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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, 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
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'