Anarchy, defined as "everybody out for themselves but due to an "invisible hand" effect working together towards the same end" has the same problem as Communism/Socialism.
If someone decides NOT to play by the same rules as everyone else, they have an advantage (even if only temporarily) in the system.
If it's anarchy in the classical sense, it just devolves (rapidly) into absolute tyranny as a segment of the population will subjugate others.
Then she isn't going to find a Mac any easier. Sorry, she just isn't.
"or Windows PCs are just as a whole too hard to keep clean and functioning well."
If an old, technophobic guy in his 80's like my Grandfather can do it for years on end, so can some technophobic young girl, even if her attention span isn't what it should be.
"He is tired of the security problems with his PCs."
The biggest one being himself.
My grandfather has been on the same XP PC for the last 5 years now.
He hasn't caught a virus, gotten any malware, crashed, beta-bound, or had anything negative happen to his computer (until recently when he accidentally uninstalled an app that REQUIRED support for IE5).
The majority of "security issues" with Windows are due to the users themselves.
Put them on a Mac, and watch them FUBAR that system as well.
"You know you can take that money you save and buy Windows XP and install it on the Mac"
If you want to waste space installing an entire other OS.
Or VM.
With another piece of software that costs still more money ($80+) That cannot run 64-bit guest OSes. That cannot run the Aero interface. That doesn't support SMP in the VM. No Bluetooth support Broken 3D support Wacom functionality broken Certain guest OSes limited in resolution.
So..yeah. It can. Just not WELL.
"So why not have the best of both worlds,"
What if I can't stand the MacOS interface? Why should I pay extra just to work around it?
"Alternative"
And if I don't WANT an "alternative"?
If I want Photoshop, I buy Photoshop. I don't download the GIMP and tell myself "It's Photoshop-ish"
"or even the same Company makes a Mac version"
That usually has a slightly (or wildly) different interface, complete with missing features.
Okay, the main gripe here appears to be the dedicated vs integrated video.
Now, REALISTICALLY, how much hardcore gaming are you going to do on EITHER of these systems?
What?
What was that?
NONE?
That's pretty much what I thought. As such, dropping a dedicated video card in for a machine that's going to spend most of it's time playing movies, TV and displaying the desktop is a PERFECTLY acceptable solution.
So this "the Mac has dedicated video" is a non-issue. Unless you're gaming or doing graphics-intensive work (and why the hell would you do that on one of these things?), you see NO benefit (other than stupid gloating rights) out of dedicated video.
Additionally, your comparison between the old GMA line on your X61 (which was never meant to be a gaming machine either), and the UMA line (in the One) is tenuous at best.
If you're going to game, and you want one of these, just don't buy the base model.
So: Faster processor More RAM Basic equipment that costs extra (or isn't available) on the iMac is standard Roughly the same price.
As to old Walt "Go Apple! Woo Woo" Mossberg, I'm simply going to ignore the comparison between Vista and MacOS. Apple could still be running OS9 on a half-cooked G3, and he'd say the same thing.
Uh no. They essentially (over)charged this person for a brand new hard drive. At that point, the old drive WAS STILL HIS PROPERTY. As such, they needed to return it.
This is why I maintain a spare drive...for times I have to send my laptop in for repairs (not the kiddie porn thing).
Load a clean copy of an OS on there, verify that it works, then submit the machine with that in. And NO, I'm not talking about pirating Windows by installing a second copy. Ubuntu works fine. If they can't use it, they can wipe the drive and install Windows on it again. It's just going to get wiped and re-Ubuntu'ed when it gets back anyhow. I then slam my Windows drive back in and voila!
I have too much sensitive data on my drive to turn it in. And I've seen too many clients lose literally their ENTIRE business' data because they didn't do backups before sending a computer in that was later wiped.
As I have backups, if it's my hard drive that dies (or the machine is replaced by one that's somehow different enough to make my original drive not work, I can recover my data.
