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They haven't shown that they can do anything the iPod can't do, so why would consumers switch?

That's a good marketing question. Any company with a good marketing department needs to consider such a question very carefully. From my perspective, the digital music player market is pretty saturated. There are too many devices from too many manufacturers, and so the product with the most visibility and word-of-mouth advertising usually gets the market dominance.

For example, for those of you who opted to watch at least part of the Olympics, how many athletes who were listening to music had a Archos AV 500? How many of them had a Creative Zen? Ok, how many of them had some sort of iPod? I am safe in saying that all the athletes that *I* saw had an iPod.

This says a lot. The iPod didn't get where it is today simply because it plays music. It's the top music player because it's easy to use, there are a myriad of accessories for it, it has an easy to use music download service (which is done in house) and it just looks aesthetically appealing.

So, what does Samsung have to do? For starters, thier music download service MUST BE USER FRIENDLY! One of the biggest things that I hate about WMA's is that once they have been tied to your computer, they are inextricably tied to that instance of your OS *FOREVER*. If you reinstall your OS fairly regularly, then paying $0.99 to listen to a song for a few months is a joke.

iTunes corrects this problem by 'authorizing' a computer to play back songs purchased through their service. Before I destroy my computer, I simply backup my music, 'de-authorize' my machine, and no more hassles. In fact, I can authorize up to 5 computers to play my music. So, if I want a copy on two home machines and a machine at work, I'm still left with 2 spare licences.

To do just that would be very costly for Samsung--especially when it comes to negotiating music prices with the RIAA execs. I would expect things to be ruthless and costly since they are no longer happy with people paying $.99 anymore.

Next, how do you catapult your product's visibility beyond that of a well entrenched competitor. Here is the part that requires creative marketing. You could launch a smear campaign, alleging that an iPod creates some insane amount EMI radiation that causes cancer. Maybe you could even pay some basketball stars and other athletes to use your product. This also would be very costly, but does not garantee any success.

Finally, you would need to convince 3rd party vendors to make brand specific accessories for your player. iPod spawned a multi-billion dollar industry in just accessories. These accessories can't be generic. They have to be convincing enough to manufactorers that they incorporate some part of your identity in their name and packaging or other form of sneaky co-branding. How many products have been released with the *i-something* identity?--some of them totally unrelated to the iPod or Apple related!

So, you see the nearly insurmountable task of killing an iPod. There are too many of them to kill them at once. Samsung, you have a long and winding road to the day you put it 6' under. Good luck, your going to need it. Maybe if you would lower your price I would consider.

I've been using Eagle, but with the board size limit of 3x4 inches in the free version, and a $400 price tag to exceed this limit, it is time to consider a Free Open Source Software alternative.

Be a man! Build the next great super computer but, build it on a 3x4 inch board. Make it cheap ^H^H^H^H^H cost effective too! You'll be rich. You'll keep using the Eagle software you're familiar with. It won't cost you anything. I'll finally have a computer that is an acceptable size.

Seriously. Look at mobile phones like the Motorola Razr and SLVR then why the hell is my PC a big old honking box. Even the ultraslim Sony Vaio laptop is large by today's standards. Make a SMALL PC you bastards!!!*&^%$$##!@#$%^&*

I'm sorry. What was your question?

Adobe Photoshop

At these larger image sizes, although the Wintel test times were quite good, both the G4 and G5 computers proved more adept at distort functions like wave and pinch. Moreover, on the Windows system, loading the controls often took a minute or more. If these times are added back to the actual test times, both Macintosh computers would have clearly outperformed the Windows-based computer.

[throws gas on the fire]

This is because Apple is moving from Darwin to Solaris 10 x86 as its GUI code base!

That was funny dude! But not as funny as Dvorak's speculation about Apple dropping OS.X and switching to making Windows boxes so they can compete with Dell, Lenovo & Co.

