Depending on your goals, that might be a very good plan. If you compare Dell's stock performance to others, even through the crash, you'd be favorably impressed. If you hope for windfall profits in the next week then Dell might be very interesting to you. No one knows how to consistent make money like Michael Dell. Who do you want investing your money?
If "the only reason people buy Dells is because they're cheap", then the only reason people buy Apples is because they're white.
Obviously, Dell's market share growth is limited since it owns such a large share already, but that doesn't mean it can't grow its business in other ways and it actively does so. It's odd that Dell, who's demonstrated for many, many years consistently superior performance in that regard, would be so undervalued compared to Apple, who is basically hot and cold and exposed due to its dubious value add and boutique status. It simply shows the crowd-think stupidity of the stock market. Dell's had gaudy P/E ratios like Apple's before and such valuations are largely outside Dell's control. Such lofty stock prices are justified by what people are convinced they should be willing to pay, and everyone's stock value is a fragile thing.
No need for mac fanboys to gloat as they've done nothing to effect this. They aren't even on the "team".
This is all absurd. Dell does not differentiate on quality between it's different lines. The poster chose the workstation line because it offers the lowest value of all Dell's notebooks, not because it's of higher quality. Dell sells that machine to users who require specific 3D software to run on a notebook. It should never be compared to mainstream notebooks on cost or performance. Workstation notebooks are specialized products for niche markets and they're expensive.
Dell makes a machine that far more comparable and it's the Inpiron 9400. Inspirons are designed, built, sold and supported using the same parts, people and assembly techniques as Dell's other notebook lines. The differences between lines are due to their target market, not how they're built. Dell workstation notebooks are latitudes with quadro graphics in them. Latitudes are business notebooks with longer product lifecycles. Neither are more expensive because "that is what it costs to build a high quality system". "Ladies and Gentlemen", the parent doesn't know what he's talking about.
The average Joe to speak of doesn't buy an SLR, digital or film. The suggestion that digital isn't capable of "color gradation and ultra-high quality" is absurd.
Nikon is a lens manufacturer. They make bodies so that you'll have something to attach their lenses to. If no one wants to buy film bodies then there's no reason for Nikon to offer them.
You can't say people have never had access to fast upstream data rates. Assymetrical links are a recent development and were done to match typical usage. Of course, typical usage may change but that's another matter.
There are a whole lot more consumers of data than producers and there always will be.
"highly-available" doesn't mean what you think it means. What you mean to say is that it's something you can easily buy. Availability is the "A" in RAS (reliablity, availability, servicability). Saying a piece of computer hardware is highly available doesn't mean it's easily bought!
For those willing to buy a Treo 650 and the phone service with it, what can a Linux port offer that's more desirable than what they get out of the box? Are you going to get the same SMS/MMS/email capability, the same productivity apps, the same phone integration, the same data capabilities that you get already? The same sync capability with your desktop? Are open source apps better than the ones available for the 650 now at doing the things that a Treo owner wants to do? Pretty much no on all counts. Linux may be cool on a Treo like it is on other things but it isn't useful.
No, that's not it at all. The menus are too far away and require too much mouse movement to be effective. Remember that they're placed there because they're supposedly faster to access. Of course, that was when the screens were 512 pixels wide, there was no multitasking and every app was full screen. The fact that mac users seems so enamored with keyboard accelerators is further evidence. Macs require too much mouse movement and too much clicking. What the hell is a triple click? Grow some more buttons already.
He didn't troll. He posted an unpopular but legitimate opinion and backed it up with content. He then got modded down by zealots. How was his post "Off-topic"?
and of course the same could be said the other way around.
Not sure how a "too far away" menubar could possibly be a benefit. It was done that way to make it easier to get to. His point that the screen has outgrown the UI is spot-on. The menubar is no longer easy to use.
Of course, the answer to the question is to run OSX. That's obvious in any case. The real question is "why?"
They may "appear to be higher quality" but that's subjective. They certainly aren't higher quality or else your PC hardware is complete junk. Most of what in a mac comes out of a PC anyway.
My two mac purchases this year failed in 3 weeks and 10 days respectively. Every iPod I've owned (all but 2G) except the newest ones have failed in less than two years and I'm sure the new ones will die the same way. In my experience, Apple hardware is of the lowest imaginable quality. It all sucks.
