Hardly a troll - what an imbecilic moderation that is. He's merely pointing out what everyone who owns both Mac and Wintel boxes knows: pound for pound, the Windoze boxes run faster (and have done so for some time).
There are plenty of good reasons for running OS X even with the Mac speed penalty - as I'm doing right now, indeed - but making exaggerrated claims will only mislead consumers and hurt Apple's sales in the long run.
"In fact you can tell be the design of the OSX 10.2, as well as some of the alpha desktops they are playing with, that Apple would like to make the desktop much more complex but they don't have the chip speeds to support it."
Bush: Built an oil company that his daddy bought. Jobs: Required no help building computers that nobody bought.
Bush: Who needs books!
Jobs: Who needs gigahertz!
Bush: Thinks that, somewhere up there, John Wayne is smiling down on him.
Jobs: Feels pretty sure that Einstein, Amelia Earhardt, Gandhi and Lennon all want to come back from the dead to buy Macs from him.
Bush: Proved that it's possible to be a drunken slacker, then marry Laura Ingalls Wilder, and suddenly be considered "presidential material."
Jobs: Proved that it's possible to make blueberry computers and not be considered gay.
Bush: Thanks his lucky stars every day that the "war on terrorism" saved his ass.
Jobs: Thanks his lucky stars every time Apple issues its quarterly report knowing that, somewhere out there, Steve Ballmer is working on a new dance routine.
One minute you're looking out your bay window at your neighbor's back yard, and the next you're watching Tom Cruise and 'Top Gun'
But what if you live next door to Tom Cruise - how will you tell the difference?
A tale of two pricepoints: Mossberg vs. IDC
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Well, the IDC guy's pissy, to be sure, but he could be right. However, compare...
"Subnotebooks are clearly a declining category," said IDC analyst Roger Kay. "The subnotes may be revived by Tablet PC, but the PowerBook is not a tablet. Also, at $1,800, the price comparison to Windows products is not favorable to this. I don't think Apple will sell a lot of these."
In the WSJ, Walter Mossberg said precisely the opposite yesterday:
Despite Apple's reputation for costliness, this little laptop is aggressively priced. To match its base configuration, plus Wi-Fi, for $1,899, you'd have to pay a whopping $2,399 for a Portege 4010 at Toshiba's online store.
Taste in computers aside (Mossberg loves Apples), it's pretty hard to call oneself an "analyst" and make a $500 goof. Is Roger Kay a stock analyst?;-)
A nice declaration of principle. I see no reason to doubt it. I merely have to point out that what you're doing won't have the least effect upon the problem.
While you'll be opting out (unable even to be reached by political messages from candidates, as you explain), everyone else who can't make their own music, stream their friends' dv movies or spend time declaring their principles on Slashdot will be forced to opt in. They certainly won't stop buying CDs or DVDs. And fortunately for the entertainment media, there are many more of them than there are rich guys with guitars and Linux boxes.
So I like the statement of principle. But don't go valorizing your spending power (especially not after declaring yourself a citizen rather than a consumer). Spending power is no measure of democracy let alone of freedom. If the use of discretionary income had a direct influence upon the level of freedom available to a people, we'd be rolling in freedom -- and not a people staring down Homeland Security Departments with briefs for unmitigated domestic spying, courts declaring our executive has almost unlimited power to declare citizens "enemies," or, on a much lesser yet still irritating level, a computer and media nexus that has foisted the DMCA upon us and now anxiously inseminates us with DRM.
The product design looks like someone married the famous tastefulness of Radio Shack with the dynamic energy of the Transformers. This thing can beam your mp3s, would look at home on any Sylvania pressboard console, and it can fight Voltron.
But what's interesting to me is this statement from the article:
'"It's a very clear problem," said David Arfin, CEO of Gloolabs. "There are 60 million people who have music (stored) on hard disks. Most of those people have stereos."'
Yes, and 59.9 million of them got the files on Napster. So we see this interesting development: the music wanted to be free, according to the digidealists. Their 15 minutes is over, so they've been replaced by gizmo capitalists who say the music wants to be bounced by radio wave across our houses.
Is there any analogy in our history to this kind of mass thievery eventually providing a cozy aftermarket to capitalism? (No points for mentioning the IRS.)
