I have these with my Mac and they kick ass! They work on any USB computer (Mac or PC) and look cool as hell. Best part is that they require NO DRIVER!!! You just plug them in and they start working. ------------------ So, I took the million dollars and bought a steam shovel...
I've seen them at CompUSA -- they sound incredible!! I like my Cambridge Soundworks though ------------------ "Up and down, inside out, outside in, some you lose some you win" -- DMB -> "Sweet Up and Down"
Yeah, I have the iSub/soundsticks and they're great. ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams and Lisa Malosky fan club. atheistalliance.org
Vengeance, I'll stick with my Klipsch 400 watt THX speakers. Jeff, BTW, are you saying the speakers don't need drivers? I don't know of any speakers that need drivers. Or are you saying you plug them into something on your computer and they "magically" work? ------------------ NBA Draft Lottery is May 20th. Start praying now.
See, that's what happens when you assume that no one would think "drivers" as in speaker drivers. What I meant is that they require no software drivers. Just plug 'n play. ------------------ So, I took the million dollars and bought a steam shovel...
Gotcha. Jeff and DBC, I'm thinking about buying an Apple. Partly because I'd like to learn the platform and partly because I'd like to help out a company that helped me get into computing. I don't want to spend too much money as this'll be one of those "maybe I can learn the OS and the platform" thingies. I can see Apple doing well in the future and actually getting people to finally buy their pc's now that somebody's slapped them in the head. At the same time I don't want it to go obsolete overnight, either. I want to spend less than $2500 on one. Should I just focus on those iBooks (I'd rather have a desktop) or can I get something legitimate that won't be a paper-weight within 1 year for less than that? Are there any new models on the horizon? If so should I wait for a price cut? How much memory do I need? How much hard drive space? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! I feel so.................. newbie-like. ------------------ NBA Draft Lottery is May 20th. Start praying now. [This message has been edited by Dr of Dunk (edited May 09, 2001).]
Good question dod. The more the industry turns to java, the more plausible developing on an (egatst I wouldn't have even thought this 18 mos. ago) Apple. apache, tomcat and forte, a few productivity apps and you can actually stay alive. whoa. ------------------ women love me, fish fear me.
Achebe, I see more and more people requesting Apple/OS ? development or other experience. It's nowhere near the market for PC development yet and probably won't be for years to come, but I jumped on the Internet and Y2K bandwagon before they really got hot, so I figured why not this, too? I'm also really intrigued by the whole OS and platform in general. I'd like to see what it has to offer. When I used Macs back in the early 90's they were far easier to use than PC's. But the PC interface has come a long way since then. If anything it's had to play catch-up to the Mac. I've got the itch to go out and buy one tomorrow, but I never buy something this expensive without researching the hell out of it. ------------------ NBA Draft Lottery is May 20th. Start praying now.
Hrrm... I'm looking at the G4 desktops right now and I think I need to up my "budget". Unless I go for one these G4 Cube dealies... Are these things priced pretty much the same no matter where you buy them from? ------------------ NBA Draft Lottery is May 20th. Start praying now.
I tried the G4 Cube and it is really cool and any of the G4's are awesome. Personally, if I was just starting, I'd pick up a used G3 desktop or one of the nice iMac DV's - special edition. The Cube offers no real substantive advantages over the the iMac. iMac's are not as expandable, but really neither are the Cube's. If I was going to get a desktop that wasn't of the i variety, I'd actually go with an older Power Mac 7200 and upgrade to a G3 processor because the 7200 were the first PCI slotted power mac's and they are still terrifically stable. By the way, with Soft Windows or one of the other Win-alike products, you can run most Win applications. OS X further increases that flexibility with its Unix-esque operation, but I'm still not comfortable with X. It will take me some time to get used to it. Drop me an email if you have additional questions. ------------------ So, I took the million dollars and bought a steam shovel...