Pretty packaging and brainwashing doesn't make a product high quality.
If the mac is so intuitive then why is it you have to learn how to do basic tasks again? Why isn't anyone allowed to dislike OSX? So far it hasn't gotten good and I'm confident it won't. I've bought two macs in the last year but I'm no switcher.
I agree. The jobs that really are trivial pay nothing and the ones that pay aren't at all trivial. 65 cents or 75 cents isn't nearly enough for what they are asking.
Since when is a conflict of interest (if it even existed here) illegal? You obviously don't know how the board of directors works in these companies or how incestous big business really is.
Companies allied with one another are SOP and you should expect these two companies to behave that way.
If there's one thing that's certain, it's that the native resolution of a the screen WILL be supported by the BIOS. Perhaps nothing else will support it but the machine itself always will.
Of course, having BIOS support for a video mode doesn't mean X, or any other windowing system, will work. If it's new, you can be confident that X won't support it for a quite while. You could do it yourself as long as a driver exists for your video card.
The usual cycle for X is that new hardware comes out, untested support for the hardware is added, then after a few release cycles someone eventually tests it and fixes the bugs. Until then you can be sure that the hardware doesn't work with X.
That's nasty. You certainly don't want colorful distracting decorations in the immediate vacinity of the screen and all the decorations can't do much for sound quality either. It's horrible looking and can't be all that good a theatre either.
If it isn't made for critical listening and viewing then it's just amusing.
If you need to use it like that then you'll probably be dissapointed with other things like the small screen and lousy keyboard. For people who actually benefit from a device like this 3 hours may well be enough and the keyboard and screen won't be drawbacks. I think the crappy processor is the biggest problem.
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Depending on your goals, that might be a very good plan. If you compare Dell's stock performance to others, even through the crash, you'd be favorably impressed. If you hope for windfall profits in the next week then Dell might be very interesting to you. No one knows how to consistent make money like Michael Dell. Who do you want investing your money?
If "the only reason people buy Dells is because they're cheap", then the only reason people buy Apples is because they're white.
Obviously, Dell's market share growth is limited since it owns such a large share already, but that doesn't mean it can't grow its business in other ways and it actively does so. It's odd that Dell, who's demonstrated for many, many years consistently superior performance in that regard, would be so undervalued compared to Apple, who is basically hot and cold and exposed due to its dubious value add and boutique status. It simply shows the crowd-think stupidity of the stock market. Dell's had gaudy P/E ratios like Apple's before and such valuations are largely outside Dell's control. Such lofty stock prices are justified by what people are convinced they should be willing to pay, and everyone's stock value is a fragile thing.
No need for mac fanboys to gloat as they've done nothing to effect this. They aren't even on the "team".
This is all absurd. Dell does not differentiate on quality between it's different lines. The poster chose the workstation line because it offers the lowest value of all Dell's notebooks, not because it's of higher quality. Dell sells that machine to users who require specific 3D software to run on a notebook. It should never be compared to mainstream notebooks on cost or performance. Workstation notebooks are specialized products for niche markets and they're expensive.
Dell makes a machine that far more comparable and it's the Inpiron 9400. Inspirons are designed, built, sold and supported using the same parts, people and assembly techniques as Dell's other notebook lines. The differences between lines are due to their target market, not how they're built. Dell workstation notebooks are latitudes with quadro graphics in them. Latitudes are business notebooks with longer product lifecycles. Neither are more expensive because "that is what it costs to build a high quality system". "Ladies and Gentlemen", the parent doesn't know what he's talking about.
The fact that a far less percentage admit to it only proves that a larger percentage are liars as well as thieves.
The average Joe to speak of doesn't buy an SLR, digital or film. The suggestion that digital isn't capable of "color gradation and ultra-high quality" is absurd.
Nikon is a lens manufacturer. They make bodies so that you'll have something to attach their lenses to. If no one wants to buy film bodies then there's no reason for Nikon to offer them.
No PowerMac G5's are quiet except when they're doing nothing. Mine was the noisiest machine I ever owned. Sounded like a jet taking off.
If you think the big power cord and special power connector make your computing experience better you must be a macboy.
"another is when you have millions and don't care about the price" or about your hearing.
You honestly thing someone with "millions" lusts for a machine like this? Ten 15K hard drives in their desktop? I don't think so.
