I HATE APPLE

OK, a Restore has fixed it.

Dell LCDs use the same LCDs at Apple ones but are half the price. This is out of date, but you get the idea: http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2400

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=320-6272 is effectively a 24" Apple Cinema in a different case. I have one on my desk at work. It is rad.

Dell also do budget displays, which I've never used. e.g. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=320-6095

s1ocki: http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/07/apple-rogers-falling-out-a-story-too-good-to-be-true/

Dell uses different chips and different quality control, though, so the end product isn't really that similar to the Apple displays.

Apple's displays were pretty inconsistent for a while. A local publishing company dumped a bunch of them and ended up switching brands.

I'm baffled why they haven't updated the ACDs in so long. Do they expect Mac Pro buyers to just go along with it?

"did an infinite beachball with no way out but a power reset."

Happening to me a bit. "I'm a Mac I'm a PC" my fucking arse.

Seems to be the Transmission application that's causing it.

don't steal things then

I'm not too worried about my computer being stolen at work - I have my own office and never leave it unlocked.

So, it turns out there might be other options. There's an old G5 in my office, but it seems to be a good one - 2x2GHz CPUs, and 1.5Gb memory. Apparently we could put another 2Gb of memory in and try running Leopard, and the guess is that it should be as fast as a basic Intel machine - does this seem right? I have no experience of pre-Intel machines at all. Then I'd just need a big display - although again I have a 23" display here, and the 30" one is $1800, which seems somewhat insane. How do 2 23" displays side by side work in practice?

Another option being suggested is a 24" iMac, but at $1800 that doesn't seem like such a good plan if I can get this G5 to run well enough.

That G5 will be plenty good enough for your needs. The only worry is being orphaned by software developers. Check that the software you need is still available for Power PC. Apple have committed to PPC for at least one more version of OSX.

Leopard would be fine on that and the more RAM the merrier.

(PS are you still on the same email address?)

Apple have committed to PPC for at least one more version of OSX

rly? hmm.

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http://blog.karppinen.fi/2008/07/apple-just-gave-out-my-apple-i.html

toby, go for the 24" dell that caek linked, they really are rad. do you really need 30"? that's quite a lot of screen

I think that with anything above 24" you'll have to crane to see the sides

Apple have committed to PPC for at least one more version of OSX.

Where did you hear that?

I find 30" is good for video work which you can afford to sit back from, but it's probably not necessary or even desirable for print work.

I read backwards:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/06/11/snow-leopard-to-be-intel-only-but-not-64-bit-only

What is good for beautifully crafting hard equations?

latex

I think it's still up in the air: http://gizmodo.com/5014251/source-os-x-106-snow-leopard-will-support-powerpc-chips

God knows why though.

xp, an installation of MacTex and either http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/EquationService/ or http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/software/EquationEditor/

I know latex but how much screen real estate?

that EquationService looks v. nice xp

Oh, I see. You really want 1920x1200 so you can fit the editor and PDF preview on the same screen and have the PDF big enough that you don't have to zoom to examine typographic weirdness.

My desktop for TeX:
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6232/picture2aw7.png

Is what I thought. so 24" minimum. 30" if you want to win the wang contest and maybe have a window of something else.

Yes. There are a couple of 30" displays around the dept., but the people who succeed in making a case for spending your tax dollars on them are doing serious simulation work which they claim means they need a massive display to view the huge images. Most people get a 24" iMac or a 24" Dell 2407 if they use their own machine.

I actually wrote the first twenty pages of that paper on a MacBook using VirtueDesktops (pre-Leopard Spaces). That was a drag.

By serious simulation work I mean things like examining the output of http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/ (although that isn't an Oxford project). It does look very cool on a 30" display.

macbook driving a dell 2407wfp => there's your extra screen

That is what I do. itunes and a terminal running mutt down on the MacBook.

And me. Although the MacBook screen is appallingly shit.

24" is OK, but it's better if you have 2 of them.

would they stretch to this?

http://nastyhobbit.files.wordpress.com/2005/10/multi-monitors.jpg

probably not, i'm guessing.

i think i'm probably not going to notice much difference between a 23 inch and 24 inch display, at a guess. maybe i could get an extra 24 inch and run both.

ed - yep, same email addresses as ever.

I think the Apple 23" panel is the same panel that is in the Dell 24" and the true dimension is somewhere in between. It is the pixel count that matters and I think 1920x 1200 is what you want.

We have to run InDesign off 20" screens at work. It's an abuse of human rights.

We also have some Dell 24" at work, and the refresh on them is some ghostly messy shit. I don't know if they're the same ones linked above, tho.

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/8141/desktopln2.png

We have to run InDesign off 20" screens at work. It's an abuse of human rights

i turned mine on its side. for broadsheet work, it's pretty neat.

we got in an apple and a dell and some eizo panel to compare, and we went with the eizo. the dell's were a bit variable. there was little between the apple and the eizo except the eizo was a bit more configurable (movable height stand!!!11) and our colour calibration guy seemed to like it enough to justify the 40 quid extra

. for broadsheet work, it's pretty neat.

For tabloid work, it's not.

Well, for single pages it's OK. I did it once. But I deal with too many spreads.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/2509741368_147e74c18b.jpg?v=0

now with everything in zenburn

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/15/mobileme-not-so-pushy/

So, now that I have a machine in my office as well, is there a good way of keeping ical and address book in sync between multiple machines without paying for mobileme?

Fuck Apple for having shit inventory and a HORRIBLE system for buying iPhone 3G.

Fuck you, Apple.

Toby, there are ways of doing it through google calendar but the best os x tool for doing it is paid for but I forget its name.

new i phone, new suit - quite the spending spree you're kicking off here, Don!

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Dandy Don! Long time.

Fuck Apple for having shit inventory and a HORRIBLE system for buying iPhone 3G.

Fuck you, Apple.

-- Dandy Don Weiner, Friday, 18 July 2008 02:36 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Five days. Apple can suck my nuts.

toby I think maybe busysync will help you but it's $25

http://www.busymac.com/

did os9 have a web browser or would i have to download one seperately (on another computer obv)

There was IE, mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Cyberdog might still run on it.

but there's not one built in? what did people do in the old days?

so pretty; I love kate moross

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katemo/2677813099/