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X ` Man[_3_]

On 3/11/12 9:12 AM, BAR wrote:
In article7qKdndvz57doYsbSnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@earthlink .com, dump-on-
says...

On 3/10/12 8:23 PM, Earl wrote:
X ` Man wrote:
On 3/10/12 4:10 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:19:16 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

On 3/9/12 10:11 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:32:55 -0500, X `

There's a bit more to it than you morons can conjure, eh?

I am still a desktop guy but my wife is a road warrior with a mobile
something or two all the time. The thing that is significant about
Apple is the price never drops and they advance in baby steps.
Even my German friend (remember the conversation that ended in me
being a hobbyist) has started to think that the rigid architecture
around Apple is confining. He is the one who didn't want to know he
had a computer.

I used to be concerned about having a "bleeding edge" desktop machine,
but after I bought my first Apple computer, those concerns faded. My
current Apple desktop has an Intel i7 CPU and seems more than fast
enough for what I do with it, which is writing for $$$, emails, web
surfing, et cetera. I could sell it for a good price right now and buy
the latest Apple desktop, and it would be faster, I suppose, but so
what? My laptop is now four years old. It's certainly more than
adequate
for the use to which I put it, although I am thinking of selling it -
it'll still fetch around $750 - and getting the new iPad.

I don't feel "confined" by Apple's architecture. I "jailbroke" my
iPhone
4s about a month ago so I could use some non-App store apps I like. The
phone performs well for me most of the time, though I wish the phone
vendors would spend more time improving the "phone" aspect of their
cell
phones and less time on dumb**** like built in cameras.

I do have 3 running laptops, One is my weather server among other
things just because it is cheap to run and I always take a laptop on
vacation. The Dell I like has S-video out and most new hotel TVs have
either S-video or VGA inputs so I can stream, movies and play our
tunes in the room. It is also handy for looking at our vacation
pictures. I can roll them out of the camera, edit them and upload to
my web site on the road.

I use my home server to stream movies and music to my laptop and
iPhone, and, if I get one, an iPad.
You have a home server? Any PC can do that...

Another non-intellectually based, totally devoid of meaningful content
post from "Earl."

Yawn.

Yes, Earl, I know. But I'm not using a PC as a server. I'm using a
server as a home server. I did use an HP WHS for a few years, but I sold
that one and got a server from Synology. At the moment, it has 347
movies on it, among other things, and it is also used to back up a
handful of computers in this household.

Now, run along. Your mommy is looking for you.

Why do you have 347 movies on your "home server"?

Because I can.

Why don't you use the iCloud or some other cloud product?

Because I don't need to...