RE: [MLUG] Booting windows on Mac Intel hardware

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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* From: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
* [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan King
* Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:49 AM
* To: MLUG Members
* Subject: Re: [MLUG] Booting windows on Mac Intel hardware
* 
* On 4/5/06, Hargus, Diana <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
* >
* > True, very true.  When are they going to have a laptop with an 
* > integrated solar panel on top?  Or find a way to capture 
* the processor 
* > heat and convert back to electricity?  If you could just convert a 
* > fraction of heat output to electricity, it would extend the 
* run-time 
* > of the laptop...
* 
* Imagine a notebook that only draws 50 watts when active, 
* calculate how much solar panel surface area you would need to 
* generate this, total up the costs and all the design changes 
* this will require, and you've
* probably got an answer as to why this is not an easy problem.   That
* said, the hand crank notebook is an amazingly cool idea.
* 
* > * > The only bad side?  No modem or port for one.  For those
* > * moments you
* > * > are in BFE
* > *
* > * You do know that they make and support a USB dongle modem, right?
* > *
* > * http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?pr
* > oductLearnMore=MA034Z%2FA
* > *
* > * Not elegant, but the last time I actually wanted to use a
* > * modem was...let's see...I think late 2001.  The modem is
* > * rapidly becoming the floppy disk of the early 21st century.
* >
* > I do realize that, because I have one  :D
* 
* Then I guess I misread your comment on there not being a port 
* for one, since the USB port would seem to be a legitimate 
* port for a USB modem.
 
I misread your reply as well, sorry. Mea culpa, I am from the pc side of
the world and was speaking of pcmcia slots when referring to ports,
although there is this funny oval slot on the side as well as a DVI
output, ethernet, firewire and 2 usb ports plus the dvd slot loader... 

* > As to their being out of date, well, I still travel to the 
* backwoods 
* > to work on friends pc's, locations that barely have phones 
* and where 
* > cellphones don't work.  What do you do if you need a driver real 
* > quick?
* 
* I never said nobody needed a modem, but I haven't turned out 
* to need one, and, for better or for worse, I'm obviously the 
* target market here. :-)

Didn't mean to paint the bullseye on you!  Hope it comes off  :P

* > Drive 20 miles back to broadband?  With attitudes like 
* these, it's a 
* > wonder most techies don't look down their noses at 3rd 
* world countries
* 
* Please do not attribute attitudes or beliefs to me that I do not hold.
* Thank you.  I just mentioned that many people these days 
* don't really need a modem badly enough to include one by 
* default, especially since it takes up space.
* 
* jking

I was not attributing the attitude to you, but to several members
here...  As was recently discussed here and elsewhere, there are some
who hold better than thou attitudes and I was addressing them.   Sorry
it came off pointing at you.  

I really need to watch the ranting while low on blodd sugar... 
 
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