Posts by Mac-sochist

Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69  And yet somehow it always adds up to $1299.   No...the bottom-of-the-line iMac has previously been $1199 for many years now.

Quote: Originally Posted by Snowdog65  He can't be talking about Surface. It's $499 minimum and runs RT.   He said $279 Win8 Laptop.    IOW an Atom/AMD powered Netbook with no...

Speaking of Windows crashes at important events....   This is ancient history now I suppose, but does anybody know how long the BSOD lasted at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies? Of course on TV we only saw a momentary...

Just to start with--Rabbit_Coach: Whoever "corrected" you to "free reign" was wrong. It's "free rein", as in horse's rein. Instead of pulling on the reins to tell the horse where to go, you give them enough slack--free rein--that they...

If anyone deserves to be sued, it's the drive manufacturers. Since time immemorial, hard drive capacities had been given in the same way as RAM: 1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes (2^10). So 1 MB = 2^20, 1 GB = 2^30...by the time you get to TBs,...

I read on a laptop all the time. It's great because unlike an iPad, you can have the page full-width and scroll down—you don't have to have it right in your face. More importantly, you can have more than a few books in a file...

I'm not one of the people who said they wouldn't call the original the "iPad". 13-year-old boys might snicker for a week or two, but everybody else would just say "Grow up!" and it would be a non-issue very quickly.   There's...

I remember in the mid-80s, when they were transitioning from 5 micron rules to 3 microns, and dreaming about someday going to 1 micron, they said the absolute physical limit would be quarter-micron rules (250 nm), because the rate of...

Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry    Not if you have read it.   If I weren't too lazy, I'd register as "Wigner's Friend" just to say "It's not real until I read it."

Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna  I wouldn't be shocked if we see some iTunes Store updates in terms of content deals etc, even perhaps a nice Apple TV box   Maybe all these rumors are true. Remember...