I should have become a journalist, this guy actually gets paid for starting flamewars.

actually, windows does report that windows runs better when windows is shut off.
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s= 26945&a=171997&po=12,00.asp

Notice that the article serves the purpose of advertising. PCMag ("The Independent Guide to Technology"!) is selling the same hardware they test. Would you trust the results? And the ads are even inside the story:

"The Vbox hardware is pretty darn sensitive--it can pick up weak signals and deal with multipath reflections--but the products are a little hard to track down. Luckily, we did the sleuthing, so all you have to do is go to http://shop.pcmag.com./"

And the results... They didn't close the box and test it running! What's the story worth? Collect good looking and expensive hw, put the in a box but then don't test if they work together...

You could link this idea to an off-the-shelf "rise of OSS" slashdot rant, a few lines about shiny apple boxes and the apple moves to windows conspiracy and then set yourself up as an IT pundit.

This is quite possibly the most insightful comment I have read on /. for ages.

Should have waited. Dvorak is predicting that Apple will adopt Windows.

I wish I also got paid to be a crackhead.

"The new MacBooks [...] offer as much or more bang for the buck as anything in the Windows world"

These are probably made in the same factory as Macbooks:

http://us.acer.com/acerpanam/page4.do?dau22.oid=14 568&UserCtxParam=0&GroupCtxParam=0&dctx1=25&Countr yISOCtxParam=US&LanguageISOCtxParam=en&crc=1074370 188

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1907007,00.as p
http://www.pcmag.com/compare_products/0,1943,,00.a sp?a=168245,168244,168264,163762,167102&pt=2&sid=1 565

Intel Duo
2Ghz processor
120GB HD
256M graphics memory (Radeon)
DVD+/-R - DL
battery life 3:47

List price: $2500
Street price: $2400

Hopefully, the Macbook has a 4 hour battery life.

"The new MacBooks [...] offer as much or more bang for the buck as anything in the Windows world"

These are probably made in the same factory as Macbooks:

http://us.acer.com/acerpanam/page4.do?dau22.oid=14 568&UserCtxParam=0&GroupCtxParam=0&dctx1=25&Countr yISOCtxParam=US&LanguageISOCtxParam=en&crc=1074370 188

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1907007,00.as p
http://www.pcmag.com/compare_products/0,1943,,00.a sp?a=168245,168244,168264,163762,167102&pt=2&sid=1 565

Intel Duo
2Ghz processor
120GB HD
256M graphics memory (Radeon)
DVD+/-R - DL
battery life 3:47

List price: $2500
Street price: $2400

Hopefully, the Macbook has a 4 hour battery life.

The arrival of Microsoft's Direct Push system, which ties into Exchange servers without the need for an additional server or middleware, has been leading pundits to say Microsoft is a particularly strong threat to Research in Motion (RIM)'s popular Blackberry handhelds. Competing push solutions, from RIM, Visto, Seven, Good and others, all require an additional server or middleware on top of an Exchange server.

Previous slashdot stories covered rumours about a possible upcoming Apple tablet (see here and here). However, perhaps what was really going on was that Apple was putting in place patents related to this device.

Look at the patents in question. US Design Patent No. D504,899, filed on May 10, 2005, looks like a patent for the design of an Apple tablet. Yet, perhaps they refrained from calling it a tablet in the patent (they call it "an electronic device") because they actually want it to cover the (much smaller) design of the video iPod. US Patent Application No. 20060026536, filed Jan 30, 2005, is called "Gestures for touch sensitive input devices," and the images very clearly show a device that looks like a full-screen ipod with overlayed "touchwheel" (check out this news item for commentary and images.

What I'm getting at is this: ThinkSecret may very well be right (again!). The fact that these patents were filed shows that they are working on this kind of device. I think these patent applications strongly support the notion that Apple is going to try to release a next-gen device with touch-screen based input. Sounds like a cool device.

This is usually a tight race, but this time around, Money is our Editors' Choice. Its new depth options, better online connections, and closer attention to spending and categorization make an already capable, sophisticated, and highly usable finance program even better. That said, Quicken remains a worthy adversary, and users committed to that platform will be served perfectly well by upgrading rather than switching. But if you've been mulling a switch, or are new to personal-finance software, Money is currently king of the hill.

