Bigger price tags? The last one I bought didn't have a tag at all! I see generic PCs at Wal-mart with 6inch-by-6inch price tags all the time, in bright yellow too!
Isn't there any schooling on general "How to find shit out on my own" anymore? Well aren't you just so much smarter than the rest of us!
Isn't going on Slashdot and asking a group of like-minded people at least ONE way of finding out on your own? The world doesn't operate in a vacuum, so why not use any and all resources. Where's the shame in asking? Me, I'm just lazy and would rather hear it from you guys than search for it myself.
Apple USED to have a good program in place for Education. I wasted a good year in Grad school trying to resurrect the ability to push for Apple tech in schools, because they just don't put anything behind their Education program (from a hardware vending point of view). They have great tools (hardware and software but a lousy business model. They need to copy a page from Dell's education lease program.
and as soon as Apple figures this out, we truly will start seeing the market share for OSX get to around 25%! Don't laugh, or mod off-topic, because this is EXACTLY what most Educational Technologists are clamoring for...Apple to make a viable business lease program.
For me, Cnet was the Amazon of review websites. Cnet is always good for a study in how to NOT conduct unbiased reviews, complete with high Dell ratings AND Dell advertisements right on the same page!
Their car reviews are especially bad, not from a biased sense, rather from an it's-obvious-the-nerd-who-wrote-this-review-knows-nothing-about-cars-and-it-is-obvious sense.
Anyone can be a programmer, but not everyone can be an artist. The analogy is something like everyone can learn the mechanics of swimming, but not everyone can be an Olympic caliber swimmer.
You must be in England. I lived there for 2 years, and your adverts are awesome (well except for the annoying ring-tone ones). Maybe it is cultural difference interest, but man as an American, I can say that US commercials blow and UK commercials are (mostly great...cillit-bang not included, but then again, that is a direct rip-off of a loud-talking us version).
Are you saying that in a 60 minute episode of 24 there is only 20 minutes of tv show? I have to wave my BS flag if so. Pretty much any 30 minute show is 18 minutes of actual broadcast, and 60 minute shows are roughly 42 minutes. NO WAY does 24 have an extra 20 minutes of commercials in a 1-hour segement.
I'm guessing you don't download many p2p shows? You'll notice that without commercials, they are all pretty much they same length and file size because they all have the same amount of time scheduled for commercial breaks.
Without ads, there'd be no NBC/CBS/ABC. We'd all be stuck with member-funded PBS (not a bad proposition mind you, but you definitely wouldn't be watching American Gladiator).
Right. I should also complain to Ferrari that my car goes over 55 Mph. While the analogy is not perfect, Especially considering that most highways in the US are now 70 or 75 mph, and not the 1970s-era 55 you mention. Then there's the whole point that Ferraris are made in Italy and you can be on a no-speed limit highway in mere hours from Northern Italy. Or the fact that the Ferrari Club of (Insert US City name here) likes to lease race tracks and legally drive as fast as they want. Other than that, your analogy is ok;-)
Yeah, in other words, the Dell one I use at work is a "check the box" function. It has the auto sensing screen dimmer function, but it works about as well as the Microsoft built-in grammar checker. Some engineer can say they met the requirement, but we consumers get screwed with a bad feature.
It is my understanding that what you are calling an upgrade can be (and is) used for a full install on any Mac. Therefore, there is no such thing as an upgrade version and a completely different "full" version. I don't see how a "full" version can be anything other than $129, since you can go to an Apple store and buy OSX for $129, bring it home, and install it on any Mac in your house, even if you format the drive first and it sees no previous version installed. I have been wrong in the past, but I'm pretty certain on this one (since I've done roughly that which I describe at least a dozen times since version 10.0)
It HAS been held up in court that breaking a seal constitutes the inception and agreement to a contract. That's funny. I thought contracts weren't legally binding until the person CONSIDERING the contract actually reviewed it and ACCEPTED it. Please cite your sources.
I deleted something off my wife's MacBook and reinstalled it using my iMac install disks because I couldn't find the MacBook disk. Sue me or send me to jail? I've also lent my disks to other Mac users who did something stupid like format their OSX partition when setting up bootcamp (back in beta days). Since you have to have a Mac to use the OS, I don't think Apple cares one bit how you use the install disks.
Just a small correction--you can actually upgrade the video card in the iMacs, it just isn't a very fun (or pretty) task. I've seen plenty of how-to sites that walk you through how to get to the card and replace it on the white Intel iMacs (maybe the silver ones you can't, I don't know though).
