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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism As for PC World, are you sure they weren't clearance items, because I'm not seeing much of anything with IEEE 1394, FireWrie or i.link on their site.? http://www.pcworld.co.uk there are plenty of FW equipp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross And again, I never said that plastic is better for the environment. That's another time where you say I've said something I didn't. my bad on the "better" - that should have read "worse" which is what you …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Use your head. Running on gas isn't meant that the plants use gas. I understood how aluminum was refined 40 years ago. It's the power plants that are using gas. You were talking about coal. I didn't assume you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross A large percentage of all metal in use today, particularly aluminum, is from recycled materials. Aluminum is very good for the purpose of recycling. It requires reletively little energy to recycle. and by a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Much aluminum is also mined in areas where deforesttion is not much of a problem, and laws in many areas require renewal of the area with replanting. While I'm not an advocate of the use of coal for any purpos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross A large percentage of all metal in use today, particularly aluminum, is from recycled materials. Aluminum is very good for the purpose of recycling. It requires reletively little energy to recycle. Much alu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Believe what you want, but it is better. Aluminum production is well understood. Recovery of almost 100% of the initial metal, and cutting fluids, is possible, at a far lower cost in energy than the initial pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You're doing what he's doing, which is ignoring the entire world, and relying on Apple as your certer point. errrr Mel ??? oh nevermind
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gon He gave you explicit examples (hint: consumer laptop - small, pro laptop - large). What's the problem you have in comprehending them? People don't just wake up and want to blow $X on a computer, any computer. Ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by exiled AnteChrist; if I'm a moron then what are you???? you are a whinny little cun+ and you're the dumb-ass who installed an inferior HD in your MBP.... I think you need to stick to pc's Mac's are not for everyone. …
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the other thing to try is reseating the HD as noted here in the Macbook section of AppleDefects... different model i know but it might help
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Quote: Originally Posted by Brise I don't discount that HD and DVD drive vibration happens. But it is pretty common to feel a very slight vibration if the palm rest is touched lightly and it seems to be related to AC ground issues if the two pro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That wasn't asking. That was a sarcastic reply, and you know it. The rest of his post had answered the "question" before you"asked" it. thanks mel - no use getting upset or looking for sarcasm in everyt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Did you fully comprehend what I wrote? perhaps not - but i couldn't figure out if you were supporting the idea of selling MBs to students while they are still students or selling MBs to ex-students t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism If the money is not with college students then why are their repors of something like 80% of college students are buying Macs? Then figure that despite Apple's 10% share in the US they account for 1/3 of all …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Apple has 24.5 billion in cash without much penetration into business. College students go on to high paying jobs and life long Apple users. (where much of that 24.5 billion in cash came from) you think…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The first thing I thought of when I saw the new 24" ACD with it's dock-less docking and power-passthrough is "this is for business". I think it's a clear sign that Apple is carefully and slowly moving into th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I'm simply going by what you say. Perhaps you don't always word things so that they come out the way you mean them to. You don't want to admit that most sales are to students or people who don't need, or ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea No, MacWorld has confused their text and table. Assuming 51 secs for USB2 vs 45 secs for FW400 still isn't much delta for 70GB extra space for $10 less money or double the space for $30 more. Something you av…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Obviously, Apple is incapable of converting interest into sales. you obviously skimmed my response and are just looking for a dig... i was pointing out that by removing features and increasing the cost by…