PC vs Mac

[trystinn]

Last year I actually considered getting a Mac for awhile, if for no other reason than to use the ones at the bookstore better. That plan was quickly set aside after upgrading my pc and finding out that the master Apple plan is for you to loose all your purchased music when you re-install iTunes. Riiiight. I did manage to figure out how to rip my purchased music off my old hard drive, though. And of course, their support center was less than helpful in doing so.

Personally, if iTunes was supposed to convert PC owners, they've sadly overestimated the allure of their resource intensive, minimally adaptive iTunes. Gah! Still looking for another solution to using iTunes that will still work with my cell phone.

That said, I adore Mac's advertisements! I've been watching them on their website and scaring the dogs with wild cackling. Seems I've either missed a few or some of them are web-based only. They are particularly funny when you realize there's a bit of a similar take you could take with the BTW and Neo-Wiccans, as Josh pointed out. Though there's arguments to be made on either side as to who is the Mac and who is the PC there. Watching the commericals with that in mind has been rather hysterical.

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[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

My Itunes files live on an external HD. I just have to remember to plug it into a USB port before I invoke the application. It's eversomuch simpler that way.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of doing that for some time now. An external HD would be much simpler for many tasks, though I can't say I mind using a thumb drive all that much.

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

The cheap way to get one is to buy a housing and slip in a functional HDD from a otherwise broke laptop. Cost under $15 with shipping, presuming you've got the HDD. Otherwise they're the sort of thing one buy from WalMart these days.

OTOH, SANDISK announced at the latest CES in Las Vegas they they are preparing to ship a 32GB, all-solid-state HHD-clone. Essentially a giant memory array configured to look to the computer just like a 32GB HDD, but without moving parts. No head crashes, and less chancew of breaking something critical if dropped. Expensive for the moment, but the cost of hardware ALWAYS seems to go down over time.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I've got a bunch of 40gigs sitting around without much to do. The master plan, in the back of my head, is to upgrade to a laptop this year and use my tower as a hard drive stack and server.

I've already got two HDs in it, two DVD writers and two open slots. Hopefully that will handle the stupid power up issues we've been having for years.

[dana3.livejournal.com]

Brock. You are seriously a cutie. Nice to see a pic!!

This entirely OT comment brought to you by the grinning hag in the corner ... :D

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I've had that same thought from time to time.

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

Thanx.

That photo is about 10 or 11 years old at this point. It was a crop-and-enlarge job from a group photo taken when I was participating in the Wedding from Hell. The photo is captioned "David M. and the Groomsmen of the Apocalypse." People always say that in that shot I look like I should have an earbud wire coming up from under my collar and a bulge on my hip under the tux jacket.

The icon on this post is more recent. I've had hair shift from the top of my head to the bottom of it, and some of my chest has moved south of my belt, but it's still pretty much the same me. I'm working on moving the muscle back north of the waistline, but it's a slow and not-entirely-comfortable process.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Odd question, hon. I've got my iTunes library on my boot drive which is radpidly filling up, but a lovely 200 gig just next door to it.

Now, how do I go about re-homing the library to the other drive so iTunes will find it and not try to re-copy it back to the boot drive?

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

My boss has been watching those ads and cackling up a storm. Now I gotta watch 'em.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

You must, succumb to the Mac ads.

[rstormcrow.livejournal.com]

GF, on another note, I use winamp to rip to mp3 since itunes won't go below 128 sample whereas winamp will rip to 64 (okay thats AM quality but in the tinny little head phones you use with the Ipod you don't notice the diff, promise.

Once ripped from winamp I import the folder to itunes library
all this takes place on a SECONDARY hardrive that can be mounted as a second hardrive shared anywhere on the network so EVERYONE on the network can share my library
since it's mp3 you can hang am mac on the network
and grab and copy the directory "music" and pull it local or
open the HD and use it that way directly and change your Itunes on the MAC to point to the library on the winders machine
so when you purchase from the evil ISTORE (Itunes store)
your purchases go to a network drive so they shared and shared alike on the Network

okay I am GEEK

[dragonhearth.livejournal.com]

when I got my new laptop, (also a Mac like my desktop) I just did an appletalk and dragged the iTunes Library to my laptop, Once I did that, I had to authorize my computer to use the files I'd purchased and I was fine.

I <3 my Mac!

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

I always wanted a Mac because they are pretty and come in pink.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I don't care much for pink so you go ahead and corner the market on them, will ya?

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

One of these days I'm writing an iTunes replacement... it'll probably be for Mac first as that's the easier platform to write for.
I haven't had any problems upgrading iTunes on mac - but I also haven't purchased any music with it. (just follow podcasts + my own rips from my too-big CD collection)

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Fine. Send all the pink stuff my way. :)
Damn. You'd hate my wardrobe. And my pink eyeshadow.
My laptop is black and boring. It needs sparkly stickers.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

My kitchen is decorated with gargoyles and my tower design is a backlit bio hazard symbol.

I do have some hysterical yoga stick figures you just inspired me to use.

[dana3.livejournal.com]

Pink eyeshadow makes me look like I've got the plague ... :X
Does it look good on you? Really?!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Makes me look like I'm having an allergic reaction to something - or so my father says.

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Yes. :) It's a very pale pink, though. My skin tone is very pale and I am freckled, so I can't wear very bright or dark colours concerning make-up. If I wear black clothes I look like I've been dead for two weeks!