I've had my current Macbook since 2005. (The first two I purchased in the same year were stolen.) I still don't feel a need to trade it in. Many adults who by Macs hold on to them until they die or they need to run a newer version of OS X that isn't supported on the older hardware. My laptop will be running Lion before the end of the month. Kids and teenagers want to trade in often, but that's true for everything they own, including cars.
Macbooks are simply another choice in the mix. Good quality and the ability to (legally) run OS X. If you don't want the features, don't pay for them. Buy a Toshiba or a Dell. It doesn't matter. Treating Apple computers as if they are not just another choice in the PC market is so 1990s.
Anecdotally, I say you're lying. It's theoretically possible for a small group of related people to have so many problems with one manufacturer, but I suspect you're just making it up. Or you live about 4 feet under water and forgot to mention that they all died due to saltwater damage.
You are ignorant and stupid, truly living up to your chosen handle. Apple's OS for Macs is called OS X, not OS X. OS X is a certified implementation of Unix. As of 10.5, if I remember correctly.
The same place as Hurd? In some pile of useless shit some few people care about, but that has no impact on the real world? I don't care if there is any problem with the build tools or not -- OpenDarwin has less appeal than Open Solaris, and the larger community didn't give a shit about that either.
Word is a good word processor. That you don't need one doesn't make it less so. Excel is hands-down the best spreadsheet program ever written. I have no use for PP, and Outlook is OK, but nothing to write home about. I only use it at work.
And the number of people using Word that do not care about its file format approaches 100% asymptotically.
Except for the odd legacy box here and there, Ford Motor runs Oracle exclusively on Linux and Windows. Solaris itself is legacy outside of Engineering.
I don't carry a cellphone. I have a PAYG that's been sitting in a drawer for 8 or 9 months now. I'll pull it out in a few weeks, as my wife's due date is approaching, but after the delivery, back in the drawer it goes.
Yes, directly. Yes, really. Yes, if there's an app for it. Yes, even though you haven't seen it.
Explain to me how a (modern) smartphone isn't a portable computer with cellular voice hardware.
There is no time you'd need an iPad where a netbook wouldn't get the job done. What is your point? You could also lug around your desktop. It gets even more done than a netbook.
Doctors "grope" children all the time, as part of medical checkups. I hate the TSA (Terrorists' Sponsor Agency) as much as anyone, but the pat-down is neither molestation, nor is the technique "groping".
This happened to my parents for several months with AT&T. Every month, my dad would have to call AT&T and have them remove the bogus charges. They insisted that it was impossible to block these charges. My response to my parents was that they should drop AT&T and get a VoIP line. We switched to a Comcast business account for cable and to voipo for phone service. Even with the business line, my parents were paying about $50 less per month, and have had zero billing issues.
(I've since left the house, so they downgraded to a residential account. They are saving even more now.)
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Evil, perhaps not. Traitors, definitely.
You are an idiot and a moron. None of the three you listed were considered criminals.
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I'm not sure if this is ironic or oddly appropriate.
I'm not on Facebook. I graduated before it even started.
High School?
Your logic is incorrect. Just because Apple doesn't sell anything like what you built does not mean that what they sell is overpriced.
I've had my current Macbook since 2005. (The first two I purchased in the same year were stolen.) I still don't feel a need to trade it in. Many adults who by Macs hold on to them until they die or they need to run a newer version of OS X that isn't supported on the older hardware. My laptop will be running Lion before the end of the month. Kids and teenagers want to trade in often, but that's true for everything they own, including cars.
Macbooks are simply another choice in the mix. Good quality and the ability to (legally) run OS X. If you don't want the features, don't pay for them. Buy a Toshiba or a Dell. It doesn't matter. Treating Apple computers as if they are not just another choice in the PC market is so 1990s.
Anecdotally, I say you're lying. It's theoretically possible for a small group of related people to have so many problems with one manufacturer, but I suspect you're just making it up. Or you live about 4 feet under water and forgot to mention that they all died due to saltwater damage.
Typos are fun.
Apple's OS for Macs is called OS X, not OS X.
That should read "Apple's OS for Macs is called OS X, not OS/X."
You are ignorant and stupid, truly living up to your chosen handle. Apple's OS for Macs is called OS X, not OS X. OS X is a certified implementation of Unix. As of 10.5, if I remember correctly.
The same place as Hurd? In some pile of useless shit some few people care about, but that has no impact on the real world? I don't care if there is any problem with the build tools or not -- OpenDarwin has less appeal than Open Solaris, and the larger community didn't give a shit about that either.
Changing your window manager settings in Linux also only changes X11 apps.
What's not built in to Windows? The color picker? You'd be wrong about that.
Word is a good word processor. That you don't need one doesn't make it less so. Excel is hands-down the best spreadsheet program ever written. I have no use for PP, and Outlook is OK, but nothing to write home about. I only use it at work.
And the number of people using Word that do not care about its file format approaches 100% asymptotically.
Except for the odd legacy box here and there, Ford Motor runs Oracle exclusively on Linux and Windows. Solaris itself is legacy outside of Engineering.
Kevin was obviously (from context) talking office software suites (MS Office or OO). You're not that bright, really, if you couldn't figure that out.
You're still in HS aren't you? And you recently discovered FOSS and now you want to sound rebellious. You're so cute when you get worked up.
Amazon doesn't claim to be a manufacturer. Additionally, your post makes little sense in English.
I don't carry a cellphone. I have a PAYG that's been sitting in a drawer for 8 or 9 months now. I'll pull it out in a few weeks, as my wife's due date is approaching, but after the delivery, back in the drawer it goes.
To be fair, I also don't own a Kindle.
Yes, directly. Yes, really. Yes, if there's an app for it. Yes, even though you haven't seen it.
Explain to me how a (modern) smartphone isn't a portable computer with cellular voice hardware.
There is no time you'd need an iPad where a netbook wouldn't get the job done. What is your point? You could also lug around your desktop. It gets even more done than a netbook.
Because real people don't give a shit that you don't approve of their desire for Flash's functionality to be hosted in a web browser.
Doctors "grope" children all the time, as part of medical checkups. I hate the TSA (Terrorists' Sponsor Agency) as much as anyone, but the pat-down is neither molestation, nor is the technique "groping".
TSA = Terrorists' Sponsor Agency. The TSA... it's how terrorism gets done!
This happened to my parents for several months with AT&T. Every month, my dad would have to call AT&T and have them remove the bogus charges. They insisted that it was impossible to block these charges. My response to my parents was that they should drop AT&T and get a VoIP line. We switched to a Comcast business account for cable and to voipo for phone service. Even with the business line, my parents were paying about $50 less per month, and have had zero billing issues.
(I've since left the house, so they downgraded to a residential account. They are saving even more now.)