With all this media coverage of Macs having 'no virus problems', will we soon get a virus to truly call our own?

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Again with the demand for a media reader?! In my life as a multi-media editor, I have never wanted a multi media reder to sully the beauty of my Apple. How many people want one built in? How many computers actually have one? I think these writers are desprate to find even one flaw in the iMac so they don't sound like they're being paid off or something.

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AFCdtLoeb wrote:
Again with the demand for a media reader?! In my life as a multi-media editor, I have never wanted a multi media reder to sully the beauty of my Apple. How many people want one built in? How many computers actually have one? I think these writers are desprate to find even one flaw in the iMac so they don't sound like they're being paid off or something.

When I worked in retail, I actually saw quite a few computers with a built-in media reader that was to replace the floppy drive. I agree that the iMac's lack of a media reader should not be a con. Consider the number of photo printers and Printer/Scanner/Copier devices that have this built-in.

Oooooooorrrrrrrr......The fact that to get photos to a computer, all you had to do is plug in the USB cable that came with the camera!!!!!

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AFCdtLoeb wrote:
Oooooooorrrrrrrr......The fact that to get photos to a computer, all you had to do is plug in the USB cable that came with the camera!!!!!

True. But once I bought a reader, I stopped doing that.

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AFCdtLoeb wrote:
Oooooooorrrrrrrr......The fact that to get photos to a computer, all you had to do is plug in the USB cable that came with the camera!!!!!

True. But once I bought a reader, I stopped doing that.

Me too...

But why? Why buy a reader?

Damn I don't even know what a media reader is. Am I missing out?

Have to admit that I don't get this media reader business, either. I just leave the USB cable that came with the camera plugged in to the iMac and when I have stuff to downmoad simply plug the other end into the camera. No bother with opening fiddly covers, extracting the card, inserting the card, ejecting the card, putting it back in the camera...

What's the point?

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No bother with opening fiddly covers, extracting the card, inserting the card, ejecting the card, putting it back in the camera...

What's the point?

Because it's _supposed_ to be hard, don'tcha know? You should need a techie for even the most mundane operation. Computers _must_ be hard to use, it's a rule, right? If it's easy to use, it's not a _real_ computer.

The Windows RDF far exceeds even Steve Jobs' justly famed field; it reaches into anything that even remotely resembles a digital device. We have at least one generation that's convinced that computers and anything like them are supposed to be unreliable and hard to use.

Never mind me; I'm dealing with an XP "upgrade" this morning...

Oops, sorry. I'll try to remember that in the future...

We joke, but this may be more true than we think. In response to a LiveJournal I wrote about my PB, one reader wrote this:

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Apples are just user friendly machines for people in the world who can't figure out how to work a windows PC... Get a PC system with XP on it, then you might actually learn how to run a real computer, instead of being spoon fed with fun little graphics, Macs are only good graphics, they serve no other purpose. Get a real computer instead of the cute metal toy you have now.

If Apple were to include a media reader, which one would they choose? I'd hate to see 8 slots in the side of the iMac for each type of media! And I have never once thought that it was "hard" to plug the USB cable into my keyboard.

Now what we really need is a wireless way of transferring the files from the camera to the computer, say via Bluetooth. If Apple were going to build a camera, it should include that feature!

Don't media readers read something like 6 different types (CF, SD, MemoryStick, et al.)?

As for the reason...they aren't big, but here are two I could come up with:

1) no need to replace the USB cable every time you need to transfer something to your computer, if you use different devices (their USB cables tend to have a proprietary connector at one end);

2) no battery drain on the camera or other electronic device when transferring data.

Note that I don't use a media reader. Then again, all I have is my camera. #1 doesn't have anything to do with me, and #2 has only happened to me once (battery died mid-transfer, I stuck in a new battery and kept going, didn't lose any data).

Here's what we're talking about:

http://www.ritzcamera.com/graphics/ritzcamera/products/811660125.jpg

Now that's a stand-alone unit...I'm sure an iMac could have those built in. But do we really want all those slots along the side of the iMac? That's pretty much what the slots would look like.

I dunno, I think it's a bit much considering that most people would only use one of the four. Far better for them to buy a reader that only takes the media they use.

I have a Sony memory stick reader that I use. I wouldn't want 3 other slots on my computer that I'd never need.

Having been a NeXT owner and Unix user, one of the things I am most happy about is the ability to dive into the command line rather than using third party programs to clean up all the "hidden" files that get created on USB memory sticks and such. Let alone that fact that if my GUI gets corrupted, I can usually log in via Terminal and fix the problem.
That's what I call "running a real computer".
And other people have already shown that Mac's are cheaper and faster.
"Well, DUH!!!!"
Cheers

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AFCdtLoeb wrote:
We joke, but this may be more true than we think. In response to a LiveJournal I wrote about my PB, one reader wrote this:

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Apples are just user friendly machines for people in the world who can't figure out how to work a windows PC... Get a PC system with XP on it, then you might actually learn how to run a real computer, instead of being spoon fed with fun little graphics, Macs are only good graphics, they serve no other purpose. Get a real computer instead of the cute metal toy you have now.

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trussrigger wrote:
Having been a NeXT owner and Unix user, one of the things I am most happy about is the ability to dive into the command line rather than using third party programs to clean up all the "hidden" files that get created on USB memory sticks and such. Let alone that fact that if my GUI gets corrupted, I can usually log in via Terminal and fix the problem.
That's what I call "running a real computer".
And other people have already shown that Mac's are cheaper and faster.
"Well, DUH!!!!"
Cheers

Nice to work from a Unix command line, isn't it?

I had to do some work from the DOS prompt last week and was reacquainted with the weirdness of the Windows system.

It's interesting to see many convernts to the Mac that aren't frustrated Windows users but Unix and Linux users who see the Mac as the best combination of Unix and a GUI.

I suspect we will see evidence of a big move on college campuses to the Mac not only because of the iPod's halo effect but tech and engineering students seeing Apple's products as superb solutions for class work.

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