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How is this flamebait? Seriously?

Here is just ONE example of Thurrott and how he has no creed.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/592E3270-32C8-4852-975C-162E788749CA.html

And there are others like:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24671/
Or Apple copying Microsoft?
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10489/
Or just generally being an idiot?
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/23845/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10584/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/17300/

Thurrott does not belong on Slashdot

How is this flamebait? Seriously?

Here is just ONE example of Thurrott and how he has no creed.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/592E3270-32C8-4852-975C-162E788749CA.html

And there are others like:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24671/
Or Apple copying Microsoft?
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10489/
Or just generally being an idiot?
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/23845/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10584/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/17300/

Thurrott does not belong on Slashdot

How is this flamebait? Seriously?

Here is just ONE example of Thurrott and how he has no creed.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/592E3270-32C8-4852-975C-162E788749CA.html

And there are others like:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24671/
Or Apple copying Microsoft?
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10489/
Or just generally being an idiot?
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/23845/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10584/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/17300/

Thurrott does not belong on Slashdot

Or it's a PA Semi PA6T that's virtualizing ARM... http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apples_a4_actually_a_pa_semi_soc_thats_currently_virtualizing_arm/

Except unlike IBM or MS, Apple has never held a monopoly on anything. Its funny how people on Slashdot will both be quick to point out how the iPhone's market share is smaller than other smartphones yet at the same time will try to also claim that Apple is a monopoly. You can't have it both ways.

After a few minutes of googling, I reaffirm my claim:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/21349/

That's not to say parent was not correct, but that my comment was taken out of context.

"I am wondering what's going to happen when he [Steve Jobs] retired, which surely isn't that far off..."

Might be pretty close, yes.

In one of Apple's most recent press releases, Steve Jobs was quoted as having said the following:

"We're excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before."

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24260/

(Please note, he was referring to just the iPad...)

You mean how you can buy a 3.4 GHz Phenom II X4 from AMD? That 3.0 GHz ceiling?

If you constrain yourself to PPC, there was a famous pledge for a 3GHz PPC 970 but that materialized about three years behind schedule in the Power 6.

Actually, that's worth noting - the Power7's aren't trying to out-clock the Power6's.

Wikipedia says Psystar is a corporation in Florida. Florida says Psystar is this. The sole listed director in Psystar's corporate filings before Florida pursuant to state law is one Rodolfo Pedraza.

According to The Guardian, Psystar was originally located in a row of suburban houses until sometime in April 2008 according to Psystar's own website at the time (screenshot in the linked article). To confirm this, see my Sunbiz link above, which reveals in Psystar's Articles of Incorporation that its principal place of business is this house or one by it.

It looks like Psystar was just some guy wanting to make some money selling Hackintoshes.

And note that if any of the AoI were forged, it's likely a felony (I don't know Florida law).

Sorry I'm late to the party, but I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in...I can't find an article with the exact details, but I believe they paid off their debt in 2004. Here's an article about them paying off all their debt: http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/2622/

Just look up "Ten reasons why Ballmer should be fired" and you'll find it. But here is one that gives their own top ten, but I'm sure you can find a cache of the original extremetech article if you type in the above phrase. It was working when I placed the link, but it looks like they yanked it after a good slashdotting. I'm sure the cache should be easy enough to find though. Sorry about that, but I figured a site as large as extremetech, in a link in a comment not an article no less, wouldn't actually crap its pants and die like that. My bad.

This poster is absolutely right: the article is a hit piece that misquotes and completely contradicts what the Japanese journalist Hayashi has actually been writing! Mod kalel666 up! Take a look also at http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/20290/ on why the Japanese don't hate the iPhone.

...this story will enter the realm of "Urban Legend", and every student who is the least on the ball with either scan, photocopy or transcribe to digital their class notes for all their classes.

And then, hand over their paper notebooks with a smile.

