All other things being equal, I will take faster over slower. I used an iBook for about a year, a machine I freely admit is slower than a Powerbook, and I will say that it was painfully, unreasonably slow. I would much rather have been working on an old IBM 600e. If I'm going to spend some thousands of dollars on a computer, I want it to be fast relative to its peers.
IBM's displays are decent, but expensive as you say. I would not count them as a particular strength of the Thinkpad line. But the point stands that I am unimpressed by the Powerbook displays. Everyone gets all drooly over them, and I just don't see it. Sure, the desktop cinema displays are okay, if a bit garish. But the laptop screens are overhyped and underwhelming.
The keyboard and pointing device are subjective, but I disagree with you strongly about them. Trackpads make me angry. They're inaccurate, hard to use, and generally crap. And I was not impressed by the Powerbook keyboards when I tried them out, though I will note that they seem to be better than the extremely flimsy iBook keyboards.
I say go with the Thinkpads because I've dealt with a lot of other machines, both personally and in a support role, and nothing holds a candle to them in terms of quality and engineering. And IBM's support is great.
Trivia note: most new IBM notebooks come with the "UltraNav" trackpoint/trackpad combination, now. I think this sucks, but I'm sure some people will like it.
You can project a low resolution image onto the side of a barn, for all I care. But it's still a low resolution image. I've messed around with the powerbooks, and I think they're crappy. Don't believe the hype.
The 17 inch model is just stupid. I guess if I want a computer that I can also go rafting on, I'll call apple. Until then, I'd prefer a human sized machine, thanks.
Dell has much better screens than apple does. They kinda suck otherwise, though.
I actually own(ed) an iBook, and I don't have all that much good to say about it. Slow, impossible to repair simple problems yourself, weak warranty, bad pointing device. The novelty of running OSX went away after a week or two. I'm replacing it with a ThinkPad, which is what I should've gotten in the first place.
The powerbooks have mediocre screens, horrible pointing devices, and average keyboards. They are far slower than comparably priced x86 models. Plus they're ugly; that silver that looks so cool now is going to look cheap and tacky in a few years. I suppose this is slightly better than the VPR Matrix thing, which looks cheap and tacky right now.
The ThinkPads are the only notebooks worth looking at.
Reading this guy and Katz (both of whom I've voted to keep) has left me with one basic impression: I should become a writer.
See, before I read these guys, I thought that you actually had to be good at it to have anyone read what you wrote. Not so! Just throw out vaguely interesting concepts, sprinkle buzzwords on top, and then totally fail to develop the idea to anything meaningful.
I can do that. I can do that _better_ than these guys can. Look for my next book "Deconstructing Geek Hackers, on the Mountain" in fine bookstores everywhere.
Sheesh. I just want to make it clear that I'm only voting to keep these guys for two basic reasons. One, I think they really, really need criticism and practice to improve their writing; slashdot is good for that. Two, filtering them out has recently become real simple, so if I just get completely tired of reading stuff from this guy, I can remove him from what I see.
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iBook bad.
Slow, ugly, nearly impossible to service, awful pointing device.
Get something made by a company that knows what it's doing, laptop-wise: IBM.
All other things being equal, I will take faster over slower. I used an iBook for about a year, a machine I freely admit is slower than a Powerbook, and I will say that it was painfully, unreasonably slow. I would much rather have been working on an old IBM 600e. If I'm going to spend some thousands of dollars on a computer, I want it to be fast relative to its peers.
IBM's displays are decent, but expensive as you say. I would not count them as a particular strength of the Thinkpad line. But the point stands that I am unimpressed by the Powerbook displays. Everyone gets all drooly over them, and I just don't see it. Sure, the desktop cinema displays are okay, if a bit garish. But the laptop screens are overhyped and underwhelming.
The keyboard and pointing device are subjective, but I disagree with you strongly about them. Trackpads make me angry. They're inaccurate, hard to use, and generally crap. And I was not impressed by the Powerbook keyboards when I tried them out, though I will note that they seem to be better than the extremely flimsy iBook keyboards.
I say go with the Thinkpads because I've dealt with a lot of other machines, both personally and in a support role, and nothing holds a candle to them in terms of quality and engineering. And IBM's support is great.
Trivia note: most new IBM notebooks come with the "UltraNav" trackpoint/trackpad combination, now. I think this sucks, but I'm sure some people will like it.
Also, you suck for having an A21p.
You are clearly insane.
You can project a low resolution image onto the side of a barn, for all I care. But it's still a low resolution image. I've messed around with the powerbooks, and I think they're crappy. Don't believe the hype.
The 17 inch model is just stupid. I guess if I want a computer that I can also go rafting on, I'll call apple. Until then, I'd prefer a human sized machine, thanks.
Dell has much better screens than apple does. They kinda suck otherwise, though.
I actually own(ed) an iBook, and I don't have all that much good to say about it. Slow, impossible to repair simple problems yourself, weak warranty, bad pointing device. The novelty of running OSX went away after a week or two. I'm replacing it with a ThinkPad, which is what I should've gotten in the first place.
The powerbooks have mediocre screens, horrible pointing devices, and average keyboards. They are far slower than comparably priced x86 models. Plus they're ugly; that silver that looks so cool now is going to look cheap and tacky in a few years. I suppose this is slightly better than the VPR Matrix thing, which looks cheap and tacky right now.
The ThinkPads are the only notebooks worth looking at.
Good job completely failing to comprehend what the parent post is talking about.
You failed to show how the proposed policy will have the effect that you outline, or indeed to mention any specific points of the proposed policy.
Whether you are right or wrong, you won't convince anyone with a letter like that.
You don't laugh very often, do you?
Admittedly, the pranks are a little weak (always have been), but it's nothing to get annoyed at.
Just chuckle today, and get real news tomorrow.
You should probably read the article that the person you're responding to referenced.
It sounds like it's time to sign Katz up as a Freedom Knight. Now isn't _that_ a scary thought.
Reading this guy and Katz (both of whom I've voted to keep) has left me with one basic impression: I should become a writer.
See, before I read these guys, I thought that you actually had to be good at it to have anyone read what you wrote. Not so! Just throw out vaguely interesting concepts, sprinkle buzzwords on top, and then totally fail to develop the idea to anything meaningful.
I can do that. I can do that _better_ than these guys can. Look for my next book "Deconstructing Geek Hackers, on the Mountain" in fine bookstores everywhere.
Sheesh. I just want to make it clear that I'm only voting to keep these guys for two basic reasons. One, I think they really, really need criticism and practice to improve their writing; slashdot is good for that. Two, filtering them out has recently become real simple, so if I just get completely tired of reading stuff from this guy, I can remove him from what I see.