Apologies to Slade
How so? 5% of 256 is 12 (rounded down, I did that since I was being generous using 5% as Apple's marketshare). 256 - 12 = 244. Nothing wrong with the math here. Gee. Why was this...
How so? What kind of experience? You mean the "experience" of everything in the Mac world being spoonfed to you?
Then why do they use ATI? ATI has some of the worst driver problems on any platform. But then again, when ATI cards made for Windows systems work right, the "experience" can be very good. Oh and on the Mac there are problems with various ATI cards. I'm sure some problems exist with Nvidia too. You are probably wrong when you say that a card should be made for an OS. It should be a card is made for the hardware the OS runs on. All the other stuff is in the dirvers, the software.
The Mac is all about a computer. It's nothing special. It's not a way of life, it's a machine. It's not some super hardware that doesn't break down. It's a computer, a machine, no better than a PC. Oh wait, what am I thinking the Mac is a PC now, it's a clone.
Why should it? The whole point is to avoid paths COMPLETELY. You haven't done that if you put a path field in the everyday user's face. No...
Actually they do have a low end and a midrange. There's the iMinime and the iMac. They're Apple's way of competeing in the home computer market. They're sold on the novelty factor more than the useable factor. The iMinime is underpowered and they're both a unpleasant woman to expand if you want to add an extra HD. I can see a lot of people wanting to dump these two Macs when Lepoard comes out as they will want to use Time Machine. By that time, similar products from third parties will be avalible for PCs running Windows. You see by putting out a great feature that requires an extra HD and your home computer base has a hard time installing that extra HD, you're limiting yourself. This means that there is little encentive to buy Lepoard and little encentive to buy a Mac now.
Accounting for rounding they match perfectly. I buttigned the Macintosh 95% (i.e. the equivalent of the PC's marketshare) and the PC 5% (i.e. equivalent to the Macintoshes marketshare). I...
Bear in mind that external HDs are sometimes 10 times slower than intenal HDs.
Lower the standards? You must be joking. I'm talking about an OS not hardware here. Has Solaris by Sun, Linux and Windows lowered their standards by being able to run on generic PC hardware. I would put Solaris up against OS X any day. To me Solaris is a much better Unix distro than OS X(Darwin). I've used them both. Your logic is faulty, I guess now that Windows runs on Macs, it's a better OS now. Hehe.
Apple is after computer sales and they are after marketshare. What do you call the iPod and iTunes? Apple is playing it safe so they don't lose the tiny marketshare it has in home computers.
John
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