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R Lubin said: This story left out a VERY important part. Macintosh clone company, Power Computing sold their poorly made but inexpensive Mac clones solely online via their very advance (for it's day) web site that allowed the customer to cus…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tyler82 It's odd that there was a "megahertz war" in the early 2000s between Apple and Intel (which is why Apple always touted the other powerful aspects of the PowerPC over the Pentium) because I remember Intel reac…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BoC When you can't cite your own success, try to tear down your competitor. Worked real well over the last decade, right? Remember Michael Dell’s advice to Apple: close up shop and refund your stockholders?
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Maybe Jobs didn’t like TV but he also disliked the Newton. And later came up with something that was conceptually in the same space that did pretty well.
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Quote: Originally Posted by dcorby23 The car on the render on the top of the page looks a lot like Trabant. (the 70s and 80s East Germany vehicle, not sure if it could count as a "car"). Beat me to it. Spot the resemblance: I even found a gr…
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In the last quarter, Apple sold about 74.5-million phones and about 21-million iPads. I can’t find a breakdown of Mac sales by model; the total was 5.5-million. At the same time, Microsoft sold about 1-million Surfaces (approximately, they only re…
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I must say, when I tried to use a Microsoft Surface in a shop, my impression was that Microsoft had designed a laptop you can%u2019t use on your lap. The keyboard connection was fragile, and you had to put it on a rigid surface to type. So I totally…
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Who wouldn't love failures like Apple's?
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This whole article starts from the very questionable premiss that Samsung and Apple’s businesses are similar enough to compare advertising spend and draw conclusions without drilling down deeper. Samsung is a massive conglomerate that makes everyt…
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Since this discussion is going all sorts of directions other than the original topic, I put my view on design for obsolescence here, in case anyone would like to take it further. Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc This needs repeat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by drblank I just think people shouldn't be trying to play AppleCare technician on computers unless it's a tower unit or it's purposely designed for user replaceable parts. This is my point: they are increasingly desig…
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Quote: Originally Posted by newbee See, this is what I don't understand. Is the computer in your life the only thing you tinker with? Do you repair or upgrade your TV, refrigerator, car, etc.. etc.? You may very well like to, and be capable of…
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This is all well and good but until such time as they put the human back into consideration in design for disassembly and reassembly they are starting to lose me. I want to buy machines that can be repaired or even occasionally upgraded. The origina…
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Quote: Originally Posted by robogobo I've been actively participating in the Apple Discussion Forums the past couple days, and I'm shocked at how childish some users can be. The guy who's compiling the list is a level 7 user, and he's been tras…
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So it’s a good guess that only the legacy 13" will have user-upgradeable RAM? Presumably the new models are pretty much the same internally as the old ones including soldered-in RAM. How soon before someone gets one and tears it down?
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I’m sure you could put together something cheaper from a screwdriver shop but I just tried to configure something similar at Dell to compare, and with a slower CPU configuration and less RAM, it came out about $2.8k. I couldn’t spec it with all the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DrFreeman I am a bit surprised that Apple went with ATI. The CUDA by NVIDIA is more accepted in the industry. For PRO users that is an important point... Not those with any sense. OpenCL is more portable.
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I still say it’s a dalek. Especially when they do one of those disassembly views.
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Looks like only 1 non-retina option now: 13". Do the new retina models all feature soldered-in RAM I wonder?
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I tried MS keyboard covers and they didn't impress me. For a start, they require the Surface to be put on a .. wait for it .. surface. So you get a laptop you can't use on your lap. Then, typing on them wasn't great, Finally, they detached too easil…