Mac users interested in Viber for os x 10.5 generally download: Viber 9.5 Free Viber is an instant messaging and voice over IP application that lets you communicate with other Viber users free of charge. I don’t think they added any new formats, but formats that I had problems with before (no sound for instance) now seem to play nicely now. Usually they were AVI’s, but I didn’t check to see how they were encoded, sorry I have Perian (latest) installed, but this was before testing 10.6.5, so it wasn’t that. They have done quite a bit of dev with QuickTime in this release, each time we got a build that was one of the items to check. I think people with newer Macs (unlike me) will get the most benefit from this release. No, it’s not “enough said”. Your post as-is, is flamebait. Please elaborate on why you think Apple sucks, otherwise why bother even posting? Please also understand that I somewhat share your opinion; I don’t care for Apple as a company though I love their OS and like a lot of their hardware. See how easy that is? I’m ok with my post being a flame-bait. Also Apple fan-boys never agrees with my reasons why and I don’t see what good can come from ever discussing them. It’s my opinion, you’re free to have another. I hate their hardware and their software is over-rated, but ok. 1) I don’t care for their network and music player gear, overpriced and eventually with less features. 2) iPhone may be good but it’s locked in by default so it’s nothing I would buy. You get what you pay for but it’s a pricy dish. 3) Macs straight out suck. The premium is smaller in the US and prices has gone down here, but I wonder if the margins haven’t gone up considering how much cheaper regular laptops has become. Close to 100% markup over other brands? Atleast 50+%. Too little specs to choose from, crippled by default specs on the low-end gear to make you pay for even higher margin high-end gear. Not specific to Apple but quality always suck at branded (non-workstation/-server) gear, especially laptops. 4) Apples own software titles may have their advantages in simplicity, and the pro-software even in performance, but you get locked in no matter what you choose. Nothing weird with that but it suck in general. Especially since the both the software and hardware cost money, with open-source software and generic hardware you may still get locked in into a software title but it cost less to stay with it. Download sierra for mac. 5) The OS seems somewhat forgotten, but I agree that it’s most likely the best (haven’t tried Vista or Windows 7? So I can’t really speak for them) OS product in advantages and disadvantages blended together. I could survive with FreeBSD and KDE to though. What I like about Apples OS is the availability of commercial applications, not really an Apple feature but still non-the-less. 6) Support, service and shopping experience is worse in other parts of the world than the US. It may have improved but it’s not the same anyway. I would had wanted Dell quality support. Best way to get out of all the suckiness is to run a hack and do the “pro” work in applications available on multiple platforms. And buy regular hardware and network gear, a different phone, so on so on. You still get the OS, more OS X knowledge, can switch platform if you need to, lower cost, the machine you want, I haven’t run any hack with the newer methods though, so I don’t know how hard the patching stuff is. I had the impression things had gotten easier on Intel before but now I don’t know. On the other hand maybe it’s plenty automatic and if nothing else you actually learn how to do it yourself so you can probably take yourself out of an issue yourself as well. Edited 2010-11-11 11:11 UTC. Don’t worry, I’m not about to try and sell you a Mac, but I just want to make a point. I used to think VM’s for dev was not a good thing (or VM’s in general), but Parallels running on a newish Mac isn’t bad at all, esp. For dev (probably not the latest games). Well, I should say, esp. For dev in Visual Studio, Delphi (latest) and various other IDE’s I have tried. I was developing Windows FileSys drivers, and found it no hassle at all to use a VM. Also lots of Delphi application coding too. I currently just use Windows to check compatibility between browsers so don’t use Windows all that much anymore. Actually, I could backup the VM at various points, so that is a bonus, as well as have it on an external USB drive and running it on my Mac at home or at work. I just had Windows 7 running on a mates new MacBook Pro (i5) maybe 3 hours ago. I gave Windows 7 2Gb of mem and access to 2 of the 4 cores, and it ran like a bought one. WEI scored 4.9 which isn’t mind blowing, but not bad either. Anyway, just a comment.
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