Nitrogen is as close to a noble gas as you can get outside of group 18. It really doesn't like to react with anything without some serious forcing, or the use of an enzyme or catalyst.
I'm sure the closer-to-flagship ones are better, but then you're (I mean the hypothetical general consumer) starting to cut out the main reason you might look away from Apple in the first place in the phone space. For the vast majority of consumers, the difference between Android and iOS has nothing to do with Android's more open stance (perhaps it should be called a "curated garden" in contrast to Apple's walled garden).
I had a lab mate who loved everything about her Galaxy S2, except the battery life - she even had the extra fat extended battery pack for it, but it was a constant source of annoyance for her. She would bring her charger into the lab and top up during the day. She's a pretty typical phone user - not using it for anything excessive or particularly power-hungry, but it just didn't last. She liked it enough that she did get another S2 when her first one broke (not through a fault of the phone), but the battery life on the new one continued to plague her. The cost of an iPhone at that point in time was virtually a wash so it wasn't even like she was going the cheaper route.
If the new Nexus 5 can cash the cheques promised by the spec and the price then it will be a great phone. It is remarkably affordable (is it bad that we've been conditioned to think that way by the market) for the off-contract price, assuming it is built as well as the phones costing much more than it does.
While their phone is inferior, it is "good enough" for all they need to do
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but mostly because they see that their cheap phone can do EVERYTHING my iPhone can do at a quarter of the price.
So with that last sentence you're saying it's superior to your iPhone....
Well, that price cut has to come from somewhere. My cousin's experience with a Samsung Galaxy Ace has taught me that it's in build quality and customer service. After 2 replacement phones, and a third one that suffered the same problem (touchscreen not working) and sending it back in for service again ("we can't find a fault"), she bought an iPhone and never looked back.
Maybe the non-Ace Galaxies are better, but I wouldn't risk it. I originally suggested Android to them for exactly the reason suggested: the phone was cheaper and did the same things as the iPhone and they were on a budget.
They're not purging negative comments, they're purging comments that are telling people to take their phones into Apple to have them exchanged under warranty because the update physically broke the wifi chip.
There are plenty of critical comments of Apple and their products on those boards.
However, that doesn't make for very effective click bait.
That's the point - they're not censoring complaints - there are plenty of those on those very boards. They remove specific things that break the posting rules (and note; criticising Apple or its products is not against the rules). One of those rules is saying something like "the iOS7 update damaged your wifi hardware, so get your phone exchanged under warranty", when no such thing is indicated right now.
Even if that does turn out to be the eventual outcome of the bug, posting that sort of information now and unofficially on a site that Apple controls is just not going to fly.
He's free to be critical of them all he wants, even on their own boards, but they can and will remove erroneous or premature "solutions" to bugs.
Dell's business model is to subsidise consumer sales with business sales.
Why would they do that, and do you have any evidence that they do?
I'm drawing inference from the OP's claim that "50% off" deals are "routine" and are in fact so common that buying a Dell that isn't 50% off is being ripped off. So, either Dell artificially inflates its prices and then offers 'discounts', or it is able to sell a certain stock amount at a discount because it's making the bulk of its profit on the hardware elsewhere. Given how large Dell is, and the number of businesses who purchase them in bulk, this seems like a likely place.
You can turn off automatic updates (I believe they are off by default actually - the default is simply to download new stuff automatically and offer to install it).
Your final point... well. I think I have some tinfoil around here to put on my head so I can get properly dressed for that level of argument.
They're free if you have a trial, legacy or pirate version on your system. If you don't have any of those, then the store prompts you to buy them. They are bundled free with new Macs though, and up until this announcement they were available as trial downloads from Apple, so most Apple customers probably have at least one of those options.
To be fair to the OP, they did remove the ability to export as.rtf and a couple of the templates are gone. It's hardly "completely dumbed down" but some users have noticed that some features have been removed with this update.
You don't get it. These kind of discounts are routine with Dells. Sure, perhaps not the 50% one. I repeat: you're insane if you pay full price for a Dell.
