Posts by aelegg

[/QUOTE] The last Dell I ever bought was a huge tower during the G4 iMac days. It blue-screen'd and had issues before I even connected it to the Internet. What a piece of junk. I used the punch it with my fist hard enough to knock...

Two things: 1) Apple puts out impressive sound (not audiophile, but clear and loud-ish) from an iPhone. 2) What about that high end flat-speaker technology, like these MartinLogan Electrostatic speakers? Give apple a...

Remember when Xserve got the boot? Wasn't Steve reported to answer, "Hardly anyone was buying them". I splurged on the fatter 160GB when it first came out. I bought I think three $5 games. Zuma's really cool, and...

They named it Fire because that's how your fingers feel after being sanded down to use the 7" screen. Actually I get what they're doing. Content-consumption. Less creation (if any). I think it's really a competitor to a 3rd...

Over the years I've purchased an iBook G4, a Unibody MacBook (pre-Pro), and a 27" iMac, and numerous iPods. Our 160GB Classic (the fattish one) I sealed up in a silicone & plastic double-case the day I bought it. The metal...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kibitzer Wonder how long it'll take them to move the HP display out of the way to make room for more of the Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Xoom, Toshiba Thrive and cheap Vizio tablets no one is buying...

It'll be replaced with something round as another poster here said, but it will be a single enormous Apple. So perfect in a single large (50') piece of sculptered glass, that they won't have the heart to cut a doorway in it. All...

Quote: Originally Posted by drobforever Even if I use a very conservative estimate and say Apple offers the same storage as Amazon (20 GB per person), 12 petabytes is only serving 600k people. They probably wouldn't have to store...

Pardon this light-hearted post amidst mostly-serious discussion, but am I the only one who noticed the green LEGO bricks on the first picture? My comment is this: Don't they seem strangely appropriate there? Perhaps there's a...