MetaFilter posts tagged with mac and computers

Mac Vs PC

Effigy2000 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:51:34 -0800

Mac Vs. PC. Inspired by Transformers, this short visual effects piece shows us what would happen if our home computers could turn into robots and started beating each other up.

Sienfeld wants you to buy Vista, Shatner wants you to buy a Vic 20

Artw — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:07:03 -0800

Celebrity computer endorsements throughout the ages.

NRD of 19

Artw — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:41:53 -0800

Using OmniFocus to manage a 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons character sheet. Nerds. Dungeons and Dragons. Obsessive overuse of Mac software.

The How-To Geek

nthdegx — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:09:39 -0800

The How-To Geek provides hints and tips for a variety of operating systems and popular pieces of software. The how-tos cover a pleasing range of head-slapping I-should-have-known-thats to relatively advanced techniques. Follow the latest page to read the site in blog form.

Do modern computers make us more productive?

jdroth — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:23:15 -0800

1986 Mac Plus vs. 2007 AMD Dual Core "When we compare strictly common, everyday, basic user tasks between the Mac Plus and the AMD we find remarkable similarities in overall speed, thus it can be stated that for the majority of simple office uses, the massive advances in technology in the past two decades have brought zero advance in productivity." Factor in the internet, and the technological advances have brought me negative productivity.

Mac OS X viruses

indices — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:35:25 -0800

Putting his money where his mouth is regarding the recent Symantec (Norton Utilities, Anti-Virus etc.) Mac OS X virus claims...? Seems not to be, but the fellow who was sponsoring the $25,000 reward has a, shall we say, checkered past. Mac users are still waiting for the first real attack. I could live without it, but this particular religious war (however insane and inane it can get) does liven up our computing experience. If the pop-unders at MacDailyNews get around your browser's pop-up blocker, go here.

i <3 apple

serafinapekkala — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:54:44 -0800

Lick Me, I'm A Mackintosh. One columnist's ode/rant re: Apple's design ethos.

Make a Mac Friend

sudama — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:40:17 -0800

Is it me, or does Mac Mentor sound like the name of a comic book super-villian? (Say it slow.)

Yet another reason to buy a mac

jonson — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:15:21 -0800

Microsoft to discontinue development of IE for the Mac... Surprisingly this apparently isn't being done because of the low market share for Macintosh, but rather as a side effect of the increasing integration (whether real or alleged) between IE and the Operating System, which on the Mac is closed, so MS can cease development as support for their claims of mandatory integration between browser & OS. I await the next step, mandatory integration between email & OS? IM? Media tools? Net access?

Baked Apple

kirkaracha — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:45:41 -0800

Baked Apple. "PowerBook G4 cooked at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. The machine still booted, video and all..." [details at MacFixIt; no permalink]

Argyle — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:05:55 -0800

Bait and Switch? (Quicktime Movie) - One of the Mac Faithful at fury.com makes a funny (but true) statement about the new .Mac service charge that Apple recently announced. How far can Apple push their core consumer market with this type of thing? In a News.com report, Apple predicts losing up to 90% of their existing .Mac users. That's some public relations plan. They are indeed thinking differently.

jcterminal — Sat, 02 Feb 2002 07:24:43 -0800

Don't let the URL fool you, it's completely work safe, and yet oh so naughty. I wish more sites would do this. It would lead to mass confusion, and last I heard, that's the next big monkey-making trend.

bytecode — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:29:14 -0800

Fakeintosh - Have you ever wanted to run Mac OS 8 on your PC, but couldn't? Well now you can with this flash animation. I'm amazed at how detailed it is.

fpatrick — Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:51:04 -0800

I guess this cube wasn't sufficiently assimilated. . . . and I was just about to break down and buy one to replace my old 300/G3.

paladin — Fri, 06 Apr 2001 19:28:25 -0800

"Apple to Users: 'It's Not Our Problem'": Apple is doing nothing about their new firmware update which doesn't recognize some third party RAM chips.

john — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:22:05 -0800

GeForce 3 to be available on Macs first. Check out the 3rd video down. Bonus: A look at the new ID 3D engine for Doom. High drool factor.

baylink — Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:09:08 -0800

John Gilmore (via Wes Felter) lets the dogs out on the new Mac DVD-R drive. Seems it's a DVD-General drive, rather than a DVD-Authoring drive, and, therefore, there are lots of things you might want to do with it that you can't.

This is how Apple can fit a $4500 drive into a $3500 machine.

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 09:42:35 -0800

Apple Cubebook?! Sounds like Apple is working their ass off to get new products out to show in January. The Cubebook sounds cool and I am sure there would be pictures if MacOS Rumors wasn't in Apple's back pocket.

highindustrial — Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:41:08 -0800

Ouch.

Brilliantcrank — Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:35:36 -0800

Lord, thank you for this. Mac users our prayers are being answered. No longer will the plagues of type 11 errors and system freezes rule over the people. The writings is on the wall and it is time for us to reign.

Brilliantcrank — Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:31:10 -0800

Has MacOSRumors lost it's edge? I know the announcements in Paris were none-too-shocking but MOR has really sucked recently. MacCentral scooped them on many of the announcements. Two years ago this would not have been the case. Is it me or have they just lost heart?

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:34:00 -0800

AT LAST! Someone found a practical use for the new Apple Cube.

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:58:23 -0800

What kind of company sells a dual-CPU machine when the second CPU can't be used? See attached quote.

plinth — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:28:40 -0800

Apple to release the vMac and dMac [from Fark], of course we all knew that the iBrator has been around for some time. Be sure to check out the movies if you haven't seen them before.

leo — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:03:15 -0800

Roger Black on Design. MacAddict put up an interview with Roger Black from their August 2000 issue. There are a couple of interesting points as in his take on transitioning from print to web:

"I think that the main thing is pretty much to work as you would in print design. A good designer always focuses on the reader or the customer, the viewer, whatever the end-user is. You just have to do that on the Net the same way you do in print.... I do not believe that the technological hurdles are that big. It doesn't seem to me that big of a deal.... Most of the stuff we do on the Web is not particularly difficult. Almost anybody, particularly anybody under thirty growing up in our society has enough technological culture to work with it. Don't get scared. It’s not that big of a deal."