It's easy. Buy the smallest hard drive you can with the thing. And get one of an acceptable size after-market.
It's always possible that I've just been mugged and woken up the next morning in hotel room tub filled with ice after having my humor surgically removed...
But I just don't find talk radio engaging anymore. AT ALL. Yes, on occasion, they MIGHT drag a laugh out of me. But the majority of it just reminds me of a bunch of old women sitting around and gossiping. Sure, it might be juicy here and there, but it gets old REAL quick.
Talk radio has been dead for over a decade. It's zombie is just not intelligent enough to lie down and disintegrate. There are tons of talk radio programs in Chicago (especially during the morning). And all of it is absolute, unmitigated CRAP. I wind up flipping over to a CD during my morning commute, then tune back during the evening when they're playing music (though the occasional butchered song...since when the hell is "placenta" a dirty unairable word?...still prompts an immediate station change).
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That sure didn't take long.
"One neutral not-for-profit entity owns the fiber/copper/coax and leases it to whomever is interested in providing service"
Again, just another monopoly.
And there are lots of "not for profit" corporations out there that don't rake in the cash...they pay people to do it for them...
Nope. Sorry, ain't going to work.
Anarchy, defined as "everybody out for themselves but due to an "invisible hand" effect working together towards the same end" has the same problem as Communism/Socialism.
If someone decides NOT to play by the same rules as everyone else, they have an advantage (even if only temporarily) in the system.
If it's anarchy in the classical sense, it just devolves (rapidly) into absolute tyranny as a segment of the population will subjugate others.
Sorry, but NUCK THAT FOISE!
REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU 315 comments
Even so, I still think this will have to survive court challenges.
So...to buy music online...you have to go to a meatspace store?
Why not just buy the fucking CD at that point?
I can see this at Christmas.
*Little Jimmy* Here you go grandma!
*Grandma* Why thank you Jimmy you're such a
{100 decibels} WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS!...
*Grandma* Augh!
[THUD]
*Little Jimmy* Grandma? Grandma? Why'd you go to sleep?
Out of how much market cap in the entirety of the music industry?
Not "niche" as in "Apple only has XYZ percent of the total computer market".
Seriously. Apple, for all it's dominance in online music, is still a niche market.
No. Sperm will NOT live three days in the vagina. Too acidic, too hostile.
The mean lifetime of three days are sperm that survive long enough to move into the fallopian tubes.
Uhm. Is this a trick question?
YES DAMMIT! YES! YES!
"She finds using a PC complicated."
Then she isn't going to find a Mac any easier. Sorry, she just isn't.
"or Windows PCs are just as a whole too hard to keep clean and functioning well."
If an old, technophobic guy in his 80's like my Grandfather can do it for years on end, so can some technophobic young girl, even if her attention span isn't what it should be.
Operative word "seemingly".
"He is tired of the security problems with his PCs."
The biggest one being himself.
My grandfather has been on the same XP PC for the last 5 years now.
He hasn't caught a virus, gotten any malware, crashed, beta-bound, or had anything negative happen to his computer (until recently when he accidentally uninstalled an app that REQUIRED support for IE5).
The majority of "security issues" with Windows are due to the users themselves.
Put them on a Mac, and watch them FUBAR that system as well.
"You know you can take that money you save and buy Windows XP and install it on the Mac"
If you want to waste space installing an entire other OS.
Or VM.
With another piece of software that costs still more money ($80+)
That cannot run 64-bit guest OSes.
That cannot run the Aero interface.
That doesn't support SMP in the VM.
No Bluetooth support
Broken 3D support
Wacom functionality broken
Certain guest OSes limited in resolution.
So..yeah. It can. Just not WELL.
"So why not have the best of both worlds,"
What if I can't stand the MacOS interface? Why should I pay extra just to work around it?
"Alternative"
And if I don't WANT an "alternative"?
