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Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six
Lucas123 writes "Apple's share of the laptop market has grown over the past few years and the company is now beating Gateway in sales, according research firm NPD Group Inc. in Port Washington, NY. 'Their sales are continuing to grow faster than the rest of the marketplace,' the firm stated. In June Apple was responsible for 17.6% of laptops sold (at retail) in the US and is now in third place behind HP and Toshiba."
No, this is the "entitled douchebag" effect.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Your next major home OS upgrade will cost you a bit per installation.
Frankly I'd be more supportive of MacOS if it was "sold" like Solaris is sold; you get a license for all supported versions with your hardware. Or that you could buy "N" upgrades upfront with hardware purchase for a reasonable fee (like 50% off).
$80 for what amounts to service packs is irritating to me.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Nope. Stinkpads, at least in my experience, are the crappiest laptops money can buy.
Gentoo Sucks
Do they support right clicking yet?
OSX does, what about the hardware?
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
No, after 27 years of professional experience, starting with Commodore Basic in 1980, 6502 Assember, MS-DOS 3.3-6.22, DEC-Vax,OS/2 v.2 and v.3 Warp, more varients of Linux than I can count starting in 1993 and continuing to the present day, & v3, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 & 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP and now Vista, it is my considered, professional opinion that Microsoft Vista is a giant pile of steaming shit.
Vista, like Windows ME, is the ultimate triumph of marketing bullshit over technical advancement. I can find something nice to say about every Microsoft OS except for ME and Vista. I will even admit to enjoying Windows 2000 & XP, at least since XP service pack 2.
Vista is shit. The more I learn about it, the more I work with it, the shittier it feels.
It just feels like a big step backwards. And when I put a Mac next to a Vista machine, the difference is even more apparent. In 2007, that's unforgivable.
Except now you only have a one button mouse...
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I must be a liar too... I've been using XP for 5 years and have only performed one reinstall and that was only because I wanted to upgrade my master hard drive. In 5 years my computer has crashed a whopping 2 times (once was right after I installed an unsigned driver and the second was more likely a power surge but I'm being liberal). No spyware, no viruses, no trojans (my virus scanner occasionally catches and quarantines one in email. The secret: limited user accounts and router. You haven't had to reinstall to refresh the OS for years. You're really dating yourself.
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
When I first started working for my current employer, we had a Macintosh network of roughly 20-30 Macs and a Mac server, all using OSX. Though I was very much PC biased when I started, I did grow to enjoy the Mac platform. They make a great MP3 player. *snicker* After working with the existing Mac network for a few years and getting very familiar with the inner workings, I have to say, Macs are expensive and slow and limited beyond practicality when it comes to business software solutions. Those who say "they make a product that just works," we've had several motherboards go tits up and the cost of repairing the computers damn near leaves them totaled. In fact my bosses laptop's hard drive died and he was quoted (from 1 of 2 of the only decent Mac vendors in the state) $800 dollars to repair / replace the drive. I took it upon myself to replace it and found out the hard way that hard drive replacement is a surgery that requires 20-30 screws removed, some hidden under keys. If that's not a sign that Apple is the next evil empire, I don't know what is. And Apple support? Forget it. I'd talk to the gypsies that work the Dell call centers any day. At any rate, the office manager that fooled the president into deploying a full-Mac network has since left. We have begun to phase out the Macs. Cleaning up the Apple mess left all over my work has been expensive but using computers that can actually keep up with their users pays for themselves. Plus there are so many better programs for accounting, scheduling, billing, basically any typical office-related software. Of course there are more security issues on the PC side than on the Mac side and it makes sense, there's a million more software applications to support and a million more choices for cheaper, faster hardware than that slow, proprietary, expensive crap they load in a Mac. If you want a stable, secure and wonderful alternative to XP, use Linux. But that's besides the point. Mac has no place in the workplace. (And my $800 Dell workstation would blow past the fastest dual-core Mac any day on an Adobe benchmark comparison). Flame on.
Why Why Why Why, do people keep spreading this one button FUD crap??
modernish Macbook pros and (I dare say macbooks as well) allow you to right click by placing two fingers on the pad and clicking.
now everyone shut up about one button mice!
'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'
One-button mice is a common myth: Mac mice do have two buttons. It's just that they put the second mouse button on the keyboard and labelled it "control".
It has taken my non-computer-literate wife months to remember which key on the keyboard she has to click to get context-sensitive help up. And it is very uncomfortable to do because she has limited desk space. So operations where I can just mouse around and left/right-click on Windows require two hands for her, and she is constantly looking down at the keyboard.
No. Most of "you" just roam about in blissful ignorance. A few of you you have enough Windows expertise that you might as well be VMS users are safe on the net at large. The rest of you are just a menace to the rest of us.
You're like people who buy American cars just because they're having a fire sale.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.