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Quote: Originally posted by sls Every Mac shipping, will be shipping with your, slightly overpriced, card. Actually, the original poster is not talking about OEM graphics cards that ship with new Macintoshes. S/he is talking about upgradin…
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It costs companies like ATI and nVidia millions of dollars to design, manufacture, test, package, and market graphics cards. With the Wintel world, ATI and nVidia can easily recoup these expenditures. But because the Macintosh world is so polari…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph "What I was arguing was that there's a certain Apple standard feature set for Macs, and any Apple machine that doesn't meet that minimum feature set is not going to be a Mac. It's not going to be able to do the …
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Horrible car analogies aside, I find this debate pretty intriguing. As long as we?re all offering opinions, I?ll take a swag at it. Quote: Messiahtosh wrote: ?Apple has a lot of highly paid people working for them that study the market and the…
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Quote: Originally posted by Big Mac Antithesis - what are you talking about when you refer to SJ as passing on? To another occupational pursuit? SJ isn't going anywhere, and I refuse to believe otherwise. Well, I'm not wishing anything bad fo…
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Quote: snipped from the article... This is why Apple has barely generated any real profits out of its core Mac business in the last three years. Their huge cash horde (about $4.5 billion) was largely generated during the boom, and since that time,…
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Quote: Originally posted by Frank777 I'm talking about selling Macs, iPod sales are nice, but more than half go to Windows users, so the Pepsi promo will help pad the bottom line, but not do much to move the marketshare of those using Mac OS X. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Frank777 Apple just needs to design a 360º display. eMac on top, with software, games and accessories below. Apple would sell stores the whole display, including the software - not just the eMac on top. Think The Apple…
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Quote: Originally posted by Frank777 *snipped* Okay, you've got my attention. What kind of numbers are we talking about here (price)? -Antithesis
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Quote: Merovingian wrote: It seems to me that once the world gets over the price myth, market share will begin to rise. The perception that the Apple Macintosh is more expensive than a comparable PC (re: Wintel) has been in the minds of America…
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Forget about numbers. Forget about methods of statistics. Let's just use COMMON SENSE for a moment. 1) You walk into a CompUSA. What do you see? There's a bunch of Wintel machines. There's some Apple machines. There's hardware periphera…
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You know, I was actually going to continue to debate with Nr9, trying my best to clearly convey my POV. And then, I read the following: Quote: Originally posted by Nr9 ..."your english is the suck. language is supposed to be concise." Ye…
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Quote: Originally posted by kroehl The eMac had a G4 processor from the outset while the iMac was equipped with a G3. This along with the form-factor and the price was what made people want the eMac for everyone. All of the above, thus. Ac…
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Quote: Originally posted by Nr9 All three are. When you buy an AIO computer, the display is important, as is the casing and the price. So, let me get this straight. Your assertion is that there were a significant number of consumers who PREFE…
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Quote: Originally posted by Celco Anthesis so whats so wrong about iDVD then? ... The reality is that even if you are not a PRO user there is other DVD burning software out there... There's nothing 'wrong' with iDVD, save the fact that one NEE…
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Quote: Originally posted by Ompus Yes...I was addressing one of your posts. I was giving my own sarcastic view of the eMac's upgradability while pointing out its antiquated use of USB 1.1. D'OH! Sorry about that, Ompus. I actually laughe…
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Quote: Originally posted by Ompus Can't you connect your upgraded video card through one of the USB 1.1 ports? I'm gonna presume that you're addressing one of my issues, though I didn't see any of my quotes in your post. To answer your que…
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Quote: Originally posted by Celco I Am sick of people on this post BITCHING about PRICE. GET A JOB DUDE! How does addressing a legitimate concern for the Macintosh hardware line and its price point equate to not having a job? I?d love to know …
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Quote: Originally posted by wizard69 Some of the missing features on Mac hardware can be likened to an SUV without cup holders. Granted a cup holder has nothing to do with an SUV doing its job, but boy are they nice to have. Apple builds fu…
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Quote: Originally posted by wizard69 When it comes right down to it a manufacture like Apple should have a huge advantage when it comes to the cost of the final product. It's truly amazing how many people think that Apple pays the same price f…