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Why not?YT300000 wrote:Ah, the iPod Shuffle dock is meant to pump in power? That makes sense, but it doesn't jive with the second part though, the USB cable extender. There won't be any power coming through that.
Because he doesn't realize that some USB cables get power pumped throug them and some don't. The cable extender is more for people who only have ports on the back of their machine incase they don't want to reach around back there.Howedar wrote:Why not?YT300000 wrote:Ah, the iPod Shuffle dock is meant to pump in power? That makes sense, but it doesn't jive with the second part though, the USB cable extender. There won't be any power coming through that.
No, I know all of that, its just they're saying that some computers may need the port or an extender. The first one makes sense, but the cable is a little weird. I can see why you would want one, length-wise, but why would your computer need one to link with the iPod?darthdavid wrote:Because he doesn't realize that some USB cables get power pumped throug them and some don't. The cable extender is more for people who only have ports on the back of their machine incase they don't want to reach around back there.Howedar wrote:Why not?YT300000 wrote:Ah, the iPod Shuffle dock is meant to pump in power? That makes sense, but it doesn't jive with the second part though, the USB cable extender. There won't be any power coming through that.
) then you might not enjoy the iPod shuffle very much...So the only thing they mean by that is physical accesibility.darthdavid wrote:If your computer is in a position where you have to get on your knees to access the back panel (luckily I have front usb ports
YT300000 wrote:So the only thing they mean by that is physical accesibility.darthdavid wrote:If your computer is in a position where you have to get on your knees to access the back panel (luckily I have front usb ports
I wonder why that warning is on their site in the first place, then.
I've seen USB ports that some dumbass buried in plastic cladding that makes a wide, short object (as the Shuffle appears to be) unable to plug in. In that case even an inch long cable would do it.YT300000 wrote:So the only thing they mean by that is physical accesibility.darthdavid wrote:If your computer is in a position where you have to get on your knees to access the back panel (luckily I have front usb ports
I wonder why that warning is on their site in the first place, then.
Well, just to let you know, despite being a Mac fanboy, I think OS 9 is the scum of the earthShadowhawk wrote:Man. I'm about as PC-centric as they come (I hate the Macs at work, although they're all first-or-second generation iMacs and G3s or lower (LC 575s! Ugh! Nothing more recent than OS 9.2), but even I'm considering getting a miniMac. I could sit it on top of my TV and plug the DVI directly into it. It wouldn't work well with my KVM (4-port PS/2 IOGear), but a 47" HDTV and maybe a wireless keyboard/mouse combo would be great.
I'll give it a few months (Probably until the next OS release and maybe a minor upgrade or two) and see what the general concensus is, though.
I hated Macs until one day I met OS 10.1...It's more or less a hodgepodge of BSD and NeXTStep under the hood. I don't think there's any one operating system you can say that OS X is "based" on.phongn wrote:As a nitpick, OS X is based on OpenStep. There are components of FreeBSD in it, but the OS runs on the Mach microkernel (again, from OpenStep).
