I hate to point out anything of an aesthetic nature, because anti-Mac folks always jeer when Apple buffs tout aesthetics - but have you seen the Toshiba laptop? Buddy, it's just ugly. It looks like one of those workstations on Superman, except flatter.
Despite the PowerMac G5, things do not look good for Apple.
Toshiba's first entry to the 17-inch notebook market wipes the floor with Apple's current offerings, while Apple's 15-inch is so horribly outdated, rumors fly of this model's EOL.
The Toshiba weighs twice as much, with half as much battery life. And somehow that's a step in the right direction?
And so the 15-inch TiBook is "so horribly outdated" that it will be EOL'd? What other course of action do you suggest for an outdated product?
The 15" PowerBook has a good graphics chipset (for its age), the Radeon 9000. However, the GeForce 4 Go 420 in the PowerBook 12" ain't too hot, as it has nowhere near enough VRAM bandwidth for it's fillrate: it would be much nicer if the 12" had the 440 and the 17" had the 460. Even better if they had GPUs with a larger feature set closer to a GeForce 2 than a GeForce 4 4x00.
You'd have thought that nVidia wouldn't repeat the TNT2 m64 crapness (128bit GPU tied to 64bit RAM, bested by the TNT 1).
The DVD-RW issue is slightly annoying, especially as the Matshita UJ815 supports DVD-RW.
Apple cannot, at the moment, make a G5 iMac/eMac. This would cannabalise PowerMac G5 sales: 1) some people would buy the lower margin consumer machines rather than the higher end Pro ones and 2) they can sell as many PowerMac G5s as they can make for a while. I'd reckon that G5 consumer machines depend on 2 factors: high volume production of the G5 and the initial PowerMac G5 rush dieing down.
"Apple's slice of the overall U.S. PC market shrank to 2.9% in the first quarter, down from 3.2% two years earlier, says market tracker International Data Corp. But Apple has gained in consumer PC sales, especially with notebook computers. Apple's share of U.S. consumer PC unit sales rose to 3.4% in the first quarter, up from 1.9% two years earlier. Its share of dollars spent on consumer PCs rose from 2.3% to 5.2%."
SO can we stop saying that Apple's market share is below 2%?
The G5 WILL make a big difference in their sales this year. I think the marketshare slide will change direction. And the Apple Retails stores are a good part of that too.
And with regard to chu_bakka's post, remember that those market share percentages are for sales, not installed base. Installed base is likely to be much closer to or even higher than 5%.
And this Investors Business Daily article shows that market share in terms of both dollars and volume have increased, spurred mainly by, get this, laptop sales.
Don't know about the Dell part, but the Troll part, now that's self evident.
Posted from 667 DV TiBook that don't feel the least bit outdated, 'cept when its trying to do stuff that shouldn't be done on anything less that a DV workstation...
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Toshiba's first entry to the 17-inch notebook market wipes the floor with Apple's current offerings,
if you actually believe that, no wonder you don't work for Apple any more. that thing is a POS.
if that's your dream machine, go work at alienware.
(not much flatter - ten pounds??)
Originally posted by jaedreth
Despite the PowerMac G5, things do not look good for Apple.
Toshiba's first entry to the 17-inch notebook market wipes the floor with Apple's current offerings, while Apple's 15-inch is so horribly outdated, rumors fly of this model's EOL.
The Toshiba weighs twice as much, with half as much battery life. And somehow that's a step in the right direction?
And so the 15-inch TiBook is "so horribly outdated" that it will be EOL'd? What other course of action do you suggest for an outdated product?
You'd have thought that nVidia wouldn't repeat the TNT2 m64 crapness (128bit GPU tied to 64bit RAM, bested by the TNT 1).
The DVD-RW issue is slightly annoying, especially as the Matshita UJ815 supports DVD-RW.
Apple cannot, at the moment, make a G5 iMac/eMac. This would cannabalise PowerMac G5 sales: 1) some people would buy the lower margin consumer machines rather than the higher end Pro ones and 2) they can sell as many PowerMac G5s as they can make for a while. I'd reckon that G5 consumer machines depend on 2 factors: high volume production of the G5 and the initial PowerMac G5 rush dieing down.
Originally posted by jaedreth
The portable products seem to be the redheaded stepchild of Apple, when Apple is touting this as the year of the notebook. Year of the PC notebook?
Wow. Clearly written by someone who has never used a recent Apple laptop.
Wasn't the line last year that the desktops sucked but that the portables were excellent?
Originally posted by agent302
Wow. Clearly written by someone who has never used a recent Apple laptop.
Wasn't the line last year that the desktops sucked but that the portables were excellent?
yep, it was
SO can we stop saying that Apple's market share is below 2%?
The G5 WILL make a big difference in their sales this year. I think the marketshare slide will change direction. And the Apple Retails stores are a good part of that too.
And this Investors Business Daily article shows that market share in terms of both dollars and volume have increased, spurred mainly by, get this, laptop sales.
Apple's Cardiac Hemmortage
Uh, Who is this guy trying to convince, us or himself.
Dell Troll, humm...
Don't know about the Dell part, but the Troll part, now that's self evident.
Posted from 667 DV TiBook that don't feel the least bit outdated, 'cept when its trying to do stuff that shouldn't be done on anything less that a DV workstation...
Initial whinings ...
things to do today ....
1) get up
2) stick head up own ass
3) post nonsense on AI
4) ...
wait somebodies beaten me to it ...