I love it when things all come together perfectly
What do you think are in desktop Macs? Same Realtek ALCxxx chips. Dolt
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Right, but the chipset is crap. Even if you get past the hissing and al lthe interference problems in other laptops, you still have a crap chipset. Its a bottleneck.
Something funny happened when I read this post. I booted into Windows Vista. I received a free Home Premium license, would NEVER buy it. Anyway, I had remembered seeing the audio driver installation during the Boot Camp driver installation and the recent update.
You know whats really funny?
MacBooks use SigmaTel chipsets. Not Realtek. I can get in Vista and take a screenshot if you'd like.
Now I can't tell you exactly what chipset it uses. But it's the "Sigmatel High Definition Audio Codec".
A quick Google search returned nothing bad that I can find about that particular chipset other than a few people have Windows driver issues on Dell systems.
I do, however, remember that people here at head-fi absolutely LOVED the audio quality of the first generation iPod shuffle which just happened to use Sigmatel hardware.
So who am I to believe here? My own ears listening to music right now on hardware based on hardware that has a good track record here at this very website? Or someone who jumped at the opportunity to ridicule Apple based on a "fact" that was completely false?
Oh and I had a Chaintech AV-710 in my last desktop PC. Infact, I took it out before I sold it and still have it. I honestly wasn't impressed. Through SPDIF, I get bit perfect playback in OS X without any kind of special configuring, needing to mess with foobar or anything. It just simply works. And headphone out on my Mac sounds better than the AV-710's "high resolution" analog output run through my receiver. Why? No resampling.
BTW, how much command-line work did it take for you to get bit-perfect via SPDIF out in Linux? Oh wait.... Well, what about getting that high resolution output going with the audio properly resampled? Oh yeah..
but its even worse that you know nothing about linux yourself.
Thats funny because I've got several Ubuntu and Kubuntu CDs sitting here. I installed Mandrake when it was Mandrake and configured it. I've installed Ubuntu on several machines out of pure boredom when my fiance was away visiting her family. I know plenty about Linux
I know enough not to use it!
You dont need a command line to add repositories. You go to Preferences-Add Repositories. If you can't figure that out, you can have your OSX.
Thats funny because that never worked right in Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Its also funny how you act all elitist with that statement. "If you can't figure that out you can have your OS X". I will have OS X. And you know what I'll enjoy? A modern operating system that doesn't require me to spend time downloading and compiling packages just to install new graphics drivers, or head to the command-line and enable all kinds of junk and download even more packages that have questionable legality in many countries just to do something as simple as watch a DVD.
I remember one time I installed Ubuntu on a system. The website for "Automatix" was down and EasyUbuntu hadn't yet updated for that release. So EasyUbuntu basically didn't work and Automatix was down. All I wanted to do was have a functioning system. At that point should I spend hours tracking down every little individual command and package that both of those scripts install or should I just go back to something that works? That was probably the first time in the last 10 years that I've been happy to hear the Windows startup sound.
As for fragmentation, linux doesnt fragment.
Yeah, it just stupidly requires a separate partition for swap file thats locked to a certain size. How ridiculous is that? Better hope your RAM and the dedicated swap partition are enough!
As for the user interfaces, please. None of it is a rip off of OSX. Sure you can find OSX style add ons, but the general design of KDE has been around for a decade. And since you seem to be so behind the times, I would like to inform you that we have expose-style window switching in linux. But thats not the best part, we also have alt-tab, with live window previews. Not to mention the win+tab key gives you a carousel view of your windows, similar to flip3d, except usable. So there you go, alt-tab+expose+flip3d, all of which are better implemented than they are on windows/osx. And if you want to say they are "rip offs", i have just one word for you, "konfobulator".
Thats pretty funny how you mention konfobulator, which was nowhere near as good as Dashboard is, after talking about all of those things that Linux window managers stole from Windows and OS X.
Anyway. KDE is basically a direct ripoff of Windows 95/98. I remember in the past someone tried to tell me Microsoft copied KDE with Windows 95
Gnome? A pretty direct ripoff of OS X, but with Windows-style menus for applications.
Sorry, but all of the GUI effects of Beryl and other window managers are poorly implemented and it shows that they're just cheap ripoffs. Just like that little carousel view you mentioned. Totally useless. Or that hilariously bad ripoff of the "Genie Effect" from OS X. I literally laughed out loud when I saw that and how awful it looked. The only good enhancement to any GUI in recent years has been Expose.
Its nice that the developers were able to ripoff the live window previews for alt+tab like in Vista. Did they steal that after seeing the beta last year or before that?
Alt+tab is pretty useless when F9 or hot corners brings all your windows up, with live previews, anyway. Or, in OS X, the dock showing live previews at all times... like OS X has been doing for several years now.
Anyway, to generally get any of that stuff running in Linux you need hardware acceleration. Better hope you don't have to spend too much time in the command-line getting it going, editing config files, or your system has an ATI card/chipset, compiling very specific drivers. Better yet, if you have a laptop, better hope you don't have a Broadcom chipset or else you're really in trouble!
Watch yourself there kid.
Kid? Somebody from "Team College-Fi" is calling somebody who is beyond "college age" a kid?
The anti-Apple crowd never ceases to amaze me.
Besides, you get what you pay for with freeware. Some of it is pretty good, a lot of it is not. I'd rather PAY for good software that does what it is supposed to than download freeware that requires me to spend far too much time configuring it, "learning" it, and messing around with it before it finally works. My time is too valuable to be spent trying to get a piece of freeware to work when paid software will do it right the first time. Not to mention some freeware is so ugly that it makes it unusable. Gimp comes to mind here.
I LIKE BUILDING AMPS! 
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