don't buy their stuff then, fuckwit. Apple's gonna charge what they need to to stay in business, if you don't like their stuff, go and pay over to Michael Dell and Bill Gates instead. You have a fucking CHOICE you know.
another reply - I use a PowerMac G4 and a Toshiba Satellite Pro at home, I don't believe either is better quality than the other (they've both been hardware perfect over their lifetimes) but Windows DOES let the Toshiba down with it's myriad security vulnerabilities (it runs Win 2K). In terms of design, the Mac is very thoughtfully laid out, the Tosh had to be heavily dismantled for a RAM upgrade - much more so than Apple notebooks I've seen.
I wasn't criticising your BMW (my father drives a 540 and it's a lovely car) but rather your claims of high quality. BMWs are well designed, but not especially well built and it's well known that high production cars like the Ford Focus are regularly the most reliable cars that you can buy. As for my Xedos 6, it's somewhat superior to a 318, and better match for a 323 or 325 in terms of performance - but the beemers have better weighted steering!
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK the car manufacturer witht the fewest warranty claims is Mazda. Their best car is the Xedos 6. Mercedes was 5th, BMW 7th.
I have a Xedos 6 (and an RX-7!) and the Xedos has never had anything but scheduled maintenance and is now at 130000 miles and 8 years old. The Rx-7 has done about half the mileage and had to have ONE anti-roll bar mounting replaced. That's quality.
WRC (and Formula 1) run on 98RON unleaded petrol. Sorry, but what Americans don't know about building sports cars can JUST ABOUT fit into the Grand Canyon.
Yes! It's Motorola's management team! They must REALLY be an incompetent buch of twats to fuck up on cellphones, Iridium AND the MPC74xx. Holy crap - that's some hat trick!
why do we always get this idiotic V6, V8 and turbo crap? A V6 of x displacement will be broadly equivalent in power and torque output to a V8 of the same displacement - the car engine/CPU analogy NEVER FUCKING WORKS.
I don't understand this attitude - Moto still has some ability to outsmart Intel, Sun, SGI, ARM, AMD and IBM and Apple is the BEST and HIGHEST PROFILE customer they've got to show off their tech. Moto overpromised with the G4 - they can put it right or let IBM stroll off with the Apple glamour business. Make no mistake, Apple will get the message out about their new wonder-chip - so it's up to Moto whether Steve's raving about the "insanely great" new G4 or the PPC 970.
you wanna popularise HDTV? Just televise all of your wonderful American state executions on HDTV ONLY. I guarantee sales will go through the roof. Either that ofr start a war against Iraq and fit each soldier with an Aliens-style camera link. Put that on HDTV and see the sales soar.
look, it's a fairly different prospect to design your own mobo, software and case to simply buying them in from the Taiwanese and MS. Apples cost more because they COST more. Many of us would gladly pay to keep Apple independent, and thereby innovative. Apple isn't making monopolist profits - see MS for THAT. Anyway, admitting that you want OSX on Intel is admitting that the Linux movement has FAILED - GNU/Linux has the potential to provide an OSX like experience on commodity hardware, that it has failed where Apple has succeeded is significant indeed.
those G4 towers won't sell because of the crapulous inability of Motorola to get the fucking MPC 7470 out the door. We would've upgraded our workstations this autumn if they had been true DDR machines (and maybe NOT looked like shit). Apple needs a FAST workstation to sell it - professional users don't mind spending the money, but we want a realistic speed boost over our existing 733Mhz 'stations. Motorola, do some fucking WORK!
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don't buy their stuff then, fuckwit. Apple's gonna charge what they need to to stay in business, if you don't like their stuff, go and pay over to Michael Dell and Bill Gates instead. You have a fucking CHOICE you know.
WTF are you on about? MacOS costs £90 in the UK with Windows XP costing £155 and Redhat 8 costs £105.
another reply - I use a PowerMac G4 and a Toshiba Satellite Pro at home, I don't believe either is better quality than the other (they've both been hardware perfect over their lifetimes) but Windows DOES let the Toshiba down with it's myriad security vulnerabilities (it runs Win 2K). In terms of design, the Mac is very thoughtfully laid out, the Tosh had to be heavily dismantled for a RAM upgrade - much more so than Apple notebooks I've seen.
