines, if it were legal, unfortunately, in my role I have to do things by the book as we are audited on a regular basis.
I could used OLD windows based desktops without hard drives, just a decent vid card, a good gig-e or 10gig ethernet card and have them boot over the network to Snowleopard images served by a hypervisor.
For under $30k, I could virtualize ever Apple system we have and offer at least the same performance as a top level Mac Pro workstation.
Unfortunately, Apple will not allow their software to be run this way.
We ran into the same issue a few years ago when I was trying to upgrade our storage performance.
Apple told us we HAD to use their XSAN hardware and deal with the terrible performance.
We were told that no other hardware would work.
I worked with Equallogic(now dell) and one of their SATA based iSCSI arrays and wrote my own iSCSI initiator for the Apple platform(Apple still does not have a native one) and was able to show triple the performance of the XSAN at 1/3 the cost.
Interesting... I didn't know all that because I am just an end user (TV Producer/Video Editor) so all of my opinions are based off of the OS and how I work within it rather than the behind the scenes tech. I find it fascinating but way over my tech knowledge. Thanks for that tidbit of info.
Better keep all that info to yourself, u don't want to line up all day for the next iPhone, do ya?
iMac should be fine for ocasional FCP gig and definitely more than enough for any home work. Or are you picky about higher bit display matte panels?
Oh I agree the imac is more than enough the only reason why I was considering a Pro is because I already have 2 nice 22" monitors that I had hooked up to my old tower and am partial to towers because its easier to extend the life with upgrades (a USB 3 card would be handy down the road). The imac is a nice machine and I have a few friends that freelance rough cut with them.
It really is a non issue lately as my main job has been keeping me more than busy. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
I think you'd be surprised how easy it is to build a hackintosh. There's resources all over the web.
I've got a brand new 15" i7 MBP. I'm looking forward to putting FCP on it shortly and see how much quicker it renders than my older core 2 Duo.
the reason apple wants to be this way is they want to sell hardware not software but it's funny it's their software that sets their hardware apart. IMO the only reason to buy a mac is to get the software with minimum hassles.
Apple is more interested in the end user experience. Thats why the control the hardware+software combo. Its seamless, no worrying about drivers, conflicts, performance issues that arise from conflicts...Apple is all about the end user customer experience. If your looking for more customization PC or Hackintosh it.
cybernation
Member
Hi all you mac people, i have a question for you guys:
I need to extract text from pdf files on my new macbook pro. Here's the catch. I've already tried automator with the built in pdf extractor, but it loses all the formatting of the pdf. Is there another method to extract the text from pdf files?
I've installed adobe reader, and went into adobe reader to extract the text and it works fine, keeps paragraphs, headings etc in place. I figured that function would automatically show up in automator, but it doesn't. So my question is, how do i add that functionally from adobe reader in automator instead of using the built in pdf extractor?
I need to extract text from pdf files on my new macbook pro. Here's the catch. I've already tried automator with the built in pdf extractor, but it loses all the formatting of the pdf. Is there another method to extract the text from pdf files?
I've installed adobe reader, and went into adobe reader to extract the text and it works fine, keeps paragraphs, headings etc in place. I figured that function would automatically show up in automator, but it doesn't. So my question is, how do i add that functionally from adobe reader in automator instead of using the built in pdf extractor?
Poser
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Why Professionals (and Everyone Should) Use Mac
link for full story(also a next page),,,http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/why-pros-use-mac.htm
INTRODUCTION
Why do we use Mac? Simple: It just works.
We get more done in less time without any aggravation.
It's not just how fast it runs benchmarks. It's mostly because it just runs without the viruses, spam, crashes and constant need for support, reboots, upgrades, defrags and maintenance without which Windows simply stops working after a few weeks. I only have to reboot my desktop Mac when I return from a trip during which I turned it off! It runs smoothly for months at a time.
Since I've written this article, all new Macs also run Windows, making the choice of Mac a no-brainer.
Your office and big business use Windows because many IT departments who choose the computers protect their jobs by selecting Windows precisely because Windows requires so much upkeep. This keeps them employed.
