Yes, they do. My 75MHz Toshiba Satellite C-210 from the mid-90s has a button built into the trackpoint. I can't type too hard on the keyboard or I'll still set off the button underneath even though I've removed the entire nipple from the keyboard.
"Do you have any idea where your HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, or Sony laptop was actually built?"
After having it repaired/Tier-X? Yes, I know every place my entire laptop got rebuilt (I love my ADP warranty) and not a one of them was outside the USA. In fact it was sent to cities not even 100 miles from me.
Apple mobos used to be manufactured and assembled in Guadalajara, Mexico, along with most of the computer. In fact, quite a lot of assembly and software installation happens in Mexico. See, hauling all that silicon and metal across the Pacific gets kinda... EXPENSIVE.
"Honestly, everyone I've ever known to own a Toshiba has been unhappy"
Time to meet a person that has owned two and been quite satisfied. I still have a 75MHz Toshiba Satellite C-200 series with 12MB RAM running Win95. It still runs my BBS with LORD and The Pit and Sinbaud.
The second is an older single-core Toshiba Satellite, 1.6GHz with 512MB RAM running Win2K. Inverter went out, no biggie, I took the LCD completely off and the Laptop runs attached to an external CRT. Still rocks and runs what it was intended for.
The internet would speed up so much it would be insane. Just have a program hunt down every site that shoves a pop-up in your face and nuke the entire thing. ISPs and Telcos would have no choice but to start advertising higher speeds or die out to competition that realizes it first and takes advantage of it!
If the damage is caused by a faulty battery, you turn the device over to the battery manufacturer along with the failed battery. They pay for your replacement equipment.
Done it twice, first with a Panasonic cassette camcorder and then with a Kodak C743. Duracell paid both times for the damaged hardware.
Considering the Apple system had more power than the HP or Toshiba I tested, I think your analogy starts falling a little flat. the Apple had a faster dual core processor and better video card than my HP or my friend's Toshiba.
What I didn't mention is they all got extremely hot. I'll be willing to bet this behavior carries over, and with the new un-removable battery, I can already see that's going to start failing very quickly. As I said, Apple may have 'won' but I wouldn't call it much of a victory, speaking from a repair tech viewpoint.
"Really, now, which is more likely: everyone's lying from reporters to users and in some huge conspiracy, or Apple's batteries really meet the stated specs?"
I'll bet on them all lying because they're too busy going 'oooh shiny!' to pay attention to the real details.
When I do battery life testing, I run everything full throttle. That's a true performance indicator. I turn off all power-saving nonsense in software and hardware as much as I'm possibly allowed to, crank everything from volume to screen brightness to the maximum (I even have a little program that lets me modify the transmitting power of the WiFi and I crank that from 71mW to 251mW,) and then I run a video game.
In my comparison of Toshiba, Apple, and HP laptops, not a single one of them actually lives up to the advertised battery life, though they all vary. Playing Fallout 3, HP got about 30% of a two hour advertised battery life. Apple (under Boot Camp) got about 40% of an advertised 3 hour battery life (older MBP) and the Toshiba got about 30% of an advertised 3 hour battery life. Apple certainly won but I really wouldn't call it a victory to be proud of.
I play Crysis on a 32" monitor. My single 9800GTX+ pumps 1920x1080 with all the super details just fine, I might drop below 20FPS in a scene with loads of energy weaponry firing but otherwise maintain around 45 FPS.
No shit nVidia isn't honest. I have to rely upon a modified.INF file to get my 8600M GS to work under XP, which is bullshit considering one driver is supposed to work with all the cards - the supposed point of a Unified Driver Architecture that nVidia likes to talk about. And what's even worse is the modified.INF install under XP gives me about 10 FPS over the same drivers using the official.INF under Vista. What's even better is I know the true amount of memory the video card came with - 512MB. There's no need to let Vista share system memory with the card when it has a fair amount of RAM for itself!
