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I Hate Aluminum — #26

Quote: Originally Posted by urrl78 I usually park my 2003 Mustang GT furthest away in the parking lot AND take up two parking spaces. My car sits there alone in the empty portio…
MacNN Troubleshooting by teknopimp Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #27

I love the look of Al, but frankly after having two Al PBs, I much prefer our iBook's case.
MacNN Troubleshooting by alex_kac Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #28

Although I did get a warning slip one busy Saturday (Day before Easter) at a Mall I have never had a problem parking the way I do. It just makes sense to me as I like to keep thing…
MacNN Troubleshooting by urrl78 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #29

It's never been a problem for me - I just watch my parking spaces and if it looks "too tight", I'll find another. No door dings or anything else like that. Not to mention I alw…
MacNN Troubleshooting by itguy05 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #30

Quote: Originally Posted by fleaplus So I took the powerbook apart and installed a 40GB drive, reinstalled OSX, and now it freezes for 30 seconds when coming out of standby. It…
MacNN Troubleshooting by phataccord04 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #31

Although anyone can walk thu practically any parking lot and witness the various dings, I marvel at your sheer luck. I would not be so ready to laugh at those who are more careful.…
MacNN Troubleshooting by urrl78 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #32

Quote: Originally Posted by itguy05 It's never been a problem for me - I just watch my parking spaces and if it looks "too tight", I'll find another. No door dings or anything …
MacNN Troubleshooting by driven Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #33

Quote: Originally Posted by phataccord04 Freezing from what? You run a diagnostic on it yet? Wireless should not be affected as the antenna run up the side of the screen, and …
MacNN Troubleshooting by fleaplus Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #34

Quote: Originally Posted by urrl78 http://homepage.mac.com/bhardy3/PhotoAlbum38.html Nice laptop. I've always loved that model. The screen glare is a little worse tha…
MacNN Troubleshooting by driven Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #35

I agree, the aluminium is not robust. That said, I have a 17" that was given to me by my boss, after I drooled on it. No, really, I remarked how I would like one, and she said..…
MacNN Troubleshooting by rlmorel Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #36

How were the old Titanium Powerbooks? Any more robust than the Alumininum?
MacNN Troubleshooting by driven Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #37

Quote: Originally Posted by driven How were the old Titanium Powerbooks? Any more robust than the Alumininum? they could take knocks better but prone to scratches, scuffs,…
MacNN Troubleshooting by teknopimp Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #38

Quote: Originally Posted by teknopimp they could take knocks better but prone to scratches, scuffs, chips. early models chipped really bad on the hinges and frame. tibooks seeme…
MacNN Troubleshooting by Feeling_Macish Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

I Hate Aluminum — #39

The AlBooks definitely dent easy. Frankly, I don't think I've seen a single model over a year old that DOESN'T have some form of denting. Alternatively, the TiBooks just cracked, s…
MacNN Troubleshooting by SpeedRacer Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 02:47

AltiVec sucks — #17

Oh, here's the article. It's actually on MacNN's front page. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwor...gr-mw01Altivec2 Quote: In this second article of a three-part ser…
MacNN PowerPC by olePigeon Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 00:21

AltiVec sucks — #16

AltiVec is used extensively in bio science software, especially gene mapping and sequencing. I wanna find the article again, but it was a comparison of gene mapping software betwe…
MacNN PowerPC by olePigeon Sun, 24 Apr 2005 - 00:20

AltiVec sucks — #15

Quote: Originally Posted by SVass If the truth be known, altivec was probably designed to optimize certain operations (blur?) in Adobe Photoshop as that was used to benchmark co…
MacNN PowerPC by Apple Pro Underwear Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 21:54

AltiVec sucks — #14

You can program for AltiVec in C and even C++, it's just that assembly is as low level as you can get save for binary, which makes it much more efficient and faster.
MacNN PowerPC by olePigeon Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 21:07

AltiVec sucks — #13

Using Altivec amounts to the same as using SSE (MMX wasn't useful and AFAIK not really used) -- you have to write apps to use it. So most of the things that use it have relatively …
MacNN PowerPC by OreoCookie Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 17:47

AltiVec sucks — #12

Whoa. And here I'd0 thought for years that He-Who-Was-Hinks was some kind of programming genius. If he doesn't even know what single-precision and double-precision floats are, and…
MacNN PowerPC by Millennium Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 16:55

AltiVec sucks — #11

If the truth be known, altivec was probably designed to optimize certain operations (blur?) in Adobe Photoshop as that was used to benchmark computer speed in advertising. Anyway,…
MacNN PowerPC by SVass Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 16:46

AltiVec sucks — #10

The only thing that sucks worse than AltiVec is not having AltiVec ... at least in my experience owning G3 and G4 machines.
MacNN PowerPC by Krusty Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 16:18

AltiVec sucks — #9

Quote: Originally Posted by macintologist http://spl.haxial.net/weblog/index.php?p=85 Can somebody refute this jerk? This guy is a douché. He's been ranting about Macs…
MacNN PowerPC by Spliff Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 15:45
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