F*ing i-Tunes ! It's retarded!

Another example of why vertical closed systems are BAD for consummers...

You know is funny I used to believe itunes was slow due to my POS old desktop but since I upgraded and continues to run like shit its obvious it was coded by the retarded monkeys at cupertino.

I mean seriously, it doesnt even support FLAC, what kind of music player is it?

It reminds me of palm desktop, anyone here used that?

Do people still read newsletters? dunno, but somebody keeps sending 'em...

 

Hmm it runs faster on Apple hardware, conspiracy theorists stand up...

Bit like Google Chrome being the only browser that can display more then 20 locations on your maps on Google Maps without slowing down... I have one map that has over 100 locataions and it grinds to a halt on IE and Firefox and is still speedy and responsive on Google Chrome... coincedence???

Nothing wrong with Palm desktop, simple way to edit data from your palm on your PC. Most of the time it was a case of plug in Palm, press a button, leave it to sync and data is backed up. Anyway most Palms (and Sony Clies) had memory card support so copying things like music and video was a piece of piss, just copy the files into the correct directory on the card on the PC and plug it into the Palm / Clie..

Podcasts? Now last time I looked a lot of them were in MP3 format so it's just a case of draging and dropping to the MP3 player or memory card on most units...or even downloading the file directly to the device...

 

iTunes used to work like a dream for me on my Macbook, now it's sluggish and slow when I do anything related to my iPhone with it.

 

Before my video ipod bit the dust i was using sharepod cause of the itunes slowness. Really it's just a lazy port to windows, if they optimized it properly there wouldn't be these issues.

Not sure if sharpod works with iphones though. Reason apple does that mixing of files and putting all pics into one file is so you use only their software and not be able to use it your own way.

Sucks that the iphone doesn't work with the 360. Though once my contract up I might look into getting one since i need a new mp3 player.

 

The iPhone is afantasic bit of kit. The problem is the shitty apple software end.

 

Ya, Apple hardware happens to be quite good. It's too bad the software end isn't as high quality.

 

Anything to do with iTunes is a complete chore. I can feel my computer inching toward the grave everytime I start it up. I gave it a fair shot a while back, but managing all my music was such an agonizing experience that I ran back to Winamp without a second thought.

 

I've always thought this to be true, but when 6/6 people I know with MacBook/MBP/iMacs have had hardware malfunctions under generally calm circumstances, I've started to wonder. I think their design is creative but they pull mini-X360s in the process.

 

It wasnt that great, specially late 90s editions which were a pain.

You couldnt just drag&drop stuff, it was limited to certain files and most of the time I had to edit the file's names just to make them go through hotsync.

I remember my old m105, I was really into hacking back then and I got it to do all kinds of crazy shit like actual FMV on a 160x160 BW screen! I remember using this program from a russian coder which could make AVI files playable on the palm, it was really awesome back then, and even more today considering it used what was essentially a 68000 CPU with 8MB of RAM!

Sure based on that the iphone should be more impressive than it is, but a lot of that power goes to move that eye candy UI...

Is not like they make the damn things, apple has outsourced all manufacturing since the late 90s.

AFAIK asus used to make most of their computers, but since they moved to foxconn all these quality issues began to appear.

What can I say? if you're selling computers for twice the price than competition does then dont cut corners...

 

The fact of the matter is that they have this supposed reputation for being made of diamond, and then everyone turns their head when they've shipped their laptop in for work the second and third time.

 

lol apple, Asus all the way baby.

 

I know a guy who creams over his Mac Book but do you know what he runs on it more often than not? Windows XP, :lol: Why? Because the software he wants to use isn't available on Mac. So I asked him why not buy a PC for much cheaper to which he said, Macs are far better. Hmm, maybe so but why is he using it as a Windows machine?

 

I love my iphone but not apple macs. After owning a mac mini for nearly a year I just given up on it. Its just .nix without the open source goodness.

 

As far as I can remember apple computers were "known" for something, back then it was THE Pro computer, then with the iMac it became the fashionable computer, then the innovative, and now is the plain i-got-too-much-money computer, since IMO most of the buyers seem to use it as a way to project a sense of wealth, even though most of those tools typing on a macbook at your nearest starbucks are doing so because they cant afford wifi and their apts dont have a heater/AC:lol:

And they changed to foxconn because Asus was too expensive!

Whats next? Abit?

 

Hey, now. Abit made some excellent motherboards. The NF7 (and sub revs) were legendary. Then again that was a handfull of years ago.
Even Foxconn makes good boards. Mine was the top-of-the-line AM2 at the time and it has been nothing short of awesome. Foxconn makes stuff for a lot of manufacturers. Generally reliable stuff that's only let down by the company orchestrating the application.
I guess it's one thing to punch out another ATX and another to make a custom job that gets crammed into an undersized thick plastic shell with inadequate cooling.

Now if they went to ECS...

Shit, is ECS even around anymore?

 

asus are cheap man, check em on newegg, you can get a nice i7 machine for under 1000, i got a nice 1201t netbook which is plenty for HD playback and will even play l4d ,bf2, cod 4 really well for only $380.

 

I bought ASUS laptops for the service department at my old job. All 8ish of them were still going strong the remaining year I worked there, putting up with the rough and grimey atmosphere of car repair bays.

Man, it would have been awesome to have some white MacBooks in there... and by white I mean brown.

 

This talk of Abit is kinda funny, since Abit's motherboard business has been dead for over a year now. Really surprised me when I heard of it.

 

iTunes sucks ass, I've never encountered such a shitty music software. >_>

Yesterday I was sorting out some music I didn't feel like I was listening to it again, so I delete all the folders with albums. When I was done after about 4 hours (._ I booted iTunes and started making a new list.

minor catastrophe #1:
All the old files were included!! I threw the old albums into the trash and cleared the trash bucket, but nonetheless itunes listed 2000+ DEAD FILES. What kind of a shit program is that, listing files that don't even EXIST anymore? When I clicked on the information button, it couldn't show me where the respective file could be found (obviously), but it was there and I had to delete all of them manually.
major catastrophe #2:
Ok, I thought I might give it a shot from new. So I decided to delete the files in my playlist to add only separete folders one after another. I marked all the files in the "Music" part of iTunes, pressed DEL and apparently I hit "YES" once too often, because it fucking deleted all the files in every fucking folder.

And because it is *ITUNES*, it didn't just delete them WITH THEIR FOLDERS so I could just shove them back from the trash bucket. No, comfortable fucking iTunes only shoves single files and draws them on their legs out of their cozy album folders... I ended up restoring the files into one folder and had a look at the dimension of fail. It was insane: Listing them alphabetically, I ended up having about 50 files starting with i.e. "01 -", another 50 with "02 -" and so on. Manually restoring 7700 files in their no-more-existing album folders? Hell, most of the music I don't even know the name of the band by heart!
I can't tell you how mad I was, I must have scared away the whole neighborhood, lol. I ended up restoring the music from my backup HDD, but about 20% that I didn't back up was lost (;_. Not to mention the 4hrs of my life...

Oh how I hate iTunes. While everything was utter shite on Windows XP, my music always worked fine with Foobar2000. I've never liked iTunes, but that's the last straw >_<

 

Oh, Foobar2000. I love ye.