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Quote: Originally Posted by Daniel001 Steve, you're running the second largest company in the world, you really don't need to bitch like this. Since when are Americans the whole bloody world? World-wide, Apple's at best (considering the latest…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chris_CA So a thin client is not a full computer, right? Right. A thin client makes use of technologies like KVM over IP, VNC, Citrix, or RDP, and are in no way a full computer. The "real" PC, in all of these cases,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum BRIEF-Apple posts Q4 results Oct 18 (Reuters) - Apple : * Reports fourth quarter results * Auto Alert - Q4 earnings per share $4.64 * Auto Alert - Q4 earnings per share view $4.08 -- Thom…
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The industry does not call the iPad a PC -- that in-of-itself was the catalyst for this thread. Should they? I believe that's up to Apple. But Apple doesn't call the iPad (or any iOS device) a "PC" or use either words to define anything about it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum You knew I would ask... If "not attaching it to another [computer] device to install your OS" is a pre-requisite, Then the MBA is not a PC, and an AppleTV is a PC... No? If I can walk into Starbucks a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alandail all while the criticisms are based on it not being more like all of those same failures. I agree 100% -- the desktop metaphor does not translate well to the handheld experience. My life with Windows CE was …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrstep A PC isn't really a PC if you can buy it pre-build and don't need to pull out a soldering iron to put it together - otherwise it's just some lame consumer device. Who's with me!? ME!!! The ability to "hack" s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Mmm... Where do Windows and Mac OS X updates come from-- Don't you download them from another computer on a network? Or whenever Apple releases a major update; but I wasn't talking about the internet…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro So are you saying that when I used Time Machine from my old Laptop to set up my new laptop that that made the new laptop not a PC? It is way too cumbersome and error prone to manually move everything over. Users …
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Quote: Originally Posted by LewysBlackmore I'm sorry but since there is a persistent desire to define PC as "whatever is what meets my needs of the moment" we cannot continue this fruitfully as a discussion FMPOV. Consider that all your internet …
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Quote: Originally Posted by CIM You can?t do those things on a netbook either. I guess it?s not a PC then. Well, you could, if you really wanted to. I don't believe there's anything about a netbook that would even prevent Windows Server from b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr Underhill If the iPad is not a computer now, then what would it need in order to be classified as one? Self update the OS and printing without another computer on the network? Everything else is just nice-to-have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LewysBlackmore and lord have mercy what did you do - ignore the internet when screen res was 800x600??? Not at all, but fifteen years ago, when 800x600 was the norm, the internet was also tailored to that screen re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LewysBlackmore Define what a "PC does" then... I feel that it's entirely based on your point-of-view. The concept of the PC has generally evolved since the 1970's, but the founding principle is this -- a PC can D…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alandail next month you will be able to print from an iPad. you can already use a keyboard with an iPad just like you can with any computer. The same apple wireless keyboard you use with an iMac. Yeah, and that'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by appl Then get a netbook. Problem solved. And others are exacerbated. The one down-side of "general purpose computing" is that to excel at everything you have to have substantial powers. GP PCs have gigs of RAM, ter…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum ... If Donald is a Duck... and, Pluto is a Dog... then, what is Goofey? ... If a Netbook is a Computer... And an iPad is a big iPod... then, what is an AppleTV? . Goofey's an IM. AppleTVs are …
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I'll call it a PC when it stops needing a PC to do everything. I still need a PC to print, to write software, to centrally manage my files, to store the 160 GB of music I have, to play the most current games, to type on comfortably for long perio…