Apple: Get A Life!!!

[Kevin OQuinn]

Not a good topic for this particular thread.

Back to Apple...

Great hardware is nothing without great software to use it.

To reply to the trackpad comment specifically, it doesn't matter who makes the hardware. It's the software and drivers that make it work so well. No PC trackpad has ever worked as well as the trackpad on the macbooks.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

Like I say, I have a 3 and 1/2 year old ASUS with stock Intel chips...here is the kicker, I blast the latest games.....and when I choke (one year from now) I will finally use that express slot. Dude, that will be almost half a decade? Software geeks verse hardware geeks? who wins?

Guarantee you don't "blast" the "latest games". Most 2011-2012 games won't run on Intel chips at all. Show me some vids of you running GTA 4, mass effect 3, rage or battlefield 3 on your PC. Only a couple of the new Intel chipsets can even properly run DirectX 11. I had a Radeon 6850 until recently, when it couldn't keep up with new games without severe lag. I know for a absolute fact a 3+ year old Intel chipset is physically incapable of running modern games. That's the main reason most game companies don't make games for Mac. The Radeon 5770 plus 6 gigs system ram can barely make them run along with the OS, let alone smoothly. Cutting edge games take advantage of shader and pipe advances that old hardware simply dosen't have.

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[Johnly]

Guarantee you don't "blast" the "latest games". Most 2011-2012 games won't run on Intel chips at all. Show me some vids of you running GTA 4, mass effect 3, rage or battlefield 3 on your PC. Only a couple of the new Intel chipsets can even properly run DirectX 11. I had a Radeon 6850 until recently, when it couldn't keep up with new games without severe lag. I know for a absolute fact a 3+ year old Intel chipset is physically incapable of running modern games. That's the main reason most game companies don't make games for Mac. The Radeon 5770 plus 6 gigs system ram can barely make them run along with the OS, let alone smoothly. Cutting edge games take advantage of shader and pipe advances that old hardware simply dosen't have.

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sorry bro, headed under the bridge...carry on expert.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

Not a good topic for this particular thread.

Back to Apple...

Great hardware is nothing without great software to use it.

To reply to the trackpad comment specifically, it doesn't matter who makes the hardware. It's the software and drivers that make it work so well. No PC trackpad has ever worked as well as the trackpad on the macbooks.

A little searching shows the Synaptic drivers have been ported directly to PC, allowing an identical experience. In future, just assume that anything good on Mac already exists on, or has been ported to PC.

Personally, I like the custom gestures app on my ultrabook better.

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[Johnly]

A little searching shows the Synaptic drivers have been ported directly to PC, allowing an identical experience. In future, just assume that anything good on Mac already exists on, or has been ported to PC.

Personally, I like the custom gestures app on my ultrabook better.

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Assumption is the azimuth of cheap ssa experiences...did you not read this thread silly?

 

[crackberrytraitor]

Assumption is the azimuth of cheap ssa experiences...did you not read this thread silly?

In this case it's a good assumption. And you're silly, you big silly :b

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[Johnly]

In this case it's a good assumption. And you're silly, you big silly :b

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ha ha, nice....okay, break the clouds sir, we are all waiting

 

[crackberrytraitor]

ha ha, nice....okay, break the clouds sir, we are all waiting

I don't know what that means. We don't have that figure of speech here in the U.S.

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[Johnly]

I don't know what that means. We don't have that figure of speech here in the U.S.

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Damn, and iiiiii live here.....

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

A little searching shows the Synaptic drivers have been ported directly to PC, allowing an identical experience. In future, just assume that anything good on Mac already exists on, or has been ported to PC.

Personally, I like the custom gestures app on my ultrabook better.

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Then the hardware sucks. Cuz no PC trackpad is as good as the Mac.

Or Apple did something else to the software to make it work better.

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[crackberrytraitor]

Then the hardware sucks. Cuz no PC trackpad is as good as the Mac.

Or Apple did something else to the software to make it work better.

