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Quote: Originally Posted by Cubert EXACTLY! If Apple ships Snow Leopard in June, that will be less than 3 years of support for a hardware product. Very Microsoftian if you ask me. WHAT? Unless you're using the phrase "Microsoftian" as a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Well, when you redefine the "performance space" to mid grade computers that include Inspirons and AIOs similar to the iMac then no, it isn't the exclusive arena of gamers. Of course...it's a rather bogus defin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac As for the Dell blog referring to gamers, here's the quote from the link YOU provided: We love gamers. We love gaming. And much like we want to win every game we play, we want to lead in this market. Simple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac I disagree. Most enthusiasts are easily satisfied by todays dual core machines. Hell mainstream quad core is upon us. Enthusiast machines are nice words for gaming machines. Even Dell's link you provided allu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Alienware is like Vinea said, a boutique product. Expanding that line while eliminating the XPS line is still a net reduction in gaming rigs. And I would agree with Vinea that gaming is what drives the 'e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea The enthusiast market and the gaming market are tightly linked. The primary driver of faster and faster GPUs are games. The driver of high performance consumer machines is high performance in the graphics arena…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Are you really surprised they would cut back on gaming machines after looking at those numbers? I don't disagree that the PC game market is on the decline right now. But the problem I am having with your …
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac I will agree that its a reach. But with Dell offering an AIO and reducing their emphasis on gaming/enthusiast machines the reach is getting shorter. Dell offering an AIO is the free market responding to a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac While many Mac enthusiasts wish Apple were more like Dell, at least in product line offerings, Dell seems to be moving towards Apple. That is a long reach you're making there. Dell has had a huge overlap …
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Quote: Originally Posted by suhail We need Apple to listen closely, we've been begging for a mid-tower Mac for ages! Exactly. Even if Apple Legal successfully sues these guys, if this is the kick in the pants Apple needed to realize the incre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich That 1:7 ratio will not change despite the dollar drop, unless the Chinese government de-links the RMB from the dollar. To be fair, the RMB has been significantly de-linked from the dollar. It's now ti…
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Quote: Originally Posted by guinness As for me, OSX does the little things better than WIndows, but it's not perfect either. I've ran Windows for over 10 years (relative computer noob), but I've never had the myriad of PC problems that people …
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac But Safari 3.1 and new FF beta 3 are better. Wanted to point out that Mozilla has released Firefox 3 Beta 5. I love this thing. It's so fast and so stable.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Karelia I want everyone to know that Apple tried this once before. If you all recall, it was called the PowerMac G4 MDD. ... The 2003 MDD sold like shit. Everyone went for the iMac G4 or the PowerMac G5. And much…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JoeyGee Has any of the stupid reporters at USA Today realised that Amazon had a HUUUGE music giveaway with Pepsi and that pushed the number of the songs downloaded from Amazon? duh! You would assume reporters would …
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Quote: Originally Posted by igxqrrl No surprise about Amazon catching up. I've stopped using the iTunes store for music. The web-based store-front at Amazon is more intuitive to me, the prices are lower, and the selection is as good or better. No…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe_the_dragon just wait for usb 3 or firewire 3200 to come out and see how many people go for the $20 pci / pci-e card. Apple logic: Why buy a $20 PCIe card when you can just buy a whole new computer!
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Quote: Originally Posted by James Ahlschwede "[Microsoft] is already the largest software developer for Apple's Mac platform outside of the Mac maker itself" isn't accurate. It's one of the biggest, but not the biggest - unless you're just co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by howiethemacguy I've seen this update come up. All the user has to do is read what the update is and decide if they want it or not. Honestly, if people are really too lazy to read before downloading, they deserve what…
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Quote: Originally Posted by popmetal Seems like Mozilla is feeling the heat now that windows users finally have a browser choice that is not bloated, memory hogging and slowww True. It's called Firefox 3.0 Beta 4. imo, Beta 4 is release read…