Have I missed something? Safari is the first browser I've encountered in which you can't hover your mouse over a URL and have its address displayed somewhere.
Not only is that an irritation, it has security implications, too.
There are three problems I see with this publishing venture.
First, anything in the mag is already common knowledge by the time it lags onto the newstand.
Second, Anand's a good judge of tech but gives away his mercilessly long reviews online for free, meaning there is no Anand deficit in anybody's life. And let's remember what subject we're talking about. In the age of the Net, paying for consumer tech market info is like being charged by your own harem.
Third, "Computer Power User"? Er, why not just call it "No Sex Ever" and get it over with?
Well, even Microsoft finds ways to nickle and dime its users. Apple's just been on a bit of an obvious tear lately.
The difference -- and this could be fatal to your interest in Apple -- is that you're supposed to like being ankle-bit if you want to be a good citizen in the Mac world. Read how many times people here are claiming some variation of, "This sort of upsets me, but I guess I'll go along with it..."
One way of interpreting that is they're satisified, loyal customers. Which may be valid in some cases and, if so, says a lot. Another way, of course, is as a sign of the surrender of reason that goes along with cultishness.
And as for Microsoft not ever pulling this, what about Word 95, Word 96, Word 97, Word 98, Word 99, Word ME, Word 2000, Word 2001, Word XP, etc.
Unfortunately for your argument, this is a red herring. These were all commercial products that were purchased separately apart from the OS. The iApps bundled with OS X were marketed as value-for-investment in a costlier Apple.
Stop bitching 'cause you don't understand the business and think you should be given everything.
Was he bitching? I didn't think so. If this is the level of your "insightful" argument, one might say to you in reply, "Stop being a flak for the Man just 'cause he's from Apple."
What a nice effort this Star Trek pastiche is -- charming for its dorky fidelity to the original, impressive for its bargain-basement technical achievement.
In all television, there's little as enjoyable as series from the 1960s, superior in style, intelligence and wit to much if not all of what has followed. Watching the original Outer Limits as well as Danger Man/Secret Agent on DVD recently, I've been stunned by the level of quality. What happened to TV after, say, 1969? It's as if we were blasted from space by a giant Dumbness Ray.
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Wasn't it last summer or fall that John Carmack reportedly said current Macs lack the CPU power that will be needed for Doom 3? Will this slight bump to the Powerbook cut it?
In a word, nothing about games (not ones that matter any more, anyway). But you can learn much about Gamespy. The corporate whore of gaming "journalism," Gamespy would never dare say that recent games are terrible, even though we all know most indeed are. It's too busy chasing the advertising dollar or promotional opportunity that depends upon kissing ass.
Which is why Gamespy ranks at #1 in the Top Ten Most Shameful Game Sites.
Pffft. If you want to talk "preaching to the choir," you'll find no louder-mouthed priest than the Wall Street Journal and no altar boys more bent-over than its readers.
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There are plenty of good reasons for running OS X even with the Mac speed penalty - as I'm doing right now, indeed - but making exaggerrated claims will only mislead consumers and hurt Apple's sales in the long run.
Interesting. Where can one see these, pray tell?
Jobs: Required no help building computers that nobody bought.
Bush: Who needs books!
Jobs: Who needs gigahertz!
Bush: Thinks that, somewhere up there, John Wayne is smiling down on him.
Jobs: Feels pretty sure that Einstein, Amelia Earhardt, Gandhi and Lennon all want to come back from the dead to buy Macs from him.
Bush: Proved that it's possible to be a drunken slacker, then marry Laura Ingalls Wilder, and suddenly be considered "presidential material."
Jobs: Proved that it's possible to make blueberry computers and not be considered gay.
Bush: Thanks his lucky stars every day that the "war on terrorism" saved his ass.
Jobs: Thanks his lucky stars every time Apple issues its quarterly report knowing that, somewhere out there, Steve Ballmer is working on a new dance routine.
Well, the IDC guy's pissy, to be sure, but he could be right. However, compare...
;-)
"Subnotebooks are clearly a declining category," said IDC analyst Roger Kay. "The subnotes may be revived by Tablet PC, but the PowerBook is not a tablet. Also, at $1,800, the price comparison to Windows products is not favorable to this. I don't think Apple will sell a lot of these."
