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Video Reactions to Apple's Intel Switch 102

Posted by timothy from the like-omigod dept.
Drew Mylrea writes "Here is a video of the reaction to the switch from Mac users at WWDC (small version). Has a somewhat revealing interview with Apple VP Phil Schiller regarding PC users putting OS X on generic PCs, and sums up the overall reaction to the news.(Requires QT 7.)"
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Video Reactions to Apple's Intel Switch

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  • OMFGWTFIntel? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11, 2005 @09:11PM (#12791962)
    Oh wait, this changes nothing.

  • Video on /. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by ike6116 ( 602143 ) *
    Why not put up a torrent, save your server and your bandwidth?

  • Just got done watching (Score:3, Informative)

    by ike6116 ( 602143 ) * on Saturday June 11, 2005 @09:19PM (#12791994) Homepage Journal
    The video was well done, but really lacking actual information. Textbook example of a video blog. Video Reactions? I was expecting to see some interviews with _DEVELOPERS_ so we could get some insight about the thoughts of people that matter.

    • Re:Just got done watching (Score:5, Insightful)

      by shatfield ( 199969 ) * on Saturday June 11, 2005 @10:25PM (#12792405)
      The video was well done, but really lacking actual information.

      I think that was the point -- so was the WWDC!

      64bit? Dunno.
      Comparable speed? Dunno.

      Steve should have been more forthcoming.
      • "Steve should have been more forthcoming."

        With what? Developers now have access to what they need to release applications for products a year or more away. Apple rarley comments on future products, and this is no exception.

        Comparable speed? Hard to say when the chips Apple is likely to use aren't in existance yet. WWDC 2002 didn't have a G5 2.0 system being benchmarked against a G4 1.42. Only once WWDC 2003 came around and the G5s were nearly ready to ship did they comment on speed.

  • It's a joke. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Lennavan ( 847042 )
    That movie is a joke, it's not actual news reporting. How this made /. is beyond me. Anyone else notice it's from macteens?
    • I remember they asked a director about a protest at Cannes movie festival, some cheered, some booed. Political stuff.

      They asked him "It didn't bother you?", he said "It could be a problem if everyone cheered or everyone booed, both ways it means something is definitely wrong"

      Of course his grammar doesn't suck that much :) I am telling the point he made.
  • Artsy. More funny than anything else.

    I want to know though: who can put some names on that soundtrack?
  • It's a nice movie, arguably, except for the overly repetitive "Courtesy of Apple," but it doesn't say anything that nobody's hear before. That Schiller quote is everywhere.
    • It seems to be a slightly different statement: "We're not going to enable Mac OS 10 to run on machines other than Apple Macintoshes". The other quotes I've seen have said "allow". The rest of the exchange was garbled, can someone make out exactly what was said?

      Question: "So you're not [considering?] [something] a hack [unintelligable]"
      Answer: "*shrug* Who knows what the future holds, what people won't do, but that's how they're [working on it?]."
  • From the same location...

    LOL [ucla.edu].

    Weirdos.
  • ..is how this guy's server is still maxing out my bandwidth while downloading the video, and yet we're more than two posts into the thread. Bravo!
  • I'm sure the University of California Los Angeles just loves the direct link to a 30 MB file ...

  • Lame... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by halo1982 ( 679554 ) * on Saturday June 11, 2005 @10:26PM (#12792411) Homepage Journal
    I was hoping it was a bunch of apple fans going WHAT THE FUCK. No such luck. Just some lame video with a mac geek.
  • I am using QuickTime ALternative [free-codecs.com] v1.47 and the videos don't play in it. :(

  • "NOOOOOOOO!" (Score:5, Funny)

    by Nova Express ( 100383 ) <lawrenceperson.gmail@com> on Saturday June 11, 2005 @10:42PM (#12792483) Homepage Journal
    I must admit, I was highly amused when Darth Vader threw back his head and yelled "NOOOOOOOOO!" at the Intel announcement. However, I was surprised, since I'd always pegged him as a Windows user (you know, one Eil Empire deserves another...)

    • "You were the chosen one!!" (Score:4, Funny)

      by identity0 ( 77976 ) on Sunday June 12, 2005 @06:08AM (#12793789) Journal
      I liked Obi-wan's reaction, myself...

      "You were the chosen one!! It was said you would destroy the Wintel, not join them!