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Have you tried the ported drivers on a laptop with a Synaptec trackpad? Something tells me that as a MacBook user, you haven't. I'm also going to guess you haven't used multi-touch custom gestures on a good ultrabook trackpad either. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. It would seem to be jumping the shark a little bit to assume the Mac trackpad is better if you haven't.

Also it looks like Windows 8 is going to have advanced multi-touch trackpad gestures built in, making it easier for people who are too technophobic to install drivers.

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[varsityhacker]

This is the most off topic post I have ever read. I thought this was a forum on phones not computers . Anyway the smartest thing Apple did was going to Intel processors faster, cheaper and I can run windows on my Mac.

 

[p3unit32]

ICS went a long way toward optimizing the software for the hardware, but more needs to be done.

It shouldn't take quad-core and high-end dual-core to have a smooth experience on an Android phone. It shouldn't take 2gb of RAM.

That's what Apple gets. They build the software to take advantage of every last ounce of the hardware it's running on.

I totally agree! Awesome hardware specs are great, but you need software to maximize its potential. That's what make the iPhone successful in my opinion.

 

[Mellimel22]

Yeah successfully boring and dull lol

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[Kevin OQuinn]

Have you tried the ported drivers on a laptop with a Synaptec trackpad? Something tells me that as a MacBook user, you haven't. I'm also going to guess you haven't used multi-touch custom gestures on a good ultrabook trackpad either. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. It would seem to be jumping the shark a little bit to assume the Mac trackpad is better if you haven't.

Also it looks like Windows 8 is going to have advanced multi-touch trackpad gestures built in, making it easier for people who are too technophobic to install drivers.

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I'm actually not a Macbook user and have never owned one. I have used quite a few for extended periods of time, though.

I don't really care what kinds of gestures are supposed to be supported. I care about implementation. What would you consider to be a "good" ultrabook trackpad? I've messed around with the Dell XPS 13 and ASUS UX31 (not the new Ivy Bridge based one), as well as the Acer. None are as seemless as the Macbook. With the Macbook you know that whatever gesture you do will work every single time. It inspires confidence when you use it. No PC I've ever used has done that (talking only the trackpad, of course).

 

[nokia4life]

What has happened to this thread it went from an admin rant because the sprint phones were held in customs for what a week at most to now folks talking about laptops wtf is going on?

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[Kevin OQuinn]

As long as this thread doesn't get disrespectful toward members and has a good discussion then it's ok.

Most Apple discussions eventually get to this point anyway.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

I'm actually not a Macbook user and have never owned one. I have used quite a few for extended periods of time, though.

I don't really care what kinds of gestures are supposed to be supported. I care about implementation. What would you consider to be a "good" ultrabook trackpad? I've messed around with the Dell XPS 13 and ASUS UX31 (not the new Ivy Bridge based one), as well as the Acer. None are as seemless as the Macbook. With the Macbook you know that whatever gesture you do will work every single time. It inspires confidence when you use it. No PC I've ever used has done that (talking only the trackpad, of course).

Yeah but none of them come with the ported Apple drivers installed. My point is, with a simple installation of admittedly stolen drivers, the trackpad would be identical in functionality with an ultrabook that has a compatible pad, so how would the Mac's pad be better? Also have you tried any of the programs that allow custom gestures, that would allow you to create gestures so they are exactly the way you want them?

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[Speedygi]

ICS went a long way toward optimizing the software for the hardware, but more needs to be done.

It shouldn't take quad-core and high-end dual-core to have a smooth experience on an Android phone. It shouldn't take 2gb of RAM.

That's what Apple gets. They build the software to take advantage of every last ounce of the hardware it's running on.

But still they have to step up some semblance of keeping up with the times if behemoths from Android keep touting quad cores. Not that I want Apple to have that but please, bigger screen for Iphones...Competition is good. haha.

 

[Ry]

But still they have to step up some semblance of keeping up with the times if behemoths from Android keep touting quad cores. Not that I want Apple to have that but please, bigger screen for Iphones...Competition is good. haha.

But the iPhone isn't about the specs. They don't advertise clock speed.

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