pic: WOW! 5 laptops+1 IPoD We must be rich!!!

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[Astronouth7303]

I'll say. And you missed the stereo. Can you lend us one?

[Jay H 237]

You also forgot the DeWalt battery charger too (located behind the Toshiba Satellite). I like the jumble of cords and all the power strips. Are those speakers attached to polycarb or plexiglass next to the Sony stereo?

[EDIT] I also forgot to mention that keeping the grape juice next to all that equipment isn't the best idea. We lost an IBM Thinkpad to Mountain Dew. I dismantled the Thinkpad to attempt a repair but you won't believe how much corrosion there was and how the Dew "ate" away at some of the traces and connectors on the boards. The only things salvagable was the AC adaptor, battery, memory, screen, and plastic cover pieces and such. [EDIT]

[Astronouth7303]

The cords? that's nothing. I've got 4 desktops set up in my room on 1 desk WITHOUT an AV switch. as in: 4 sets of mice, keyboards, and all acsociated peripherals. I repeat: ONE DESK.

(There's a legit explaination. 1 of the computers is the team's, and 2 are circa '95)

[Joe Matt]

Only one problem, not enough Macs...

[mtaman02]

well its always good to have more then one of something in case it breaks or fails or runs outta battery juice. hrm at PARC i had brought 2 laptops and my old coaches bought another laptop. the coaches the laptop brought had i guess programming mine just held some website info and scoring simulators lol between the three none of them got that much use. =)

[Austin]

Originally Posted by mtaman02

well its always good to have more then one of something in case it breaks or fails . . .

They'd be fine with only the iBook or Powerbook if they could run C. Macs don't fail, at least compared to their PC counterparts. lol.

[Alan Anderson]

On the trip to Atlanta, I was part of a small vanload of six people. I noticed at one point that there were five DVD players in the van. That's counting two iBooks, one team laptop PC, another laptop (which actually stayed in the owner's luggage for the entire drive), and a Delphi Rear Seat Entertainment system.

(The RSE was mostly used with a Nintendo GameCube on the trip down, for about ten hours.)

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Austin

They'd be fine with only the iBook or Powerbook if they could run C. Macs don't fail, at least compared to their PC counterparts. lol.

That's because MacOS is almost a closed system. Apple only has to support itself. Microsoft has to support everyone else. not to mention the fact that pcs are (fairly) easy to upgrade, so when someone writes crappy drivers, Microsoft gets blamed. Plus, the odds of something crashing are mutch more likey (Microsoft has, what, 75% of the market? that's 1.5 times the odds of a mac crashing). Sensing the pattern yet?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

That's because MacOS is almost a closed system. Apple only has to support itself. Microsoft has to support everyone else. not to mention the fact that pcs are (fairly) easy to upgrade, so when someone writes crappy drivers, Microsoft gets blamed. Plus, the odds of something crashing are mutch more likey (Microsoft has, what, 75% of the market? that's 1.5 times the odds of a mac crashing). Sensing the pattern yet?

Recent rumors say that C and .Net will be supported in the 10.4 version of XCode

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by JosephM

Recent rumors say that C and .Net will be supported in the 10.4 version of XCode

-C support for alpha proc is entirely compiler dependent
-.NET sucks. Good 'ole VS6 all the way!
-What's XCode?

[tkwetzel]

Wow...I am suprised no one has mentioned this yet. It makes me wonder if what I am seeing is correct or not. Are there not 7 laptops there (2 of them being dirty macs)?

[MrToast]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

-C support for alpha proc is entirely compiler dependent
-.NET sucks. Good 'ole VS6 all the way!
-What's XCode?

XCode is Apple's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that comes free with every new Apple computer. You can also download it (warning, BIG download) from Apple's website.

MrToast

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

That's because MacOS is almost a closed system. Apple only has to support itself. Microsoft has to support everyone else. not to mention the fact that pcs are (fairly) easy to upgrade, so when someone writes crappy drivers, Microsoft gets blamed. Plus, the odds of something crashing are mutch more likey (Microsoft has, what, 75% of the market? that's 1.5 times the odds of a mac crashing). Sensing the pattern yet?

No... your logic is flawed in its entirety.

MacOS is almost a closed system:

What does this mean? Windows is more of a closed system then mac is. At least Mac OS X is based on open standards.

Apple only has to support itself.:

Again no. Apple supports a lot of third party developers to ensure the best compatibility.

not to mention the fact that pcs are (fairly) easy to upgrade, so when someone writes crappy drivers, Microsoft gets blamed:

So are macs. If you go to www.xlr8yourmac.com you can get info on almost any custom configuration. In Mac OS X and WinXP you shouldn't have to install any drivers, almost all the drivers are found on the system.

Plus, the odds of something crashing are mutch more likey (Microsoft has, what, 75% of the market? that's 1.5 times the odds of a mac crashing). Sensing the pattern yet?

Macs crash less because of its UNIX under printings, and other reasons too.

I guess I found the advantage to PCs over Macs....

I wonder how a iBook would work after a 200 pound man stands on it for 5 minutes or drops it from 5 feet up

Long Live Toshiba!

Ugghh Toshiba are one of the worst labtop manufactures out there. I have had a lot of problems fixing them for people. Personally I think IBM makes the best labtops.


I have to agree that this thread is getting off-topic.

BTW: That is a nice set of equipment there.

[Lindsey]

I feel better I'm not the only one who uses multiple laptops. I made the scouting DB for my team and Friday night at nats I had all five laptops going at once while I compiled the data.
Lindsey