Somewhere down the road, at what point I dunno, Microsoft and Apple will become one company, with Microsoft buying out Apple.
The most likely scenario is this: with the US economy and financial system unwinding with greater and greater speed , a massive implosion is just a matter of...
"hype-generating mechanism with fully integrated Mac compatibility"
Yeah, just what's needed to manipulate all the sheeple into madly and mindlessly running out and buying more "bells and whistles".
Gotta have it! Gotta have it! Gotta have it! Spend more! Spend more! Spend more! You never...
Let's face it, all these pissy remarks about Gates springs from envy. He's incredibly wealthy, he's powerful and he's famous. And, secretly, you ARE thinking, "God, why couldn't it be me!?". Right? Come on, now, drop the denial and fess up!;)
Ok, the Finder sucketh, granted.....and it may still be so in Leopard. So what!?? It's up to those of us who find it so to come up with decent alternatives or workarounds.
I've been trying out Path Finder, mentioned earlier in this thread....I've never heard of it before.
Path Finder IS...
With MacBook Pros' tendency to run hot(heat is an enemy of electronics) and the general falloff in quality control over the past couple of years, going without AppleCare's extra two years of coverage is rather risky, IMHO.
If you search the internet, you can find AppleCare selling for a lot...
Logitech makes some primo mice but their drivers are less than stellar.
I've got two Logitech mice but have abandoned their own drivers for USB Overdrive: http://usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html
I've found that it allows for a far wider range settings, and is totally problem free. It...
I'd say that overall Apple quality control has been sliding since they moved operations to the Chinese mainland from Taiwan a few years ago.
Workers in China are most often horribly and mercilessly exploited, with pathetically meager wages -very long workdays in nasty, high pressure...
The Samson C01U mic looks like something that would work quite nicely! I might even consider Samson's C03U, http://www.macobserver.com/review/2006/12/21.1.shtml
their next step up from the C01U, and at $129 from some sellers, it's well within my price range.
The Protools MBox looks worth...