I was a senior manager at a multi-billion dollar corporation for many years and had to deal with Windows. When I'd ask our tech support people why they wasted our time with Windows systems, they'd freely admit that most of them would no longer have jobs if they upgraded to Mac.
Independent users are far smarter than that. Mac has always been the overwhelming choice of full-time, long term career photographers, and no, Windows if anything has fallen further behind as the years roll on. If you haven't used Mac lately, you're missing out.
This isn't just my opinion. Read Consumer Reports or these articles here and here. Listen to this typical Windows PC customer service call (we Mac users can laugh at this since this crappy service doesn't happen to us, and even if we had to endure this, Macs all come free with re-installation CDs anyway.)
See Dell's store rating here and the Apple store's rating here. Dell outsourced their customer service to India and it's been their death knell. Astoundingly Dell is outsourcing even more to India as you can read here from March 20th, 2006. Bye-bye to Dell PCs, unless you yourself can service them. Feel free to research other brands of Windows computers, but Dell is the best of the Windows PC makers (Consumer Reports, June 2005, cp. 40.).
That's it all in a nutshell. Just try a Mac and you'll feel this all for yourself exactly as I did when I upgraded in 2000. If you insist, the newest Apple computers run Windows, too!
Mac is built from the ground up for sound and pictures. Apple won an Emmy Award for inventing FireWire which is used today for most video and movie editing and won a Grammy Award for outstanding contributions to the music recording industry. I was at that Grammy Award ceremony and had no idea Apple was going to get this. No PC company had ever been awarded a Grammy!
I've resisted writing this for years because some people will take this personally, like a discussion of religion or politics. I started getting enough hate mail with my Aperture review that I figured it was time to share my personal experience.
I started this site back when computers had nothing to do with photography. Today they have everything to do with photography. I love helping people with photography, and realized that there's a lot to be shared by letting you know what I've learned working with various computers all these years.
If you're happy with what you have don't worry. I offer this page sharing my personal experience since more and more people are asking me for computer recommendations. I also offer a page about which Mac to get.
I, as well as every full-time career professional photographer I've ever met, just happen to use Mac. It's a given, just as Windows is for engineers and cubicle workers. By "full-time" I mean full-time, not the guy in your office who shoots weddings, portraits, stock or sells photos at fairs on the side. By "career" I mean someone who's been doing photography all along, not someone who dropped out of another job. I don't mean to offend anyone with these definitions and I'll hope to find a more delicate way to explain that people coming from other careers often bring baggage. People starting from scratch, as I did when I bought my Mac, have an easy choice.
When I was shopping between Mac and Windows it was tough for me to find anyone who used both systems everyday and could give me a fair opinion. That's what I'm giving you now, since I've used Mac and Windows side by side for years.
Either machine can be used for anything. Mac lets you get a lot more done in less time without the aggravation. A Mac is the right tool for for photography just as a remote control does a better job of tuning your TV than a 10 foot wooden pole. I speak from personal experience of loving working on Mac for years, and having days of my life wasted by Windows problems. Your experience may vary.
I'm just one guy doing all this photography and this website, on nothing more than a 12" Apple laptop built for kids!
When people speak of computer problems like viruses, reloading operating systems, crashes, DLL errors, spy ware etc., they are referring to Windows-specific problems, not computer problems. Mac users hear about these things, but rarely if ever have to deal with them. I'm speaking from experience, not trying to incite hate mail. I'm sure a Windows Jihad member could send me some sort of virus, just that I don't get a dozen a day as I did on Windows. Viruses are the "59,940 reasons to reconsider Macs" (front cover of Consumer Report's December, 2004 issue).
Would you drive a car that died on you while driving and needed to be reset and tweaked every other trip? Not me. There's no excuse for balky computers, either. Remember cars from the 1950s, which needed complex tune-ups every 2,500 miles and even starting and running when cold was never a sure thing? Today cars all start and run perfectly, have twice the power and better gas mileage, too. This is because they are all computer controlled and self-adjusting. They run great because auto makers use their own proprietary operating systems, NOT Windows. Windows has no excuse for not running flawlessly after 20 years of development. Complexity is not an excuse: even the crappiest car today has dozens of networked computers controlling everything and runs great, compared to 20 years ago when cars still used mechanical carburetors. I suspect Windows, in my experience anyway, runs like crud deliberately.
