o doubt, they used up all their screws on their Newton customers.
We like to think that our Newton users were 'deprecated' rather than 'screwed', as you so crudely infer. You're not still using Mac OS 9 by any chance are you? Phil, can we send this guy a copy of Panthwire?
CONS
- slightly wider (not that much)
- slightly thicker (not that much)
- slightly heavier (not that much)
- not as many songs (after 2500, does it make a difference?)
PROS
- cheaper
- twice the battery life
Wow! That sounds uncannily like the list I prepared for Apple's Board of Directors when I was trying to get Gil Amelio kicked out. Poor Gil. I kinda felt sorry for him for a while there. When you reminded me of my 'Amelio Shit List' back then I got another attack of the guilts and had my secretary send him a crate of those new Pepsi bottles with the free iTunes coupons. Gil should find a few winners in a crate load of Pepsi, don't you think? It should go a little way to redressing the last point in the 'CONS' list too.
Mac OS X is for guys with goatees who wear turtle necks, have horn rimmed glasses, and greasy looking hair that they spent an hour primping to make it look like they just woke up. They're the assholes who order venti non-fat caramel machiados with steamed skim soy milk and take it in the ass. Admit it you little faggot.
Hey, that's not fair! I don't have a goatee.
And by the way, it's not a machiado, it's a macchiato. Just like I have to keep correcting people on the pronunciation of Mac OS X Jaguar! It's jagwire kids...jagwire. Phil, can we get this guy a free iPod?
But a Powerbook or an iBook is less powerful than the best IBM PC (or, more accurately, an x86 based PC) which is what the claim relied on (and he must be talking about against an up to date PC otherwise he wouldn't have thrown in the progress quip).
Hi, Apple CEO Steve Jobbs here. I would like to step in at this point of the discussion and clear a few things up. The IBM PC is powered by a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 CPU, and ships with a standard 64KB of memory. Sure, it's not much, but it was acceptable for 1982 when the IBM PC was released. My 12" PowerBook G4 has a 1GHz CPU, and ships standard with 256MB of RAM. Whipping up the Mac OS X Calculator app here I calculate that the difference is raw clock speed is 210 times in favor of the PowerBook, and the RAM is 4096 times in favor of the PowerBook.
Sir, I respectfully disagree with your assertion that a PowerBook is less powerful than an IBM PC. Have you considered watching some of my keynotes at the Apple website? I often debunk these sorts of IBM PC versus Apple myths. Thanks for your time, and hope to see you at the next big MacWorld Expo. Maybe I can get you a deal on a nice new PowerBook!
Apple fanatics are the type of people who bring their iMacs to Starbucks in the hopes that someone will notice that they're using an Apple computer
I did try bringing along my iMac to the local Starbucks here on the Apple campus, but unfortunately they didn't have any spare power jacks for me to plug it into. Someone told me that the Starbucks in Palo Alto was much bigger and had power jacks everywhere, so I asked one of the guys in engineering to give me a loan of his dual 2GHz G5 tower for the weekend. I was all set to go when some fool with an IBM T40 Thinkpad bumped into me as I was connecting the 23" Cinema display up to the back of the G5's ADC connector, thus spilling my Mocha Frappucino all over the G5! It went into the front of the G5, and was whipped up by the cooling fans into a kind of milkshake/smoothie drink, and ejected rapidly through the rear of the machine. Not happy!
Next time, I think I'm going to bring an iBook or PowerBook to Starbucks so people can notice me as the CEO of Apple. Taking an iMac to Starbucks really isn't practical. But maybe you knew that. Maybe you just got the model name wrong. That's OK. That's why we still sell one-button mice for people like you.
And hey...don't forget to mention my e-mail address (steve@apple.com) when you're signing up for your.Mac subscription renewal...I get a $15 credit! It's good to be the boss.
But in any case, Apple does manufacture the bulk of it's computers, except for the off-the-shelf junk like power cords, connectors, CPUs, and standards-based technology.
Actually we get Taiwanese contract manufacturers like Compal to build stuff like PowerBooks and iBooks. I should know. I'm the CEO! And I resent you calling our power cords 'off the shelf junk'. We are planning to release a special 'Woz autographed special edition power cord' for the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh. Woz will be personally autographing each one, just before he heads off the the UC Berkely Center for Repetitive Strain Injury Research.