Now, given THIS scenario , anyone demanding I hand over MY 'notebook' for destruction is in for a very hard time, indeed.

Apple isn't playing in Microsoft's sandbox. Particularly the Enterprise one.

Macs are moving into the enterprise: "Analyst checks show Apple Mac enterprise growth; usage could increase 2x-3x over next 2 years". "Macs in the Enterprise: Top Ten Assumptions, Myths, and Misconceptions".

Falcon

I would not bet against Apple were I you.

http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/gartner_apple_overtakes_microsoft_as_worlds_3_smartphone_os_vendor/

They're already up to ~13% and growing faster than any other company. You say they're too targeted at one market, but the market they're targeting isn't "Executives who need to have access to their email at all times" like RIM and Microsoft have targeted with their respective smartphone OSes--it's "People who want a good cell phone." That's a pretty big market.

Also, what do you mean "like all Apple products"? The iPod still has north of 70% market share.

Well maybe not in your company's market or your country, but I'm in the Netherlands and Mac's have become more common and common the last few years. I work for a small development company and we use nothing but Mac's. I'd even say that you see more Mac's here in people's homes, in businesses, in stores than in the USA, but it's from personal observation at least and partly based on statistics: http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6337/

Choosing between a family vacation and a new iMac isn't going to go in Apple's favor. If they are going to remain relevant in a tough economy, they are going to have to seriously lower their prices

While I can't explain why, while we are in a tough economy now Apple's sales are actually good.

In case this Google news topic disappears:

• "Survey: Next 90 days look good for Apple"
• "Survey: Plans to buy a Mac hit an all-time high"
• "Survey: Apple riding high on news of economic woes"
• "Next 90 Days Look Good for Apple despite Consumer Electronics Spending Down"
• "Mac sales may hit record highs despite decline in consumer spending"
• "Consumer electronics spending down, but not for Apple"
• "ChangeWave: Apple Mac planned purchases for next 90 days hit new all-time high"
• "Demand for Macs remains high in spite of spending"
• "Report: Mac Spending Up Despite Poor Outlook for Consumer Electronics"

Falcon

Well, if we were putting together an engine or a rifle, I'd choose McCain. I don't think he's stupid, I just don't think he knows computers.

And I'm not basing this on them or their surrogates, I'm basing this on what I've read from their tech plans. McCain's plan is "do nothing" except for giving the telecoms amnesty for warrantless wiretapping. We've been falling behind in broadband for at least the last 8 years. Al Gore did not invent the internet, but he did a hell of a lot to keep us near the top of the pack, most of which we're only appreciating now.

Obama has a lengthy plan involving things like patent reform, net neutrality and open access. He has, by far, the best internet campaign yet that is out-organizing even established political machines like the Clinton campaign on every level.

So I can't even begin to compare the two, because it's absolutely, unambiguously clear that Obama is doing better with respect to technology than McCain. McCain has Steve Ballmer and Carly Fiorina as advisors, for crying out loud. He got the PHBs and lobbyists instead of the actual techies! And that's not all

Is "Obama is a lawyer!" the only crack you can give in reply? Well, NYCL is a lawyer, too. SOME of them actually fight the good fight, you know...

Here, you can read his stance on the issues directly. I disagree on some points, but Obama is still head & shoulders above the rest.

I don't know which is which, but I know which one asked Steve Ballmer to be his technical advisor. Knowing that, NOW which one would you pick?

Apple computers fail at roughly the same rate as any Intel-based PC (e.g. Dell, HP etc.)

From the article Apple Mac tops comprehensive computer reliability report by wide margin (with graph):

Reliability Scores are based on a comparison of RESCUECOM's call center data with the average U.S. 2Q markets share data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, 2005-2007.

Other notable findings from the data include:

- Apple surged to the number one spot in the reliability survey, beating its closest competitor by more than 100 points.

- Lenovo/IBM, last year's top performer, dropped to second place, but is still considered among the most reliable vendors topping the next closest rival by 110 points.

