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The Ten Worst Products of the Year
WaZiX writes "Not sure what you want to buy for christmas? Well me neither, but PCMag has an interesting article on what they consider to be the 10 worst products of the year, so at least you know what not to buy. Helpful article that picked out products from different categories such as PDA's, Notebooks and MP3 players."
Fucking please. Even if there were enough /.ers interested in reading this lame turd of an article to bring a proper /.ing, they are not going to hose PC Magazine. What was the point of that again?
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So they can have the superior feeling of owning a Mac and worshipping the blue apple. Where have you been?
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Why do morons like you insist on perpetrating such self-dellusion?
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Systems that offer a fertile breeding ground for malware will end up hip deep in it. Marketshare is irrelevant.
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I see we are now modding up people who experience good Mac performance second hand. I knew someone who once knew someone who played Doom 3 on their eMac and said the performance was incredible. Mod points please?
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No shit sherlock.
3 months ago from here is Sept. Considering SP2 was only released on the internet in 6th of August, how long do you think it took:
1) For Acer to rebuild their harddrive images and test them with every model they use.
2) For them to rebuild and press millions of new recovery CDs w/ SP2, tested and all.
3) For them to ship all the 'old' laptops that are too late to have the new HDD applied because they are in the warehouse and calling them back would be unfeasable.
4) For them to train their multiple call centres on how to troubleshoot SP2 and it's various changes.
It's probably much more than a month. Apple took longer than that to get a patched Apache install out to people one time.
Are Apple better with release dates? Not a chance. How long did it take Apple to get iPod Mini's from release date to peoples hands - it was around 3 months. Roughly the same with their 30" displays.
For most users SP2 is a huge help. It's not a magic bullet, but it fixes 90% of the security issues people have, leaving only spyware from exploits in IE, Windows and user-consented left. All of these are much harder to find and fix, but the new automatic updates feature does make it a lot harder to stop applying updates.
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It's the mac, people. This platform has shit for games. With a Doom3 port stuck in limbo, WoW is the only Major Title to have a mac release this year.
I suppose you can count the latest Unreal installment, but I'm talking Quality Games, not buzzword compliant buttsucking- UT doesn't come up in the same conversation as, say, GTA, Doom3, HL2, etc.
Oh I see, the reason that the eMac is a bad product is because it is too expensive compared to a $500 Dell. Dells are bad products because they are built poorly and badly serviced. Maybe this arse should learn the first rule of geekdom: Things cost money, good things cost more.