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4 Months later, I am going back
Not that there is anything wrong with my Mac, I am just thinking about the future. I bought a 20" iMac Core Duo. cost me around...
Buy all you can
Buy all you can - Help Steve out. Apple shareholders face losses By Macworld staff If Nasdaq delists Apple from the stock exchange shareholders might experience a wealth-loss of 19 per cent...
Gates Billed 1,200 Pounds 'to repair Microsoft sabotage' 3337
Derek Currie Nope. Most of the world. Is it? Why did you ignore the bogus statements made by the author? "I have gone to...
Gates Billed 1,200 Pounds 'to repair Microsoft sabotage' 3338
Alan Baker Those libelous questions have just made a total fool out of you, Alan. Those choices...
Gates Billed 1,200 Pounds 'to repair Microsoft sabotage' 3339
PseuDoughIntellectual "and other Microsoft software" "and other Microsoft software" "and other Microsoft software" "and other Microsoft software...
Gates Billed 1,200 Pounds 'to repair Microsoft sabotage' 3340
I would suggest he stop lying about it. There is no "custom" setting for Automatic Updates. Doing a "Custom" install is not the same as setting the behavior of Automatic Updates...
NO!! DON'T BUY
Yeah - Steve f***ed them hard - with no Vaseline. Apple shareholders sue Apple By Macworld staff Apple shareholders have filed suit against the company, in the latest development...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It &A#JD1Tg!d8
Macs cost more!" This is such an old Mac myth, it bores me. So I am just going to simply toss some gauntlets...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3343
Derek Currie In other words, no matter what the reality, a Mac advocate can always dream up a silly argument as to how PC's can be more expensive, and present it as...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3344
Derek Currie Okay, lets compare then, shall we? What hardware benefit would I use on a MacBookPro, VS a Dell E1705? The slower ATI...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3345
Derek Currie Dude, come on. If a person's "happiness" is somehow tied to a computer then they...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3346
Snit hey snit, since you think pcs always cost more (or at least in 'most cases'), let's see what you can come up with, or tell me...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3347
and posting other comparisons generates consensus and learning? doubt it... ;D primarily the import functions and viewing options- the options available...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3348
it fixes itself you you click back on it- a little bug (what *doesn't* have bugs), but i can't see it being a big deal in...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3349
i just updated right now- turns out bug's fixed. not nearly as nice... yup, but the...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3350
i *AM* pretty f'in sure that's what they had in mind, given that they named it...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
Edwin has never even used OSX. He doesn't know that a Mac is not just the box (although the box IS important), its the symbiosis between the...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
George Graves That's not necessary. Other than refurbished Macs, Apple has stopped selling them. What has my...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
You're being very shortsighted here, Mike. Apple builds both the box and the OS. they build an OS for no one else, they have only to support Macintosh branded machines...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
Yeah, this used to be almost plausible - when Macs were PPC machines. Now that Macs are PC clones - and OS X runs on "everything from the cheapest Chinese loss-leader...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
Not really. Macs are not PC clones. If the were, you could take an out of the box Mac and load Windows of nearly...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
Uh -- no. The 'custom-tailoring' statement was that APPLE is custom-tailoring the OS specifically for the hardware they will select -- a distinct advantage. Sure...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
Mitch How can Apple know what I'll be doing with my Mac? Hell, they don't even make full use of the hardware they provide--for...
The Mac is Dead, Grieve for it was PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It
They don't have to, to do that. Don't you understand that the difference we are talking about hasn't got a thing to do with the user or what he...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It &A#JD1Tg!d8
Oh now. What is typical here is the troll behavior. "buttuming". An insult meant to hurt people. That is all a troll wants out of the world...
PCs Always Cost More, Deal With It 3360
IOW you can't or don't want to count the BIG PICTURE and only rely on purchase price. You'd buy a Denali if someone offered it to you for $10,000 brand new and think it was...
Windows Vista Beta 2 Plagued by Bugs
The story doesn't provide specifics about what is considered a bug. Is it an OS design flaw kind of thing. Like say...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security &A#JD1Tg!d8
Off Topic! But of interest to those who follow computer security or enjoy having their election votes counted: ---- Recently I've been turned into a computer...
265,000 new zombie PCs a day! 3363
Oxford, there are so many holes in OS X that will let an attacker take over the machine it's insane. Lots of web content can just deposit viruses on...
265,000 new zombie PCs a day! 3364
Oh, Slade... ready to embarrbutt yourself again? You are such a buffoon on this topic, you always lose, and lose badly. There are 10's of millions of Macs on...
265,000 new zombie PCs a day! 3365
Secure because of its *nix background, please explain. The current Windows core, which is based on...
265,000 new zombie PCs a day! 3366
i'm saying the internet is based on Unix, not dos or VMS-XP, so it's always been a poor...
265,000 new zombie PCs a day
Certainly some of them represent vulnerabilities -- but that doesn't mean they are the same kinds of...
Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X
Answer: Yes It took an attack on a Windows production server, not devotion to Apple, to put that provocative breastle...
Apple service is good
They helped this guy out. Apple acts on threat of 'walk of shame' By Nick...
Why can't XP ping
What has Microsoft done to make simple network connectivity so hard? My brother's Dell laptop (yes, I advised him to buy a Mac, but his wife already had a PC...
Please participate in a nonprofit academic research
Dear all: We are researchers from Shih Hsin University and we are currently launching the 2006 New Energy and Environmental Media Issues Survey, this is a non-profit academic research. In this survey...
Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X 3372
Well, nobody has been able to make a serious case for this claim. Maccies like to claim...
Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X 3373
Yes. This is about what you do to protect your computer, not what hackers do to break into it. If the hacker can create services, it's All Over; he's got administrator...
The scope of Snits obsession
Holy poo, I was just looking at the visit statistics of a few site I have, and saw a huge spike on www.sandman.net on around...
WAVE to BMP
Convert WAV To BMP And Back On RentaCoder one of the other coders thought I just wanted him to...
Business Week on the problems at Dell
Dark Days at Dell The tech industry's lean, mean direct sales machine is on the fritz, and there don't seem to be any easy fixes. What gives? ....Dell may not have...
SONY is the battery problem, obviously &A#JD1Tg!d8
Some really silly posts are being made about the BURNING BATTERY problem. So here are some intelligent thoughts about the matter to help break through the fog: 1) This...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3378
What PB model did you have? My PB can get hot, but not burn-hot. I have surprisingly good reception. The...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3379
I also have a similar PowerBook, and the heat is an annoying thing, especially as I'm very inclined to use it on my lap. I've heard the heat from the new MacBooks might be...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3380
Only going to respond to a few points. Dan Johnson Heat is a common problem for all laptops. I had...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3381
That laptop was simply broken. Mine does not get hot; the warmth is barely perceptible. I...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3382
Dan Johnson Somewhat agree. Most of the clips I run across are low res. so blowing them up to full screen makes them look grainy as hell and borderline unusable. But full screen display...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3383
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:36:44 -0700, "Dan Johnson" Like "expandability?" That's what I really like about...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3384
Yes, often. Well, for several years Apple had *no* really expandable machines a consumer might user; now they at least have the Mac Pro. But Wintel has a rather better average...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3385
Oh, they certainly should. They bolloxed around for years with a couple of failed OS strategies. No-one's claiming that they didn't...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3386
Quite. Yes, they did. But what's their excuse with this new transition? They were doing pretty well there on...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3387
Were they? You yourself have mentioned how awfully slow PowerBooks had gotten compared to PC laptops a couple of times. I'm all too familiar with it myself. I don't really think...
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