If I want Photoshop, I buy Photoshop. I don't download the GIMP and tell myself "It's Photoshop-ish"
"or even the same Company makes a Mac version"
That usually has a slightly (or wildly) different interface, complete with missing features.
Okay, the main gripe here appears to be the dedicated vs integrated video.
Now, REALISTICALLY, how much hardcore gaming are you going to do on EITHER of these systems?
What?
What was that?
NONE?
That's pretty much what I thought. As such, dropping a dedicated video card in for a machine that's going to spend most of it's time playing movies, TV and displaying the desktop is a PERFECTLY acceptable solution.
So this "the Mac has dedicated video" is a non-issue. Unless you're gaming or doing graphics-intensive work (and why the hell would you do that on one of these things?), you see NO benefit (other than stupid gloating rights) out of dedicated video.
Additionally, your comparison between the old GMA line on your X61 (which was never meant to be a gaming machine either), and the UMA line (in the One) is tenuous at best.
If you're going to game, and you want one of these, just don't buy the base model.
So:
Faster processor
More RAM
Basic equipment that costs extra (or isn't available) on the iMac is standard
Roughly the same price.
As to old Walt "Go Apple! Woo Woo" Mossberg, I'm simply going to ignore the comparison between Vista and MacOS. Apple could still be running OS9 on a half-cooked G3, and he'd say the same thing.
Personally, I wouldn't touch EITHER of these.
Until the Egyptians can show me a pyramid with a huge, disembodied eye floating over it that's been there for 3000-ish years.
Possibly more. Depending on the value of the data on that drive.
Uh no. They essentially (over)charged this person for a brand new hard drive. At that point, the old drive WAS STILL HIS PROPERTY. As such, they needed to return it.
It's typical corporate "head up ass" syndrome.
CC is on it's way out/down, so the execs are going to raid the coffers before everything tanks.
This is why I maintain a spare drive...for times I have to send my laptop in for repairs (not the kiddie porn thing).
Load a clean copy of an OS on there, verify that it works, then submit the machine with that in. And NO, I'm not talking about pirating Windows by installing a second copy. Ubuntu works fine. If they can't use it, they can wipe the drive and install Windows on it again. It's just going to get wiped and re-Ubuntu'ed when it gets back anyhow. I then slam my Windows drive back in and voila!
I have too much sensitive data on my drive to turn it in. And I've seen too many clients lose literally their ENTIRE business' data because they didn't do backups before sending a computer in that was later wiped.
As I have backups, if it's my hard drive that dies (or the machine is replaced by one that's somehow different enough to make my original drive not work, I can recover my data.
It's easy. Buy the smallest hard drive you can with the thing. And get one of an acceptable size after-market.
It's always possible that I've just been mugged and woken up the next morning in hotel room tub filled with ice after having my humor surgically removed...
But I just don't find talk radio engaging anymore. AT ALL. Yes, on occasion, they MIGHT drag a laugh out of me. But the majority of it just reminds me of a bunch of old women sitting around and gossiping. Sure, it might be juicy here and there, but it gets old REAL quick.
Educational stuff? I'd love that on public radio. Good luck getting one of these money-grubber stations to go for that.
More talk shows? SCREW THAT!
Excuse me... SCREW THAT!!!
Talk radio has been dead for over a decade. It's zombie is just not intelligent enough to lie down and disintegrate. There are tons of talk radio programs in Chicago (especially during the morning). And all of it is absolute, unmitigated CRAP. I wind up flipping over to a CD during my morning commute, then tune back during the evening when they're playing music (though the occasional butchered song...since when the hell is "placenta" a dirty unairable word?...still prompts an immediate station change).
If you can hear me exploding, you're toast sucker!
If this passes, we're going to get a LOT more crappy talk-radio.
Considering that their electronic division has big problems paying for software they buy, the fact that they go to a "free" option is a HUGE shock.
NOT!
Hopefully their application developers are getting substantial percentages in advance.