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Not to mention what it puts their customers through. Myself, starting with System 6, I have gone through the transitions from Motorola 68k to PPC to Intel and from Classic to OSX. Every single one of them was a royal pain in the kazoo. I have files …
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Where would Apple and PPC be today if they had not gone Intel? I venture to guess nowhere close to where Apple is now and IBM would still be struggling with development and production costs for fabbing what amounts an exclusive high performance chip…
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The beat goes on. Has anyone calculated yet what percentage of the price of a phone or computer goes into paying for these endless lawsuits?
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Best Buy with all their products and the range of products they carry. TV's, stereos, home theater systems, DVD's, cameras, phones, small and major appliances, etc. Not to mention computers, parts, peripherals, etc from many different brands. Cl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton How many of you who don't want Apple to drop the Pro planning to (or have already) purchased the current Xeon-based Mac Pro? Because that's the only vote that counts. If these things were selling better…
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But does it have to be this monster? The ever elusive hypothetical small form factor X-Mac mini tower would be just fine. With the processors advancing they way they are, the need for Xeon monsters and the price tag to go with it has passed the p…
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Steve was reputed to be an INTJ aka "Mastermind". According to the Compleat Idiots Guide to the INTJ: "Q: Can I become an INTJ? A: Unless you are born an INTJ, your only hope is to find a genie lamp while strolling on the beach, rub it, and ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by l008com A 27" iMac, with two 27" displays next to it. A true badass triple-head system! If only it were all matte. The new Mac minis are tempting, but the power/price ratio of the iMac is still so much better than the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cesco Starting to sound like the SCSI cha-cha all over again It sure does. Wonder when terminators are going to appear.
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So they do their market research and its tells them: "For example, the average QuickBooks for Mac user has a much smaller business size compared to a QuickBooks user on PC. Intuit revealed that 60 percent of its QuickBooks for Mac customers are s…
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are on the market which enable someone to actually put it to use, all TB is worth is an oo and an ahhh. Display? That doesn't take advantage of the bandwidth. It's just a connector. To what?
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I was working in the Macintosh tech support group for an ISP, everyone was predicting Apple's imminent demise, the group was being broken up and the stock was trading at 13. Damn.
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Quote: Originally Posted by bigdaddyguido Word going around twitter is probably not. I'd be highly surprised if their new hardware would be supported by their legacy OS. Generally there's always an update to an OS when there's a hardware refresh,…
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will the new models run Snow Leopard? I have an interest in a new hardware model. Not Lion.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mcarling I also live in Europe and do the same. What's the problem? It's a much better deal than renting DVDs. Your argument presumes that all or nearly all MacBook Air sales are cannibalizing MacBook sales rath…
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the goose which laid the golden egg.
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They aren't going to update the white MacBook. Its history, Done. Over. That handwriting has been on the wall quite a while. The recent sales success of the Air only put the last nail in the coffin.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta You can repeat that until you're blue in the face. The fact that it is sold to consumers does not establish that it isn't server grade. The fact that they have even better drives does not establish that it isn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta I wonder why the Apple-bashers think that if they keep repeating the same lie that it becomes true. There is no such legal or standard definition of 'server grade'. Period. End of discussion (except that th…
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While the WD Green is a fine drive, "server grade" or "enterprise class" drives typically are designed for uses where reliability against failure is an important issue and they carry a longer warranty.