Try selling your two-year old PC. You'll be lucky to get 10% of its value back, if you get anything at all. Now go look at the prices for USED Macs. They are pretty close to the prices of new units. That 50% more investment returns a pretty high resale value.
Cars tend to have much higher resale values than computers and also tend to have a much longer average life.
Try shopping for a used Mac sometime. The prices are insane considering what you could get a PC of the same age for. Macs hold their value a lot longer than PCs. Of course, Macs are not commodity machines, unlike PCs.
It's true! Not only has my IQ gone up since I bought my G5, but the ladies can't keep their hands off me! They usually have them balled up in fists and are beating the crap out of me, but a few use open-handed slaps about the face.
Let's get real. Their core market isn't going anywhere. For the forseeable future - 5 to 10 years, Microsoft will still rule the desktop. Period. Prices may have to be cut a bit, but it's not going anywhere. It would take a generation - twenty years at least - to remove MS from the desktop just by sheer force of momentum.
The same things were said of IBM, Lotus, Ashton-Tate (D-Base) and WordPerfect. And where are they now? IBM is still a powerhouse, but not in the PC sector. The rest? Either dead or fighting like hell for each and every breath.
Microsoft's fortunes could change in a heartbeat. No one knows this more than Bill Gates. Microsoft is so agressive because Bill Gates knows this. It doesn't look too damned likely, what with Apple not going for the world's desktops and Linux not being ready for the masses, but it is still possible.
Because you lot (I'm assuming you're a Brit due to the BBC link, and I apologize if I am wrong) sent all of the Puritans over here in the 1600's. Thanks heaps. It's been a pantload of fun dealing with the screwed up morality they've left us.
Your comments to your wife might be worth listening to if you had any with any merit. Try telling her how a Windows or Linix box will do something for her in a way that is easier, better, less crash prone and more enjoyably. Simply spewing lies and paranoid ramblings will get you what you deserve: ignored.
I was working in a computer store when a tech installed a 80387 math co-processor. The ZIF sockets were symetrical and wouldn't you know it, it was mounted 90-degrees off. Melted the ZIF socket and fried the chip in the few seconds it took us to start smelling smoke. Lovely.
That's almost as bad as the computer that was brought with a defective Exerex RAM 3000 card. We looked at that thing every way we could and could not get that extra 3 megabytes of RAM to show up. I put my hand on the top of that desktop case and it was as hot as hell. Powered it off, opened it up and saw that the user had installed all of his RAM chips in backwards. Luckily it all still worked after we got them rotated around. We told him that we could not gaurantee (sp?) that the thing would work and refused to warranty the repair.
Can anybody recommend a good balanced PC magazine???
Sadly, no such magazine exists. They all are, as you said, either sucking Microsoft's dick, or trying to kick Microsoft in the balls. There are no more Byte magazines anymore.
Okay, they move into a developement next to a theme park and complain about the noise? Can you say "stupid"? Disneyland was built out in the sticks to keep this from happenning.
No, you don't get it. That's not suuply and demand at all.
Supply and demand is an equation. If the demand is high and the supply is limited then the price will be higher. If the demand is low and the supply the price will drop.
Take an economics class.
As for the supply, it is low. Any new product is going to priced high at introduction, unless the manufacturer/seller is willing to take a loss-leader to get market share or hope that you'll buy more things while buying that item. Because the product has not been in production long there is a limited number of units. Limited number of units equals low supply. Add to this that flat-panel yields of this size are still pretty low due to the sheer number of possible dead pixels per display (and dead pixel units should be shitcanned at the plant).
How do we keep planes from flying into it? And I don't just mean accidentally.
The same way they keep planes from hitting the Shuttle. The airspace around it is closed tighter than a hummingbird's cloaca. Any unauthorized planes in that airspace woiuld be shot down long before they could get anywhere near it.
You start with the anchor satalite in geosync orbit and you drop the ribbon back down to earth with a weight on it to get it down to the ground. Then you connect it to teh ground anchor and move the anchor satalite to it's propper orbit. All done.
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What's wrong with hating Bush and Cheney? I don't expect Fox News to love Bill Clinton or John Kerrey.
It exists to justify the existance of the Space Shuttle, another over-priced boondogle.
Try selling your two-year old PC. You'll be lucky to get 10% of its value back, if you get anything at all. Now go look at the prices for USED Macs. They are pretty close to the prices of new units. That 50% more investment returns a pretty high resale value.
