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Quote: Originally Posted by BenRoethig The only thing that is pushing the Mac Pro further into its nice is the $1200 in gradual price increases over the last 5 years. Or, declining sales had to be offset by a price increase, which Apple justif…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Apple's 24" iMac uses an 8 bit display. That's one reason why pro photographers like this computer so much. It's a S-PVA panel. [...] [E]ven Eizo uses S-PVA panels. The lineup's even simpler, then: Wh…
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Desktop sales are down because there are no longer any significant compromises involved in using a laptop as a primary machine for the majority of users, and they offer significant advantages for a lot more people as secondary machines. This is not …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro If you actually took time to read, I have ONLY been saying the economic case for SD media distribution for software sales does not make sense. Nothing else. There are multiple viable non-SD media methods to distri…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss The huge irony is that if he hadn't deliberately allowed the house to fall into ruin, it would be worth far, far more than $2.5 million to a whole lot of people. Even in its current state it would be. House…
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I have to say it's fun to read the old part of the thread where people are complaining about the lack of a 13" MacBook Pro and arguing about the inclusion of FireWire. Now all they need to do is get FW800 on the MBA and I'll be in heaven. Oh, an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 It's funny that Apple concentrated on lowering the sticker prices of the laptop line, because of the economy. I would have thought that if lower prices were deemed necessary, the first place to start would …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 However it isn't as simple as that as SL has OpenCL which means that some threads may not see the CPUs and instead run on the GPUs. The MacBook Pro has two GPUs. So if you're running SL on a current MacB…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jcsegenmd As Apple's market share grows (and there are no signs of it stopping), it will eventually hit the point at which the DOJ will regard Apple as a monopoly and come down hard--when was the last time the governme…
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Quote: Originally Posted by talksense101 When are we getting a release date for Snow Leopard? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8081003.stm When they're ready to announce one. Microsoft has a... complex... history with announced rele…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow I've read that sentence three times, and it just doesn't make sense to me. As far as I can make out, it's an ethical issue he has with the idea that HP should offer two distinct product categories that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DHagan4755 Speaking of that, why is the low-end $999 MacBook better than the low-end aluminum now in specs? Cracked me up when I saw that. The immediate reason is obvious enough: the white MacBooks had their old boa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Flash is certainly ugly, bloated and buggy, thus I agree it ought to die. The problem is it is used by a number of Business portals and other things that makes it impossible to delete from my machine. Fru…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BenRoethig Like all things LCD panels have the part numbers on them. Apple has been known to use LCD panels (and optical drives) well after those parts were no longer sold. In other words, they use custom parts, an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BenRoethig A custom panel would be prohibitively expensive which is why Apple, like everyone else, uses of the shelf ones in their products. Custom ones might add a couple hundred or more to the price of the Mac. The…
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Meh. Flash can die. Adobe will have no one to blame but themselves when it finally does. The more popular devices become that can't play that bloated, overdetermined platform the sooner we get rid of the last major obstacle between us and an open, s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BenRoethig Then they might have to stop making all in ones and notebooks in the very near future. It doesn't matter what Apple's preferences are if 16:10 panels stop being made. Add "this to the Apple will never...…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Well yes and no. Have purchased an early 2008 MBP I understand the pricing disadvantage compare to the dirt cheap products, but to comparable hardware it is only somewhat expensive. The problem is Apple d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Olternaut Besides, do you really think the WWDC sold out in record time this year just for the labs? You don't think the combination of Snow Leopard and iPhone OS 3.0 had anything to do with that? If I still had …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Thomasthetug i got it from somewhere special No one would believe me if i said Paul Thurrott? If it's from that Cupertino-based place that it couldn't possibly come from, it conforms to the visual language App…