justinhub2003

Im not sure what your budget is, however I highly highly recommend the Apple Airport Extreme.

Wether you use Mac or PC, its frickin amazing.

I have owned probably 10 routers in my life time ( I have 4x in my house right now unused) and always had issues with consistency. I’ve had high end Linksys, Belkins, netgears and even low end stuff like Tenda’s and they all failed me at one point or another.

I decided to try out the Apple Airport extreme after reading some glowing reviews. I had just switched to Cincinnati Bell Fiber optics and opted for their 30mbps download/10 MBPS upload package. I had my Belkin n600 ( i think, its a dual Band n router) and I was only pulling 23mbps down and 6.6mbps upload. I was a bit disappointed. So when I got the Airport extreme I expected the same however I was wrong.
The airport extreme gave me a consistent 29.4mbps down and 9.4mbps upload. Also in the 6 months I’ve owned the 2011 model, I’ve yet to have a networking issue. I’ve literally only had to reboot it once and that was for an Apple Firmware update.

It connects with everything easily, currently I have the below devices always connected:
2 MacBook pro’s, 2 Android phones (using for wifi calling), 1 boxee box, 1 ps3, 1 Apple TV, 1 wireless printer, 1 ipad, 1 TV and soon , a PogoPlug.

Over the Airport Extreme is:

• Really reliable ( reason i even bought one is bc we use one at my office at work)
• is true dual band and has a guest network
• has a USB for printer or local network storage.
• Really really fast, maximizes the throughput of your connection
• has a stunning and beautiful design
• Has an extra easy to use App interface as opposed to a web interface
• works with Mac, PC, Android, and literally everything with no issues
• Range is excellent. As soon as I start to come down my street my ipad will pick up the connection. I can actually go to the park area in my apartment complex with my iPad and use my own wifi.

You should give it a shot. The best router you can have is the one you forget you even have.

I Think he would. Part of what makes Josh an entertaining interviewer is that he isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions or mock them.

Perfect when I switched to Chrome as my default it worked.

Thanks!

I want to try it out soo bad however I cant get the Twitter Authorization to reroute back to the app. So I never get signed in.

Dude have you watched any On the Verge or any interview Josh gives? he is hard on EVERYONE. and makes snarky remarks about every company.

You act he changed the way he normally behaves just for these MS videos, when thats sooo much from being the case.

"No Carrier Bloatware: seriously Android is the new Windows. only thing worse than bloatware is bloatware you cant uninstall."
At least Windows some of that bloatware went to subsidizing a lower price for that PC. On Phones they offer consumers no advantage.

Agreed. Android bloatware is purely for carrier branding. Doesnt add value. Doesnt cheapen the cost. The carriers get paid to add those apps or they make thier own but it does nothing to lighten the load on the user. And at least with Windows you can uninstall the apps.

Well it works just fine on my old Late 2006 White MacBook (1.83ghz Core2Duo, 4Gb Ram)

Works really really well on my Wife’s 2010 13" MacBook Pro 2.4ghz Core2Duo, 8Gb Ram

And works completely flawless on my 2011 13" MBP Core i5 2.4ghz/8Gb Ram.

I agree.

Itunes on a Mac is amazing. On Modern hardware its amazing. On windows not so much but itunes for Mac is the best media app available.

the process of getting the photos off your iPhone and onto the computer is just so laborious and over complicated.

If you use a Mac, you plug it in, it brings up iphoto and you select the photo you want to sync. much easier than digging through the file system.

i kind if prefer it the android way, where it carries on loading the stuff in the background, it might not be as fluid, but you get stuff done “quicker”

Thats a matter of preference . I value a good solid experience over a janky jerky one that also loads in the back ground

I am a recovering Android Addict. I’ve owned 15 Android devices. Pre-ordered the G1 the moment it went live. Trolled the forums. Preached the Android revolution on twitter before “droid” made it a house hold name. HOWEVER
I am leaving for iPhone when either my contract ends or T-Mobile gets the iphone (really hope tmobile gets it)

• Androids update situation is horrible. I know right away when a new version of iOS is released when and if I can get the update. No waiting for months on end (my Amaze just got 4.0, when the next version of Android is on the cusp of coming out).

• No Carrier Bloatware: seriously Android is the new Windows. only thing worse than bloatware is bloatware you cant uninstall.

• What happened to my Android?: Android is dead. real Android is on one device per year and thats it. the rest of the devices are skinned to pieces and look so ugly. OEM skins are the worst thing to ever happen to Android

• Apps: Android has gotten better at apps lately however why are Android apps soo damn ugly compared to iOS apps? Its same way for windows vs mac apps. Android and Windows devs dont seem to value UI or they think their users dont value it.

