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Apple Files Suit Against Psystar
Reader The other A.N. Other, among others, alerts us to the news that Apple has filed suit against Psystar, the unauthorized clonemaker. (We've been discussing Psystar from the start.) The suit alleges violation of Apple's shrink wrap license and trademarks, and also copyright infringement. News of the lawsuit, filed on July 3, first surfaced on a legal blog. There's speculation that the case has been sealed.
"Coveted spot in the home computing world?" Care to expand on that?
Really now? Because I've heard of and witnessed numerous incidents where Apple refused to honor the warranty on one of their products when a 3rd-party HDD or RAM (e.g., the $100 ones spoken of) is present.
You're the moron, fanboi.
Fuck you, you lying sack of shit. I took my MBP into the Mac store 6 months ago to get the DVD burner replaced. Guess what? Had upgraded RAM from Crucial in it, nobody gave a fuck. Walked out 30 minutes later with a brand new burner.
Oh, and:
Apple Warranty: Installing Memory, Expansion Cards, User Installable Parts Does Not Void Warranty
I build my own systems at about 1/2 to 1/3 the cheapest retail pricing for equivilent brand name machines. Plenty of people do. We don't NEED a corporation to build our machines for us. The big problem is that Apple still thinks it's in the age where people look for the "Any" key on their keyboards, that only people with the right degrees and knowhow can build a PC from the ground up. Just look at how long it took them to give people permission to tinker on their own Macs without voiding the warranty. Ironically, their assemlyline workers' tecnhical qualifications are just about the same as the customers they're willing to disenfranchise.
Now that Macs share the same architecture as PCs, they have even less of an excuse to tie their users hands. Except, of course, the almighty dollar. Which they would make more of, if they could just get Jobs to pull his head from his almighty ass long enough to see it. And in the end, it's an elitist egalitarian attitude towards their own customers and market base.
If you ask me, it seems like most Mac owners are essentially paying Apple to insult their intelligence. And liking it.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Funny, It has to be the marketing and the UI, because the hardware is not so hot.
My company is evaluating moving over to mac book pros. We have put 25 of them into use and are tracking their rate of hardware failure against the 200 Dell Latitudes we have in play. Guess what- the mac books experience hardware failures 6x as often. Its not like there is one mac mac book pro either, MOST of them have had issues, including replacements.
I would never use an inspiron but the Latitude's are more reliable (hardware) then the mac book pros.
Very funny, wikifool. If you're part of the culture at all, you know Apple sued Microsoft over "look and feel" that they stole from Xerox. I'd call that not being afraid to use their lawyers.
I would give a link for that, but since you've allowed yourself to be brainwashed by WikiMedia into thinking widely-known facts have to be vetted against random sites by random cites, I'll just let you know that GIYF. Try 'Apple' and 'lawsuit' as keywords.
Alright, let's look at one example, I'll compare a 17" Dell Inspiron to the 17" default MacBook Pro on Apple's site:
On the Inspiron:
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200)
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz Size: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
I even got the glossy 1920x1200 screen, total price: $1,499
Now let's look at the specs on the default 17" MacBook Pro config, no additional things added:
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
250GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
MacBook Pro 17-inch Widescreen Display
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB
How much is this? $2,799
I'm paying an additional $1,300 for less RAM, a smaller hard drive, similar if not identical processor, same size display. Oh, but the video card has 512MB instead of 256MB.
I'm not saying Apple's products are bad, but how can you possibly say that Apple hardware is CHEAPER than other manufacturers' offerings?
How far up your ass did you have to reach to get that 3% number? I'm not being rude, but you had to have pretty much made that up.
Really? REALLY!? You must be an Apple "fanboi". Who mentioned Microsoft? That's right, no one! So please leave your chip and your fanboiism at the door. They're not needed here, they're not wanted here, and they certainly won't add to the discussion. They only succeed to show that you're getting overly defensive and that you're attacking Microsoft in retaliation. Oh, and PSST, there are OTHER operating systems out there as well. : ) Just figured it was worth mentioning. You don't sound like the kind of person who's noticed yet.
What day is it? Could you please tell me?