I'm a happy Shuffle owner. I use it for workouts and have no concerns about breaking it. It's a solid little thing. Battery life has been fine. I get the 12 hours that Apple states in their tech specs. That's plenty for my needs. Sound quality is really good, but don't take my word for it:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1777890,00.as p

I have found only a few occasions where a screen would have been handy, such as finding a particular song my kids want to hear in the car. Since it doesn't hold that much music, there's not some huge number of playlists to sort though. If I knew there is something I will want to listen to, such a podcast, I just put it at the top of the playlist while connected to iTunes. Or, if I have loaded on several albums and want to listen to a particular one, I turn on shuffle mode and click until I get to a song from that album. Then, I turn on regular mode and back up to the beginning of the album.

I don't know much about other brands. Just have been happy with my Shuffle.

If you don't need a screen, why have one? It just adds weight, size, complexity and cost. The main reason to keep the suffle is sound quality. It has the best amp of any portable mp3 player. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1777890,00.as p

If you don't need a screen, why have one? It just adds weight, size, complexity and cost. The main reason to keep the suffle is sound quality. It has the best amp of any portable mp3 player. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1777890,00.as p

Are these controls always at the far right of the screen?
So the menus will always open backwards?

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s= 1712&a=170269&po=6,00.asp

Tell me it ain't so! (Can't install the beta, can't check it out myself)

Calling Microsoft a monolopy on an OS is like calling apple an monolopy on portable music players. MS owns 90% of the OS department, ipods own 90% aswell.

here :P

Vista supports EFI natively as of build 5231 (source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1872067,00.as p) which is in the wild.

What does ethics have anything to do with professional reporting and journalism?
-- Fuat Kircaali, CEO of Sys-Con Media, publisher of several computer magazines

Yet another one of Sys-Con's online publications people should avoid for various reasons.

Sitting beside me now are four new-in-box Intel Pro/Wireless 5000 wireless access points.

PC Magazine, 5/21/2002:
"...optional support for 802.11b and a reasonable price make the Intel PRO/Wireless 5000 802.11a Access Point worthy of consideration if you want to be an early adopter of 802.11a."

C|Net, 7/31/2002:
"With its simultaneous support of 802.11a and 802.11b, the Intel Pro/Wireless 5000 LAN dual access point is well suited to open office areas packed with wireless PCs."

2002 price: $449 list according to PC Magazine, $649 according to C|Net.

I got mine from an outfit called surpluscomputers.com for four bucks a piece. Plus $12 shipping. Here's a link to the product if it's still in stock (it is now, but probably won't be after the Slashdotters hit it).

The moral of the story: compatibility with the next standard is fine and dandy, but in three or four years, you're going to look back and either laugh, cry, or hurl.

An organization founded in 1988 to establish standard benchmarks for computers. Its first benchmark was a single CPU rating known as the "SPECmark," in which one SPECmark was equivalent in performance to a VAX 11/780. Although SPEC benchmarks continue to rate CPUs, SPEC has a variety of benchmarks to measure graphics subsystems as well as Java, and Web, mail, application and file servers.

• Retail ($500)
• Upgrade ($250)
• Educational/non-profit ($125)

Have you ever actually tried that for yourself?

Read the last paragraph, it will explain it.

I refer you to http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.as p

Yes, it's the Dvorak troll, but the stats from Bill G are enlightening.

JOhn C Dvorak wrote an article in PC Magazine about this back in October.

I think a good comparison with the high end model can be made with the 8200:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1907155,00.as p

2GHZ, 2GB ram, 120GB HDD, x1600M 256M, 15.4", GigE, etc. $2499

Apple:
1.83GHz, 2GB ram, 120GB HDD, x1600 256M, 15.4", GigE, etc.
$2899

The acer has a faster CPU and has a better camera
The apple is about a pound lighter, remote control, and some good apps.

"I will certainly agree that as far as sound quality goes, the Shuffle is definitely an inferior product. "

Interesting. I personally don't have the ears to tell the difference, but I this PC Magazine article by Bill Machrone disagrees with your assertion:

"Apple's new iPod shuffle has stellar audio performance. In the bass registers, it blows away the competition, including its bigger siblings.... The iPod shuffle's near-perfect rendering of the [40-Hz] square wave means that it uses push-pull output instead of the single-ended, capacitor-coupled output found in just about every other player. You just can't get this kind of audio performance from a single-ended circuit. I find Apple's audiophile approach exciting on several different levels."

