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Quote: Originally Posted by chadisawesome these articles always make me laugh on this site. tell us what other options are available, in this case, the T-Mobile@home hotspot service, and then spend half the article talking about all it's negat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 I love this part: As if a young thing like Lily Allen, working on her first album has any real insight into the "music business" (or business in general.) This is like taking the opinion of someo…
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Nothing is decided on blu-ray yet. Those who think blu-ray is dead already do not see the whole picture(no pun intended). Less than s a year ago, yes, it looked like Blu-ray was going to be dead but something happened. The price for getting 108…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ahruman Yes, there?s been a definite drop of quality since AppleInsider tied itself to Daniel Eran Dilger, a.k.a. Prince McLean. I don't know about that. It still seems it's a requirement here to write from an extr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by John the Geek Apple invented OpenCL. NVidia has been working close with Apple. NVidia already have OpenCL compliant hardware, whereas ATI does not. How doesn't this tie Apple to NVidia? For the most part stonyb…
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The smart money would be for Apple to just sell a $19.95 training video on how to rip the Beatles cd's that have been available. The bulk of the folks interested in this are 50+ years old with most not knowing they can rip their own music to get th…
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I do believe there will be a surprise or two behiind Snow Leopard but keep in mind that MS just announced a few weeks ago the time frame they were looking to release Windows 7. This was a much earlier time frame than what was previously considered.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by johnqh OK, let's say 2% of the users use Firewire (I think 2% is pretty close). It adds $10 to the machine. Does it make sense to make everyone pay $10 extra, so the 2% save $500? So I'm guessing you think tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by OriginalMacRat And that is affecting you NOW. The iPods have gotten bigger and now it is taking you longer and longer to move your content to it over that slow USB connection. Slower perhaps but tell me how many …
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Those defending Apple's decision to drop firewire from the new Macbook are missing the point that Apple has(maybe had now) customers with money in hand ready to buy new Macbooks but simply want firewire on there as well. Instead Apple offers up to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider A survey of 750 global IT administrators and C-level executives by the Yankee Group found that nearly four out of five businesses -- or approximately 80% --have at least a few Macs and the Mac OS X operati…
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Lets wait and see where the demand really is before trying to tell Apple how to turn a phone into a game machine....same for the Touch. Apple is very strategic and it takes time to get things in place for those strategies. Right now I think they'r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Iphtashu Fitz This has the potential of a LOT more than just voice commands. Imagine the ability to dictate entire e-mails by voice rather than typing. See my previous post about the company Vlingo that's already doin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by paxman I am surprised it took them this long to be quite honest. It must have been very frustrating to see all those I'm a Mac ads for the MS crew. The new campaign will be great fodder for a new Mac campaign if Apple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by RoboNerd I am only a recent Mac convert. I have used Microsoft's stuff from the DOS 4 / Windows 3.0 days. I was not overly impressed with Windows XP, as it seemed to be a step backwards from the rock-solid Windows 2000…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fuyutsuki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth#Antiquity Great to see MS as firmly in control of the facts as ever. Saying that Columbus was the first to suggest the Earth was round is like giving Neil Arm…
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Quote: Originally Posted by admiral_nelson Hi guys and gals, take a close look at that sailing ship. It has Nelson chess board pattern, and I'm sure someone can comment on the rigging and the rest of the ship's design. Really sloppy work …
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Quote: Originally Posted by webmail Just to be clear before the rumors go crazy.... This is NOT because of iPhones & iPods (could be an extra reason) This is NOT for desktop macs (mostly) This IS for new computing device, aka the "tabl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobaby Fair enough. Yes they settled. If Apple had a case, you know they would not have bothered and would have trumpeted this case as Apple being picked on but won. Settling simply one side had the other over a b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobaby The issue is not about the monitor but about what Apple said and what was proven against their claim. These two guys proved that Apple made a false claim. What a monitor produces does not matter. Their cas…