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Another brilliant Microsoft marketing video (Page 2)
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I couldn't even sit through 20 seconds of that crap.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
I couldn't even sit through 20 seconds of that crap.
Then you should at least watched the bleeped version.
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
Most thumb drives and USB hard drives have an activity light. If it's not on, the drive isn't being read from or written to, and is therefore safe to remove without using the "safely remove hardware" thing first.
Eeeh, no.
If you open a document on a USB stick, wait until it's loaded (i. e. no read/write activity) and then unplug the USB stick, you have a problem. For instance, you don't know what will happen if you try to save your document after you've made some changes.
That's why most users I know eject their USB sticks (as they should) -- and that take way too many clicks on Windows (unless something has changed in Windows 7).
I also don't understand how you can possibly find the Windows solution to connect to wireless networks easier to use than the menu item in OS X: in OS X it's two clicks to change wireless networks or connect to one. If you want a larger overview of all the wireless networks in your vicinity, you can still open a dialog that's similar to that in XP at least.
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Maybe it's just me - I've had more problems with the OS X one than the Windows one. In fact, my iBook never connects to my home wireless network anymore; I have to manually connect to it every time. I also like how the Windows client shows signal strength, so you can pick the best connection available.
It's just a preference thing.
I don't know that the "safely remove hardware" utility takes more clicks. Click on the icon in the system tray, click the drive to remove. In OS X, you have to get to the desktop or a Finder window, right-click on the drive, and select to unmount it. Seems about equivalent to me.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
Most thumb drives and USB hard drives have an activity light. If it's not on, the drive isn't being read from or written to, and is therefore safe to remove without using the "safely remove hardware" thing first.
No. I have two USB thumb drives where the light is ALWAYS on: one from SanDisk and the other one from "GeekSquad" (it was cheap).
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
I also like how the Windows client shows signal strength, so you can pick the best connection available.
Like this?
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Originally Posted by starman
No. I have two USB thumb drives where the light is ALWAYS on: one from SanDisk and the other one from "GeekSquad" (it was cheap).
Same here.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
In OS X, you have to get to the desktop or a Finder window, right-click on the drive, and select to unmount it. Seems about equivalent to me.
You can alt click unmount, or drag it to the trash, or use the eject button from any open Finder window.
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you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally Posted by Phileas
Like this?
I doubt she has Snow Leopard on an iBook (unless that's a cool haxie, in which case I want it.  )
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally Posted by starman
Hey, that's actually really good!
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
You can alt click unmount, or drag it to the trash, or use the eject button from any open Finder window.
And you can right-click eject from any My Computer or Windows Explorer window.
Like I said - the amount of effort required in Windows or OS X for this particular task is more or less identical.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
And you can right-click eject from any My Computer or Windows Explorer window.
Like I said - the amount of effort required in Windows or OS X for this particular task is more or less identical.
But OS X doesn't give you 4-5 messages letting you know that you plugged in a flash drive. It just does what it should do without any self-congratulating.
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I personally love the message I get when I plug in my headphones.
"You just plugged a device into the audio jack!"
Not only is the exclamation point puzzling, I'd imagine I know I plugged in a device because, well, I just plugged the damn thing in.
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