Or substantially lower, which Google zeitgeist suggests.
Some people are willing to try anything, but may still find Linux too hard or incompatible with their kit. I wonder how many of those boxsets were sold to people with Winmodems for instance? Given that this seems to be the Internet connection hardware of choice for the non-broadband enabled consumer, I would suspect quite a lot.
This question is pretty simple to answer when companies don't fear M$ enough to worry about whether or not they should introduce pre-installed Linux desktops. The average consumer buys all their hardware on day one, so it would be simple to just provide them with a pre-approved specification which is known to work. This should be all that's required to make hardware vendors sit up and realise that they should have some Linux drivers available, even if they're closed source.
It's not exactly difficult to put a sticker on something saying "works in Linux" either, which 95% of the stuff in the average computer store does anyway. The pressure will very much be on the vendors that don't then.
This isn't even easily possible without recompilation in most cases. I'm not denying that there aren't Linux machines out there, but I suspect most of them are servers - hence the low Google figure; you can't even buy a Linux desktop without some hassle, it has no obvious Access or VB equivalent, which makes penetration into SMEs difficult. Linux installed desktop base is simply very low.
I suspect Linux would require several orders of magnitude more installed clients than Macs before these companies would even consider targetting it. The figures of explicitly purchased Linux boxes rather than just old machines with Linux installed on them would be more relevant here, which I suspect is still much lower. It's difficult to compete on a platform which probably already comes supplied with the likes of the Gimp and Openoffice.org for instance.
I can't comment on the top of the range models but my 867Mhz G4 12" Powerbook does noticably take longer.
Unfortunately the old 12" 867Mhz pb is significantly worse off than anything from the same range or has arrived since, because it doesn't have either the 1MB of L3 cache of its larger brethren or the 512k on-chip cache which its successor has. It's still very nice though. I love mine to bits, but I wouldn't use it without xcode and the other macs in my house for large compilation jobs.
On the offchance that there was ever a hard drive available, the Gamecube is a much better 'computer' than any of the others. Look at it this way, would you take a 500Mhz G4 or a 733Mhz mobile Celeron?
It's not really the mail side of things - that's been taken care of recently. The trouble comes when you want to use the meeting planning stuff, as it just doesn't support it.
Very disappointed that Sean Astin (sp?) didn't get a nomination for best support. I haven't seen anyone play a role as well as that for a long time - certainly better than some of the lead actor nominations!
How can you be 'falling behind' if you're orders of magnitude ahead of everyone else in terms of installed base, and are only changing file formats in order to prod the people sticking with previous versions to upgrade?
All this is well and good, but SXW documents probably make up a fraction of a percent of the documents out there, and being interchangeable with AbiWord isn't going to change that very quickly. Get real, please. I'd like to Microsoft Office squashed as much as the next person, but it's going to require features and performance, rather than file format wars, to do it.
Everyone had what they wanted. Of course now Christmas has come and gone everyone's had new CDs so they've been ripped and shared and there's more new stuff out there;-)
Far more heat? Are you quite sure about this? My Powerbook G4 doesn't seem to generate very much heat at all. Certainly much less than the 1.4Ghz Mobile Athlon that I sold to fund its purchase. I can't speak for P4's, but then I'm sure if I was looking for a mobile Intel chip I'd pick a Pentium M anyway - battery life being an important consideration here.
That the new iDVD supported external non-Apple firewire DVD writers (I haven't checked whether it does or not, but the old version didn't). It would be well worth it then....
Or a games console - IMHO console game ranges are much more abundant and generally of a higher quality. Anything that they struggle to do, like FPS online games with customisable maps, are generally ported to Linux or run well under WineX like you say. Even this is changing. I believe the next iteration of consoles will kill PC gaming for ever, and not before time.
No; that was a term of uncertain origin which all the "cool" computer media sources insisted on using instead of its real name. It was never officially called "PSX". I generally treat anyone using this term to describe the original Playstation with as much contempt as possible.
Given that Google Zeitgeist still puts Linux at 1% of the (web connected at least) market, and that the philosophy of those users is generally to prefer open and free software, then the financial reasons for doing this rather rapidly approaches zero.
Apple probably expect that someone will write something so similar anyway that there is little point. Jtunes is a case in point.
After a few more runs through I'm seeing some consistency. Performance on batteries is down, but on highest it's up, averaging 31 and 44 respectively. Although the Total result that Xbench is giving me doesn't seem to add up given that all my component results are up...
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Some people are willing to try anything, but may still find Linux too hard or incompatible with their kit. I wonder how many of those boxsets were sold to people with Winmodems for instance? Given that this seems to be the Internet connection hardware of choice for the non-broadband enabled consumer, I would suspect quite a lot.
It's not exactly difficult to put a sticker on something saying "works in Linux" either, which 95% of the stuff in the average computer store does anyway. The pressure will very much be on the vendors that don't then.
I suspect Linux would require several orders of magnitude more installed clients than Macs before these companies would even consider targetting it. The figures of explicitly purchased Linux boxes rather than just old machines with Linux installed on them would be more relevant here, which I suspect is still much lower. It's difficult to compete on a platform which probably already comes supplied with the likes of the Gimp and Openoffice.org for instance.
This is like saying "Taxi use outstripped Mercedes sales".
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On the offchance that there was ever a hard drive available, the Gamecube is a much better 'computer' than any of the others. Look at it this way, would you take a 500Mhz G4 or a 733Mhz mobile Celeron?
It's not really the mail side of things - that's been taken care of recently. The trouble comes when you want to use the meeting planning stuff, as it just doesn't support it.
No, they're not.
Very disappointed that Sean Astin (sp?) didn't get a nomination for best support. I haven't seen anyone play a role as well as that for a long time - certainly better than some of the lead actor nominations!
All this is well and good, but SXW documents probably make up a fraction of a percent of the documents out there, and being interchangeable with AbiWord isn't going to change that very quickly. Get real, please. I'd like to Microsoft Office squashed as much as the next person, but it's going to require features and performance, rather than file format wars, to do it.
FireWire is also a DMA method - USB2 isn't. This probably helps support the above.
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Far more heat? Are you quite sure about this? My Powerbook G4 doesn't seem to generate very much heat at all. Certainly much less than the 1.4Ghz Mobile Athlon that I sold to fund its purchase. I can't speak for P4's, but then I'm sure if I was looking for a mobile Intel chip I'd pick a Pentium M anyway - battery life being an important consideration here.
That the new iDVD supported external non-Apple firewire DVD writers (I haven't checked whether it does or not, but the old version didn't). It would be well worth it then....
Or a games console - IMHO console game ranges are much more abundant and generally of a higher quality. Anything that they struggle to do, like FPS online games with customisable maps, are generally ported to Linux or run well under WineX like you say. Even this is changing. I believe the next iteration of consoles will kill PC gaming for ever, and not before time.
No; that was a term of uncertain origin which all the "cool" computer media sources insisted on using instead of its real name. It was never officially called "PSX". I generally treat anyone using this term to describe the original Playstation with as much contempt as possible.
You guys have heard of VNC, right?
PS2 killed the dreamcast because it plays DVDs. It doesn't get any simpler than that.
Except that it's the scourge of css programmers everywhere....
Apple probably expect that someone will write something so similar anyway that there is little point. Jtunes is a case in point.
After a few more runs through I'm seeing some consistency. Performance on batteries is down, but on highest it's up, averaging 31 and 44 respectively. Although the Total result that Xbench is giving me doesn't seem to add up given that all my component results are up...