All the way with you on this point.
I'll further emphasise what you're refering to below with another
example and I think I may have already mentioned the purchase of my
new Imac today so forgive me for mentioning it again but here goes
anyway. Well, actually its not a new Imac if that makes any sense,
its an older model and not the newest model but its new all the same
from the shop. Hard disk space isn't going to be a problem for me, I
get a 250 Gig hard drive. Now I told the chap at my Apple Store that
I really wanted the new model of Imac because I could have a 1
tarabyte drive fitted but since the store were so keen to be rid of
the slightly older model of 20 inch Imac they included the external
version of the tarabyte drive so I have 1.250 tarabytes in total for
storage, more than enough to be going on with.
Now I guess I was extremely lucky but these tarabyte drives I've
since found are (in my view) dirt damn cheap, $600.00 for one of
these nice things thanks very much so given that, no one need
complain about hard drive space I don't reckon anyway.
Also add to the equasion the fact that you also have a whole heap and
multitude of other storage solutions vying for your attention out
there, why not say consider a 350 gig IDE drive which can be made USB
or firewire compatible to be used with your Mac by putting the drive
in a "caddy", the caddy's themselves are as cheap as chips along with
the drives.
Just a few words to perhaps give some list members some food for
thought.
On 16/08/2007, at 8:21 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Hey, I really hate to get into this discussion, but honestly, this
seems to be a pointless thing to do. I mean after all, with at a
minimum of 60 or 80Gb of drive space in even the bottom of the line
Mac Mini, do you really loose that much space? It just doesn't
justify Apple's time in creating a filter just to exclude those apps.
Not to mention the fact that if they become available, then your
going to want them? I think I'd rather see Apple spend their efforts
on making the apps accessible instead of developing filters and the
like to exclude them. If your that pressed for drive space, then get
an external drive. You can get tuns of space for pennies really so
although I understand where your coming from, it just doesn't make
sense.
Scott
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On Aug 14, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Probably something mac users could use. Things I'd like to filter
from installs be they done with disks or on line would be eye candy
that's not appropriate for totally blind users to have on machines
and all software that isn't completely VoiceOver compatible for the
particular release versions in question. This should especially
apply to trialware. An installer needs to have the ability to set
these options in preferences somewhere and have things go from
there. It's easier blocking incompatible and software that's just
not ready than to find all of it and get it correctly deleted after
the fact at least for now. An alternate approach to this could be
used so long as apple provides something like bash where scripts
can get written to clean bunches of stuff up quickly. In that case
this would be a worthwhile undertaking especially for those without
all that much hard drive space. More freed up hard drive space
leaves more room for podcasts and freeware and shareware to be
installed that may work.
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