Comments on: iPad: it doesn’t have hooves because it isn’t a horse

By: brooke98

brooke98 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:38:05 +0000

I want a Laptop computer and a ipad.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:53:57 +0000

Oo! It exists! Except it’s not made by Apple and it’s hugely expensive.

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/31373-jazz-mutant-dexter.html
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/7847-jazz-mutant-lemur.html

Nice.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:17:53 +0000

Yeah, I’m waiting to see if any reviews appear on the Web from people who’ve actually put the thing to the test with OSX. And I certainly don’t mind not updating. I find updates usually contain more things that piss me off than improvements. I’m assuming that, in order to make the claim, Commodore are at least ensuring there are no hardware clashes with OSX as it stands now.

A friend of a friend has got a Dell Mini 9 running OSX, and says it’s one of the best computers he’s ever had. The more streamlined OS is apparently one hell of an upgrade and causes the underpowered netbook to run, he says, “like shit off a shovel.”

I’m really not that impressed with my Macbook. I just love Apple’s OS. I’d love a machine that would run the OS but was affordable in the first place and whose parts were also affordable and readily available and easily replaced. Apple are saying over 400 quid for a new logic board. Fuck off to that, I say.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:37:51 +0000

That’s Irish computing for you ;)

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:37:10 +0000

I’d be wary of any unsupported OS X machine – Apple often releases OS X updates that just happen to stop OS X working on non-Apple kit. It’s quite a gamble unless you’re happy with a version of the OS that you never update.

That said, I still fancy an MSI Wind hacked to run OS X :)

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:40:27 +0000

On second thoughts, I’ve looked at completely the wrong prices there, so that’s not true at all. Still a bargain, though.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:56:56 +0000

I'm a lot more interested in this. A decent computer that runs OSX but doesn't come with Apple's bastard pricing structure? Count me in. My Macbook needs a new logic board; a brand new one of these would actually be cheaper.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:50:29 +0000

> a pain in the tits to use with your fingers

Sounds like you’re doing it all wrong.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:43:00 +0000

…of both the iPad and the slate. €599 for the big Slate works out as £527, or £483 for the 32GB model.

The interface is crucial too, of course. Remember the touch-screen HP Win7 PCs we mucked about with in Ireland? They were a pain in the tits to use with your fingers.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:40:04 +0000

Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see the price.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:31:33 +0000

Still finding it hard to give a crap.

You seen the HP slate that they announced the other day? Ipad with USB, SD Cards and cameras running a full OS.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:18:51 +0000

So has anyone been following the reviews and online arguments over this now it’s actually shipping?

Also, iPhone 4.0 is being announced on the 8th.