Apple Continues To Condemn The Mac To Niche Machine 3158

In the Time Machine scenario, nothing is run directly from the external HD; data just gets pushed to it in the background as files are updated on the internal HD. Performance shouldn't be a major issue.

Most people use their computers for word processing and web browsing. And the Core 2 Duo laptops are likely to be faster than dual-core G5s. IOW, there's not much they won't be powerful enough to do.

This is an interesting question. I wonder if Time Machine is smart enough that it will stop doing updates if the external HD is unhooked, and then sync the HD up again when it's hooked up once more. That would solve this problem fairly well.

Most users have never installed an operating system. Many have only a vague idea of what an operating system is.

Apple probably has very little interest in the corporate market. And, really, would OS X be a much better choice for cubicle farms? Most of its advantages would be lost.

Plus, many large shops are already paying gobs of money for Microsoft site licenses, and OS X licensees would be an additional cost on top of that.

Ask Be about how that works.

Your reality seems to lag about six months behind mine.

A minority of the market does this. And the segment is shrinking, I think. Windows 95 was a big deal because Windows 3.1 was so atrocious. Windows XP is, well, good enough for a lot of people. Yes, people who really care would like something better, but most people just see computers as boring tools; they don't care.

Yes, the Mac Pro also doesn't meet the needs of most regular consumers.

To you. I honestly can't recall a *single* instance, in my fairly considerable personal experience, of someone who wasn't a computer enthusiast installing a second HD or a PCI-whatever card in their machine.

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