OS X, a nicely made case, a well tested set of components (supposedly), direct support for hardware AND software issues from Apple, since they made everything and can't weasel out of support by claiming "it was the other guys stuff that broke!"
That margin is on other development costs, not the hardware. For instance, the operating system...the cost of licensing certain things like patented technology, drivers etc.
That can't be said enough, a lot of the things Linux is currently capable of would not otherwise have been possible, or at least would not have happened yet.
Vendor support and development is a huge advantage.
Yea but on a mac pro, the drives are out of the way and the rack is standard. You install some drive racks in a 5.25 bay on a PC tower, and you just lost a bunch of internal space because there is still a drive tower inside, empty.
Their original goal has always been to stop P2P entirely, since they equate P2P with piracy as far as the content industry is concerned, which Comcast et al are a part of.
If anything this is a way to placate the FCC and congress, while appearing to embrace P2P, but only as a distribution method for their own content.
It's way more complicated than just being BSD, but overall the architecture seems clean enough, and obviously it was capable of being ported to everything but the toaster.
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Yea, you may not want those things but thats what factors in to the cost of the machine.
:D
If thats the case, don't buy one
For a lot of people these are significant advantages over the rest of the industry, even self built machines.
OS X, a nicely made case, a well tested set of components (supposedly), direct support for hardware AND software issues from Apple, since they made everything and can't weasel out of support by claiming "it was the other guys stuff that broke!"
That margin is on other development costs, not the hardware. For instance, the operating system...the cost of licensing certain things like patented technology, drivers etc.
The other part to that story is, last time i checked, red flag linux looked a LOT like windows, right down to the cloned task manager.
That is only a problem if you still consider Linux anything more than an operating system. It is not a movement, a religion or a cause.
That can't be said enough, a lot of the things Linux is currently capable of would not otherwise have been possible, or at least would not have happened yet.
Vendor support and development is a huge advantage.
Yea but on a mac pro, the drives are out of the way and the rack is standard. You install some drive racks in a 5.25 bay on a PC tower, and you just lost a bunch of internal space because there is still a drive tower inside, empty.
OMG the marketing people lied to me....
for shame
That isn't the point, its the first holographic storage (so they say). It will increase in size, theoretically to infinite density.
That means 5 years from now holographic storage will be both cheaper and much higher density, not to mention it will likely be more reliable.
I'm against toggles....maybe we should form a committee to determine what sort of switch to use
BECAUSE silly, you are supposed to be using quantum drives by now. Flip a bit on drive 1 in room A, and drive 2 in room B flips the same way.
Sheesh
I duno, you could also just make it publicly known how incompetent your security practices are, without being "that guy".
Pink slip eh....that doesn't sound so bad.
What can i redeem it for?
oh PLEASE say action figures and concert tickets!
Thats PRIVATE SMARTASS DAMMIT
Hopefully, I'll be col. jacknuts by june
Blockbuster isn't doing so great
Pick another company next time
Probably that whole "actually being used" part that tends to cause problems
Their original goal has always been to stop P2P entirely, since they equate P2P with piracy as far as the content industry is concerned, which Comcast et al are a part of.
If anything this is a way to placate the FCC and congress, while appearing to embrace P2P, but only as a distribution method for their own content.
It's way more complicated than just being BSD, but overall the architecture seems clean enough, and obviously it was capable of being ported to everything but the toaster.
The NeXT stuff has been running on x86 since ~1993
If they wanted to strip down vista for a phone there would no backward compatibility, they can strip out whatever they want.
Vista wont even install on less than 512mb ram, and on 512 its just barely getting by.
It's an international ball market, get used to it
Yea but they have the French position
(you don't want to know...hint: it involves cheese and a baguette)
Well not anymore it's not
"Scott Petry, director of Google's Enterprise"
The big secret? apparently google is developing a starship