The one I had was the Toshiba Satellite 1955. You can read about it here: Satellite

As much as Slashdotters rag on him, I think it was John C. Dvorak who first wrote about "never buy a zero".

This was before the internet, and I think it remains good advice.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,771064,00.asp Incase the customizable features do not come back quick enough for you, you might be interested in remapping your keyboard, or getting a keyboard where the keys can be remapped physically. If you have an extra old keyboard laying around you might want to try to pop some of the keys off and tape some sticks up :). Changes happen (unfortunately often).

It even had the pc-to-phone feature back in 2001. So what is the news here? A press release advertising old features?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,55259,00.asp

If there's a will, there's a way to do it. The real thing here is that there is no such thing as unbreakable security. Even if you leave me no external ports, I can still use my camera phone to take snapshots of my screen as I display the sensitive data and then email it to anyone I choose. How do you stop that? Cavity search all employees every morning? C'mon! You have to pay me a *lot* more to put up with that.

What about the USB storage devices that mimic other things? Like this - a watch - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/7899/ or this - a pen - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1618595,00.as p. Or how about one of these babies - http://www.xybernaut.com/itemList.asp?categoryID=2 8. It's not much bigger than a pack of cigarettes and can be used to transmit data out of a data center via a cellular card. Hook up a hub and .... I know, because I've seen something similar at least twice already.

Frankly, how crappy are you to your people that they're doing stuff like this? I think this is a real wake up call to the industry to look at how employees are treated and/or compenstated. If you think it's bad stateside, how bad do you think it is overseas where they're making $8/hour?

2 cents,

Queen B

I think the thing that crystalized it for me was this review from PC Mag in '04.

The reviewer gave it a 4.5, and the dozens of users who reviewed it gave it an average of 1.5, where 1 is the lowest possible score. All the people who bothered to write opinions wrote vivid descriptions of the problems I was having. This means two things: 1) The reviewer was a dishonest whore, and 2) Despite the press, Norton is an inferior product.

Norton used to be great, but they seriously suck these days.

I'd give their system a try, but "How much does it cost" is not in their FAQ

Google. DVD Jukebox Maker gets sued

As of a year ago, the basic system cost $27,000 USD, Granted, the linked article is a year old, but my guess is that the average /. reader is not going to go out and buy a couple of these.

Another good article points out that it's basically a repurposed enterprise storage device.

People in the "Mac" world don't like him because he wrote articles that first dropped the rumors of "OSX on Intel" and other things Mac users didn't want to hear and called him crazy over. He has been blunt about Apple, but is STILL a Apple and OSX 'proponent', very much so...

This is nonsense. Clearly, you are not a native English speaker; if it weren't clear previously, this post has confirmed it. You clearly have poor English comprehension skills, and it shows.

John Dvorak is a pundit. His job is to make predictions. Just because he got one or two of his crazy predictions right doesn't mean anything; most of his predictions were ridiculous because they didn't even seem plausible, but statistically, he was bound to get one or two predictions right. The "prediction" that OS X was moving to Intel is hardly something I'd give Dvorak credit for -- especially when you consider that it was a well known fact among technically-versed Mac users that Apple had been maintaining an x86 port of their next generation OS since the Rhapsody days (i.e., before it was named Mac OS X and marketed as such).

People weren't slamming Dvorak's "predictions" because they "didn't want to hear" them; they slammed his predictions because most of them were laughable, and there were usually many reasons -- reasons of logic, reasons of practicality, technical reasons, etc. -- why most of Dvorak's predictions would never come to pass. For the vast majority of Dvorak's predictions, there still are good reasons to disbelieve them.

Want me to post the links you won't, cause even in the articles where he challenges Apple, he usually gives them more credit than they deserve?

Don't worry, I'll be providing about a dozen links and quotes just to prove what a dolt you are. Not that this would matter, since you won't interpret the articles the same way a (sane) native English speaker would.

