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If you're a woman, sure.

Sigh...it's obviously more than just "rounded rectangles" that makes it similar-looking to existing Apple products. The keyboard looks exactly like Apple's flat keyboard, and the trackpad is the Magic Trackpad that Apple started offering a year or so ago. When you've got obvious rip-offs on the market--like this Samsung Windows laptop that looks like a MacBook Pro and even uses an Apple logo for the default account avatar to resemble the OS X boot up sequence in order to confuse customers--it's not at all surprising that Apple is going to be proactive in protecting its design work. But sites like Slashdot are full of Apple-haters who don't want to give the company credit for anything, because Apple is popular. That doesn't change the fact that when Apple introduces a popular product, a bunch of of competing products start to look almost exactly like it--as if there's no other way to design a PC, tablet, phone, etc. once Apple introduces a particular design for them.

Who the hell is "SK"?

I'm not trying to get people to listen to me...I was just pointing out my tongue-in-cheek sig because I thought people might find it amusing. It's completely obvious that Samsung's business model is to ape popular designs in order to rely on customer confusion an ride the coattails of more popular products. They even released a Windows laptop that looks just like a MacBook Pro, from form factor to color to keyboard layout, complete with a default Windows account avatar that resembles the Apple logo so that it appears in the center of the screen just like OS X's startup screen.

(Score: -1, Non sequitur) Your evidence suggests that Samsung is willing to produce products that customers clearly like, for the purpose of selling products that CUSTOMERS CLEARLY LIKE. Your notion that there is a conspiracy to fool customers into thinking that the Samsung Galaxy Tab is really an iPad is completely baseless. Customers clearly like the look of the iPad, so there is reason to believe that they will also like the look of a similar device. Is that really shocking?

Walk into any consumer electronics store, head for the TV section, and from about 30 feet away tell me the brand of each of the TVs on display. What, you can't? It turns out that people just want a flat fucking box with a display on the front and for everything else to get the hell out of the way so they can watch it? Wow. I bet the power cords even look the same! Holy hell this is some wicked shit. Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp, Sony, Mitsubishi, Pioneer, Philips, and Visio really should be suing the hell out of each other right now. Wait, they aren't?

They even released a Windows laptop that looks just like a MacBook Pro

Yes! I can't tell the difference between the samsung princeton and the macbook pro, they look just like eachother don't they!

There's blind fanboys and then there's literally blind fanboys.

Who the hell is "SK"?

I'm not trying to get people to listen to me...I was just pointing out my tongue-in-cheek sig because I thought people might find it amusing. It's completely obvious that Samsung's business model is to ape popular designs in order to rely on customer confusion an ride the coattails of more popular products. They even released a Windows laptop that looks just like a MacBook Pro, from form factor to color to keyboard layout, complete with a default Windows account avatar that resembles the Apple logo so that it appears in the center of the screen just like OS X's startup screen.

They're suing to protect their product, because companies like Samsung are clearly ripping them off, and it's obvious to anyone who isn't a raving Apple hater.

Hell, Samsung sells a knock-off MacBook Pro running Windows that has a mock Apple logo in the center of the screen to futher intentionally confuse consumers. They're even outright stealing Apple icons and using them in their store backdrops.

For some reason, Slashdot has completely ignored all these obvious instances of blatant copying and instead obsessed over the fact that Apple is "abusing the patent system," because patent system articles get a ton of page hits around here. But the fact is that Apple really is getting ripped off and is suing to protect its design work.

I can see why Apple has gone to the darkside of law suits.

Because Samsung is ripping them off. Why is it so hard for Slashdotters to acknowledge that, yes, there are valid patent lawsuits and, yes, there are Asian companies that do nothing but clone American products?

Is it because Apple is one of Google's competitors? Are we supposed to automatically side with Google on everything?

Yes, how dare Apple protect itself from rip-off artists. Google's acquisition of Motorola was nothing but two years of revenue down the toilet in an act of desperation.

