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PC Makers May Be Left On the Shelves
An anonymous reader writes "With the problems posed by a new Microsoft OS, exploding laptop batteries, and changing technology, PC makers may be feeling this pinch this holiday season. Many consumers who are considering purchasing PC hardware are going to be holding off for next year, according to research analysts." From the article: "According to market researcher IDC, PC shipment growth slowed to 7.9 percent in the third quarter, from double-digit percentage growth in the prior three years. The battery recalls may cut into fourth quarter growth, IDC said. Bank of America on October 31 cut its 2006 PC growth forecast to 9.4 percent from 10 percent. All this suggests that consumers looking for bargain gifts may opt for less-expensive gadgets such as cell phones, digital music players, video phones or noise-cancelling headphones."
Yeah. Everyone wants to pay more for the same hardware and a total bloat-ware OS.
Which part is the Bloatware? The part that isn't Unix.
Please. Go play with your pussy tech over in the pussy sandbox. Real computers have real tasks to complete. (Which Mac is eminently aware of, which is why they switched to _our_ architecture.)
(And if I hear one more claim of superior speed, I will smack that person with a sock filled with $300.00 in coins representing the extra money they spent to have some douchebag from California over design the plastic thing that holds the real computer.)
In reality, people are waiting for the Core 2 Duo to come down in price, and in conjunctiuon, AMD's offerings.
Consumers are saavy. That's why Macs have no market share.
So you have contempt for these "poseurs" who desire to emulate the arrogant, elitist attitudes of mac users as you describe; mac users who are now too mainstream to be elitist enough for you? Where do you "come from" and what is your next, non-conformist elite platform? Hopefully one that can automatically correct street-slang misspellings.
I think you'll have a hard time finding a platform that's still optimized for 9" screens, lacks protected memory and preemptive multitasking, and is still burdened with a one-button mouse. Congrats if you find one and can crawl off in a corner and feel superior.