Besides, since when does giving Apple more credit than they deserve equate to writing a puff piece about Apple? You can still savagely and unfairly criticize Apple and write a scathingly negative article about Apple or the Mac, and still give Apple more credit than it deserves in the same article. It's happened before, and this is a common tactic that poison-pen authors use to defend themselves against accusations of bias. "Well, if I'm so anti-Apple, how come I said some nice things about Apple in this recent article?" Yet when you read the article the author references, it's stingingly anti-Apple with only one or two positive comments thrown in to give the appearance of balance.

So, let's get busy with some links to John Dvorak articles where he clearly shows anti-Apple or anti-Mac bias. (Apologies since some of these links have been posted elsewhere.)

Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis (published in December, 2004)

Media Bias and Technology Reporting (published October, 2005) This was also referenced in a MacDailyNews article. Dvorak laughably claims that the media is biased against Microsoft and in favor of Apple. If that's so, why the never-ending stream of "Apple is dying" articles in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere up to and even for a year or so after Steve Jobs returned to Apple? Or is Dvorak claiming that the press suddenly warmed up to Apple in the last few years because it's fashionable? It seems to me that the press is, by and large, a fa

People in the "Mac" world don't like him because he wrote articles that first dropped the rumors of "OSX on Intel" and other things Mac users didn't want to hear and called him crazy over. He has been blunt about Apple, but is STILL a Apple and OSX 'proponent', very much so...

This is nonsense. Clearly, you are not a native English speaker; if it weren't clear previously, this post has confirmed it. You clearly have poor English comprehension skills, and it shows.

John Dvorak is a pundit. His job is to make predictions. Just because he got one or two of his crazy predictions right doesn't mean anything; most of his predictions were ridiculous because they didn't even seem plausible, but statistically, he was bound to get one or two predictions right. The "prediction" that OS X was moving to Intel is hardly something I'd give Dvorak credit for -- especially when you consider that it was a well known fact among technically-versed Mac users that Apple had been maintaining an x86 port of their next generation OS since the Rhapsody days (i.e., before it was named Mac OS X and marketed as such).

People weren't slamming Dvorak's "predictions" because they "didn't want to hear" them; they slammed his predictions because most of them were laughable, and there were usually many reasons -- reasons of logic, reasons of practicality, technical reasons, etc. -- why most of Dvorak's predictions would never come to pass. For the vast majority of Dvorak's predictions, there still are good reasons to disbelieve them.

Want me to post the links you won't, cause even in the articles where he challenges Apple, he usually gives them more credit than they deserve?

Don't worry, I'll be providing about a dozen links and quotes just to prove what a dolt you are. Not that this would matter, since you won't interpret the articles the same way a (sane) native English speaker would.

Besides, since when does giving Apple more credit than they deserve equate to writing a puff piece about Apple? You can still savagely and unfairly criticize Apple and write a scathingly negative article about Apple or the Mac, and still give Apple more credit than it deserves in the same article. It's happened before, and this is a common tactic that poison-pen authors use to defend themselves against accusations of bias. "Well, if I'm so anti-Apple, how come I said some nice things about Apple in this recent article?" Yet when you read the article the author references, it's stingingly anti-Apple with only one or two positive comments thrown in to give the appearance of balance.

So, let's get busy with some links to John Dvorak articles where he clearly shows anti-Apple or anti-Mac bias. (Apologies since some of these links have been posted elsewhere.)

Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis (published in December, 2004)

Media Bias and Technology Reporting (published October, 2005) This was also referenced in a MacDailyNews article. Dvorak laughably claims that the media is biased against Microsoft and in favor of Apple. If that's so, why the never-ending stream of "Apple is dying" articles in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere up to and even for a year or so after Steve Jobs returned to Apple? Or is Dvorak claiming that the press suddenly warmed up to Apple in the last few years because it's fashionable? It seems to me that the press is, by and large, a fa

He has been one of the strongest and biggest name Mac proponents in the industry for the last 15 years. He also has incredible amounts of disdain for Microsoft.

Are you talking about the same John "Apple is Dying" Dvorak who has been predicting the death of Apple since the 90s at the very least? Does this or this really sound like the words of a Mac lover ? No one who is even vaguely familiar with the name Dvorak in the Mac community is of the opinion that the guy has had any affection for Apple for over a decade.

