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Format, I like your take on this. I'm currently working in an all Mac design shop. Mail, iCal, and Addressbook work reasonably well for these guys, but they need a little work to be "enterprise ready". Mail needs to have shared folders. It mi…
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I think if Apple were to release a blade it would be of their own design, not an OEM model from IBM. Remember that Apple is a hardware company and despite charging for OS X they make most of their money from hardware sales. Selling a rebranded IBM b…
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Multiple colors is a good idea. Apple's done the white thing for a while, and with the iPod, where lots of people in one groupd may have one, different colors will be welcome. Bluetooth is not fast enough for good quality audio. It's fine for a c…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph If clone manufacturers had stuck to niches Apple didn't address rather than going for Apple's jugular, we might still have them around. Very true, but obviously the money isn't in the niches. The problem is…
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This is one of several areas where Apple is hurt by not having clone manufacturers. I know some people running a consulting firm specializing in EMR (Electronic Medical Records). They convert doctors offices and hospitals, over to electronic syst…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod Nor do dumb ass posts that provide no kind of usefulness whatsoever. wow, you're an ass.
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod Just NOT an AIO. That is the whole point. I wish the eMac would just go away... Just because you don't like a computer means it's not a good model? The eMac is the perfect educational computer. Thus the '…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod History dictates, to me at least that when Apple had more market share was when their systems were priced MUCH lower than competitors. Look at an Apple II versus an IBM XT/AT. We are talking 5-6 times chea…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod Agree to disagree. I can live with that. But they need marketshare, and the best way to get it is low-price systems. That and a push toward a business group in each Apple Store to actively pursue business/ed…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod And no, firewire isn't an option because Government and other agencies require their own cards. Funny, but a quick goole turned up several USB Common Access Card readers. As for security, it's not hard to…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod Why not? I agree that they aren't gonna make a ton of money on them, but isn't marketshare worth it? Is it? Would you rather have more market share and no money, or less market share and money? I agree …
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The CRT in the eMac adds probably less than $70 worth of costs for Apple (considering a similar quality monitor goes for a little over $100 retail now). Building a more compact computer with better specs for $200 less than the eMac isn't gonna happe…
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Quote: Originally posted by OverToasty ...but but but, if Windows apps where written in Obj-C, with some sort of open-source app-kit like foundation, I mean, it could totally be ... Sorry, every now and then, the dream still overwhelms. Yo…
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MacintoshMan brings up an interesting point, in a round-about and vague kind of way. It seems like Apple actually was looking at a move to x86. At least they were considering all their options. It was, and is, an extremely unlikely scenario becau…
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Who knows if the G5 XServe even requires the 90nm PPC970? So far it's just been assumed because people think the 970 is too hot for a 1U server based on the PowerMac's cooling system. I'm not going to guess whether the 970 is or isn't too hot, bu…
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Quote: Originally posted by dferigmu How fast is the 750VX compared to the Motorola G4s? Will it be noticably faster? Also, what do you mean by SATA? It's possible the 750VX will be quite a bit faster than a G4. IBM's been advancing the G…
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Forget about the XServe? 'cuase it's the next Apple product to get the next big step. The iBook will be updated before the holidays, but it won't be a big update, since it can't surpass the 12" PowerBook in anyway. The XServe has no such marke…
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Quote: Originally posted by InactionMan I guess one of things that is stopping Apple from making an expandable iMac would be the turnover rate. A current iMac probably has a reasonable life of 2-3 years before it really starts to show its age. …
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Quote: Originally posted by rageous Re-read what I said. I don't feel they should cut overall corporate profits, rather I'd like to see an inexpensively priced box made available to the public that doesn't rake in large profits for them. They'd s…
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I don't get all the clamoring for a business Mac. The iMac is possibly the best enterprise desktop machine I can think of. The current models don't have the best performance in the world, but that's a pre-G5-era issue. I'm sure it'll be fixed, but c…