The porting of Konqueror to OS X is great news for Mac users, as they now have access to the fast, standards compliant KHTML rendering engine. Many users and developers prefer KHTML to the Internet Explorer or Gecko engines. I was wondering though...does anyone know of a KHTML browser which is completely OS X native? I mean, with a brushed metal skin and full integration into Aqua? It could maybe have other stuff too, like Google search field built-in or something. That would be cool! Anyway, in the meantime I'll just have to continue with Konqueror on OS X.
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We like to think that our Newton users were 'deprecated' rather than 'screwed', as you so crudely infer. You're not still using Mac OS 9 by any chance are you? Phil, can we send this guy a copy of Panthwire?
Wow! That sounds uncannily like the list I prepared for Apple's Board of Directors when I was trying to get Gil Amelio kicked out. Poor Gil. I kinda felt sorry for him for a while there. When you reminded me of my 'Amelio Shit List' back then I got another attack of the guilts and had my secretary send him a crate of those new Pepsi bottles with the free iTunes coupons. Gil should find a few winners in a crate load of Pepsi, don't you think? It should go a little way to redressing the last point in the 'CONS' list too.
Hey, that's not fair! I don't have a goatee.
And by the way, it's not a machiado, it's a macchiato. Just like I have to keep correcting people on the pronunciation of Mac OS X Jaguar! It's jagwire kids...jagwire. Phil, can we get this guy a free iPod?
Hi, Apple CEO Steve Jobbs here. I would like to step in at this point of the discussion and clear a few things up. The IBM PC is powered by a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 CPU, and ships with a standard 64KB of memory. Sure, it's not much, but it was acceptable for 1982 when the IBM PC was released. My 12" PowerBook G4 has a 1GHz CPU, and ships standard with 256MB of RAM. Whipping up the Mac OS X Calculator app here I calculate that the difference is raw clock speed is 210 times in favor of the PowerBook, and the RAM is 4096 times in favor of the PowerBook.
Sir, I respectfully disagree with your assertion that a PowerBook is less powerful than an IBM PC. Have you considered watching some of my keynotes at the Apple website? I often debunk these sorts of IBM PC versus Apple myths. Thanks for your time, and hope to see you at the next big MacWorld Expo. Maybe I can get you a deal on a nice new PowerBook!
I did try bringing along my iMac to the local Starbucks here on the Apple campus, but unfortunately they didn't have any spare power jacks for me to plug it into. Someone told me that the Starbucks in Palo Alto was much bigger and had power jacks everywhere, so I asked one of the guys in engineering to give me a loan of his dual 2GHz G5 tower for the weekend. I was all set to go when some fool with an IBM T40 Thinkpad bumped into me as I was connecting the 23" Cinema display up to the back of the G5's ADC connector, thus spilling my Mocha Frappucino all over the G5! It went into the front of the G5, and was whipped up by the cooling fans into a kind of milkshake/smoothie drink, and ejected rapidly through the rear of the machine. Not happy!
Next time, I think I'm going to bring an iBook or PowerBook to Starbucks so people can notice me as the CEO of Apple. Taking an iMac to Starbucks really isn't practical. But maybe you knew that. Maybe you just got the model name wrong. That's OK. That's why we still sell one-button mice for people like you.
And hey...don't forget to mention my e-mail address (steve@apple.com) when you're signing up for your .Mac subscription renewal...I get a $15 credit! It's good to be the boss.
Actually we get Taiwanese contract manufacturers like Compal to build stuff like PowerBooks and iBooks. I should know. I'm the CEO! And I resent you calling our power cords 'off the shelf junk'. We are planning to release a special 'Woz autographed special edition power cord' for the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh. Woz will be personally autographing each one, just before he heads off the the UC Berkely Center for Repetitive Strain Injury Research.
The porting of Konqueror to OS X is great news for Mac users, as they now have access to the fast, standards compliant KHTML rendering engine. Many users and developers prefer KHTML to the Internet Explorer or Gecko engines. I was wondering though...does anyone know of a KHTML browser which is completely OS X native? I mean, with a brushed metal skin and full integration into Aqua? It could maybe have other stuff too, like Google search field built-in or something. That would be cool! Anyway, in the meantime I'll just have to continue with Konqueror on OS X.