Posts by Marvin

Quote:Originally Posted by jd_in_sb The video never shows the keyboard! It does at 0:52. It looks good and they claim 3 month battery life based on 2 hours use per day. They are expensive but they look like decent accessories - one...

Quote:Originally Posted by techguy911 It has already come down from >$700.  What reasoning do you provide for saying it will further drop to $320 or are you just pulling that number out of your ass? If you compare Apple with Exxon,...

Webcam recordings always end up a bit embarrassing because there's nobody there to reply. It looks like Digitimes is up to no good. Here's another article: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130423PR201.html "Samsung takes 30% of global...

Quote:Originally Posted by DoubleDee As part of this upgrade, I want to catch up with the times and start using Full-Disk Encryption of some sort to protect *all* of the data on my HDD. If that is true, I find it very disturbing...

Quote:Originally Posted by e1618978 Not true - Apple is perilously close to being a good candidate for a hostile buyout.  It is important to the business that the cash horde not get too big and that the market cap not get too small....

Quote:Originally Posted by wizard69 Apple gave up on the 17" MBP just like they gave up on the Mac Pro and Mini. Buyers gave up on it, Apple is just acknowledging that by stopping selling it. Apple has no reason to sell products...

This happens to me too. It doesn't happen all the time but it's annoying because I think I haven't pressed the close button and when I go to hit the close button again, it will close before I press it. They went back to the expanding...

Quote:Originally Posted by KDarling Yet that is what Apple did with the iPad mini: iPad 3 ....... $500 retail - $306 BOM = $194 gross profit (39%) iPad mini.... $330 retail - $188 BOM = $142 gross profit (43%) Apple kept roughly...

Quote:Originally Posted by Frood With more developed countries reaching a point of saturation or at least slowing growth, the growth markets demand a lower cost phone. It is a challenge for Apple.  If they do release one, is it...

Quote:Originally Posted by DHagan4755 If Apple brought the 17-inch MacBook Pro back I would get another one.  I hope they do, but realistically that's probably not going to happen. It depends really. There were technical limitations...