In the WSJ, Walter Mossberg said precisely the opposite yesterday:
Despite Apple's reputation for costliness, this little laptop is aggressively priced. To match its base configuration, plus Wi-Fi, for $1,899, you'd have to pay a whopping $2,399 for a Portege 4010 at Toshiba's online store.
Taste in computers aside (Mossberg loves Apples), it's pretty hard to call oneself an "analyst" and make a $500 goof. Is Roger Kay a stock analyst?
While you'll be opting out (unable even to be reached by political messages from candidates, as you explain), everyone else who can't make their own music, stream their friends' dv movies or spend time declaring their principles on Slashdot will be forced to opt in. They certainly won't stop buying CDs or DVDs. And fortunately for the entertainment media, there are many more of them than there are rich guys with guitars and Linux boxes.
So I like the statement of principle. But don't go valorizing your spending power (especially not after declaring yourself a citizen rather than a consumer). Spending power is no measure of democracy let alone of freedom. If the use of discretionary income had a direct influence upon the level of freedom available to a people, we'd be rolling in freedom -- and not a people staring down Homeland Security Departments with briefs for unmitigated domestic spying, courts declaring our executive has almost unlimited power to declare citizens "enemies," or, on a much lesser yet still irritating level, a computer and media nexus that has foisted the DMCA upon us and now anxiously inseminates us with DRM.
But what's interesting to me is this statement from the article:
'"It's a very clear problem," said David Arfin, CEO of Gloolabs. "There are 60 million people who have music (stored) on hard disks. Most of those people have stereos."'
Yes, and 59.9 million of them got the files on Napster. So we see this interesting development: the music wanted to be free, according to the digidealists. Their 15 minutes is over, so they've been replaced by gizmo capitalists who say the music wants to be bounced by radio wave across our houses.
Is there any analogy in our history to this kind of mass thievery eventually providing a cozy aftermarket to capitalism? (No points for mentioning the IRS.)
Not only is that an irritation, it has security implications, too.
First, anything in the mag is already common knowledge by the time it lags onto the newstand.
Second, Anand's a good judge of tech but gives away his mercilessly long reviews online for free, meaning there is no Anand deficit in anybody's life. And let's remember what subject we're talking about. In the age of the Net, paying for consumer tech market info is like being charged by your own harem.
Third, "Computer Power User"? Er, why not just call it "No Sex Ever" and get it over with?
The UT2K3 engine, you cretin.
The difference -- and this could be fatal to your interest in Apple -- is that you're supposed to like being ankle-bit if you want to be a good citizen in the Mac world. Read how many times people here are claiming some variation of, "This sort of upsets me, but I guess I'll go along with it..."
One way of interpreting that is they're satisified, loyal customers. Which may be valid in some cases and, if so, says a lot. Another way, of course, is as a sign of the surrender of reason that goes along with cultishness.
Funny, though, I don't recall signing the name Freakin' Gullible Guinea Pig on the credit application.
Was he bitching? I didn't think so. If this is the level of your "insightful" argument, one might say to you in reply, "Stop being a flak for the Man just 'cause he's from Apple."
In all television, there's little as enjoyable as series from the 1960s, superior in style, intelligence and wit to much if not all of what has followed. Watching the original Outer Limits as well as Danger Man/Secret Agent on DVD recently, I've been stunned by the level of quality. What happened to TV after, say, 1969? It's as if we were blasted from space by a giant Dumbness Ray.
You do not have a license to access the requested information as required under 17 USC 512 et seq. Additionally, pursuant to sections of the Fearlessness Before Insane Hate-Filled Terror Against Really Really Nice US Corporations Act, notice of this access violation will go down on your permanent record.
To continue being reamed by the people who own your "democratic" government, please click OK.
To which the obvious reply is: we should all have such problems.
For immediate use when I see the next story about "smart" war technology.
Wasn't it last summer or fall that John Carmack reportedly said current Macs lack the CPU power that will be needed for Doom 3? Will this slight bump to the Powerbook cut it?
Which is why Gamespy ranks at #1 in the Top Ten Most Shameful Game Sites.
Pffft. If you want to talk "preaching to the choir," you'll find no louder-mouthed priest than the Wall Street Journal and no altar boys more bent-over than its readers.