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• Oh, forgot a few other things... [quote]Amorph wrote: "Consumers don't upgrade individual components. The moment you mention swapping out a hard drive, adding a PCI slot, or even adding RAM, you lose people." Not true. Not true. Not true. …

  in should apple sell a budget tower?? Comment by themagius August 2002
• My personal opinion (as long as we're just speculating anyway) is that there are three Macintosh niches. The first is the consumer line of products. I believe Amorph described these folks as buying a new computer and printer when it was time to …

  in should apple sell a budget tower?? Comment by themagius August 2002
• The question here is not whether a bus utilizes SDRAM or DDR. Nor is it relevant how many processors a given machine may utilize. The question ultimately is: will Apple?s new hardware convince PC users to switch to a Macintosh? Let?s take a loo…

  in Moved: New PowerMac specs Comment by themagius August 2002
• Well, if what you say is true, Dorsal M, then I suspect I'll be making an Apple purchase this summer. I do love my tried-and-true B&W G3 350MHz, but her video card is aging, and her processor is slow to heed during iMovie edits. With a cut…

  in MacWorld in New York - 2002 is Apple's year Comment by themagius June 2002
• [quote] I don't get my sense of economics from Hollywood films, and since I saw nothing about Fight Club to recommend it, I ignored it. Heh. Well, I guess everyone's tastes in movies is different. Allow me to clarify. My point in quoting …

  in A look at the July Power Macs now that we know the Xserve specs Comment by themagius May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Amorph: In that case, nothing will change anything, so you're also disagreeing with yourself. [ 05-16-2002: Message edited by: Amorph ] I am? I sure didn't think I was. From what I see, Apple's PowerMac sales…

  in A look at the July Power Macs now that we know the Xserve specs Comment by themagius May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Amorph: Actually, both of those only go halfway. If you just fail to buy Apple hardware, they have to guess why. If you write them and tell them what you want from your OS and your hardware, and you tell them that …

  in A look at the July Power Macs now that we know the Xserve specs Comment by themagius May 2002
• On G4 Speed While it’s true that the current 1GHz G4 cannot nearly compare with a 2.4GHz P4 in terms of raw horsepower, I would point out that lack of MHz is not the most significant hindrance in the Macintosh architecture. Bus speed limitations, …

  in A look at the July Power Macs now that we know the Xserve specs Comment by themagius May 2002