What does this even mean? What "real patents?" Samsung is a known rip-off manufacturer.

I wonder, will Samsung's tablet completely rip off Apple like they've been doing in every other product?

with the aluminum chasis
How dare they use aluminium, apple uses that, therefore it belongs to them!

black keyboard
Another Apple invention i suppose, never seen one of those before.

thick black bezel around the screen, and the Samsung logo placed precisely where the words MacBook Pro go on the Apple laptops
Yeah kinda like every fucking LCD TV and monitor has ever done...oh but then apple did it so therefore they invented it.

This Dr. Macenstein is one complete fucktard.

I wonder, will Samsung's tablet completely rip off Apple like they've been doing in every other product?

Yes.

The Scion theme not only changes colors and wallpaper, but also has different icons. User-created themes could potentially extend their changes to a very different UI experience. This could complicate customer support for Apple 'geniuses' and phone support, as customers can no longer be walked through a consistent menu chain.

The other explanation is that nothing goes on an iPhone without Apple getting a cut of the profits. This would challenge the business model of a future iTunes theme store (remember, Apple is the company that would sell music you already purchased back to you as a ring tone)

Let me put this into context for you: This web-site shows you what the launch of the iphone vs. the palm pre looked like. The palm pre sold about 50,000 units in its first two days. People like you were saying then that the launch looked like a success even though there were supply problems. Fast forward 11 months, and people started calling it a complete flop. So, you say it's too soon to tell, I say, history is my guide. You can't topple giants with slack starts.

Cmon....New Zealand goes just fine without agricultural subsidies, our farmers were proud of "doing it on their own merit",

http://newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org/features/0303/newzealand_subsidies.shtml

As a Vegan, I wish we *WEREN'T* so invested in Animal Agriculture, which remains very profitable without subsidy.

This story is of a spoilt USA crying after being beaten at its own crooked game. My parents have this image of China as rural agriculture, of living off five grains of rice a day. I'm 22, and my generation probably see things differently :

http://macenstein.com/default/2010/07/exclusive-pics-of-the-shanghai-china-apple-store/

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again

Which is how Sonic the Hedgehog works - a Genesis emulator and a ROM..

They sure do.

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It seems it's going cure even global warming!

It's not just Windows - it happens on mac too

Safari is a CPU pig, firefox is a resource pig (OOTB).

Face it, dweebs: Only doughy, greasy losers with more pimples than friends love PCs, because nobody else wants to deal with all the shit PCs put you through.

Macs are for the rest of us.

I've got Parallels running WinXP just fine on my Mac mini, and it's pretty nice. I'm forced to run certain things (robot programming) under Windows. Now that I have a good environment to play with I can play with linux distros and find better robot tools.

I didn't even know about the virtualization problem, I just got the warning from Parallels but it ran fine. Now I have to look into some fixes and speed that sucker up. Or maybe I can upgrade to a Core 2 Duo.

The Simpsons go to Macworld??
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/149

Reported here:

In a swift and decisive move, Dell Computers announced today that it will begin shipping all systems with intentionally mis-labeled specifications on the boxes. In what is being seen as an obvious attempt to play catch up with Apple computer's brilliant move to sell its Mac mini systems with specs that may "meet or exceed" those listed on their packing, Dell took the move one step further.

"We feel the average consumer is becoming bored with the computer buying experience." says Dell's Chief Marketing Officer Mike George. "They no longer wish to choose an item, pay for it, and have that item arrive at their front door. It's predictable. It's what their parent's would want. Today's consumer needs the element of surprise to add a bit of excitement to the table."

To that end, Dell plans to ship all of its consumer desktop models and its Inspiron 6000 and 1200 model laptop computers with wildly off-base specifications. "We've actually created a random number generator which is responsible for listing the model number and processor speeds. Even WE don't know exactly what is in those boxes. It really is exciting." says George.