Apple Continues To Condemn The Mac To Niche Machine 3161

No it makes a complete backup every single day like it says. For many it won't take much to do this but for others it will take more time. Either way it's better to have a faster HD. You Apple guys are often saying how fast Firewire is over USB yet when it comes to this, speed doesn't matter. How selective you Maccies are.

Oh brother. I know you just didn't make this claim. We're talking about Time Machine. This program uses a HD connected to the computer. If you have USB or Firewire and the power supply dies in a way so it burns out the internal HDs, it will burn out the USB and Firewire stuff as well. So that's a pretty lame argument. An off-site backup is only going to be used by a select few and not an average user. Time Machine is about a backup that's right there.

As I look on Newegg.com. I see a lot more eSATA devices and adapters for PCs. There are full fledged adapters and ones that connect to the SATA connectors on the motheboard and turn them into external ports. They cost less than $10. Then there are more external drive enclosures that use eSATA. You can get an enclosure for less than $40. That is a technology that has been developed and popularized long before Apple had anything to do with it.

That's all well and good but there could be other factors. The fact that laptop prices have dropped to the prices of desktops these days. Laptops used to cost twice as much as desktops. Also you don't know if those laptop users are also desktop users. Whatever the trend, people will realize it's better to have a desktop if they need expansion. When they find how much it costs to get a laptop repaired when the warranty runs out. Desktops are still outselling laptops by far. So don't expect most of the market to be laptops any time soon.

And from OS sales over the counter. Many people upgraded. Hundreds of thousands or millions of copies sold in retail has made MS very rich.

That has to do with tweaking the bootloaders and other sneaky stuff to prevent users from loading another OS. I'm talking about an agreement in writing that would not allow the use of a OS on a particular. The BeOS could be installed legally on those systems. It's not illegal. There goes your myth of exculsivity. I wonder how you feel about what Apple did back when third party hardware producers provided upgrade solutions to Macs. Apple put in code in the firmware that would not allow a Mac to boot if they had a third party upgrade. The hardware producers had to work around this.

I know you're going to make every excuse possible for Apple's fear of competing with MS in a fair fight. You remind me of those peope whining and suing because MS was smart enough to give away a free web browser with their OS. Now Apple and everyone else is doing it.

Are you confused? I'm talking about the Mac Pro desktop being beyong most consumer's means. I'm sure they could buy one but a lot of money is wasted on power they don't need. Why are you talking about Macbooks? Are you losing it?

I know and the quality of that research shows in how Apple has managed to remain only 4% of the computing world for decades. Great work.

More than that. Many of the cards have video capture and TV capabilites. Games is just one aspect of it. I guess you wouldn't know that unless Apple said it, well Apple is selling a lot of audio and video over iTunes. I guess that can help you to figure it out.

It wouldn't cost that much. External SATA can be had for less than $40, that's for an adapter and an enclosure. You are going to pay that much extra for an external HD anyway. Why not make it a lot faster? Oh that's right you can't because the iMinime is not expandable to SATA. Only thing they could do is get a USB or Firewire SATA adapter and that would negate purpose. That's probably why none or very few exist. It's typical of the Mac Zealot. If you can't add a great useful feature, you don't need it. Same old cop outs I've heard a thousand times. When Macs were based on G5s, and PCs were smoking them, they said nobody needs speed. Now they're boasting about how fast Macs are. You guys are a comical bunch.

John

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