Assassinator Wrote:

Tetris999 Wrote:It may just be me, but when you think 2 usb ports will do the trick, it DOESN'T; as it's a major pain in the donkey when you find out you have a wireless mouse, usb external and wireless keyboard. Believe me, you need more than 2 USB ports; i guarantee it. The irony is that most NETBOOKS have 3 USB ports, it's funny how a 1400$ machine only has flipping two...

It's like a laptop... why the hell would you want a USB keyboard for it?

Simple, a low profile design which stores the laptop and uses an external monitor; thus eliminating a huge amount of space that is needed when you place the laptop on your desk just because you need to use it's keyboard and nothing else for this kind of setup.

Assassinator Wrote:

Tetris999 Wrote:... nor transcode videos as well because all video encoders for the mac are poo poo. That, and the fact they don't use the CUDA technology just makes encoding that much more of a pain in the donkey.

Pretty sure you can compile x264 for Macs, ffmpeg too.  Don't know about you, but I'll use x264 over CUDA any day.  If you want a GUI, Handbrake's supposedly pretty good.

But yes, Windows is best for that kind of stuff.

Handbrake has it's share of problems, mine always seemed to be sketchy audio with transcodes.

But yes, ffmpeg can be compiled for the mac; but it's hard to use and more of a problem to set up than transcode.

Assassinator Wrote:

Tetris999 Wrote:-Single mic and head phone jack....double you tee eff

So what, you want like 5 or something?  So you can 2 sets of speakers, 3 additional sets of headphones and 4 microphones at the same time?

You may have a point about 2 USB slots being not enough, but 1 mic and 1 headphone jack is really REALLY all you need.  And I've never seen a laptop with more than that anyway.

You're using quite an extreme exaggeration my friend, the macbook mic and headphone jack is fused into one slot. That means you can only insert a mic or headphone; not both, but since i didn't make that clear for you, I'll take that as my mistake.

This applies to the NEW macbooks though, my old one has them separated (thankfully)

(This post was last modified: 29/11/2009 12:18 AM by Tetris999.)