The article discusses upgrades at time of purchase. Adding RAM, larger HD, etc. to a Dell at the time of purchase is considerably cheaper than the equivalent upgrade to a new Mac. The base model Dell is typically cheaper and better specced than the equivalent Mac too.
Ohhh, but the user experience, it's worth it to run OS X instead of Vista. I'd gladly pay a 200% markup to run OS X. Yeah, right.
Could be worse though, I live in Australia where Apple prices have remained high despite the drop in the value of the US dollar. The Australian dollar is now worth almost one US dollar. Dell prices reflect this with near identical prices for equivalent Dell hardware on the US and Australian Dell websites. Apple prices remain 30-40% higher in Australia. eg. base model MacBook $US1,099 vs. $AU1,499.
$AU1,499 can buy you a really insanely good computer. Or an entry level MacBook.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Cost of shipping. That'd be it. It must be really expensive to ship from those factories in China and South East Asia all the way to Australia. Uh huh.
My brother ordered a phone online. Plays music, video, games, etc. The feature that appealed to him was 2 SIM card slots. Personal and work phone accounts both accessed through the same device. Clear indication on screen of the account receiving a call. Easily call via either account. He has it configured to automatically divert the work number to voice mail outside office hours.
Chinese. Brand I've never heard of. Happy Joy Laughing Monster Phone or something like that. I could ask him, but what's the point of Google if you're just going to ask friends and family. I leave it as an exercise to reader. Ask Google. Better yet, use Google to find my brother, then ask him yourself. Extra points if you find either of the numbers for his phone and call him.
My macbook is a closed system of open APIs. The implementation is closed source but the APIs are documented.
My w2k VM is a blackbox. I don't have a clue what it is doing or why or how to change it. The implementation is closed source but the APIs are documented.
Seriously, if God had intended us to fly he'd have given us jet powered wings. Probably with with jets. Powered jets. attached to maybe some wings. Why do you think Swiss cheese is full of holes anyway? Frickin jet power, that's why. Jet powered cheese wings. It just ain't right. That's all I have to say.
He said, 'frackin'. Tee hee. Frackin. That's a polite form of 'fucking' which, where I live, is what a bloke with tickets on himself says when he means 'cunting'.
There is no point in developing a version of AutoCad for Linux until there are enough Linux users demanding a version of AutoCad and I'm not switching to Linux until they release a version of AutoCad for Linux and there's no point in developing a version of AutoCad for Linux until......
So you're saying that the price I pay for beer in Australia is not so much related to the price and availability of locally grown barley as to Americans growing corn to make a shitful substitute for petrol? Uh huh.
There are existing Linux distributions for non x86 hardware. I've used Yellow Dog and Debian on PPC Mac hardware. There's a PPC flavour of Ubuntu, though it's now community maintained presumably because Apple stopped manufacturing PPC hardware. I've seen Ubuntu running on a PS3 recently. The Cell processor isn't x86. I assume there are binary distros for ARM too though I'd have to Google for that and that would involve opening another browser tab and I just can't be bothered.
You know what the real obstacle is? Flash for Linux is only available as a binary compiled for x86. Since a lot of pr0n sites use Flash video now I don't see anybody selling hardware without Flash support.
I was an only twin for some time and observed that I was more identical than my sibling, who had a curious tendency to lurk in dark places cursing under his breath. He had appalling dental hygiene and was slightly taller despite his stoop. Eventually I traded him in on a second hand Volkswagen.
At the risk of offending Opera users and gay people I'd have to say that Opera is gay. Also, Mozilla has the giant lizard monster. What does Opera have? A big letter 'O'. And maybe some dried fish. And Norway? You can't get there from here.
Yup, unless you have a G3 or a G4 slower than 867MHz in which case you can't install Leopard. Not really the point I was almost sort of making in my own peculiar flamebaity fashion. XP has been with us for 7 years. Vista is a big change. Change is bad. Vista is bad. Even if it's good it's different so it's bad. I don't mind it. It's Windows. Same shit different smell or something like that.
I remember struggling with sulking bitch art friends who clung desperately to OS9 for years after the release of OSX because "OS9 is better", "it's more intuitive", "OSX is confusing", "why did they have to change everything around?", "why do I have a home directory?", "why do I have to login?", "I deleted a file called mach_kernel to free up some space and now my computer won't boot", "it's not fair, wah wah wah".
Of course OSX is better than OS9 but it's different and if you've spent years getting used to the old way of doing things it might take a little while to work that out. Old habits are hard to break.
So Vista is different to XP and it requires more memory and it doesn't work with your old laser printer. Harden the fuck up.
MacFanboy1> Is that the new MacBook Air in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? MacFanboy2> Hey, let's have anal sex and then go to the Apple Store to buy new iPods! MacFanboy1> We could go there in my new Volkswagen. MacFanboy2> Holy crap I want to smoke some cock, but first I'll call all our friends on my new iPhone.
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The article discusses upgrades at time of purchase. Adding RAM, larger HD, etc. to a Dell at the time of purchase is considerably cheaper than the equivalent upgrade to a new Mac. The base model Dell is typically cheaper and better specced than the equivalent Mac too.
