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Hmmm...forgot to make the link live...

http://www.aapltalk.com/shootouts/

Sorry!

Let's try this again....(in html this time)

System shootouts comparison page


--geethree

http://www.aapltalk.com/shootouts/index.html

This is an interesting site.

matches different systems against each other and allows you to change the points awarded if you disagree with the author.

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But more to the point, who has played the cell-phone style hidden game on the iPod? With new hacking sites popping up all over, has anyone found a firmware update that gives them any more games yet? Or playback of even more media formats or other abilities? Of couse it will soon have Windows compatibility and people have been booting off their iPods since the beginning, but lately I've seen someone modifying it for use as a simple address book, people trying to get it to work under *BSD and Linux, and development of a new graphic EQ for it. Anyone else made cool hacks?

You don't have to be so defensive.

The combination of an attractive GUI and the ability to run mainstream software with the internals of Unix have me convinced that the Mac's the only way to go nowadays.

As others have said, it's really not at all expensive compared to other laptops. Although he doesn't address the Titanium PowerBook, which I'm about to buy, I thought this was pretty interesting as a comparison between the Apple iBook and its rivals.

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A guy writes a propaganda chart, saying an L3 cache is four times as important as a floppy drive, and other dubious, yet totally subjective claims. He says, "If you don't like my results, come up with your own chart. YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY."

Then, some other guy writes a piece saying how wrong he feels this post is.

Then some third guy (Hemos) posts the 'story' to ./ and they put it up saying that the 'some guy' is flaming the outrageous claims of Apple.

The only thing newsworthy about this article is that /. actually thinks someone flaming Apple is newsworthy, and the utter lack of investigation, in thinking the referenced piece is a flame against Apple, and not some other guy's homegrown opinion.

Get a grip. There's plenty of cloning stories to post about before we let drivel like this make it to the top of the page.

I have no interest in purchasing an over-price Macintosh computer. They're too restrictive and limited.

When will this FUD end? The iBook does extremely well against comparably priced notebooks. More features, plenty of new-standard (no legacy crap) ports for expansion, same price points. Desktops do, too, even without looking at Total Cost of Ownership arguments.

I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.