Now it is fair to say that he's fallen out of love with Microsoft since the heady romantic days of Windows 95, but a Mac proponent for the past 15 years? Pfft...

He has been one of the strongest and biggest name Mac proponents in the industry for the last 15 years. He also has incredible amounts of disdain for Microsoft.

Are you talking about the same John "Apple is Dying" Dvorak who has been predicting the death of Apple since the 90s at the very least? Does this or this really sound like the words of a Mac lover ? No one who is even vaguely familiar with the name Dvorak in the Mac community is of the opinion that the guy has had any affection for Apple for over a decade.

Now it is fair to say that he's fallen out of love with Microsoft since the heady romantic days of Windows 95, but a Mac proponent for the past 15 years? Pfft...

He has been one of the strongest and biggest name Mac proponents in the industry for the last 15 years. He also has incredible amounts of disdain for Microsoft.

Are you talking about the same John "Apple is Dying" Dvorak who has been predicting the death of Apple since the 90s at the very least? Does this or this really sound like the words of a Mac lover ? No one who is even vaguely familiar with the name Dvorak in the Mac community is of the opinion that the guy has had any affection for Apple for over a decade.

Now it is fair to say that he's fallen out of love with Microsoft since the heady romantic days of Windows 95, but a Mac proponent for the past 15 years? Pfft...

Digg's comments are real trash. It's already astroturfed and the trolls haven't even come out to play yet. When you hear the word "collective intelligence" used to pimp a site, you know there's trouble ahead. Today's "collective intelligence" site is tomorrow's entropy graveyard

said it aint so, they have actually inc the size of the office toolbar! It's in all the screen shots! Why have they done this? Is it not possible to just make intuitive menus or keyboard shortcuts to popup windows? The MS Office for OS X people did a nice job with an expandable/colapsable tooltray that floats so you can see the page you are working on.

This version is too much fluff, not enough practicality.

Excel excels

My eyes are still burning.

qz

Does anyone remember bitlocker that tried to do an on-line database?

They went out of business, not enough revenues. But then, Google is looking to compliment their product offerings, not base their company around on-line database.

I expect there will be a resurgence of on-line databases now that Google has announced their offering in this space. I'll bet that one year from now, Yahoo, AOL, and Amazon, will buy one of those companies for $$$ to keep up with Google. Regards,... Fred

It's not exactly Apple's patent to begin with, it's Synaptics. Now I don't exactly know what deal they have with Apple as far as who else can use it, but seeing the amount of things with scroll wheels out there, I don't think apple as total control of the use of a scroll wheel.

Media Bias and Technology Reporting
Are Media Writers Biased Towards Apple?

...but then again, it's a Mac program, and you can't be a tech writer and like something Apple has produced unless you're biased.

Yaz.

I was fascinated by the idea (/. inspired), so i followed up on it by interviewing the head researcher. he gave me links to video of the Nanocar driving around, too. And filled me in on a new internal nanoscale motor. I wrote up my findings in this pcmag news story.

-robyn

"well considering that you're on /., its probably closer to "all of us hate microsoft because we are older, more qualified computer users who simply, have used microsoft for too long"

I think the AC prior to you was referring to that clueless MS suckup John C. Dvorak's recent piece of tripe in pcmag.com where he insinuated that MS gets a bad rep in the press because Windows is too complicated for them to figure out.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1872175,00.as p
Quote: "This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer. With no Microsoft-centric frame of reference, Microsoft cannot look good. The company essentially brought this on itself with various PR and marketing policies that discouraged knowledgeable coverage. I'll save those complaints for a future gripe session."

Granted, in 1996, yes, the Mac was not doing well. But the meme was still alive and thriving in 1999, 2000, 2001...and with Dvorak, as late as 2004...even as Apple was making positive strides on the balance sheet, stock price, and in mindshare.

But now, a mere 10 months after his Dec. 2004 column about the Mac's demise was posted, Dvorak is up in arms that the Windows Way is getting the short end of the stick because the media is paying too much attention to a 'dying' platform...

Dvorak isn't pro-PC so much as he's anti-Mac.

Of all the people to cite...geeze. This is the guy who blamed XP's idle process for taking up all his system resources.