Ohhh, but the user experience, it's worth it to run OS X instead of Vista. I'd gladly pay a 200% markup to run OS X. Yeah, right.
Could be worse though, I live in Australia where Apple prices have remained high despite the drop in the value of the US dollar. The Australian dollar is now worth almost one US dollar. Dell prices reflect this with near identical prices for equivalent Dell hardware on the US and Australian Dell websites. Apple prices remain 30-40% higher in Australia. eg. base model MacBook $US1,099 vs. $AU1,499.
$AU1,499 can buy you a really insanely good computer. Or an entry level MacBook.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Cost of shipping. That'd be it. It must be really expensive to ship from those factories in China and South East Asia all the way to Australia. Uh huh.
My brother ordered a phone online. Plays music, video, games, etc. The feature that appealed to him was 2 SIM card slots. Personal and work phone accounts both accessed through the same device. Clear indication on screen of the account receiving a call. Easily call via either account. He has it configured to automatically divert the work number to voice mail outside office hours.
Chinese. Brand I've never heard of. Happy Joy Laughing Monster Phone or something like that. I could ask him, but what's the point of Google if you're just going to ask friends and family. I leave it as an exercise to reader. Ask Google. Better yet, use Google to find my brother, then ask him yourself. Extra points if you find either of the numbers for his phone and call him.
Seriously, if God had intended us to fly he'd have given us jet powered wings. Probably with with jets. Powered jets. attached to maybe some wings. Why do you think Swiss cheese is full of holes anyway? Frickin jet power, that's why. Jet powered cheese wings. It just ain't right. That's all I have to say.
He said, 'frackin'. Tee hee. Frackin. That's a polite form of 'fucking' which, where I live, is what a bloke with tickets on himself says when he means 'cunting'.
Reading the cunting article....
There is no point in developing a version of AutoCad for Linux until there are enough Linux users demanding a version of AutoCad and I'm not switching to Linux until they release a version of AutoCad for Linux and there's no point in developing a version of AutoCad for Linux until ......
Most US Americans ..... like such as ..... the Iraq.
You probably chose a goat. (2/3)
Monty definitely chose a goat.
The remaining door is probably the car. (2/3)
"of" is not a verb.
So you're saying that the price I pay for beer in Australia is not so much related to the price and availability of locally grown barley as to Americans growing corn to make a shitful substitute for petrol? Uh huh.
Actually the RS-232 standard was ratified by Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), god was not involved.
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There are existing Linux distributions for non x86 hardware. I've used Yellow Dog and Debian on PPC Mac hardware. There's a PPC flavour of Ubuntu, though it's now community maintained presumably because Apple stopped manufacturing PPC hardware. I've seen Ubuntu running on a PS3 recently. The Cell processor isn't x86. I assume there are binary distros for ARM too though I'd have to Google for that and that would involve opening another browser tab and I just can't be bothered.
You know what the real obstacle is? Flash for Linux is only available as a binary compiled for x86. Since a lot of pr0n sites use Flash video now I don't see anybody selling hardware without Flash support.
...which is, of course, a 'printer' which makes a 3D object out of 'plastic' as distinct from the more common plastic printer which.....oh never mind.
I was an only twin for some time and observed that I was more identical than my sibling, who had a curious tendency to lurk in dark places cursing under his breath. He had appalling dental hygiene and was slightly taller despite his stoop. Eventually I traded him in on a second hand Volkswagen.
At the risk of offending Opera users and gay people I'd have to say that Opera is gay. Also, Mozilla has the giant lizard monster. What does Opera have? A big letter 'O'. And maybe some dried fish. And Norway? You can't get there from here.
Yup, unless you have a G3 or a G4 slower than 867MHz in which case you can't install Leopard. Not really the point I was almost sort of making in my own peculiar flamebaity fashion. XP has been with us for 7 years. Vista is a big change. Change is bad. Vista is bad. Even if it's good it's different so it's bad. I don't mind it. It's Windows. Same shit different smell or something like that.
I remember struggling with sulking bitch art friends who clung desperately to OS9 for years after the release of OSX because "OS9 is better", "it's more intuitive", "OSX is confusing", "why did they have to change everything around?", "why do I have a home directory?", "why do I have to login?", "I deleted a file called mach_kernel to free up some space and now my computer won't boot", "it's not fair, wah wah wah".
Of course OSX is better than OS9 but it's different and if you've spent years getting used to the old way of doing things it might take a little while to work that out. Old habits are hard to break.
So Vista is different to XP and it requires more memory and it doesn't work with your old laser printer. Harden the fuck up.
Overbiatches.
...population you.
"If you want to call it art, yeah, okay, you can call it what you like. As far as I'm concerned, 'Art' is just short for 'Arthur.'"
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.
1. Storm the Winter Palace.
2. Overthrow the oppressive capitalist patriarchy.
3. Profit.
Really? I was wondering how I could use it to get girls.
MacFanboy1> Is that the new MacBook Air in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
MacFanboy2> Hey, let's have anal sex and then go to the Apple Store to buy new iPods!
MacFanboy1> We could go there in my new Volkswagen.
MacFanboy2> Holy crap I want to smoke some cock, but first I'll call all our friends on my new iPhone.
Pay more, get less. Hooray fuck. I'm buying a Dell.