I wasn't criticising your BMW (my father drives a 540 and it's a lovely car) but rather your claims of high quality. BMWs are well designed, but not especially well built and it's well known that high production cars like the Ford Focus are regularly the most reliable cars that you can buy. As for my Xedos 6, it's somewhat superior to a 318, and better match for a 323 or 325 in terms of performance - but the beemers have better weighted steering!
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK the car manufacturer witht the fewest warranty claims is Mazda. Their best car is the Xedos 6. Mercedes was 5th, BMW 7th.
I have a Xedos 6 (and an RX-7!) and the Xedos has never had anything but scheduled maintenance and is now at 130000 miles and 8 years old. The Rx-7 has done about half the mileage and had to have ONE anti-roll bar mounting replaced. That's quality.
WRC (and Formula 1) run on 98RON unleaded petrol. Sorry, but what Americans don't know about building sports cars can JUST ABOUT fit into the Grand Canyon.
no, I THINK I can see a connection...
Yes! It's Motorola's management team! They must REALLY be an incompetent buch of twats to fuck up on cellphones, Iridium AND the MPC74xx. Holy crap - that's some hat trick!
explain Iridium in these simple terms to us laymen then.
my wife died two months ago
that's ONE word and ONE number
Professional journalist? Why the fuck can't you spell LUXURY then? Useless, lying twat.
even more pertinent is the fact that you'll be able to build something faster for $1500 in 3 months time. It's a total waste of everyone's time.
despite the MASSIVE case and terrible photography?
why do we always get this idiotic V6, V8 and turbo crap? A V6 of x displacement will be broadly equivalent in power and torque output to a V8 of the same displacement - the car engine/CPU analogy NEVER FUCKING WORKS.
So stop it.
yeah? Is this the same rational company that bet the farm on Iridium? Smart fucking company.
but Apple HAVE done a low cost range in the past (Performa) and it wasn't an enormous success.
perhaps?
after all, Americans brought us "burglarize"
I don't understand this attitude - Moto still has some ability to outsmart Intel, Sun, SGI, ARM, AMD and IBM and Apple is the BEST and HIGHEST PROFILE customer they've got to show off their tech. Moto overpromised with the G4 - they can put it right or let IBM stroll off with the Apple glamour business. Make no mistake, Apple will get the message out about their new wonder-chip - so it's up to Moto whether Steve's raving about the "insanely great" new G4 or the PPC 970.
if Apple's economists thought that was true, they'd do it, wouldn't they?
you wanna popularise HDTV? Just televise all of your wonderful American state executions on HDTV ONLY. I guarantee sales will go through the roof. Either that ofr start a war against Iraq and fit each soldier with an Aliens-style camera link. Put that on HDTV and see the sales soar.
look, it's a fairly different prospect to design your own mobo, software and case to simply buying them in from the Taiwanese and MS. Apples cost more because they COST more. Many of us would gladly pay to keep Apple independent, and thereby innovative. Apple isn't making monopolist profits - see MS for THAT. Anyway, admitting that you want OSX on Intel is admitting that the Linux movement has FAILED - GNU/Linux has the potential to provide an OSX like experience on commodity hardware, that it has failed where Apple has succeeded is significant indeed.
those G4 towers won't sell because of the crapulous inability of Motorola to get the fucking MPC 7470 out the door. We would've upgraded our workstations this autumn if they had been true DDR machines (and maybe NOT looked like shit). Apple needs a FAST workstation to sell it - professional users don't mind spending the money, but we want a realistic speed boost over our existing 733Mhz 'stations. Motorola, do some fucking WORK!
yep, and Apple would LOSE A THOUSAND BUCKS on each and every one. You're not an MBA by any chance, are you?
good call - the cube was actually withdrawn because Apple couldn't make 'em fast enough...
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