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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Don't be obtuse! If it's for personal use then it's for the consumer, if it's to generate profit then it's for professional use. Are their people buying professional-grade equipment for personal use and vice …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Avon B7 No mention of professional in either 'consumer' or 'consumer goods' but perhaps it's worthy of note that when the dictionary entry contrasted consumer goods it stated 'rather than by manufacturers for producing…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Hmmm, I have to parse my comments down to have a specific meaning. Their are no firewire only peripherals for the wide consumer market. What you point to is very specialized and more used in the pro market.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell - Gigabit Ethernet is high speed connectivity. You guys are so blinded by firewire. and you are completely blinded on what is a mobile powered connection technology go back and read the earlier posts, or r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Apple would have sold more only if they had.......... Apple is not trying to be everything to everyone. Windows is which has become its main problem. yeah take a chill pill on that one \ i said that i c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell If they are only using their computer for the internet and word processing why would they be worried about Firewire? The problem is that many of you are only looking at firewire. Ignoring the LED screen, t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by otwayross and that's not to mention the other (non-student) friends who have gone back from apple to ms because of... price and ironically, as some people are claiming - apple's new aluMB market is students who don…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Yes its quite amazing how people will come on these boards and say Apple is doing well but they would do better if they followed my advice. I say if you can show me the multi-billion dollar operation you a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell You are arguing that the launch of the first version of the iPhone was not good because the launch of the second version was better? You do realize Apple has made around 3 billion in revenue from the first …
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Feel free to provide links that support your assertion. they're not assertions they're questions... dude i'm asserting that you're not asking the right questions Quote: http://www.appleinsider.com/article…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism And you have evidence of this, because I surely don't "know this". Also, why are you calling it 1G? Call it original or 2G. AT&T said it sold faster than any other phone they had ever sold so are you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Well that was fun. Haven't had that much amusement since debating Melgross. well you should pick your debates carefully - because you're wrong on both logic and story totally off the firewire topic, but…
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interestingly the firewire thread over at macrumors is still alive as well... this was from one of the most recent posts #2217 which i thought was quite pertinent: Quote: I've been disappointed for some time and I think it took the firewire …
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Yes, because devices without OS support are very useful...yea and verily, card makers do ship with thier own drivers but the fact that there is no OEM demand for FW800 for Vista is very telling. HP, Dell, etc do…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Well, you certainly cannot point to MS as some bastion of FW support if they wont even bother putting thier new 1394b stack into Vista as a SP as originally planned. Sticking it in there is trivial given that Wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea The new 1394b stack will be released in the next version of windows: "Currently, there are not plans for down-level support ? This includes Vista and XP and server releases ? Reason for this is a l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross It's simply wrong, and there have been many tests that show that, including the one I posted a few days ago from BareFeats. SATA just kills FW800. Gee, I wonder why Oxford, the biggest producer of FW conver…
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some more food for thought Microsoft's view on FW and this is a good summary of the situation by Oxford semiconductor note the CPU load of USB vs FW and that FW800 has the bandwidth to "meet current maximum hard drive performance" (ie USB3 o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell This will disappoint those who hope MacBook sales are suffering because of the lack of firewire. They will come to the hard cold reality that they are of the extreme few who care about firewire. yes it woul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Oh please! Speak for yourself. He's a big boy. We all use the word "might" when we really want to simply say "all" but want an out in case we're wrong. Don't pretend you don't do it also. Mel this doesn't s…