Posts by a_greer

Quote: Originally Posted by palegolas  The big question is.. if Apple is the new mainstream - who is the new punk? Windows phone...Not MS as a whole, just the phone part...stick with me...   the punk...

Apples IOS is not really Windows, Android is...Fo two reasons Ecosystem: I cn buy a windows license and do anything wth it, I can put it on any hardware that can run it, I can replace the shell, I can do pretty much...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin  Even if there was a shortage: http://www.ibtimes.com/lear-capital-growing-silver-shortage-ignites-demand-silver-polar-bear-coin-1123111 the amounts they use in computers...

I was listening to some talk radio and heard an ad for gold/silver... nothing strange there but there is a twist. The salesman claimed that Apple has delayed the production of all Macs because of silver shortages!  I personally...

The last sentence of the lead graph on WSJ reads "people familiar with the situation said." was this a janitor within earshot of what he thought to be an OEM price negotiation phone call? was it one of the guys making the call? we don't...

Quote: Originally Posted by waldobushman  This is not just a Surface problem (pun intended) -- it is a core problem. Windows 8 is awful, at least on the ASUS laptop I was playing with. Maybe it was the awful bundled...

The iPad is representative of a new category. PCs are mature. Many corperations keep PCs for 3-4 years, but because the ipad is so new, and since Apple holds back key features and trickles them out one at a time, people tend to buy new...

Write a business case, convince IT and business leadership that iPads are better/faster/cheaper and/or improve business efficiancy and profitability. If you can prove that iPads can mke more money and / or cost less to manage, then...

I sort of think that people are missing something here: PCs arent going unused, they just work longer, teh laptop i bought in 2004 needed to be replaced in 2006, and that one needed replaced in 2008. the one from 2008 worked fine for...

Quote:Originally Posted by JeffDM If Apple is using CL9 RAM, then it's $280 worth of RAM. The lower cost RAM is CL10 or CL11. I haven't seen any clear enough pictures to identify the RAM that well. It does seem odd how Apple is...