- Driven by strong market share gains, HP significantly improved its overall rating compared to last year, but remained in third place.

- Dell slipped in the ratings to fifth place, replaced in the number four spot by Gateway. While a solid manufacturer, Dell continues to deal with issues ranging from customer service and product availability problems, to lawsuits about its warranties and last year's battery recall (which affected other manufacturers as well).

- Several manufacturers in the "Other" category including Sony and Toshiba showed improved year-over-year reliability scores. ...

Related articles:
Apple Mac desktops, notebooks top PC Magazine's Annual Reader Satisfaction survey - again - September 18, 2007
Apple again tops the field in LAPTOP Magazine's 'Tech Support Showdown 2007' - June 19, 2007
Apple again leads Consumer Reports' survey for notebook, desktop computer tech support, value, more - October 16, 2006
Apple Mac desktops, notebooks top PC Magazine's Annual Reader Satisfaction survey - again - August 22, 2006
Apple far outscores all other PC makers in Consumer Reports Computer Tech Support Survey - May 05, 2006
Apple Mac desktops, portables top PC Magazine's 2005 Reader Satisfaction survey - August 24, 2005
Apple Computer products top PC Magazine's annual 'Best of the Year' survey - December 16, 2004
Apple Macs top PC Magazine's '17th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey' - August 10, 2004
Apple leads PC Magazine's 16th annual Service and Reliability Survey - July 10, 2003

http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/64bit.html

http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apples_mac_os_x_leopard_is_64_bit_done_right_unlike_vista/

Just another slashDot post so the iPeople can get there rocks off at bashing Microsoft. As a previous poster pointed out this is the 3rd post for the same story. slashDot has really been trying hard lately to post stories just for Microsoft bashing. Including posting several stories older than dirt just to prove they are bias.

slashDot you really should remove the tagline "News for Nerds". News implies you have credibility when you report. In my view you are rapidly losing yours.

I also find it curious that while we get 3 of the same Microsoft story we did not get the story about Apple being sued over the iPhone. Just curious to me.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/16535/

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Ever notice how Microsft fans do not feel the need to bash Apple every chance they get? Think about it.

Apple today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple's history.

On June 6, 2005, Apple announced that they expected to deliver over two million copies of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger by the end of that week (June 11, 2005). Mac OS X Tiger was released at 6pm on Friday, April 29, 2005. Therefore, it took 43 days to sell two million copies of Mac OS X Tiger vs. approximately 3 days for Leopard.

We techies may well be open to online delivery, but the other 98% of the world is not.

"This year, 22 percent of all music sold in the US will move through iTunes. "If iTunes gets up to 40 or 50 percent, they'll have too much power for anyone else to enter the business," says James McQuivey, who analyzes the digital music industry for Forrester Research.

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/15629/

The Zune 80 is hard to find because Microsoft focused its efforts on producing the 4 and 8 GB models that compare poorly with the iPod Nanos. Bad move! As TFA notes, Microsoft is competing against the Apple of 2006. The Zune 4 & 8 might have done better against the original Nano last year, but now the new Nanos are smaller, thinner, and do more. That leaves people who want a Zune interested in the 80 GB model that isn't available. No because of high demand, but because of tight supply.

Even Paul Thurrott admitted that the Zune 80 is "sold out" due to Microsoft not making very many, rather than some fictitious great demand: "Microsoft this week can exult in the fact that the hard drive-based version of its new Zune portable media players, the Zune 80, is sold out online and in retail stores around the country. But this apparent success is muted by a simple fact: The Zune 80 was never manufactured in volume, and many retailers never got a single unit to begin with," Paul Thurrott wrote for WinInfo.