It's not so much the hardware as the software. The chips and hard drives and screens all come from the same places. The problem is that Windows has always been a buggy science experiment that left a lot of problems for users to figure out on their own. Apple has always done their homework to ensure that the computer knows how to do its own internal work so you don't have to. Microsoft always expected people to learn how computers think. Apple teaches its computers how people think. Steve Jobs gave away Apple's secret in a Forbes interview a short while back: it's all about the user experience, which is all about the software which is the Mac operating system, iPod, and everything they do. The people I've met at Apple reinforce how Steve drives it into everyone's heads that it's their job to ensure that you and I have a great time using our Macs and that everything needs to be obvious, simple to use and just work. They're not allowed to stop their design 90% of the way through and hope the users figure it out. It's Windows software that makes PCs so aggravating, not the computers themselves.
Unlike Nikon vs. Canon, Coke vs. Pepsi, Rock vs. Disco or BMW vs. Mercedes dickering, there is a real difference between Mac and Windows when you work on your computer all day. (Apple has a larger share of the computer market than BMW and Mercedes have combined in the auto market.)
You don't need a dedicated support department to keep a Mac running. Computer support departments HATE Mac because Macs don't need computer support departments. You'll never get your company's help desk to suggest Mac because they know they'd be unemployed. Fast. Macs aren't perfect, but close.
WHY I USE MAC
Do More Faster
I get more done in less time with no aggravation. My brain doesn't hurt after working on it for hours. It just works. No backtalk, no stupid popup boxes in meaningless technical gibberish, no viruses, no slow operation, no spy ware, no crashes, no complex installations, no reloading operating systems, no taking 5 minutes just to turn off, no nothing except getting stuff done.
I do my entire website, read hundreds of emails, do all my Photoshop CS2 work and catalog hundreds of images every day, all on a two-year-old 12" Apple iBook, the lowest performance computer and cheapest laptop they make! This little 12" laptop is the computer I use all day, every day, for everything! I used to use a desktop (which will be for sale), but the laptop worked so well I never bothered to use the desktop. While I'm working away I pity my wife struggling with her large company's Windows machine and all its problems.
Before I got my first Mac in 2000 I was afraid that Mac users might just be a bunch of nerds who sat around telling themselves how great their computers were. Just like with switching between Nikon and Canon, I feared Macs might have their own set of unique problems that the Mac whim ps chose to ignore. Nope, Macs really just work great without all the problems.
Talk to we Mac users and we talk about what we've made, like this website, with our machines. We don't talk about the machines. Talk to Windows users and you'll just hear about their ratty hardware. Listen to any computer talk show and it's pitiful: all the callers have issues with Windows and can't even get their computers running. When Mac people talk shop it's about neat tricks discovered in Photoshop or whatever that lets us get even more work done. Making an automotive analogy, Windows users have enough trouble just getting their cars started, much less getting them out of the garage, while Mac users are out winning races.
I beat on my little iBook 10 hours a day, every day. It turns on instantly as soon as I open the cover. There is no waiting a few seconds to wake up as Windows laptops.
Windows users have a heck of a time just trying to keep their machines running long enough to check email and surf the internet. These are trivial on Mac and allow us the time to do photography, edit movies and make website's. Movies? Not just home video and prime-time network TV shows; did I mention many Hollywood theatrical releases are edited on Mac, too? Many people use Apple's Final Cut Pro, while more advanced folks use Avid or other nonlinear tools controlled by a Mac.
Instant Wake-Up
My iBook is awake the instant I open the cover. That alone is enough to amaze Windows users. It bugged the **** out of me having Windows laptops that took time to wake up.
My iBook goes to sleep as soon as I close the cover, and has enough power on a full charge to stay ready to work instantly for over a week!
Easy Color Calibration
Every Mac has had built-in software monitor color calibration for years.
