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Gateway vs. Apple

Gateway sucks!!!!!

LOL that commercial is funny. My cousin owns a Gateway and even he as a windows use said it SUCKS and he would never buy another agian he is getting a new computer (I tried to get him to swich and he said he would if apple computers where cheaper) I think he just dose not belive in the megahertz myth. Anyway TechTV said they did not like the profile 4 and said the 3D perfomance was the worst. And if you look at the bottom of the screen during the TV ad it say's "base and monitor movements simulated".:D
 
Originally posted by MasterX (OSiX)
e of my theories which i'm sure will come true sooner or later- iWeb. An Apple branded web browser, based on a OS X native core, and which would rely entirely on Cocoa and Quartz. Apple can't go on with a 3rd party shipping web browser.
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It won't be called iWeb, that's too cheap! I won't tell you what they will call it, but the name will definitively raise some iBrowse.

:D
 
Re: Gateway sucks!!!!!

Originally posted by sean8102
My cousin owns a Gateway and even he as a windows use said it SUCKS and he would never buy another agian he is getting a new computer (I tried to get him to swich and he said he would if apple computers where cheaper
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That is true with soooooo many people. If apple cut their prices then they would have sooooo much more business. oh well :eek:

:D
 
Re: Re: Gateway sucks!!!!!

Originally posted by scem0


That is true with soooooo many people. If apple cut their prices then they would have sooooo much more business. oh well :eek:

:D
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crt imac 799
emac 1099
ibook 1199

cheap enough, but i would like to see, at mwsf 2003;

crt imac 599
emac 949
ibook 999

that would get your friend to switch, and of course i would like to see those lower prices with the added RAM and speed bumps which usually come every macworld anyway...i remember when sj moved the crt imac from 999 to 799 which i think was a great move in the right direction...it's the reason the crt imac is still alive
 
Apple has already cut prices as low as it will go and still keep things profitable for themselves. Apple already is cutting corners by sometimes sending in faulty motherboards to repair centers for replacement parts (I'm waiting now for the second motherboard for this machine in a week all covered under warranty), and all people do is complain they can't make them cheaply enough. So which is it? Do you want cheapness or do you want quality? Sadly you can't have both! Apple's more expensive machines have lasted longer than any other machines in the market at the time. Some people still run off Mac IIs. The Mac IIs were built like tanks. Now one can be had for $25. If you don't like Apple's current prices, check the refurbished/open box prices at http://www.megamacs.com/ http://www.macresq.com/ http://www.sunrem.com/ http://www.powermax.com/ and sometimes even under Apple's special deals section. Also if you can't budget for a new Mac all at once, Apple offers 5 year loans, 3 year loans, and even a 3 months same as cash purchase plan. So believe it not, it doesn't have to be one big gulp to swallow all at once in terms of cash. Students, educators, government employees all get discounts as well. So before you complain how cheap Macs are, ask yourself, would you rather buy a cheap computer now with known deficiencies, or a slightly more expensive computer and pay it off over 3 months and get a better quality out of it? Honestly if Apple made these machines any cheaper I'd be worried.
 
apple has the best industrial design and best innovative ideas of any computer company so that could explain why they charge more, too

the pc crowd will always have cheaper machines because the parts can be built in much larger quantities making volume discounts possible...and pcs are so interchangeable and macs are more proprietary but now with uva and ata and usb, macs have come down some which is good

quality is still with apple for now...i would hate to see apple slip on their machines...even in the 90s when people said apple was down, their machines were good
 
you know, always the ugly girl talks about the beautiful one.
it would be strange seeing porsche comparing itself with a honda.
the honda in this case is the gateway.
by the way , i think they had to have a comparison beetwen the mac and a 2.6ghz ugly gateway,hahhahah
long live tha mac
 
Originally posted by macmax
you know, always the ugly girl talks about the beautiful one.
it would be strange seeing porsche comparing itself with a honda.
the honda in this case is the gateway.
by the way , i think they had to have a comparison beetwen the mac and a 2.6ghz ugly gateway,hahhahah
long live tha mac
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gateway and dell are the hondas, vw's and big three in detroit, and the mac is the lambroghini of the computer field

but remember, those 100k/150k lambroghinis priced themselves into bankruptcy mainly because the market share got too small and one of the big three bought them out

watch out what you wish for

oracle almost bought apple in 1997, ms put money/investment into apple, dell could easily buy apple at this point

i don't want to point out the obvious again, but apple is a business and not a non profit made to make us diehard mac faithfuls happy
 
Originally posted by jefhatfield gateway and dell are the hondas, vw's and big three in detroit, and the mac is the lambroghini of the computer field
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Apple is no Lambroghini. Lambroghini's require way too much maintenance and they're uncomfortable. You may get away with saying they have Lambroghini style, the luxury of a Rolls and the reliability of a Honda, but they're priced like a BMW’s....