Microsoft's Zune 80 'sold out'

Apple should buy Sony. Apple should buy Sun. Apple should buy SGI. Apple should buy Alias Research. Apple should buy Nintendo. Apple should buy AMD. Apple should buy PortalPlayer. Apple should buy Pixo. Apple should buy Palm. Apple should buy into the 700 MHz spectrum. Apple should buy Pixar. Apple should buy Disney. Apple should buy Universal. Apple should buy TiVo. Apple should buy YouTube.

Apple has bought 2 years of flash memory, 50 more acres of land in Cupertino, Next, Coverflow, CUPS, Emagic, Nothing Real, Soundjam MP, plus goodness knows what else (feel free to add to this list.)

But Apple buying Adobe?

That'd scare the heck out of a lot of folks. Apple has bought numerous products & smaller companies for code, patents, or teams before but Adobe (+ the former Macromedia) is a peer on the software side. That'd alienate the huge Windows userbase as well as freak out the many Adobe partners.

And to gain what?

Adobe already sells massively to Apple's customers. Sure their apps may lag, but Adobe has a huge set of codebases that has gone through 68000 -> PPC --> MacOS X --> x86, so if getting things up to speed & certified on each new iteration of MacOS X takes a bit that's not unreasonable.

To Mac-ify the apps? Again, why? Sure Apple is famous for doing really good (if not perfect) UIs but Adobe has some serious credibility too. Indeed it's been pretty clear that Apple & Adobe competing directly in some areas has improved both offerings.

Sorry, but I'm guessing Apple has enough on it's plate now. They'd just be complicating an already good, already mutually profitable situation for little reason or much greater profit.

Indeed look at the list above of companies & products folks think Apple should have bought, and in retrospect consider if they really would have been good investments...

Apple should buy Sony. Apple should buy Sun. Apple should buy SGI. Apple should buy Alias Research. Apple should buy Nintendo. Apple should buy AMD. Apple should buy PortalPlayer. Apple should buy Pixo. Apple should buy Palm. Apple should buy into the 700 MHz spectrum. Apple should buy Pixar. Apple should buy Disney. Apple should buy Universal. Apple should buy TiVo. Apple should buy YouTube.

Apple has bought 2 years of flash memory, 50 more acres of land in Cupertino, Next, Coverflow, CUPS, Emagic, Nothing Real, Soundjam MP, plus goodness knows what else (feel free to add to this list.)

But Apple buying Adobe?

That'd scare the heck out of a lot of folks. Apple has bought numerous products & smaller companies for code, patents, or teams before but Adobe (+ the former Macromedia) is a peer on the software side. That'd alienate the huge Windows userbase as well as freak out the many Adobe partners.

And to gain what?

Adobe already sells massively to Apple's customers. Sure their apps may lag, but Adobe has a huge set of codebases that has gone through 68000 -> PPC --> MacOS X --> x86, so if getting things up to speed & certified on each new iteration of MacOS X takes a bit that's not unreasonable.

To Mac-ify the apps? Again, why? Sure Apple is famous for doing really good (if not perfect) UIs but Adobe has some serious credibility too. Indeed it's been pretty clear that Apple & Adobe competing directly in some areas has improved both offerings.

Sorry, but I'm guessing Apple has enough on it's plate now. They'd just be complicating an already good, already mutually profitable situation for little reason or much greater profit.

Indeed look at the list above of companies & products folks think Apple should have bought, and in retrospect consider if they really would have been good investments...

They _do_ have to pretend to care that you want to go with a carrier other than who they have a contract with (AT&T).

Wow, you drank the Kool-Aid. It seems AT&T pays Apple for each subscriber on a monthly basis, how much and what for are in dispute. In your twisted representation, Apple would love nothing more to allow you to go elsewhere but for some other reason, AT&T would cry. Based on my reading, I see that Apple wants the single vendor relationship for its own benefit. The reality is Apple would lose the monthly fee for every subscriber not using AT&T. With at least 1 million phones and a few bucks a month ads up to a decent monthly income for Apple. If you do not think that is the reason, you need to take off the Apple glasses and look again.