Savvy apple folks know which things to buy from apple and which to do themselves. e.g. don't buy apple memory upgrades, but perhaps it may be worth it to buy an apple WiFi (since the system will then handle all the firmware updates for you, and things like optical audio, remote disk mounting over the WiFi will all happen magically and reliably). I found myself having to defend my choice in purchasing an Apple Airport Extreme wireless router recently. Just as you state, the extra $100 is worth the lack of hassles and the 5-minute (max) setup time with zero down-time in the past 6 months. I guess some people (cheap ones) get excited about $40 D-Link and Netgear routers, but after my second Netgear (rented from the cable company) burned up in three months time, I figured I could "splurge" for some quality, and the it-just-works factor.
Who knows what the "full" version costs. $129, because there is no difference. You pay the OS cost by having to buy Mac hardware to run the OS. Now, if they ever started allowing clones again, expect to see "full versions", "upgrade versions" and "Apple hardware" versions, each at various price points. As it stands now, there is one price ($129) for all one versions.
Who buys third party RAM direct from the company selling the computer??? This markup is well-known in EVERY industry (ever price tires at a car dealership?), not just with Apple.
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(seriously stupid post, btw)
Imagine that, another company copying Apple with success.
Some companies? The only companies I can think of that have no problem with porn would be the Joe Blow-owned auto-body shops of the world.
Or you could take ship your real hard drive in the luggage, and just put NO hard drive in your laptop.
Isn't going on Slashdot and asking a group of like-minded people at least ONE way of finding out on your own? The world doesn't operate in a vacuum, so why not use any and all resources. Where's the shame in asking? Me, I'm just lazy and would rather hear it from you guys than search for it myself.
Apple USED to have a good program in place for Education. I wasted a good year in Grad school trying to resurrect the ability to push for Apple tech in schools, because they just don't put anything behind their Education program (from a hardware vending point of view). They have great tools (hardware and software but a lousy business model. They need to copy a page from Dell's education lease program.
and as soon as Apple figures this out, we truly will start seeing the market share for OSX get to around 25%! Don't laugh, or mod off-topic, because this is EXACTLY what most Educational Technologists are clamoring for...Apple to make a viable business lease program.
The only problem I see is that the school isn't leasing their computers in the first place.
Their car reviews are especially bad, not from a biased sense, rather from an it's-obvious-the-nerd-who-wrote-this-review-knows-nothing-about-cars-and-it-is-obvious sense.
Texas, baby, Texas!
Anyone can be a programmer, but not everyone can be an artist. The analogy is something like everyone can learn the mechanics of swimming, but not everyone can be an Olympic caliber swimmer.
You must be in England. I lived there for 2 years, and your adverts are awesome (well except for the annoying ring-tone ones). Maybe it is cultural difference interest, but man as an American, I can say that US commercials blow and UK commercials are (mostly great...cillit-bang not included, but then again, that is a direct rip-off of a loud-talking us version).
I'm guessing you don't download many p2p shows? You'll notice that without commercials, they are all pretty much they same length and file size because they all have the same amount of time scheduled for commercial breaks.
Without ads, there'd be no NBC/CBS/ABC. We'd all be stuck with member-funded PBS (not a bad proposition mind you, but you definitely wouldn't be watching American Gladiator).
You should start a National "Don't Watch NBC" day. That should work as well as the National Don't Buy Gas day.
Who in the HELL would ever want to record American Gladiator????
Yeah, in other words, the Dell one I use at work is a "check the box" function. It has the auto sensing screen dimmer function, but it works about as well as the Microsoft built-in grammar checker. Some engineer can say they met the requirement, but we consumers get screwed with a bad feature.
It is my understanding that what you are calling an upgrade can be (and is) used for a full install on any Mac. Therefore, there is no such thing as an upgrade version and a completely different "full" version. I don't see how a "full" version can be anything other than $129, since you can go to an Apple store and buy OSX for $129, bring it home, and install it on any Mac in your house, even if you format the drive first and it sees no previous version installed. I have been wrong in the past, but I'm pretty certain on this one (since I've done roughly that which I describe at least a dozen times since version 10.0)
I deleted something off my wife's MacBook and reinstalled it using my iMac install disks because I couldn't find the MacBook disk. Sue me or send me to jail? I've also lent my disks to other Mac users who did something stupid like format their OSX partition when setting up bootcamp (back in beta days). Since you have to have a Mac to use the OS, I don't think Apple cares one bit how you use the install disks.
Just a small correction--you can actually upgrade the video card in the iMacs, it just isn't a very fun (or pretty) task. I've seen plenty of how-to sites that walk you through how to get to the card and replace it on the white Intel iMacs (maybe the silver ones you can't, I don't know though).
Who buys third party RAM direct from the company selling the computer??? This markup is well-known in EVERY industry (ever price tires at a car dealership?), not just with Apple.