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Posted by Specs on 04/13/06 11:14
"nappy" <gospam@yourself.com> wrote in message
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> "William Davis" <davisbill@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:davisbill-44999F.20234011042006@news.west.cox.net...
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> > If I had to reduce this thread to dialog here's what it would sound
like.
> >
> > "Mine does."
> > "Mine does too - and better"
> > "No it doesn't. Mine does everything better."
> > "How can you say that, you don't even know what I need mine to do??!!"
> > "I don't need to, I KNOW mine must be better"
> > "Why would you think that?"
> > "Cuz it is"
> > "Well, it's stupid to say that if you haven't even tried the other way."
> > "Well, if I did that, I'd put at risk my current self-satisfied feeling
> > that MY way is smarter than the other way.
>
> Bill.. can the soapbox demagogue stuff. No one has referred to 'mine' in
any
> of these threads.
>
> We're talking about operating systems and computers here.
>
> You are DEFINATELY on only one side of that fence and have made that clear
> in every thread regarding Macs and PCs. Except you take it personally.
>
> It has nothing to do with people.. or 'mine' or anything. Many of us have
> BOTH systems, unlike you, and we are simply ranting about the relative
> marits as we see them. A perfectly legitimate discsussion and it has
nothing
> to do with anything but the manufacturers, the products and their
usability
> . I happen to think they are overhyped crap. You seem to think that has
> something to do with the people that use them..
>
> >>Apple is in virtually no Jeopardy since they have excellent talent, fine
> and popular products and a solid balance sheet flush with cash.
>
> Right.. that's why they stayed with the Motorola CPUs. I am sure that they
> are not content funding the Mac side of things with iPod profits and they
> would rather their computers turn profits. ALL of these moves made by
Apple
> as of late are serious efforts to stay in the game. The iPod/iTunes cash
cow
> will only last so long.
>
> >>Note that anyone posting that opinion 10 years ago would have been
> precisely right.
>
> You mean like those who were sure that Apple's hardware solution would
> ALWAYS be better than the PC?
> Or those who were sure that they didn't need virtual memory or memory
> management like Windows?
> Or those who predicted that OSX would crush Windows?
>
> Those predictions?
>
> >>And ANYONE saying "my way is so much BETTER that YOUR WAY will surely
> dissappear any time now" would have been clearly wrong.
>
> I have yet to see anyone but you refer to anything as 'my way' or 'your
way'
> .. relax.
>
> One very possible scenario from the looks of things is that the Apple
> experiment could fail. Now that they are in direct competition with all of
> the Windows machines.. ie: the real world, they may certainly have
trouble.
> Discussing these possibilities IS OK Bill. Relax.
>
>
Apple is doing a fantastic job of debunking its old Benchmarks.
Go Here: http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=38816
Macbook Pro (i.e. A dual core PC laptop) is as fast as a Dual G5
Workstation. The Core Duo processor isn't much more than two Pentium M
processors on a chip. I remember recently current (i.e. before the switch)
Apple benchmarks showing all flavour of G5 thrashing Xeon and Opterons
alike.
You are right Nap the experiment could fail but one could consider the
reliance on barefaced bullshit to sell computers an absolute failure. The
only surprise is that it took them so long to work it out particularly as
they had OSX built for x86 for many a year.
Can Apple deal with PC users expectations? If someone buys the desktop Mac
PC then six months down the line they want to upgrade the graphics card will
they be able to? A pretty simple task by anyone's standard. Will Apple be
in a situation to support drivers for new hardware? You can bet your life
that the other bootable operating system on that computer will be able
to.....If Jobs is serious about gaining market share then the answer has to
be yes. Is he serious though? By definition cults never gain mainstream
acceptance.
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