Of course I've always set my Macs to 2.2 gamma, which oddly isn't the default. If you leave your Mac at its default of 1.8 things may look too light. Set it to 2.2, which is only a few clicks away (top left blue apple > System Refs > Displays > Color > Calibrate (choose 2.2 gamma when asked)), and everything looks great and matches the rest of the consumer world of sRGB, photo lab printers and the Internet.
I use a hardware calibrator, the Color vision Spryer. Unlike CRTs of old, every LCD ought to be calibrated.
Macs default to 1.8 from their historical use in publishing, long before the Internet and Photoshop went consumer. It's kind of the same reason why railroad tracks are still at the same spacing as the wheels of Roman chariots and the sharpening filter in Photoshop is still called un sharp mask.
Today Macs ought to default to 2.2, but oh well. Pros know better.
Easy Wireless
Wireless? Open an iBook and go, no configuration required.
It will already be ON unless someone deliberately turned it OFF. If so, click the antenna icon on the top right and select ON. It will select the best network automatically. If you want to choose, the list is right there. If you need a password, it asks. It just connects. Easy. I can get a wireless internet signal for free just about anyplace there are people.
For comparison, last night my wife tried to get her company's laptop connected to our wireless. She was given two pages of instructions with over seventeen complex steps! It didn't work. She then wasted over an hour of dinner time on the phone with tech support. It still doesn't work. Her Windows laptop asked us to figure out how to activate and configure its own wireless card! The ON button was hidden six menus deep. Macs are smart enough to activate their wireless cards automatically without giving us the Molvanian mind-fu ck looking for the ON button. Mac is well enough designed to figure out the obvious. Windows and its related programs are so incompletely designed that not even tech support could find where to enter a password to access our network! That was too well hidden. Her laptop remains connected by wire.
link for full story(also a next page),,,http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/why-pros-use-mac.htm
INTRODUCTION
Why do we use Mac? Simple: It just works.
We get more done in less time without any aggravation.
It's not just how fast it runs benchmarks. It's mostly because it just runs without the viruses, spam, crashes and constant need for support, reboots, upgrades, defrags and maintenance without which Windows simply stops working after a few weeks. I only have to reboot my desktop Mac when I return from a trip during which I turned it off! It runs smoothly for months at a time.
Since I've written this article, all new Macs also run Windows, making the choice of Mac a no-brainer.
Your office and big business use Windows because many IT departments who choose the computers protect their jobs by selecting Windows precisely because Windows requires so much upkeep. This keeps them employed.
I was a senior manager at a multi-billion dollar corporation for many years and had to deal with Windows. When I'd ask our tech support people why they wasted our time with Windows systems, they'd freely admit that most of them would no longer have jobs if they upgraded to Mac.
Independent users are far smarter than that. Mac has always been the overwhelming choice of full-time, long term career photographers, and no, Windows if anything has fallen further behind as the years roll on. If you haven't used Mac lately, you're missing out.
This isn't just my opinion. Read Consumer Reports or these articles here and here. Listen to this typical Windows PC customer service call (we Mac users can laugh at this since this crappy service doesn't happen to us, and even if we had to endure this, Macs all come free with re-installation CDs anyway.)
See Dell's store rating here and the Apple store's rating here. Dell outsourced their customer service to India and it's been their death knell. Astoundingly Dell is outsourcing even more to India as you can read here from March 20th, 2006. Bye-bye to Dell PCs, unless you yourself can service them. Feel free to research other brands of Windows computers, but Dell is the best of the Windows PC makers (Consumer Reports, June 2005, cp. 40.).
That's it all in a nutshell. Just try a Mac and you'll feel this all for yourself exactly as I did when I upgraded in 2000. If you insist, the newest Apple computers run Windows, too!
Mac is built from the ground up for sound and pictures. Apple won an Emmy Award for inventing FireWire which is used today for most video and movie editing and won a Grammy Award for outstanding contributions to the music recording industry. I was at that Grammy Award ceremony and had no idea Apple was going to get this. No PC company had ever been awarded a Grammy!
I've resisted writing this for years because some people will take this personally, like a discussion of religion or politics. I started getting enough hate mail with my Aperture review that I figured it was time to share my personal experience.