No, I do get it - Dell's business model is to subsidise consumer sales with business sales. It still means you end up with a Dell though. In my experience, I've never had a good one (in my hands, or the hands of many friends and coworkers), so my incentive to shell out for the expensive ones like the XPS 15 is much reduced, even if they do promise that "*this* one is really well made, honest!" I'm not going to take that risk.
No, it really is hatred. You are mistaking your hatred for Apple for pragmatism.
If you can't see that your totally blanket statement that there is only one positive feature to Apple hardware, and that it is inferior and expensive is totally subjective, then I can't help you. Consider that some people (and the subset of people who use computers is vast) don't have the same criteria for hardware selection that you do.
You sound reasonably intelligent, but you appear to have a mental block on this issue.
It's a free upgrade to any Mac that can run the last three iterations of OS X, on Macs going back as far as 2007, but I guess it depends what you consider "recent".
They hold their value because people place move value on them than a simple utility. A PC is for utility. A Mac is a fashion item. The equivalent era Mac is no more capable than the equivalent era PC, considering they're made with the same exact parts.
The same exact parts like... a metal case?
"The same exact parts" is demonstrably untrue - there aren't many metal PCs, and the scant few that do exist (Dell's XPS 15 for example), tend to be expensive.
It's not about the Mac being a "fashion item" (as if owning something with decent aesthetics somehow makes it a lesser utility item). No, Macs hold their value because they are well built and last a long time. Other laptops and desktops with plastic cases and parts just don't have that longevity, and those that do also tend to hold their value.
Again, like the previous poster, you don't seem to be able to look at the big picture beyond "lol, they are toys for fashionistas". The quality of a product goes beyond the raw specs (which are comparable, with the switch to Intel in 2005/2006) and has to consider the whole package; the physical case the parts are enclosed in, along with other design elements are a large part of why Macs hold their value - especially the laptops.
Since the core components are FOSS, can't anyone simply take it, recompile it on a standard PC and then make it available? Sorta like the Hackintosh project, for PC users who don't wanna buy a Mac?
The open source bits, sure - you can just get them directly from Apple, in fact.
The UI that runs on the top though is not open, and they won't give you the source to that.
You can just install OS X on an appropriately-constructed PC though (i.e., find parts that are common to Macs to minimise driver issues). Apple won't stop you as a home user (no DRM or encryption on the installer except a text file that says "please don't steal OS X"). If you try to make a business out of it though, they might take notice (Psystar).
No you can't. The hardware requirements of the newer versions of MacOS won't allow for it.
Every so often, those icky "specs" matter.
Plus you are contradicting that common bit of fanboy propaganda regarding "resale value".
So, in other words, your mind is set: it's impossible to present a valid argument where Apple isn't some evil thing.
10.9 is free for any Mac that runs OS X from as far back as Snow Leopard, so that's most of the Intel ones, and the ones that it doesn't include are pushing 6 or more years old.
There's no "expensive previous software requirement" as originally stated by the original commenter - at most, you're out $29 for Snow Leopard, or the same for Lion/ML (depending on whether you upgraded through all three).
The resale argument is also hardly contradicted - show me an equivalent era PC that is worth as much as an equivalent era Mac. They hold their value; this is not "propaganda" - you can look at actual numbers on sites where these sorts of things are tracked (go and look at past ebay auctions, for example). This data isn't just made up.
You know how some cars use diesel, and some cars use gasoline?
Yeah.
But good question! I'm sure no one in the many, many, many years this has been studied by legions of engineers and scientists has ever thought to ask that question. I'll pass it on!
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So, what legislation is that?
I wasn't aware that calling on Congress to do something counted as legislation.
Also, you forgot to log in.
Nitrogen is as close to a noble gas as you can get outside of group 18. It really doesn't like to react with anything without some serious forcing, or the use of an enzyme or catalyst.
Give me a specific piece of anti-second-amendment (or even anti-gun) legislation that Obama has either proposed or actually signed into law.
I'll wait.
I'm sure the closer-to-flagship ones are better, but then you're (I mean the hypothetical general consumer) starting to cut out the main reason you might look away from Apple in the first place in the phone space. For the vast majority of consumers, the difference between Android and iOS has nothing to do with Android's more open stance (perhaps it should be called a "curated garden" in contrast to Apple's walled garden).
