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PT;MG (probably trolling;MG Siegler) "Thanks largely to Apple themselves, we live in a world where we have digital music, photos, movies, and TV shows that tak
by confuzatron 16y ago
PT;MG
(probably trolling;MG Siegler)
"Thanks largely to Apple themselves, we live in a world where we have digital music, photos, movies, and TV shows that take up dozens, if not hundreds of gigabytes of storage."
Ah nope. Fawning, not trolling.
He forgot to add indoor plumbing, the internal combustion engine, modern medicine, etc, to the list.
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- bl4k 16y agoHe is so fixated and focused on Apple that off course they are responsible for everything. No other tech company exists, or is worthy, in his mind. He demonstrates ignorance in that article, by first mistaking his personal experience with technology for the experience of everybody else in the world. And second by mistaking his own ability to pay $200 more for an Air over a Macbook for the ability of everybody else in the world to afford the extra money. (It reminds me of the Reagan "If I listen to Dukakis long enough" quote - except it is "If I read MG long enough, I would be convinced that Apple..")
- StavrosK 16y agoJesus, that article was ridiculous. I grew suspicious when he talked about speed being partly due to the processor, when we've all known since we got SSDs that the processor has nothing to do with UI latency (when was the last time you saw CPU usage spiking to 100% just by launching programs)? The disk has always been the bottleneck, Apple was smart enough to put a fast disk in the Air, and now this guy praises it. This computer loads faster than the MBP because you've spent the past 6 months loading it with programs, guy. Format the MacBook Pro and it will be just as fast... Sure, the Air might be a great little computer, but for a $999 pricetag, I could get 3 netbooks instead.
- joshfinnie 16y agoAdd to the fact that no one is actually buying the $999 version. Every positive review I have read goes like this: "The new MacBook Air is amazing. It starts at $999 and I have been using the top-of-the-line 13" for a week! (of course not mentioning that it costs $1,599)" I would love to see a tech person use the $999 version and see their review. The price-point, when actually comparing the usable one, is ridiculous!
- glhaynes 16y agoThe vast majority of the hands-on actual-usage reviews I've read (nearly all of which have been extremely positive) have been of the 11" with more people running the 2GB than the 4GB.
- mrkurt 16y agoThe 2GB 11" is the model Apple handed out to people at the event announcing it, so that makes sense.
- joshfinnie 16y agoThat is good to know. All I read was MacBook Air and never a discosure as to what type. It felt like they were talking about a great Android phone and never told me if it was the Droid or the G1. Oh well...
- achompas 16y agoI know someone who recently bought the 11"...and it's fast. I haven't played Call of Duty 4 or anything on it, but it flies. EDIT: Full comment is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834157 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834157
- scott_s 16y agoFormat the MacBook Pro and it will be just as fast... Do you have any support for that claim?
- Tyrannosaurs 16y ago> This computer loads faster than the MBP because you've spent the past 6 months loading it with programs, guy. Is this some sort of specific SSD fragmentation issue you're referring to? There are SSD issues of that type but I'd be surprised to see them in six months unless you're absolutely caning the drive. General fragmentation wouldn't cause that sort of problem inside six months though. I've spent four years loading my MacBook with stuff (and uninstalling stuff, reinstalling stuff and so on) with no significant performance degradation. In that time I've never reinstalled the OS, never defragged or done any sort of significant maintenance other than keeping it patched and it's still basically as fast as it was on day one. My Windows machine on the other hand...
- StavrosK 16y agoNo, I mean random programs installing their long-running daemons for no reason at all...
- Tyrannosaurs 16y agoOut of interest, do you use a Mac? I ask because in four years with my MacBook using it for a whole range of stuff (including development, multimedia, general admin,, and installing whole loads of software I've bought in bundle sales) I've honestly never seen this problem. I'm not saying it can't happen but from my experience you'd really have to be going for it to build up that sort of accumulation of stuff in just six months.
- StavrosK 16y agoNot now, but I used OS X for a few months. Various programs installed some daemons, including VMWare (I see no reason why) Little Snitch (okay, that one's justified) and various other things I can't remember right now...
- rryyan 16y agoI'd say this is a characteristic that's fairly common among Windows applications (especially less-reputable software) but uncommon among Mac applications. My anecdotal evidence from helping friends and family is that Macs don't suffer from "Windows rot" [1] the same way that PCs do. My hypothesis: due to differences in the developer communities for each platform. [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+rot http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+rot
- tertius 16y agoThe Air has a faster SSD than his older Macbook Pro. It isn't magically faster just because it's different. We aren't in fantasy land. If you have a faster CPU, more (of the same speed) RAM and a faster SSD then it doesn't make any sense for it to be slower. Given that both are in a 64bit environment. There is nothing magical happening! Get a new 900MB/s SSD and it'll be faster again, then I guess you'll move back.
- pclark 16y agoWhat specifically is wrong with that sentence? Didn't Apple have the first music store? Doesn't apple let you rent movies or TV shows? Didn't Apple create one of the first popular MP3 Players?
- icegreentea 16y agoPeople had multi gigabyte music and movie and TV show collections long before iTunes made it 'popular' or 'easy'. And I wager that most multi gigabyte movie and TV show collections still have nothing to do with iTunes. Though yes, Apple did do a huge part for boosting people's music collections. But let's not even pretend for movies and TV shows. That "honour" goes to some completely different groups... cough.
- djacobs 16y agoAgreed. To say otherwise is to be drinking the Koolaid that Apple fed to record labels 10 years ago. "We'll boost your sales like you've never seen. We'll even protect your stuff with DRM, no one will mind!"
- modoc 16y agoThe "People" you're talking about are the very small tech minority who were in the "scene", dcc-ing or on usenet, or torrenting (when that came about). What Apple did, is they boosted the average person's music/tv/movie collection. People like my mom and sister. There's 1,000 of them, for every DCCing/Torrenting one of us.
- doron 16y agoI guess that is why the music industry got all up in arms about. that tiny minority who used Napster and limewire and such. According to some counts the number of this tech minority was about 80 million on napster alone, not including your mom and sister of course.
- bck 16y agoThat's simply not true. In my high school, for example, Napster got installed on all computers in the computer lab and a full class was dedicated to teaching everyone how to use it. For reference, another full class was dedicated to learning how to use "Search Engines". Frankly, I did not know a single person under the age of 30 who did not have a massive collection of MP3s and divx movies by the time iTunes came out. Those "People" would actually be called teenagers, and I never met one who didn't know how to use Napster or Kazaa back when I was one of them.
- zzleeper 16y agoWho is this MG Siegler? Is he like Gruber but with a not-so-polished writing?
- twidlit 16y agoHe's the other dog humping Mr. Jobs' other leg. So to speak.