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[dinesh72]

Dixons duty free at Gatwick North terminal

 

[drgrudge]

Congrats Dinesh. Welcome to the family.

I guess it's cheaper in Dubai Duty Free as well. Do you know how much it costs there? I checked in Sharjah Duty free and it was not available.

 

[aryayush]

Last night I've booked my MBP base model for 87300/-Rs(saved 10000/-Rs!!). I will pick it up on Wednesday and will have my first hands on experience on mac by evening. I think I should spend this saved money to buy valid key for iWork and a mac account.

Don't waste money on a .Mac account. It's totally not worth it.

You saved quite a bit more than Rs. 10,000, by the way.

 

[jamesbond007]

Don't go for .mac account its of no use for us. I don't know why Arya uses it!!
Looks like our family is growing !!! Hmmm

@dr
how much does Time Capsule cost in Dubai, one of my relative is coming from Dubai, and if TC is below 10K I think I am gonna buy it!!

 

[aryayush]

I don't know why Arya uses it!!

I don't, dude. I don't have money to waste.

 

[goobimama]

Don't waste money on a .Mac account. It's totally not worth it.

You saved quite a bit more than Rs. 10,000, by the way.

The base model is 97k in India (maybe less with discount) so yes, 10k saved.

@Azeem: He don't use no .mac account (See aayush? Mistake made by purposely). As in, he's not paying for it at least...

 

[dinesh72]

I would have liked to buy it in dubai duty free more than gatwick but considering old mbp prices difference I am pretty sure its expensive than london. Anyway I'll be in dubai duty free tomorrow at around 1:00 pm India time and would be in a better position to write you exact prices.
If anybody would like to know prices of some hardwares please do let me know(ofcourse if available and only in duty free).

 

[drgrudge]

I would have liked to buy it in dubai duty free more than gatwick but considering old mbp prices difference I am pretty sure its expensive than london. Anyway I'll be in dubai duty free tomorrow at around 1:00 pm India time and would be in a better position to write you exact prices.
If anybody would like to know prices of some hardwares please do let me know(ofcourse if available and only in duty free).

Just check the prices of Macs if it's available. I've seen the Dubai Duty Free - Terminal II but they don't stock Macs.

jamesbond007 -
No idea man.

 

[yash]

So, you sleep with the earphones plugged in? Don't your ears hurt when either one of them gets pressed into the pillow?

I sleep with the earphones in my ears a lot of times. if it gets uncomfortable, I just remove one earphone from the ear that's against the pillow. but usually i just lie on my back.

 

[ray|raven]

^Ok, temme this dude,
Are all the folks who install windows without buying it, commiting a crime?

 

[jamesbond007]

The laws of copyright and piracy are just getting into the heads of our law enforcement agencies. My distant neighbor once gave me a small lecture on these, according to him, when I download movies from p2p, I only do a moral wrong there is now law that can arrest me. Also by downloading movies we are not pirates, pirates are the ones who have sites or shops that sell the illegal copies!!
Didn't get a chance to verify this but when asked him about Hackintosh PC like I purchased Leopard and installed it on PC and not on Mac, he says its your purchased thing and you are its owner, you can do any god damn thing with it other than making its copies and selling !!

^Ok, temme this dude,
Are all the folks who install windows without buying it, commiting a crime?

Well again moral wrong I guess!!

 

[ray|raven]

^Not according to kumarmohit,
If installing a copy of leopard, that i download from the net,is a crime,
installing a copy of xp that i get from a friend should be too, right?

 

[kumarmohit]

Are all the folks who install windows without buying it, commiting a crime?

Well again moral wrong I guess!!

Of course it is a crime. just like installing OS X without purchasing a Mac.

@ 007

That person is right, movies and music downloading is a moral wrong unless it is done for commercial benefit.

Unlike Movies, in which case it is a moral wrong, the IT act also comes in picture of Windows or OSX of, so it is not a crime according to Copyright but according to IT Act.

In the case of OSX again, once you pay for OSX, you have satisfied the requirements of IT Act. That would not come into picture anymore. Post payment it is only copyrights and contact act which are in the game.

In case yo want the safest route it is to install Linux and use the mac4Lin on it

 

[dinesh72]

if anybody is interested to compare prices in dubai airport
iphone 8gb 750$ - 2700 dhs
iphone 16gb 744$ - 3400 dhs
MBP Base model 2361$ - 8500 dhs
MB black 1749 - 6299 dhs (2.16 ghz,1gb ram,160gb hdd)
MB white 1277$ - 4599 dhs (2.0 ghz, 1gb, 80gb)
MB white 1361$ - 4900 dhs (2.1,1gb,120gb)

 

[jamesbond007]

jeezzzz Calm down Mac Boys

if anybody is interested to compare prices in dubai airport
iphone 8gb 750$ - 2700 dhs
iphone 16gb 744$ - 3400 dhs
MBP Base model 2361$ - 8500 dhs
MB black 1749 - 6299 dhs (2.16 ghz,1gb ram,160gb hdd)
MB white 1277$ - 4599 dhs (2.0 ghz, 1gb, 80gb)
MB white 1361$ - 4900 dhs (2.1,1gb,120gb)

Any idea about Time Capsule ??

Querie
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1) How to play subtitles with .mkv files ?? ( VLC or QT )

2) An app for converting .mkv files to DVD

3) Gosh forgot the 3rd one !!

 

[jamesbond007]

Oh got the 3rd one

3) Torrent client which supports DHT

 

[drgrudge]

jamesbond007 -
1. QT if the .mkv has the subtitles.
2. Dunno.
3. Azureus, µTorrent and Transmission supports DHT. Don't ever use any other client in your Mac.


kumarmohit -
Of course it's cheaper in Dubai than in India.

 

[kumarmohit]

Humph, why cant we get best gadgets for affordable prices. The AIR with SSD is not available in India at all. Let us see if they launch the EEE PC 901 in India if they do at what price. Bet it would be round 24000 to 25000.

 

[goobimama]

To disable a subtitle track in Quicktime, hit Tools > Movie Properties (or simply Command+J) and then just uncheck the subtitle track.

 

[yash]

To disable a subtitle track in Quicktime, hit Tools > Movie Properties (or simply Command+J) and then just uncheck the subtitle track.

interesting. I finally learned something new and USEFUL today. lol.