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(...) Don't have to necessarily be a PC Nazi to see Apple as 60% hype / 40% product. :) Although you'd have to be a nice PC user to be that generous. (...) They're cheap enough for now, although you'd have to slap another 64m minimum in that (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh? The 400mhz model comes with 128mb. That's livable. 256 is swimming. (But some games--theme park world for one--now demand 80mb ram.. won't be long til their kind refuse to run..) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You're right. Hrmmm - maybe I saw a price list at the computer store on campus with a misprint or something, or maybe I'm thinking of the low-end iBook. Ok, out of the box the $2500 (guess we get a whole $100 off for educational purchases - (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Urggghhhh......... My PowerBook dealer, Scott, told me I maybe can have a 500 mhz Powerbook G4 tomorrow if I want it! (assuming they materialize in the morning as expected.) I'm going to hold off until a 400 mhz model comes in. Ooh... (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Whoops. My dealer (DataVision) called. Scott only needed 3 words: "I want it!" While I was picking it up, I got the sense that if I'd been a few minutes tardy it would have gone to someone else. Installing software......... (23 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And what a nice machine you got. You never NDA'd me, so I can talk about your software? Steve (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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You can talk about my software, Steve... it's even on the web too. More of the this story: (...) Scott from Datavision called again today! "Everything ok there? I just received 4 or 5 of the 400mhz units. You know anyone waiting for one?" As a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) I heard somewhere (I think it was a discussion group on a Mac fansite) that the 400 MHz units didn't play DVD's as smoothly as the 500 MHz units. I can't remember if that was on battery power or plugged in. My Vaio C1VN (powered by a 600 MHz (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I guess I won't be able to test this from my position. (...) The other cool machine on sale! (...) Yup. It's $900 difference, for a faster CPU, +128mb SO-DIMM (not sure if separate chip), and +10gb disk. The last two items are about $100 each (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Oops. I looked closely at my experiment with Marc Atkin's movie, "2001: A Lego Odyssey". It's not so easy to compress. The Sorenson 2 video codec does ruin the quality. Maybe it would improve with the professional package -- the basic codec suffers (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) Which, if you're a road warrior, you would leave home. People ask me why I drag out my laptop to listen to MP3s on the plane, when a CD player (or an MP3 player or minidisk player, Sony has one that is the size of a minidisk plus a very small (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Do you bring your forearm mounted mini-crossbow, Lar? ;^D ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, I use the one built into my laptop. Less to carry that way. ++Lar (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, the guy across the aisle from on last week's flight from New York was watching "Midnight Cowboy" on his Vaio. Pretty Cool, if you're really jonesing for a personal inflight movie. Steve (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is it hot-swappable with the optional poison dart launcher? ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I've tried to cut back on launching poison darts... but it's hard. Very hard. My most effective weapon in project reviews is probably the acid pen, though. ++Lar (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But it's so messy. I use a laser pen, myself. Plus, you can turn down the intensity and use it as a pointer. ;^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Properly equipped with physical weapons, any piker can inflict physical harm (did I just make a pun? Whoops). It takes real talent to use an acid pen, though, as the acid is virtual. Come to one of my project reviews some time (for a seriously (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The acid pen is, if I'm interpreting Lar correctly, from the same class of weapon as the razor wit and the pointed review. :) James (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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Trimmed .geek (about 3 posts too late, sorry folks!) (...) Give the man a (non exploding) cigar. :-) (I think I'm on to something here... I'm saying it takes *no* talent to wield a real weapon, but it takes *real* talent to wield a virtual weapon. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, if you want to close the circle, then virtual talent is good for nothing. ;) James (fond of the barbed comment, myself...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There's always the cutting remark. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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