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I seriously doubt there will ever be a 970MP in an iMac. The current iMac is good value. If I was in the market, I'd get the mid range 17incher.
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Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman But then how come net profit was reported as $320 million when their cash reserve went up by $450 million ? I have edited my original post to include the following: Capital gains account for this disc…
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Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman Okay. I worked out that if apple gets 5% to 10% interest on that 7.5 billion in cash, that means that they get $375 to $750 MILLION dollars each year as pure profit (before tax). compare this to $320m…
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Quote: Originally posted by fahlman I'm interested in knowing the reasoning of holding on to so much cash. They're probably not debt free so they must be earning more on their cash than they are losing on their debt. Does a company of Apple's siz…
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Quote: Originally posted by snoopy 4) Going with Intel may mean we will see a better selection of Macs. As I mentioned regarding price, going with Intel will mean much lower engineering and development expenses for new models of the Mac. I f…
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The doomsday scenario for Apple is Pear PC type emulation running Mac OSX within WINDOWS on non-Apple machines. Pear PC type "sand box" emulation is next to impossible to prevent. While you may not be able to run OSX standalone on a Dell, you wil…
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Quote: Originally posted by digitaldave Really? I suppose you can say that it's been timed to coincide with the start of the G8 summit, but apart from that...? Maybe I need to read the news more . Well after Madrid, the ongoing shanagans in I…
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Quote: Originally posted by digitaldave Stiff upper lip old boy! heh. It is kinda eerie though. Unlike 9/11 which was out of the blue, in hindsight there was a horrible sense of inevitability about this type of attack. I think …
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Sigh. Condolences from downunder.
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The next Apple CEO will be Jonathan Ives. The Apple of today is all about style, and this dude has been the driving force. Whether he has an RDF to match Jobs is questionable, but I think Apple needs to get away from the cult-like aura Jobs ha…