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We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says
Velcroman1 writes: At a sky-high press conference atop the new World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, Acer unveiled a sky-high lineup of goods – and placed a flag in the sand for the sagging PC industry. "There are only four or five players in the PC industry, and all of us are survivors," Jason Chen, CEO of Acer Corp, told an international group of reporters. "We will be the last man standing for the PC industry." To that end, the company showed off a slew of new laptops and 2-in-1s, the new Liquid X2 smartphone, and introduces a new line of gaming PCs, called Predator. I suspect Apple will outlive Acer; who do you think will fall next (or rise next)?
A Mac is basically a UEFI x86 box running on non-standard hardware. It will happily allow a recent Windows version to be installed on it, with or without BootCamp. In fact, in some scenarios, if one compares hardware features to hardware features, and steps into the reality distortion field, Apple's offerings actually feel cheaper than the PCs with the exact same specs.
Of course, Apple isn't really gunning for the enterprise, mostly because they can't handle it and thus, don't want it, in addition to the fact that most enterprise implementers wouldn't put up with their clown-shoes support antics, so some company ordering 10,000 iMacs with a specific company-custom Windows image isn't likely, but their hardware is definitely usable, so long as you don't mind paying for what's essentially a branding fee.
Okay. Went through and converted that to English from Mac Fanboi.
FTFY.
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So wait, it supports a processor that was introduced 7 years ago in November 2008, has room for the minimum about of RAM I'd expect on a modern PC, and well under half what I could have installed on my desktop 3 years ago, only room for two hard drives, and a 4k screen? it really doesn't sound that great.
Oh, did I mention Linux compatibility? Ubuntu is officially supported. (My fave distro, Fedora runs without issue - literally load and forget)
Like pretty much every other piece of hardware on the planet?
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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Apparently you are completely wrong.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
First tell me why you need a 4k dual hard drive. At that screen size can you even tell the difference between 1080p and 4K? Why do you need 2 hard drives?
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Apparently not.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Still no.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.