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Some iPod Fans Dump PCs For Macs
dereklam writes "The popularity of the iPod could be boosting Macs' popularity as well. News.com reports that 6 percent of iPod users have made the switch from PCs to Macs. An additional 7 percent said they are planning to dump their old PC for an Apple machine, according to the survey." I wish the linked story had more details; it's not clear from the results mentioned whether there's a strong causal relationship here.
seriously.
Some article claims some guy asked some iPod owners if they might want a Mac.. Whoopty fucking do
Seriously, this isn't "news for nerds", this isn't "stuff that matters". This is "yay for Apple hoooray for iPods".
I'm impressed any of you have an iPod that works, considering you masturbate furiously every time its near you, I'd think it would be gummed up with dried zealot spooge.
I don't hate Apple, I just dont particularly see any reason to raise Apple above any other computer vendor. Whoopty do, they have their own incompatible architecture.
Apple is just Dell or Gateway that sell a different architecture. BFD. Where are all the Dell, Gateway and eMachines press releases?
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Sun sucks, they need to understand that their products are too expensive.
Apple's LCD monitors are superior to almost all others, and they're fucking cheap in comparison to Sony's.
Macintoshes aren't expensive, Apple just doesn't build cheap pieces of crap like other PC vendors.
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Steve Jobs reguallaly bashes Linux for no good reason. He often does this on his Keynote's. However, I don't think people realize how little of OSX is actually Apple's:
Kernel.. nope, thats FreeBSD derived.
Safari.. nope, that's KHTML derived.
Printing.. nope, that's CUPS derived.
Shell.. nope, that's bash/tcsh derived.
Compiler.. nope, that's GCC.
Windows Networking nope, that's Samba.
What does it leave?
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We know it is not importan to you, that is why you are happy with an inferior product.
Can we stop stating the obvious?
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
*newsflash*
iPod owners have money to waste!
iPod may be a great product, the pricing is just out of my range. Dump a PC for an expansive locked-in unupgradable machine? More waste of money.
I would only buy a laptop from Apple. They had to bring down prices to be competitive and anyway, I don't think laptops are made to be upgradable. Ditch my PC tho, never.
...those of us who have to work for a living...
...if they have $$ to spend on an iPod...
Nice "us versus them" classism in there, socialist swine.
An ipod has to be the dumbest reason to switch from anything to anything else.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
WHat a troll. I used MacOS in two applications in college. Once was for digital editing for the newspaper, once was for documents and such for the marketing arm of an entertainment group associated with the university. Most of this was pre-windows or early windows.
Both times I went screaming back to DOS. Who knew you could hide so much from users, slow down everything, and still claim it to be "progress". Shortly after the last MacOS gig, I got to sit down and test NT. 3.1 wasn't great, but 3.5 rocked. Oh, and I did use other OSs, such as Xwindows, AIX, and VMS to a small extent in engineering applications.
I should mention that photoshop was rather cool, and once it came out on PC, I had no reason to ever look back at Macs.
My take now is that it's all just a pretty face on a mountain of code. The more stable the code is the better. I'm not very happy with certain aspects of XP, but I'm stuck due to the availability of certain apps which are ONLY available on PC.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Songs are memories. I refuse to let a corporation control my memories. It's a shame that the corporations are still forcing us to buy environmentally harmful atoms just to listen to DRM-free music.
I have the money and I am ready to buy a Power Mac - but first Apple will have to give me at least one more mouse button. And don't tell me to plug an external mouse into a laptop!