Here are some links
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=133945
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/07/19/piper.iphone.income.share/
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9747031-7.html
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/14997/

You can search for Apple revenue sharing AT&T and read more. To think that Apple would not pursue similar kick back deals in other countries would be naive as well.

The same thing happened with the iPhone. At the beginning they weren't sure if they'd sell 1 or 1 million. They had to guess and price accordingly.

Uh, no... actually they were banking on selling 10 million. They aren't even close, so the iPhone becomes more like an F22. By your rationale, the price should go up. It's a nice textbook theory, but in the real world where real businesses exist, there are contracts. The price went down, because Apple is desperate to sell the phones it has contracted to buy from asian manufacturers. If they can't, they are hung with a pile of phones and a huge loss.

Doesn't anyone remember all the talk about how the iPhone was outrageously priced above competing smart phones?

No, actually, I remember buying a more expensive phone a month before the iPhone was released because the iPhone was locked and guaranteed to never have any third party apps, ever. I saw it coming months ago, made plenty of noise and was told I was wrong. I was told repeatedly by fucktards here on Slashdot that I was not in Apple's target market.

So ladies, how would you like your crow cooked? You were obviously waaaaay off the mark, and I was right. 100% correct. I told you the iPhone would fail. It did fail. Miserably. Think Cube. And Apple will continue to fail as long as they ship locked phones with no native SDK.

Now pundits are saying that Apple is desperate and crazy because it lowers prices

No... pundits are saying that Apple is desperate and crazy because they aren't even close to making their target of 10 million phones in the first year. If Apple gave us an unlocked phone with an SDK, they could easily make or exceed that goal. It's simple really: Apple decided to focus on a great profit instead of a great product, and ended up with neither.

Want objectivity? Okay, since you asked. Please refer to the many links in this post.

Also, if anything is a "troll" it's the original article. Drawing Conclusions about OS sales based on browser stats is idiotic - if not dishonest. And the methodology used is even more idiotic - or more dishonest.

Please note: this IDC data is for product shipments, the article is about browser stats. Which would you trust more?

The charts for the IDC data can be found here:
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comme nts/idc_apple_mac_grabbed_56_of_us_market_share_in _q2_07/

More links for the IDC report.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/ 14313/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2160333,00.as p

Or since you have $4500 in spare change, go buy the real thing: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=207308

Or maybe this article is a well timed bit of smoke screen, designed to try to hide: "Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60% As Problems Mount"

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=201200157

Want objectivity? Okay, since you asked. Please refer to the many links in this post.

Also, if anything is a "troll" it's the original article. Drawing Conclusions about OS sales based on browser stats is idiotic - if not dishonest. And the methodology used is even more idiotic - or more dishonest.

Please note: this IDC data is for product shipments, the article is about browser stats. Which would you trust more?

The charts for the IDC data can be found here:
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comme nts/idc_apple_mac_grabbed_56_of_us_market_share_in _q2_07/

More links for the IDC report.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/ 14313/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2160333,00.as p

Or since you have $4500 in spare change, go buy the real thing: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=207308

Or maybe this article is a well timed bit of smoke screen, designed to try to hide: "Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60% As Problems Mount"

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=201200157

This is inaccurate and contradicts pretty much all expectations and current indications. In fact, 5.6% is an INCREASE. The Mac has gained marketshare. Albeit, it is still a niche player and always wil be as long as Apple is in the premium market.

For example:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/18/appl es_u_s_mac_market_share_rises_to_5_6_percent_in_q2 .html Mac market share rises to 5.6%

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/ 14057/ Predicting great increase in marketshare.

Or: http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/07/18/macs.have.5 6.share.in.us/ Mac marketshare shoots up 26%

Modern machines do a lot of things in the background, like running full blown TCP/IP stacks, something the Mac Plus could not have done.

Yeah, I think that "blown TCP/IP" is a M$ thing. Mac plus can run a TCP/IP stack, I've seen a website run from a Lisa2.