Try shopping for a used Mac sometime. The prices are insane considering what you could get a PC of the same age for. Macs hold their value a lot longer than PCs. Of course, Macs are not commodity machines, unlike PCs.
It's true! Not only has my IQ gone up since I bought my G5, but the ladies can't keep their hands off me! They usually have them balled up in fists and are beating the crap out of me, but a few use open-handed slaps about the face.
Or your NIC card, your DIMM module (DIMMs ain't "sticks", damnit!), etc... I think most people just hate acronyms.
I wouldn't be so sure. DOOM3 was first demoed on a Mac.
That's funny. I ordered a dual 1.8 G5 in Feb and I got it in four days.
OpenOffice has the exact same problem.
The same things were said of IBM, Lotus, Ashton-Tate (D-Base) and WordPerfect. And where are they now? IBM is still a powerhouse, but not in the PC sector. The rest? Either dead or fighting like hell for each and every breath.
Microsoft's fortunes could change in a heartbeat. No one knows this more than Bill Gates. Microsoft is so agressive because Bill Gates knows this. It doesn't look too damned likely, what with Apple not going for the world's desktops and Linux not being ready for the masses, but it is still possible.
Because you lot (I'm assuming you're a Brit due to the BBC link, and I apologize if I am wrong) sent all of the Puritans over here in the 1600's. Thanks heaps. It's been a pantload of fun dealing with the screwed up morality they've left us.
I never did get the hang of those things in school.
"Boobs are proof that God exists and want's us to be happy".
It was. PC Magazine's real name is "PC's Running Wondows Magazine" and has been for more than a decade.
Your comments to your wife might be worth listening to if you had any with any merit. Try telling her how a Windows or Linix box will do something for her in a way that is easier, better, less crash prone and more enjoyably. Simply spewing lies and paranoid ramblings will get you what you deserve: ignored.
What does being a hardware moron have to do with liking Macs?
Oh, I get it. You're a jackass.
I was working in a computer store when a tech installed a 80387 math co-processor. The ZIF sockets were symetrical and wouldn't you know it, it was mounted 90-degrees off. Melted the ZIF socket and fried the chip in the few seconds it took us to start smelling smoke. Lovely.
That's almost as bad as the computer that was brought with a defective Exerex RAM 3000 card. We looked at that thing every way we could and could not get that extra 3 megabytes of RAM to show up. I put my hand on the top of that desktop case and it was as hot as hell. Powered it off, opened it up and saw that the user had installed all of his RAM chips in backwards. Luckily it all still worked after we got them rotated around. We told him that we could not gaurantee (sp?) that the thing would work and refused to warranty the repair.
This is an .88 Magnum. It shoots through schools.
Scientific American, National Geographic, and OXM. That's about it.
Sadly, no such magazine exists. They all are, as you said, either sucking Microsoft's dick, or trying to kick Microsoft in the balls. There are no more Byte magazines anymore.
Finally! A magazine with even worse photographers than Earl "vasaline on the lens" Miller!
Why does every girl in Maxim have to be slathered in glycerine and dressed like a cheap hooker?
Okay, they move into a developement next to a theme park and complain about the noise? Can you say "stupid"? Disneyland was built out in the sticks to keep this from happenning.
No, you don't get it. That's not suuply and demand at all.
Supply and demand is an equation. If the demand is high and the supply is limited then the price will be higher. If the demand is low and the supply the price will drop.
Take an economics class.
As for the supply, it is low. Any new product is going to priced high at introduction, unless the manufacturer/seller is willing to take a loss-leader to get market share or hope that you'll buy more things while buying that item. Because the product has not been in production long there is a limited number of units. Limited number of units equals low supply. Add to this that flat-panel yields of this size are still pretty low due to the sheer number of possible dead pixels per display (and dead pixel units should be shitcanned at the plant).
The same way they keep planes from hitting the Shuttle. The airspace around it is closed tighter than a hummingbird's cloaca. Any unauthorized planes in that airspace woiuld be shot down long before they could get anywhere near it.
You start with the anchor satalite in geosync orbit and you drop the ribbon back down to earth with a weight on it to get it down to the ground. Then you connect it to teh ground anchor and move the anchor satalite to it's propper orbit. All done.
It's like a gigantic spider web.