I had a lab mate who loved everything about her Galaxy S2, except the battery life - she even had the extra fat extended battery pack for it, but it was a constant source of annoyance for her. She would bring her charger into the lab and top up during the day. She's a pretty typical phone user - not using it for anything excessive or particularly power-hungry, but it just didn't last. She liked it enough that she did get another S2 when her first one broke (not through a fault of the phone), but the battery life on the new one continued to plague her. The cost of an iPhone at that point in time was virtually a wash so it wasn't even like she was going the cheaper route.
If the new Nexus 5 can cash the cheques promised by the spec and the price then it will be a great phone. It is remarkably affordable (is it bad that we've been conditioned to think that way by the market) for the off-contract price, assuming it is built as well as the phones costing much more than it does.
....
While their phone is inferior, it is "good enough" for all they need to do
....
but mostly because they see that their cheap phone can do EVERYTHING my iPhone can do at a quarter of the price.
So with that last sentence you're saying it's superior to your iPhone....
Well, that price cut has to come from somewhere. My cousin's experience with a Samsung Galaxy Ace has taught me that it's in build quality and customer service. After 2 replacement phones, and a third one that suffered the same problem (touchscreen not working) and sending it back in for service again ("we can't find a fault"), she bought an iPhone and never looked back.
Maybe the non-Ace Galaxies are better, but I wouldn't risk it. I originally suggested Android to them for exactly the reason suggested: the phone was cheaper and did the same things as the iPhone and they were on a budget.
They're not purging negative comments, they're purging comments that are telling people to take their phones into Apple to have them exchanged under warranty because the update physically broke the wifi chip.
There are plenty of critical comments of Apple and their products on those boards.
However, that doesn't make for very effective click bait.
That's the point - they're not censoring complaints - there are plenty of those on those very boards. They remove specific things that break the posting rules (and note; criticising Apple or its products is not against the rules). One of those rules is saying something like "the iOS7 update damaged your wifi hardware, so get your phone exchanged under warranty", when no such thing is indicated right now.
Even if that does turn out to be the eventual outcome of the bug, posting that sort of information now and unofficially on a site that Apple controls is just not going to fly.
He's free to be critical of them all he wants, even on their own boards, but they can and will remove erroneous or premature "solutions" to bugs.
Call Apple, since you absolutely should have older copies of iWork and iLife on there. A Haswell Air is definitely in the included set of machines.
Why use the seawater as your working fluid?
Just make a closed cycle and put a heat exchanger down there. No need for the seawater to be exposed to anything except the exterior radiators.
Why would they do that, and do you have any evidence that they do?
I'm drawing inference from the OP's claim that "50% off" deals are "routine" and are in fact so common that buying a Dell that isn't 50% off is being ripped off. So, either Dell artificially inflates its prices and then offers 'discounts', or it is able to sell a certain stock amount at a discount because it's making the bulk of its profit on the hardware elsewhere. Given how large Dell is, and the number of businesses who purchase them in bulk, this seems like a likely place.
Alternatively, the OP was full of crap.
You can turn off automatic updates (I believe they are off by default actually - the default is simply to download new stuff automatically and offer to install it).
Your final point... well. I think I have some tinfoil around here to put on my head so I can get properly dressed for that level of argument.
They're free if you have a trial, legacy or pirate version on your system. If you don't have any of those, then the store prompts you to buy them. They are bundled free with new Macs though, and up until this announcement they were available as trial downloads from Apple, so most Apple customers probably have at least one of those options.
To be fair to the OP, they did remove the ability to export as .rtf and a couple of the templates are gone. It's hardly "completely dumbed down" but some users have noticed that some features have been removed with this update.
You don't get it. These kind of discounts are routine with Dells. Sure, perhaps not the 50% one. I repeat: you're insane if you pay full price for a Dell.
No, I do get it - Dell's business model is to subsidise consumer sales with business sales. It still means you end up with a Dell though. In my experience, I've never had a good one (in my hands, or the hands of many friends and coworkers), so my incentive to shell out for the expensive ones like the XPS 15 is much reduced, even if they do promise that "*this* one is really well made, honest!" I'm not going to take that risk.