DSL, feather and 40 MB GNU/Linux live CDs make it all look bloated. The nifty thing about free software is that you can still run the older less bloated versions on new hardware and there are whole distributions tuned to do just that with improvements. Free software has "it never goes away" long term credibility. Non free does not. This is why free software users are happy with old hardware and why low power devices can be used for normal tasks without sacrificing much.

But how much are Apple, Sun, etc. going to gain? Apple shipped something like 3 million computers in 2006(last table on page):

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/ 12349/

So they will probably ship something like 5 million this year(or so, maybe 6 or 7 million if things go well, 10 if everything goes great, I would think manufacturing issues would start to kick in after that). The forced market for Vista has already resulted in 20 million sales, and they have another 8 months of the year left. The only real worthwhile conclusion to draw from that though, is that it is too early to tell if Microsoft is screwing up(and it is pretty much impossible to tell if they should have just stuck with XP).

As much as I like the Mac, it's marketshare has not increased significantly over the years, and has dwindled a bit with every major technology change they've made

Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January
Net Applications: Apple's Mac 'market share' continues rise, hits 6.38% in February 2007

He's just trying to stir up controversy to get page hits, like Dvorak admitted he did with Mac users.

If we ever were really in a war,

WTF? That (MS) blogger is on crack.

Not only was it a war, it's a dirty war that's not over yet.

We've had accusations of corruption for State official's daring to consider ODF, Microsoft paying people for favorable wikipedia edits, Alleged attempts by IBM to influence OOXML standardisation process, etc etc etc.

It's not over yet folks. There's billions of dollars at stake. Of course its a war, of course its a dirty war.

LOL that's nothing. What about the other news item of the day: Intel founder gets his wish and receives his dream computer -- an Apple MacBook Pro 17" ...best part is the photo of him smiling ear-to-ear! ...keep'em coming!

I think I detect a hint of sarcasm...my oversight for not including a link... Here is what I read... please don't diss my karma for my own impatience

Well, I should have included a link ... so, please, instead of dissing my karma, please provide a link to the contrary. Here is what I read

When Apple went after them for the injunction, Luxpro was calling it the "Super Shuffle", not the "Super Tangent", and they were using iPod-style advertising when it was introduced at CeBIT right after Apple introduced the Shuffle. Here's their original advertising material: LUXPRO's Super Shuffle images and promotional materials.

http://www.macdailynews.com/gfx/article_gfx/061110 _zune_dock.jpg

John Authers reports for The Financial Times...

"Over the five years to June this year, the blue [Democrat] index gained 139 per cent, compared with 34 per cent for the S&P500, which in turn beat the red [Republican] index. Even excluding recent stars Google and Apple, the blues are easily ahead,"

Purchase any version besides home, and your wish is their command! link

To nitpick, market share actually increased from 4.6% in the same quarter last year to 6.1% the last quarter. http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comme nts/gartner_apple_mac_grabbed_61_of_us_market_shar e_in_q3_06/

I don't know what it means in English, but check out what it means in Canadian French :)

I've gone through several Windows machines this decade, but the Mac I bought my wife in 2000 is still kicking, and still quite useful. The difference is in the software.

I'm not sure what kind of mac you're talking about, but if you bought it in 2000, it certainly can't be useful for anything more than email, considering that OS X ran miserably on existing hardware when officially released in 2001. (And if your wife is running OS 9, then your comparison is even more ridiculous and irrelevant.)

Q4 03: 336,000
Q1 04: 733,000 (holiday quarter)
Q2 04: 807,000
Q3 04: 860,000
Q4 04: 2,016,000
Q1 05: 4,580,000 (holiday quarter)
Q2 05: 5,311,000
Q3 05: 6,155,000
Q4 05: 6,451,000
Q1 06: 14,043,000 (holiday quarter)
Q2 06: 8,526,000
Q3 06: 8,111,000