I started this site back when computers had nothing to do with photography. Today they have everything to do with photography. I love helping people with photography, and realized that there's a lot to be shared by letting you know what I've learned working with various computers all these years.
If you're happy with what you have don't worry. I offer this page sharing my personal experience since more and more people are asking me for computer recommendations. I also offer a page about which Mac to get.
I, as well as every full-time career professional photographer I've ever met, just happen to use Mac. It's a given, just as Windows is for engineers and cubicle workers. By "full-time" I mean full-time, not the guy in your office who shoots weddings, portraits, stock or sells photos at fairs on the side. By "career" I mean someone who's been doing photography all along, not someone who dropped out of another job. I don't mean to offend anyone with these definitions and I'll hope to find a more delicate way to explain that people coming from other careers often bring baggage. People starting from scratch, as I did when I bought my Mac, have an easy choice.
When I was shopping between Mac and Windows it was tough for me to find anyone who used both systems everyday and could give me a fair opinion. That's what I'm giving you now, since I've used Mac and Windows side by side for years.
Either machine can be used for anything. Mac lets you get a lot more done in less time without the aggravation. A Mac is the right tool for for photography just as a remote control does a better job of tuning your TV than a 10 foot wooden pole. I speak from personal experience of loving working on Mac for years, and having days of my life wasted by Windows problems. Your experience may vary.
I'm just one guy doing all this photography and this website, on nothing more than a 12" Apple laptop built for kids!
When people speak of computer problems like viruses, reloading operating systems, crashes, DLL errors, spy ware etc., they are referring to Windows-specific problems, not computer problems. Mac users hear about these things, but rarely if ever have to deal with them. I'm speaking from experience, not trying to incite hate mail. I'm sure a Windows Jihad member could send me some sort of virus, just that I don't get a dozen a day as I did on Windows. Viruses are the "59,940 reasons to reconsider Macs" (front cover of Consumer Report's December, 2004 issue).
Would you drive a car that died on you while driving and needed to be reset and tweaked every other trip? Not me. There's no excuse for balky computers, either. Remember cars from the 1950s, which needed complex tune-ups every 2,500 miles and even starting and running when cold was never a sure thing? Today cars all start and run perfectly, have twice the power and better gas mileage, too. This is because they are all computer controlled and self-adjusting. They run great because auto makers use their own proprietary operating systems, NOT Windows. Windows has no excuse for not running flawlessly after 20 years of development. Complexity is not an excuse: even the crappiest car today has dozens of networked computers controlling everything and runs great, compared to 20 years ago when cars still used mechanical carburetors. I suspect Windows, in my experience anyway, runs like crud deliberately.
It's not so much the hardware as the software. The chips and hard drives and screens all come from the same places. The problem is that Windows has always been a buggy science experiment that left a lot of problems for users to figure out on their own. Apple has always done their homework to ensure that the computer knows how to do its own internal work so you don't have to. Microsoft always expected people to learn how computers think. Apple teaches its computers how people think. Steve Jobs gave away Apple's secret in a Forbes interview a short while back: it's all about the user experience, which is all about the software which is the Mac operating system, iPod, and everything they do. The people I've met at Apple reinforce how Steve drives it into everyone's heads that it's their job to ensure that you and I have a great time using our Macs and that everything needs to be obvious, simple to use and just work. They're not allowed to stop their design 90% of the way through and hope the users figure it out. It's Windows software that makes PCs so aggravating, not the computers themselves.
Unlike Nikon vs. Canon, Coke vs. Pepsi, Rock vs. Disco or BMW vs. Mercedes dickering, there is a real difference between Mac and Windows when you work on your computer all day. (Apple has a larger share of the computer market than BMW and Mercedes have combined in the auto market.)
You don't need a dedicated support department to keep a Mac running. Computer support departments HATE Mac because Macs don't need computer support departments. You'll never get your company's help desk to suggest Mac because they know they'd be unemployed. Fast. Macs aren't perfect, but close.
WHY I USE MAC
Do More Faster
I get more done in less time with no aggravation. My brain doesn't hurt after working on it for hours. It just works. No backtalk, no stupid popup boxes in meaningless technical gibberish, no viruses, no slow operation, no spy ware, no crashes, no complex installations, no reloading operating systems, no taking 5 minutes just to turn off, no nothing except getting stuff done.