But you can commit a crime to become involved in a lawsuit regarding that crime. DWI, for instance, which follows up with running over a person on the sidewalk. That's what happened to me, and I sued.
Nope, because a pea with enough mass to make a hole in the earth as described in TFA + kinetic energy of traveling anywhere from 250-340MPH = broken bones even just glancing off a hand, which has rather fragile bones to begin with, ESPECIALLY where the scar is located.
Take a.50 cal round and just 'graze' a watermelon with it. Watch the watermelon rip itself in half. That's the kind of kinetic energy we're talking about in this little meteorite that 'struck' this child.
"the botnet owners will drive people right into their arms."
Yea, right. See, once M$ stops working on it, other people with technical skills are going to create fixes/cracks/patches and all kinds of stuff to improve it. I'll bet DX13 or whatever will be included one day or another, it's only a matter of time. C'mon, you've already seen those 300 meg XP installs "Windows Black" with half of the insecure crap already hacked out, haven't you?
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"How can you call something who's pealing is not edible a fruit?"
We can tell who's not the gourmet cook on Slashdot.
Go look up recipes for orange, lemon, lime, or grapefruit sorbet.
You do eat the zest as it is edible.
The USA has no coin called a penny?
I wonder what this copper thing with Lincoln's bust on it is, then.
England calls it a Pence.
*holds up thousands of foreign coins.*
Even the Republic of the Bahamas calls their copper coin a penny.
Smart buyers know how to research products and know how to avoid rip-off knockoffs.
Granted, that effectively eliminates 90% of the population.
Yes, they do. My 75MHz Toshiba Satellite C-210 from the mid-90s has a button built into the trackpoint. I can't type too hard on the keyboard or I'll still set off the button underneath even though I've removed the entire nipple from the keyboard.
Nope. Not unless you have a Class-D extinguisher made for putting out metal-based fires like magnesium, lithium, sodium, etc.
"Do you have any idea where your HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, or Sony laptop was actually built?"
After having it repaired/Tier-X? Yes, I know every place my entire laptop got rebuilt (I love my ADP warranty) and not a one of them was outside the USA. In fact it was sent to cities not even 100 miles from me.
Apple mobos used to be manufactured and assembled in Guadalajara, Mexico, along with most of the computer. In fact, quite a lot of assembly and software installation happens in Mexico. See, hauling all that silicon and metal across the Pacific gets kinda... EXPENSIVE.
Looks like you're the one without an idea.
Wipe/Install from USB 2.0 flash drive - XP in 20 minutes. ;)
Useful? Yes, when I'm touch-typing and the fucking trackpoint acts as a damned button it's being REAL USEFUL for me and my productivity.
No thanks. Any free laptop that I get that has a trackpoint gets it burned right off.
"Honestly, everyone I've ever known to own a Toshiba has been unhappy"
Time to meet a person that has owned two and been quite satisfied. I still have a 75MHz Toshiba Satellite C-200 series with 12MB RAM running Win95. It still runs my BBS with LORD and The Pit and Sinbaud.
The second is an older single-core Toshiba Satellite, 1.6GHz with 512MB RAM running Win2K. Inverter went out, no biggie, I took the LCD completely off and the Laptop runs attached to an external CRT. Still rocks and runs what it was intended for.
The internet would speed up so much it would be insane. Just have a program hunt down every site that shoves a pop-up in your face and nuke the entire thing. ISPs and Telcos would have no choice but to start advertising higher speeds or die out to competition that realizes it first and takes advantage of it!
I had considered Cornell for obtaining my Bachelor's - not any longer with this.
Even I have better security practices and I run windows machines without firewalls or AV software.
Over four years without infection! Common fucking sense FTW.
If the damage is caused by a faulty battery, you turn the device over to the battery manufacturer along with the failed battery. They pay for your replacement equipment.
Done it twice, first with a Panasonic cassette camcorder and then with a Kodak C743. Duracell paid both times for the damaged hardware.
