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Why do Apple make this ultra messy by requiring you to send in a rebate form? Why don't they just take £130, or whatever, off the purchase cost? It just seems they're deliberately making it awkward to try and catch people out. I'd expect that from s…
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Mine arrived about an hour and a half ago. The TNT delivery man said they had received 3000 iPad boxes from Apple overnight.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me You have discovered that Macs are not commodity items. They do not follow the commodity pricing model. There is no law that requires the commodity model. It is just that among personal computer manufacturers, Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot From a strictly "spec-whore" point of view, it's poor value on the day it's first released. But (as we all know) Macs are as much about the OS and usability as they are about max performance. Hm…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot You also don't have to be concerned about buying new Apple hardware the day it comes out. There's no need to "wait a couple months till the price comes down" ... It'll be the same price right up unt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by willgonz Dear Adobe, Flash is a resource hog. On all my computers when I play flash videos (hulu, NBC, etc) and play Flash games my cpu goes max my fan blows and in this hot weather it heats my house. I don't mind…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Fortunately, Apple is more concerned about providing a great user experience to customers than to giving in to every demand from lazy developers. Actually, it sounds more like Apple would rather someone dev…
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Dead easy. It's just a panel on the underside that screws off.
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Could you not just replace the graphics card?!
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Remember this is an Apple site, the definition of an invention is who made it popular, not who developed it. LOL, this made me laugh so hard. It's much the same as how no one in the world would ever want a…
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I have had a lot of wifi drop outs on my 13" MBP, even within about 10 feet of the router. It seems as if the wifi module on the 2010 MBPs has some problems right now.
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What are you doing with it in those 20mins? Have you opened a program that makes the 3rd party graphics chip kick in (and thus reduce battery life)?
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheShepherd Now really, do you expect anyone on an Apple site to recommend Windows machine? If it were the best tool for the job, at the right price, YES! I'm a firm believer that you should recommend the best too…
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I would happily pass on a built in optical drive as long as Apple either a) reduced the price accordingly, or b) bundled an external optical drive for the same price.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike Yup. The cost/benefit of early adopters. They get to use a nice device early but will suffer for it with early deficiencies. I'm surprised that Apple chose 256 MB RAM. One of the reasons to hold on a version and…
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I've been reading that the 256mb ram equipped iPad has regressed back to the problem that the iPhone 3G suffered from, namely Safari tabs being reloaded because the device has run out of RAM to keep them open in the background. If this is true, it'…
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Quote: FORWARD LOOKING means realizing that virtually every digital camera ever make (except maybe the Apple QuickTake in 1992) has a USB port. You would use the USB port to transfer the data. That's a lot more convenient than taking the memory car…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleRulez I don't understand this. Samsung just launched an iPhone killing GOOGLE phone. Just yuesterday. The phone has a 4 inch screen made by Samsung and runs Android. They are trying to kill the iPhone. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse You mean like the way Google rolled out Buzz? No I mean like the way they've rolled out the vast majority of their products and services. When these companies announce something, the world stands up and …
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I think Palm had a great product on their hands, but it was simply poorly executed. Product execution is where the juggernaugts like Nokia, Apple and Google have it singed, sealed and delivered.