I do my entire website, read hundreds of emails, do all my Photoshop CS2 work and catalog hundreds of images every day, all on a two-year-old 12" Apple iBook, the lowest performance computer and cheapest laptop they make! This little 12" laptop is the computer I use all day, every day, for everything! I used to use a desktop (which will be for sale), but the laptop worked so well I never bothered to use the desktop. While I'm working away I pity my wife struggling with her large company's Windows machine and all its problems.
Before I got my first Mac in 2000 I was afraid that Mac users might just be a bunch of nerds who sat around telling themselves how great their computers were. Just like with switching between Nikon and Canon, I feared Macs might have their own set of unique problems that the Mac whim ps chose to ignore. Nope, Macs really just work great without all the problems.
Talk to we Mac users and we talk about what we've made, like this website, with our machines. We don't talk about the machines. Talk to Windows users and you'll just hear about their ratty hardware. Listen to any computer talk show and it's pitiful: all the callers have issues with Windows and can't even get their computers running. When Mac people talk shop it's about neat tricks discovered in Photoshop or whatever that lets us get even more work done. Making an automotive analogy, Windows users have enough trouble just getting their cars started, much less getting them out of the garage, while Mac users are out winning races.
I beat on my little iBook 10 hours a day, every day. It turns on instantly as soon as I open the cover. There is no waiting a few seconds to wake up as Windows laptops.
Windows users have a heck of a time just trying to keep their machines running long enough to check email and surf the internet. These are trivial on Mac and allow us the time to do photography, edit movies and make website's. Movies? Not just home video and prime-time network TV shows; did I mention many Hollywood theatrical releases are edited on Mac, too? Many people use Apple's Final Cut Pro, while more advanced folks use Avid or other nonlinear tools controlled by a Mac.
Instant Wake-Up
My iBook is awake the instant I open the cover. That alone is enough to amaze Windows users. It bugged the **** out of me having Windows laptops that took time to wake up.
My iBook goes to sleep as soon as I close the cover, and has enough power on a full charge to stay ready to work instantly for over a week!
Easy Color Calibration
Every Mac has had built-in software monitor color calibration for years.
Of course I've always set my Macs to 2.2 gamma, which oddly isn't the default. If you leave your Mac at its default of 1.8 things may look too light. Set it to 2.2, which is only a few clicks away (top left blue apple > System Refs > Displays > Color > Calibrate (choose 2.2 gamma when asked)), and everything looks great and matches the rest of the consumer world of sRGB, photo lab printers and the Internet.
I use a hardware calibrator, the Color vision Spryer. Unlike CRTs of old, every LCD ought to be calibrated.
Macs default to 1.8 from their historical use in publishing, long before the Internet and Photoshop went consumer. It's kind of the same reason why railroad tracks are still at the same spacing as the wheels of Roman chariots and the sharpening filter in Photoshop is still called un sharp mask.
Today Macs ought to default to 2.2, but oh well. Pros know better.
Easy Wireless
Wireless? Open an iBook and go, no configuration required.
It will already be ON unless someone deliberately turned it OFF. If so, click the antenna icon on the top right and select ON. It will select the best network automatically. If you want to choose, the list is right there. If you need a password, it asks. It just connects. Easy. I can get a wireless internet signal for free just about anyplace there are people.
For comparison, last night my wife tried to get her company's laptop connected to our wireless. She was given two pages of instructions with over seventeen complex steps! It didn't work. She then wasted over an hour of dinner time on the phone with tech support. It still doesn't work. Her Windows laptop asked us to figure out how to activate and configure its own wireless card! The ON button was hidden six menus deep. Macs are smart enough to activate their wireless cards automatically without giving us the Molvanian mind-fu ck looking for the ON button. Mac is well enough designed to figure out the obvious. Windows and its related programs are so incompletely designed that not even tech support could find where to enter a password to access our network! That was too well hidden. Her laptop remains connected by wire.
imkruzen
Well-known member
Have to get a MAC.
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