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foggyhill said:

The dumbest fracking thing ever posted on Apple Insider.

Apple should 100% create a A chip laptop, that would kill Chrome books in an instant because they're margins is so thin the wouldn't be able to compete.

Not really the dumbest thing ever posted.  Many people on this site like to lump iPad sales in with personal computer sales.  If so, then why can't the Chromebooks be lumped in as well?  It's a computing device with limited local storage, and access to an app store for additional apps (http://www.omgchrome.com/google-play-store-coming-chromebooks/).  If you buy into that logic, then it's definitely newsworthy that Chromebooks are outselling MacBooks -- but just as a data point for comparison, not as an indicator that MacBook sales are doomed. 

An earlier report by Tom Warren for The Verge cited IDC analyst Linn Huang as emphasizing that Chrome OS took the lead "in terms of shipments," making it clear she wasn't talking about revenue or sustainable profitability, or even strategic importance. 

joepicco47 said:

Google Photos has unlimited photo and video storage for free. Not 15GB as stated in this article. I have 2+TB backed up for free accessible from any of my computers, my iPad and iPhone.

The unlimited storage is if you let Google shrink your photos.  The 15GB is a true limit if you are storing the original full-sized photo.  Check your setttings.

Need bigger drives.  2TB for MBPr, please.

kent909 said:

So the plan is to get Windows 10 on a billion devices. After giving it away for almost a year they are at 300 mi. At $119 I wonder how long it will take to get to the goal. This could really delay Windows 11.

There will be no Windows 11, supposedly.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows

gatorguy said:

runbuh said:

If a school has no existing system/staff/plan for rolling out and managing these things, and they buy a bunch of anything from Apple, then I would definitely blame Apple if Apple did not help them set all that up to help ensure the success of the program.  Change the vendor to any other major Apple competitor and the same holds true.

https://www.google.com/edu/products/devices/

That's a major start, of course, but that does not go far enough in getting the devices (and the program as a whole) up and running in a school (or entire school system).

jkichline said:

But as usual... it's easier to blame Apple than to take responsibility for your own shortcoming as an educational institution.  That's why we still have to use freaking paper books.  We can send a spaceship to Pluto, but still have to learn off squares of dead trees.

If a school has no existing system/staff/plan for rolling out and managing these things, and they buy a bunch of anything from Apple, then I would definitely blame Apple if Apple did not help them set all that up to help ensure the success of the program.  Change the vendor to any other major Apple competitor and the same holds true.

cali said:

I come here because this website creates a balance. You can bet your ass your websites talk sh** about Apple all day.
Apple has a tiny misstep and it's all over the blogosphere, Microsoft has a sleep of death bug and you can only find the news here and rarely other sites.

I hope DED keeps writing truth and bringing facts to the Internet.

If you would extricate your head from DED's bum, you would see the articles that have been posted for MONTHS about all the problems with the Surface Book (and Surface Pro).  Here, LMGTFY