24-05-2004 20:00

Astronouth7303

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

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

24-05-2004 20:17

Jay H 237

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

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]

24-05-2004 20:25

Astronouth7303

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

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)

24-05-2004 21:16

Joe Matt

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

Only one problem, not enough Macs...

24-05-2004 22:15

mtaman02

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

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. =)

24-05-2004 22:16

Pat Fairbank

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

Yeah, we had 5 or 6 laptops at the CR too (none of them Macs, thankfully ) and a couple of $1000 access points and a hub - lots of wires! But our human player went through the Cisco course and has a knack for running cable in an orderly and safe fashion, so no worries there.

24-05-2004 22:23

Astronouth7303

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

Can he give me lessons? I need help. badly. very badly.

24-05-2004 23:08

OneAngryDaisy

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

one of our mentors (and my physics teacher) is an mac genius, he works at a mac store in his free time... we had a sweet network at our competitions with a 21'' iMAC in our pit, connected to some network, so we could control the iMAC from the stands with several powerbook g4's.. only the iMAC was ours though, we mooched the g4's from our mentors for the competiton

25-05-2004 08:39

Joe Matt

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

As a Mac user, your pits make me jellous. Grrr.....

25-05-2004 10:32

Austin

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

I whole-heartedly agree... just look at them. Now, after you have admired the iBook and Powerbook long enough, compare them to the PCs (Remember....PC is short for Piece of 'crud'). Which would you rather own? Even if your only factor was size...the PCs are massive!

25-05-2004 10:34

Austin

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

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.

25-05-2004 10:48

Alan Anderson

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

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.)

25-05-2004 11:06

MrToast

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

Hahahahahaha.......

My iBook: What you get when you mix gravity and laptops.

MrToast

25-05-2004 18:52

geo

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

The speaker(home made) was connected to the Sony Amp.(one of our memeber brought it) not CD player and I think iPod was connecting to the Amp.

BTW that grape juice bottle is empty

25-05-2004 19:06

Astronouth7303

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

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?

25-05-2004 19:51

Joe Matt

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

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

25-05-2004 19:54

Astronouth7303

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

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

25-05-2004 20:25

tkwetzel

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

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)?

25-05-2004 20:32

dez250

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

At first i thought the same thing then noticed it is another teams seperate pit and they are talking about only thier own equiptment in their pit.

25-05-2004 22:32

geo

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

That's correct

26-05-2004 08:11

MrToast

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

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

26-05-2004 14:33

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

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!

26-05-2004 17:35

Kyle Fenton

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

26-05-2004 17:56

Lindsey

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

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

26-05-2004 18:10

geo

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

I have a Toshiba labtop that is at least 7 years old and it's still in good shape. I never had any big problems with it. It runs Windows 95.


Thanks

27-05-2004 07:26

Astronouth7303

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

We used 2 laptops for comps only; we have a full desktop for regular work. 1 was MPLAB, the other was Dashboard!

27-05-2004 07:59

MrToast

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

I'd like to see any consumer laptop that survives a drop unscathed.

All you need to do is go here:
DieBook
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