Considering that windows 8 works on Pentium 4/AMD Athlon systems from the era when Apple still used PPC, yeah that's new.
So, an extra 2 years back then, added onto the 6 years we're already counting for how far back Mavericks goes.
So, just to be clear, going back 6 years is "new" and going back 8 years is "old"?
I bought a Macbook Pro with a 50% discount once. That means Apple computers are not expensive, right?
You heard it here first, folks.
What does thunderbolt connect too?
too what?
Too high?
Too fast?
Too expensive?
Too purple?
I'm not sure where that sentence is meant to be going.
No, it really is hatred. You are mistaking your hatred for Apple for pragmatism.
If you can't see that your totally blanket statement that there is only one positive feature to Apple hardware, and that it is inferior and expensive is totally subjective, then I can't help you. Consider that some people (and the subset of people who use computers is vast) don't have the same criteria for hardware selection that you do.
You sound reasonably intelligent, but you appear to have a mental block on this issue.
Some of us don't define ourselves by the hatred of a particular brand but instead use the things that work for them. YMMV.
It's a free upgrade to any Mac that can run the last three iterations of OS X, on Macs going back as far as 2007, but I guess it depends what you consider "recent".
They hold their value because people place move value on them than a simple utility. A PC is for utility. A Mac is a fashion item. The equivalent era Mac is no more capable than the equivalent era PC, considering they're made with the same exact parts.
The same exact parts like... a metal case?
"The same exact parts" is demonstrably untrue - there aren't many metal PCs, and the scant few that do exist (Dell's XPS 15 for example), tend to be expensive.
It's not about the Mac being a "fashion item" (as if owning something with decent aesthetics somehow makes it a lesser utility item). No, Macs hold their value because they are well built and last a long time. Other laptops and desktops with plastic cases and parts just don't have that longevity, and those that do also tend to hold their value.
Again, like the previous poster, you don't seem to be able to look at the big picture beyond "lol, they are toys for fashionistas". The quality of a product goes beyond the raw specs (which are comparable, with the switch to Intel in 2005/2006) and has to consider the whole package; the physical case the parts are enclosed in, along with other design elements are a large part of why Macs hold their value - especially the laptops.
Since the core components are FOSS, can't anyone simply take it, recompile it on a standard PC and then make it available? Sorta like the Hackintosh project, for PC users who don't wanna buy a Mac?
The open source bits, sure - you can just get them directly from Apple, in fact.
The UI that runs on the top though is not open, and they won't give you the source to that.
You can just install OS X on an appropriately-constructed PC though (i.e., find parts that are common to Macs to minimise driver issues). Apple won't stop you as a home user (no DRM or encryption on the installer except a text file that says "please don't steal OS X"). If you try to make a business out of it though, they might take notice (Psystar).
No you can't. The hardware requirements of the newer versions of MacOS won't allow for it.
Every so often, those icky "specs" matter.
Plus you are contradicting that common bit of fanboy propaganda regarding "resale value".
So, in other words, your mind is set: it's impossible to present a valid argument where Apple isn't some evil thing.
10.9 is free for any Mac that runs OS X from as far back as Snow Leopard, so that's most of the Intel ones, and the ones that it doesn't include are pushing 6 or more years old.
There's no "expensive previous software requirement" as originally stated by the original commenter - at most, you're out $29 for Snow Leopard, or the same for Lion/ML (depending on whether you upgraded through all three).
The resale argument is also hardly contradicted - show me an equivalent era PC that is worth as much as an equivalent era Mac. They hold their value; this is not "propaganda" - you can look at actual numbers on sites where these sorts of things are tracked (go and look at past ebay auctions, for example). This data isn't just made up.
You know how some cars use diesel, and some cars use gasoline?
Yeah.
But good question! I'm sure no one in the many, many, many years this has been studied by legions of engineers and scientists has ever thought to ask that question. I'll pass it on!
That might have meant something if you'd have logged in.
As it is, AC posters and businesses should usually refrain from telling people to fuck off. One looks unprofessional, the other just looks amusing.