The high end is for those few and far between. We’re talking all the bells and whistles like the 745i I consider that the DP 1.25 – 23” etc. Then you have the 5 series, which is the DP 1 & 867. After that comes the 3 series priced low enough for many consumers, but still out of reach for the budget consumer similar to the iMac and the Z3 is 17” iMac. The BMW Motorcycle, ibook. Of course the M3 and M5 are the TiBooks. So that leaves us with the eMacs. I don’t know what to do with the eMac.
 
Re: Noooooo!

Originally posted by P-Worm
Not another thread that has degraded to the way over used car analogy! People, this has to stop!

P-Worm
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sorry...car analogies don't work because apple is truly unique and a transportation vehicle does not encompass what a mac is...a part of the family;)
 
Re: Re: Noooooo!

Originally posted by jefhatfield


sorry...car analogies don't work because apple is truly unique and a transportation vehicle does not encompass what a mac is...a part of the family;)
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Can you get an educational IRA for one? :p
 
Re: Re: Re: Noooooo!

Originally posted by pgwalsh
Can you get an educational IRA for one? :p
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that would be nice

i just have a problem with my tibook rusting when i take a shower with it

darn those rusty, rusty tibooks:p
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Noooooo!

Originally posted by jefhatfield


that would be nice

i just have a problem with my tibook rusting when i take a shower with it

darn those rusty, rusty tibooks:p
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That could raise some eyebrows. Well, depending on your relation to the Tibook. :p
 
Originally posted by BongHits

umm...BMW makes both the new Rovers and Mini's...so which r u talking about?
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Er....no...........BMW offloaded Rover to a private consortium well over a year ago. They kept the good bits for themselves (sounds like several other companies I can think of)

Anyway, as everyone else has said, enough of this bollocks:D
 
does bmw or mercedes have a plant in mexico? or do they both?...and does that make either of those cars cheaper to purchase in the united states?

i have a volvo from '84 and am quite loyal to the brand but if i got another car, i would like a mercedes station wagon because like volvos, they last and last

funny thing, i see a lot of bmw's, but rarely an old one...same with jaguar, lots of new ones but very few over ten years old

i see tons of ford trucks, volvos, and toyotas well over ten or fifteen years old on the roads and many still in really good shape
 
Originally posted by macmax
reliability like a honda,come on, hondas are the biggest pos i have ever seen
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hondas are reliable and last a long time, too

but i like my volvo...he he

not very fast though and after 21 years of driving, only one speeding ticket
 
Originally posted by jefhatfield


hondas are reliable and last a long time, too

but i like my volvo...he he

not very fast though and after 21 years of driving, only one speeding ticket
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i had one,even if i have to walk,i don't take rides if it is in a honda pos.
mine was new and i now hate that company to the guts.
this is my way of saying no to them, to tell you the truth , honda could give me one of their cars for free and i would not take it,i am against that branch,period
 
Originally posted by jefhatfield


hondas are reliable and last a long time, too

but i like my volvo...he he

not very fast though and after 21 years of driving, only one speeding ticket
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i had one,even if i have to walk,i don't take rides if it is in a honda pos.
mine was new and i now hate that company to the guts.
this is my way of saying no to them, to tell you the truth , honda could give me one of their cars for free and i would not take it,i am against that branch,period
 
Gateway vs. Apple

So i am a former mac user but current windows user. I also use linux. And i agree with your cousin, i don't wanna switch as much as i just want a mac too; maybe i really am a technology who-are like my dad says, but in regards to my latest computer, i just couldn't afford a Mac, they are pricey especially if you want a powerbook Ti or a DP powermac with a 17 inch flatpanel(cause they are so cool looking and i don't think i could have a CRT knowing that was out there!!) But for $1200 I built a top end AMD system with absolutly everything i could fit into the casing and a 19 Samsung Monitor. But my personal problem was that since i am no longer current with the mac i don't have software and Office is $400 alone. Ah well maybe next summer.