Overall I’ll only miss gmail & Google maps for Android when I switch. And hopefully iOS 6 brings better iOS maps and Sparrow helps with my iOS gmail problem.

I personally have learned to Value experience and the best experience is always on an Apple product imo

I started using a Mac 21 months ago. I was a avid Windows user and was really excited about Windows 7 (downloaded the beta on day 1 and bought the retail version on day 1) however switched to mac after I took up a job working in the graphic design field and fell in love and sold all my PC’s.

So with that said. No you not miss a single critical thing from Windows. Like DLNA supprt, I thought when i switched to mac I’d lose the DLNA streaming capabilities from my PC to my PS3, however a free app let me do the same thing and it was easier. I have Windows 8 installed in boot camp on my mac but only to check it out. Their is nothing Mac cannot do that Windows can.

As for the file system. Mac’s file system is the exact same as windows. Finder looks similar to explorer with folders, and files. You can create, copy, move and do whatever with folders. MS office for Mac still saves the document whereever you want, either to the desktop, the downloads folder or the documents folder or anywhere else. I use the file system all the time and have to for work as well.

See screenshot below. It looks very simialr to windows:

Things you can expect from a Mac:

• Amazing Tech support especially from an Apple Store.
• Amazing Build quality. Seriously Best build. Apple leaves no detail un touched.
• Amazing Trackpad experience. Not even in the same league. PC trackpads SUCK!
• Amazing Resell Value. Recently my wife moved over to the ipad exclusively so we are selling her 2010 13" MBP, we will easier net at very least 700$ and maybe more, my Dell Studio, which I paid 1150$ for, went for 150$ after 2 years.
• Amazing Apps and developers. The Mac App store is amazing and provides tons of great single function and multi function apps available. The UI on mac apps is also much much better than ugly windows Apps. The best windows 7 apps I’ve ever used were Adobe Air apps which is turn ran like crap and were also on Mac.
• Amazing creative Software with new Mac: iLife dominates live essentials. Like not even a context. Poeple say MS is a software company and Apple a Hardware, however I find Apple software dominates that of windows in UI, Useability and stability.
• Amazing OS: OS X is stable, great looking, well developed for and much more intuitive.
• Amazing battery life: Any Mac you buy will have great battery life.
• Amazing integration: When you buy a Mac, you will fall in love, whcih in turn makes you want to buy more Apple products for the great experience and Apple’s ecosystem is fully integrated and well matured.
• Amazing security. While Apple was in the news for an Jave Exploit a few weeks ago, by far Mac is much more secure and virus free than Windows. New Windows Virus’s hit every day and no news is reported on it bc people are so much accustomed to virus on Windows. Not the case with Mac. Never use A/V, never will.
• Amazing Design: You know your doing design right when every is copying you and there doing just that with Apple Laptops. The MacBook Pro/Air is so iconic that you can take off the apple logo and people still recognize it.

AND MOST OF ALL, since your a Windows user:
Amazing Versatility: With no hacking a Mac can run OS X natively, Windows XP, 7 & 8 natively & Linux OR you can run them side by side in a virtual machine.

For me, thats 700$ extra very well spent.

Yea I love daring fireball and I love the site.

No images No comments No nothing but text. You dont need a 3rd party app to make his site readable and thats what I like about its design.

Also I love Gruber’s insight. He really does make some great points

Too bad I sold it.

The problem with my Revue was consistent. However we I went to the Living to watch the same content over wifi on the boxee box in a room further away from the router, it streamed absolutely fine.

The Apply TV, in the same spot the revue was, also has no issues streaming. The revue was just a big disappointment. It did a lot of things but none of them well.

I hate it if all thin and light laptops looks like this.

Very Fox news of you to take this out of context. This was in reply to…. the frickin title of the blog post. I didnt make this up out of nowhere, I was disagreeing with the OP. Whats so hard about that.

Which implies that Lenovo sales could grow if they remove certain features that ThinkPad users have come to appreciate.

Your implying too much. Corporations already trust it. The emphasis was on the “And Consumers Buy”. Bc right now….. consumers dont buy thinkpads. Am I right? or at least the vast majority dont.

Agreed. I love my boxee box.

Not only plays every file but also creates a beautiful interface of your local content with movie covers and movie descriptions

Plus it does AirPlay audio and video streaming

Features don’t make a good product tho. My Logitech revue is junk. Seriously junk. Especially compared to 3rd gen apple tv and boxee box.