Considering the Apple system had more power than the HP or Toshiba I tested, I think your analogy starts falling a little flat. the Apple had a faster dual core processor and better video card than my HP or my friend's Toshiba.
What I didn't mention is they all got extremely hot. I'll be willing to bet this behavior carries over, and with the new un-removable battery, I can already see that's going to start failing very quickly. As I said, Apple may have 'won' but I wouldn't call it much of a victory, speaking from a repair tech viewpoint.
"Really, now, which is more likely: everyone's lying from reporters to users and in some huge conspiracy, or Apple's batteries really meet the stated specs?"
I'll bet on them all lying because they're too busy going 'oooh shiny!' to pay attention to the real details.
When I do battery life testing, I run everything full throttle. That's a true performance indicator. I turn off all power-saving nonsense in software and hardware as much as I'm possibly allowed to, crank everything from volume to screen brightness to the maximum (I even have a little program that lets me modify the transmitting power of the WiFi and I crank that from 71mW to 251mW,) and then I run a video game.
In my comparison of Toshiba, Apple, and HP laptops, not a single one of them actually lives up to the advertised battery life, though they all vary. Playing Fallout 3, HP got about 30% of a two hour advertised battery life. Apple (under Boot Camp) got about 40% of an advertised 3 hour battery life (older MBP) and the Toshiba got about 30% of an advertised 3 hour battery life. Apple certainly won but I really wouldn't call it a victory to be proud of.
I play Crysis on a 32" monitor. My single 9800GTX+ pumps 1920x1080 with all the super details just fine, I might drop below 20FPS in a scene with loads of energy weaponry firing but otherwise maintain around 45 FPS.
No shit nVidia isn't honest. I have to rely upon a modified .INF file to get my 8600M GS to work under XP, which is bullshit considering one driver is supposed to work with all the cards - the supposed point of a Unified Driver Architecture that nVidia likes to talk about. And what's even worse is the modified .INF install under XP gives me about 10 FPS over the same drivers using the official .INF under Vista. What's even better is I know the true amount of memory the video card came with - 512MB. There's no need to let Vista share system memory with the card when it has a fair amount of RAM for itself!
Then every rapper would start shooting up TSA agents. "You trying to take my bling, bitch?!?!"
But you can commit a crime to become involved in a lawsuit regarding that crime. DWI, for instance, which follows up with running over a person on the sidewalk. That's what happened to me, and I sued.
InternetWorks was the first to have tabbed browsing, in 1994, well before Firefox or Opera ever existed.
Of course, only those that actually USED the software would know about it.
Yea, you all think tabbed browsing is hot shit, I've been at it for 15 years. LOL at all of you.
What would the legal ramifications be for US-based computer manufacturers selling computers with stolen code included?
And those who fail to learn from history....
typical 7-digit thinking we're seeing, here.
Let me know when Lint Speed is available.
http://www.techspot.com/news/30082-thirdparty-fix-for-xp-sp3-reboots-published.html
There's a patch. Very small, but it still counts and fixes something. Third-party. In fact, I have used it for both my desktop and laptop.
Thank you, come again.
Nope, because a pea with enough mass to make a hole in the earth as described in TFA + kinetic energy of traveling anywhere from 250-340MPH = broken bones even just glancing off a hand, which has rather fragile bones to begin with, ESPECIALLY where the scar is located.
Take a .50 cal round and just 'graze' a watermelon with it. Watch the watermelon rip itself in half. That's the kind of kinetic energy we're talking about in this little meteorite that 'struck' this child.
"the botnet owners will drive people right into their arms."
Yea, right. See, once M$ stops working on it, other people with technical skills are going to create fixes/cracks/patches and all kinds of stuff to improve it. I'll bet DX13 or whatever will be included one day or another, it's only a matter of time. C'mon, you've already seen those 300 meg XP installs "Windows Black" with half of the insecure crap already hacked out, haven't you?