You can't say people have never had access to fast upstream data rates. Assymetrical links are a recent development and were done to match typical usage. Of course, typical usage may change but that's another matter.
There are a whole lot more consumers of data than producers and there always will be.
"highly-available" doesn't mean what you think it means. What you mean to say is that it's something you can easily buy. Availability is the "A" in RAS (reliablity, availability, servicability). Saying a piece of computer hardware is highly available doesn't mean it's easily bought!
For those willing to buy a Treo 650 and the phone service with it, what can a Linux port offer that's more desirable than what they get out of the box? Are you going to get the same SMS/MMS/email capability, the same productivity apps, the same phone integration, the same data capabilities that you get already? The same sync capability with your desktop? Are open source apps better than the ones available for the 650 now at doing the things that a Treo owner wants to do? Pretty much no on all counts. Linux may be cool on a Treo like it is on other things but it isn't useful.
No, that's not it at all. The menus are too far away and require too much mouse movement to be effective. Remember that they're placed there because they're supposedly faster to access. Of course, that was when the screens were 512 pixels wide, there was no multitasking and every app was full screen. The fact that mac users seems so enamored with keyboard accelerators is further evidence. Macs require too much mouse movement and too much clicking. What the hell is a triple click? Grow some more buttons already.
Just what qualifies your advice as professional?
He didn't troll. He posted an unpopular but legitimate opinion and backed it up with content. He then got modded down by zealots. How was his post "Off-topic"?
that could be said for a single core version as well.
and of course the same could be said the other way around.
Not sure how a "too far away" menubar could possibly be a benefit. It was done that way to make it easier to get to. His point that the screen has outgrown the UI is spot-on. The menubar is no longer easy to use.
Of course, the answer to the question is to run OSX. That's obvious in any case. The real question is "why?"
They may "appear to be higher quality" but that's subjective. They certainly aren't higher quality or else your PC hardware is complete junk. Most of what in a mac comes out of a PC anyway.
My two mac purchases this year failed in 3 weeks and 10 days respectively. Every iPod I've owned (all but 2G) except the newest ones have failed in less than two years and I'm sure the new ones will die the same way. In my experience, Apple hardware is of the lowest imaginable quality. It all sucks.
Pretty packaging and brainwashing doesn't make a product high quality.
If the mac is so intuitive then why is it you have to learn how to do basic tasks again? Why isn't anyone allowed to dislike OSX? So far it hasn't gotten good and I'm confident it won't. I've bought two macs in the last year but I'm no switcher.
I agree. The jobs that really are trivial pay nothing and the ones that pay aren't at all trivial. 65 cents or 75 cents isn't nearly enough for what they are asking.
Since when is a conflict of interest (if it even existed here) illegal? You obviously don't know how the board of directors works in these companies or how incestous big business really is.
Companies allied with one another are SOP and you should expect these two companies to behave that way.
Sounds like your superior is a dumbass then. Never knew anyone worth a damn who ever said that.
Not having a solution doesn't mean a problem doesn't exist.
You speak like "mechanical engineer language" is the only language there is.
If there's one thing that's certain, it's that the native resolution of a the screen WILL be supported by the BIOS. Perhaps nothing else will support it but the machine itself always will.
Of course, having BIOS support for a video mode doesn't mean X, or any other windowing system, will work. If it's new, you can be confident that X won't support it for a quite while. You could do it yourself as long as a driver exists for your video card.
The usual cycle for X is that new hardware comes out, untested support for the hardware is added, then after a few release cycles someone eventually tests it and fixes the bugs. Until then you can be sure that the hardware doesn't work with X.
it was not inferior clearly since it won out. it had the advantage of backward compatibility with the ISA bus.
That's nasty. You certainly don't want colorful distracting decorations in the immediate vacinity of the screen and all the decorations can't do much for sound quality either. It's horrible looking and can't be all that good a theatre either.
If it isn't made for critical listening and viewing then it's just amusing.
If you need to use it like that then you'll probably be dissapointed with other things like the small screen and lousy keyboard. For people who actually benefit from a device like this 3 hours may well be enough and the keyboard and screen won't be drawbacks. I think the crappy processor is the biggest problem.
You must be using a Treo 650 with PalmOS then. Nothing crashes more.