Apple marketing created the illusion which it's products hid behind, the illusion has mostly evaporated under the glare of the truth. So Apple is basically acknowledging that it's market are the spoilt brats who don't give a crap about anything unless it is fashionable to do so, today, in the last hour, now. So it is squeezing out on cost to maximise profits because the spoilt brat market eventually becomes the no taste market, they have basically painted themselves in a corner. Fashionable fads always die, clothes, hairstyles, jewellery, food, cars, basically any imaginable accessory all go the route of the yoyo and hula hoop.
Cutting analysis but accurate. So accurate that Apple's professional Slashdot moderators need to be alerted right away. Oh wait, they're already here.
I came back to Apple with OSX 10.1 and I'm keeping my geek credit.
Self appointed geek cred? I cannot think of a single person running an Apple box who is anything more than a poser in geek terms. Perhaps you are the exception but I doubt it.
I bought from endpcnoise.com and I have nothing but good things to say about them. Indeed, they ship a nice case. Best, they assemble everything and QA it at a price that competes with me doing it and saves all kinds of skinned knuckles. Then these machines are really upgradable, I've upgraded the video card a couple of times, added two more spinning disks and an SSD. I will buy from them again, this time a 6 way 3.8 GHz Zamboni, err, Zambezi. And this time I will leave out the acoustic insulation but get the quietized hard disk enclosure. The HD and the power supply are the only moving parts in there, and they ship with a pretty quiet power supply. So no point to the acoustic insulation, but lots of point to the rather expensive HD enclosure. Then add my own SSD, using the hard disk mainly for swap (best not swap to the SSD). Not that I expect it to swap much with 16G. That will all come in around $1300, I know, it's more than a bargain basement box, but it's also a professional quality box. And they knock off $98 for no OS, $68 for Ubuntu. It's definitely worth the $30 to me for the preinstall, even though I will put on Debian Sid shortly after.
My quad core Linux Phenom II machine running a fanless GPU and SSD trumps your Mac in quietness, power consumption, price, utility, greenness and all round social conscience.
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Apple marketing created the illusion which it's products hid behind, the illusion has mostly evaporated under the glare of the truth. So Apple is basically acknowledging that it's market are the spoilt brats who don't give a crap about anything unless it is fashionable to do so, today, in the last hour, now. So it is squeezing out on cost to maximise profits because the spoilt brat market eventually becomes the no taste market, they have basically painted themselves in a corner. Fashionable fads always die, clothes, hairstyles, jewellery, food, cars, basically any imaginable accessory all go the route of the yoyo and hula hoop.
Cutting analysis but accurate. So accurate that Apple's professional Slashdot moderators need to be alerted right away. Oh wait, they're already here.
I can see it now: Apple HQ surrounded by blue helmets.
I came back to Apple with OSX 10.1 and I'm keeping my geek credit.
Self appointed geek cred? I cannot think of a single person running an Apple box who is anything more than a poser in geek terms. Perhaps you are the exception but I doubt it.
It's like Scientology calling anyone who criticizes their cult "narrow minded".
Oh, did I say that Apple is like Scientology? Who should be more embarrassed, Apple or the Scientologists?
I bought from endpcnoise.com and I have nothing but good things to say about them. Indeed, they ship a nice case. Best, they assemble everything and QA it at a price that competes with me doing it and saves all kinds of skinned knuckles. Then these machines are really upgradable, I've upgraded the video card a couple of times, added two more spinning disks and an SSD. I will buy from them again, this time a 6 way 3.8 GHz Zamboni, err, Zambezi. And this time I will leave out the acoustic insulation but get the quietized hard disk enclosure. The HD and the power supply are the only moving parts in there, and they ship with a pretty quiet power supply. So no point to the acoustic insulation, but lots of point to the rather expensive HD enclosure. Then add my own SSD, using the hard disk mainly for swap (best not swap to the SSD). Not that I expect it to swap much with 16G. That will all come in around $1300, I know, it's more than a bargain basement box, but it's also a professional quality box. And they knock off $98 for no OS, $68 for Ubuntu. It's definitely worth the $30 to me for the preinstall, even though I will put on Debian Sid shortly after.
Another pity is that (almost) no commercially available devices that will implement this chip will actually run a free OS....
Huh? What are you smoking? This thing will probably run nothing but Linux.
Their market share was in free-fall well before the Microsoft deal.
That is actually Microsoft spin and has been debunked.
Developing in C++/QT kicks C/GTK to the far side of the moon. Speaking as a longtime C hack.
The company started as a pulp mill in 1865 in the city of Nokia...
And pretty soon it will have to go back to being a pulp mill. It's just too bad nobody reads newspapers any more.
Their strongest arguments are native execution speed and full QT power. It might be enough to get them somewhere.
Still using rpm. What a bad idea. Still, it's an interesting project.
My quad core Linux Phenom II machine running a fanless GPU and SSD trumps your Mac in quietness, power consumption, price, utility, greenness and all round social conscience.
When you're MS and can sell a copy of SharePoint at 65K a licence...
Does anybody use Sharepoint any more?
EPEAT probably is going to have to give on this or be replaced if that is the trend.
Why doesn't Apple just send over the Apple Police and kick their door in?
I predict that the program will update itself to account for this and Apple will rejoin, after the changes are there.
I counter-predict that Apple will be forced into an embarrassing climb-down and lose a lot of sales before they realize they need to do that.
Good move, Apple - you may have just saved Steve Ballmer's job.
I doubt that Microsoft will be the main beneficiary.
I expect Apple is going to put pressure on EPEAT to relax their standards for laptops...
Why stop at pressure? Why not just back up to the loading dock with a truck full of cash? After all, this is Apple profits at stake.
Apple uses glue because it is faster to manufacture...
Faster than magnets? I don't think so.
I love it, Apple cultists now forced to claim green is evil. Next users will be evil.
While I think Apple can be taken to task for gluing a battery in rather than putting some clips on it, it's a small issue overall.
Note at all. It totally sums up Apple's moral and ethical position.
I take issue with filthy hippies who would appoint themselves as philosopher kings
Oh now Apple is attacking hippies, I love it.
Wow, you put your finger right on it. Mod up. I know someone who exactly fits that description.
I guess it means Macs are now unwelcome and everybody goes back to Linux on all kinds of platforms. To get work done and be green.
I'm impressed how far Apple apologists are willing to go to apologize for the bad acting of their idol.
It's like Scientology calling anyone who criticizes their cult "narrow minded".