      You were supposed to bring balance to the Mac, not leave it in darkness! You were my brother Steve! I loved you! But I could not save you."

      It was pretty harsh when Obi-wan cut off Steve's legs and left him on the lava, though.
  • Looks like someone's Film School project.

    You get about as much info out of it as the average Film School project too.

    Favorite quote, delivered by the pot head looking dude:

    Apple is rumored to release some gigantic news that could change the outcome of the Apple community

    The Apple community is now an event...?

    Download it to see how nice H.264 looks and a rare glimpse at one of the P4 powered PowerMacs. I like that song too, isn't that off of the Lemony Snicket movie?

  • (Requires QT 7.)
    Yeah, or mplayer 1.0 apparently, on my p4 1.7ghz..
    • Can you give your address so we can exchange pcs? I have a G5 1600 768mb here.

      From what I understand from Steve Jobs speech, its slower than your P4. I mean, it became, overnight *g*
  • is that it got me to upgrade to QT 7.
    • Its just another sign Apple ripped off its customers and continues to try.

      There is nothing needing OS level technology (kernel etc) at h264. It could run like ,e.g. Realplayer 8 having that tiny real 10 codec. Also remember, Real doesn't need a OS upgrade to do it. Codec is some kind of inout thing, data comes in, it goes out decompressed, plain (x) fps raw thing.

      Which secret part of kernel does it? heh

      Lets bet 10.5 will run awfully slow on G5 consumer level machines like iMac and people will go out and
  • The video editing is excellent. I would just like it to be longer and to show more stuff.

    Also, this page contains more videos. Oh goodness! http://users.design.ucla.edu/~mylrea/blog/ [ucla.edu]
  • That's a very interesting piece of group social commentary. You can see the effect of the announcement on literally hundreds of people at once. I don't think I've ever seen such an astounding sight before. You can almost simultaneously see everyone's jaw drop. Literally.

  • What a waste of time. (Score:3, Informative)

    by mh101 ( 620659 ) on Sunday June 12, 2005 @02:37AM (#12793349)
    The video quality was very good, most likely due to QT7. But the content was somewhat lacking. I assume the "sums up the overall reaction to the news" part of the summary was referring to the one guy he talked to?

    I was expecting to see some shots of the audience as Steve made the announcement, to see the looks on everyone's faces (or maybe it was there, but too quick for me to notice).

  • no news = no subject (Score:5, Informative)

    by mylrea ( 891448 ) on Sunday June 12, 2005 @04:27AM (#12793614)
    The video was a response to the lack of content at the WWDC in general. There wasn't much as far as press went, which was why we started with the whole courtesy of Apple thing. I /.ed it because of Phil's response (it seemed fairly obvious that Apple had braced for the fact that there were going to be people running X on their PC's). Hope that clears some things up.

    As for the audience's reaction, I would actually say everyone was already braced for the news, when it hit everyone was ready to hear the plan. What was stunning was the lack of information during the keynote as to what the systems architecture would be like (not even spilling the guts on the OF / BIOS).

    To answer questions about music:
    1st song: Thomas Newman, Lemony Snicket - Drive Away
    2nd song: Tan Dun, Hero - Gone with Leaves

    Drew

    • What was stunning was the lack of information during the keynote...

      That's because it was a keynote. It was a media event, not a technical briefing. That's what all the WWDC sessions for the rest of the week were for. They gave a lot more information in detail on where Apple is going with this, especially the details that are actually practical and relevant to a software developer. Not all the big questions were answered, but a little allowance for the things still being in development and a little commo

  • I'd really like that 10 min. of my life back, because that was actually the worst thing i've ever seen.

    gta
  • http://www.wmvhd.com/ [wmvhd.com]
    System Requirements

    Because of the processor-intensive requirements of high definition video, you need a powerful Windows XP-based PC to get the best experience.

    Minimal Configuration
    (Play 720p video)
    Microsoft Windows XP
    2.4 GHz processor or equivalent
    ___

    I watch 30fps 720p video via qt 7, h264 codec on G5 (single) 1600

    It was a good choice Steve, real good choice!
  • Funny how it worked flawlessly under mplayer on my Linux box, yet I hear people here saying it required them to upgrade QT to v7. Makes you wonder if:
    1) Apple does a shitty job at correctly supporting their own damn formats
    OR
    2) ffmpeg (the almighty decoding lib under mplayer's hood) comes from TEH FUTURE

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