As for the Gateway v. apple ad. I have concluded that most people who are currently shopping for a computer blindly don't really know about apple and their products and that they are different and easier to use. So i can't understand why for the life of me Gateway would showcase the competitions merchandise and in essence give the otherwise unknowing consumer reason to go out in search of the Imac to test it out. Seems like stupid marketing to me. Here in the NYC metro area i have only seen the switch ads 2 times shocasing apple products, once during a Giants game and once on CNN, where as the Gateway ad is constantly on CNN and every sporting event i see. I think they are drumming up business for apple and every print ad show the imac standing next to the gateway all in one thing. Very silly. When I went to buy my Mustang GT the broschure they gave me disn't say anything about a Z28 in there. Oh well too bad for the dummies at gateway, dude if your gonna buy a pc get a dell.
my 2 cents on cars: American Cars rule, if you take care of them they last forever, how many volvo's bmw's, MB's , or Hondas or toytoas do you see from the 60's? Not many at all, cause they were junk and rusted apart or were not worth keeping. And if you ever leave the country you will see all the cheap Volvo's, Saabs, Mercedes and BMW's that they don't ship here. They are stipped down with no ac, no safety features, and have sticks and roll down windows. We only see there top of the line products, so don't get all high and mighty and try to compare this and Dailmer and BMW to the likes of Jaguar and Porsche, Like if the only Ford and GM products that were shipped to the rest of the world was lincolns and cadillacs, imagine how that would look too. And if you did ever leave the country you would see that people would give their left one to have something like a vette or a big old caddy. Wake up and see the light, the Golf and Civic and Volvo are not the car equivilant to Apple.
 
Re: Gateway vs. Apple

Originally posted by Yellow99Stang
So i am a former mac user but current windows user. I also use linux. And i agree with your cousin, i don't wanna switch as much as i just want a mac too; maybe i really am a technology who-are like my dad says, but in regards to my latest computer, i just couldn't afford a Mac, they are pricey especially if you want a powerbook Ti or a DP powermac with a 17 inch flatpanel(cause they are so cool looking and i don't think i could have a CRT knowing that was out there!!) But for $1200 I built a top end AMD system with absolutly everything i could fit into the casing and a 19 Samsung Monitor. But my personal problem was that since i am no longer current with the mac i don't have software and Office is $400 alone. Ah well maybe next summer.

As for the Gateway v. apple ad. I have concluded that most people who are currently shopping for a computer blindly don't really know about apple and their products and that they are different and easier to use. So i can't understand why for the life of me Gateway would showcase the competitions merchandise and in essence give the otherwise unknowing consumer reason to go out in search of the Imac to test it out. Seems like stupid marketing to me. Here in the NYC metro area i have only seen the switch ads 2 times shocasing apple products, once during a Giants game and once on CNN, where as the Gateway ad is constantly on CNN and every sporting event i see. I think they are drumming up business for apple and every print ad show the imac standing next to the gateway all in one thing. Very silly. When I went to buy my Mustang GT the broschure they gave me disn't say anything about a Z28 in there. Oh well too bad for the dummies at gateway, dude if your gonna buy a pc get a dell.
my 2 cents on cars: American Cars rule, if you take care of them they last forever, how many volvo's bmw's, MB's , or Hondas or toytoas do you see from the 60's? Not many at all, cause they were junk and rusted apart or were not worth keeping. And if you ever leave the country you will see all the cheap Volvo's, Saabs, Mercedes and BMW's that they don't ship here. They are stipped down with no ac, no safety features, and have sticks and roll down windows. We only see there top of the line products, so don't get all high and mighty and try to compare this and Dailmer and BMW to the likes of Jaguar and Porsche, Like if the only Ford and GM products that were shipped to the rest of the world was lincolns and cadillacs, imagine how that would look too. And if you did ever leave the country you would see that people would give their left one to have something like a vette or a big old caddy. Wake up and see the light, the Golf and Civic and Volvo are not the car equivilant to Apple.
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i am with you in a way, but the allmighty porsche is the best car all around,i have only travel to 14 countries though
 
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