Mac OS X

The iMac To Get Touchy-feely

Posted by on Feb 8, 2010 | 4 Comments

Well news of Apple working on a 22 inch touch screen Mac is great news for Apple fans to be sure. However it should be noted that touch screen computers are hardly a new concept. As a matter of fact, Windows PCs has had them for sometime now. HP has had this kind of technology for what seems like forever, yet we are all acting like this is the greatest thing in the world – why?

I need to better understand what makes this different? Is it going to have new and exciting functionality, not seen previous to this? Perhaps it will have better accuracy than its PC counterpart? Are we to be excited about this simply because of the iPad’s recent unveiling? Would this be the reason?

Now this is not to say that this wouldn’t be a great addition to the existing Mac features. Macs are great, they make things flow very easily. No one is question this. So  I  guess once we realize this is actually the Mac, catching up with HP, then suddenly the initial excitement begins to wear off. Much like it did when we realize how inhibited the iPad is in contrast to existing

  • marco

    What file system do you recommend?

  • http://profiles.google.com/nathan94124 Nathan Williams

    Thanks, really helped a lot, only one thing. I searched my motherboard manufacturers site for AHCI drivers and it had them only for Windows XP but I am running Windows 7. Does this mean that 7 has support built in and does not need the drivers to benefit from AHCI?

  • http://rae.tnir.org Reid

    Interestingly enough, we’ve had caps for quite a while in Canada, but now they are on their way up. I use a relatively independent ISP (TekSavvy) so had a high cap — 200 GB. That recently was upped to 300 GB.

    Te major ISPs (Bell & Rogers) had much lower caps around 40-90 GB, depending on what level of service you had. But thatall changed recently.

    Now Rogers is rolling out 50 Mbps service with a 250 GB cap, but Bell’s 25 Mbps Fibe remains at 50-75 Mbps. I expect competition to push Bell to increase that cap.

    Intesting times.

  • Kaye Gnyp

    G’day Phil.
    We have the same 3mbps connection/pricing issues with our IPs in many parts of Australia. At the present time our Labor Government is trying to implement the NBN (National Broadband Network) but those who don’t realise the larger portion of our population do not have the speeds or quota they accept as the norm, oppose the NBN installation. What I’d give to connect at their speed, have their download quotas, without having to pay through the neck for the same privilege.

    Cheers from (rural) South Australia
    Kaye