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Hewlett Packard Not Convinced of the Value of Thunderbolt
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As a biotech professional a backwards compatible USB3 device would be more valuable and cost effective than TB.
How many FireWire thumb drives, keyboard, printers, mice, do you see on the shelves?
The point I am hearing is, the versatility of USB has a use today.
I am willing to bet there are more people using USB portable drives, that can exploit the benefits of USB3 than editing hd video as their profession.
Yes, anytime I buy a product, my #1 concern isn't performance, specifications, usefulness, or value - I'm really concerned about what the manufacture's profit margin is...
Pfffffttttttttttt
It's been known from the beginning that the optic transceiver for Thunderbolt will be in the cable, not the port.
I got a HP laptop about 2 years ago and its brilliants, the specs were much better than the top Mac Books for about half the price. I used to jam my laptop in a ruck sack full of books and sports gear and it never had any problems. While my friends who have had MacBooks have always had them break after just sitting on a desk. Failed logic boards and disk drives where the main faults.
At work I use an old HP file server for my programming and again its brilliant.
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USB 3.0 is a ripoff of what exactly?
bwillwall said:
USB 3.0 is a ripoff of what exactly?
2 things
1, get off of this website
2, HP's break like crazy I have owned 2 so basically, thats plain not true, besides look at the statistics
1, get off of this website
2, HP's break like crazy I have owned 2 so basically, thats plain not true, besides look at the statistics
But this is MacRumors!!!! What's really important is that the Macbooks are elegant and just Beautiful (and they have "the sex") ... Your crappy HP's are UGLY, and clunky, and junky, and sooo THICK!!! And (really important) do you know much Apple profits off of everyone they sell!!!!! How cool is that???
Last I checked there are no USB 3.0 ports on any Macs. Nothing to see here folks, move along
My MacBook Pro has never had any problem whatsoever. So I will extrapolate from that anecdotal evidence to state confidently that no Apple product in history has ever had any failures.
Oh wait, my anecdotal evidence doesn't prove a thing any more than yours does.
Poor deluded folks who cannot see the post-PC era that is upon us.
HP is in no position. It might be better if they keep quiet and focus on stagnating PeeCee sales. Keep flooding the market with more junk and hope enough of it moves to make a buck.
And what about that whole WebOS project? Somehow THAT doesn't sound too convincing . . .
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110517-707460.html
HP cuts outlook again citing Windows PC slump, services weakness
Bloomberg last night published portions of a May 4th memo from HP CEO Leo Apotheker to top execs in which he warned that the company was facing “another tough quarter” and urged all groups to “watch every penny and minimize all hiring.”
As a result, HP reported second quarter 2011 results a day early.
“Hewlett-Packard Co. warned of lower-than-expected results in its current quarter and again reduced its 2011 outlook as the tech company struggles with soft computer sales and faces further investment in its services business,” Ian Sherr reports for Dow Jones Newswires. “Tuesday, H-P blamed its lowered outlook on falling consumer PC sales, ‘near-term impact’ from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, and lower operating profits in its services unit… It called its consumer performance ‘uneven,’ with continued softness in consumer PCs.”
Sherr reports, “Shares slipped 4.8% to $37.90 premarket as HP now sees full-year earnings before items of at least $5 a share on revenue between $129 billion and $130 billion, compared with February estimates for earnings of $5.20 to $5.28 a share and $130 billion to $131.5 billion in revenue.”
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The Mac has outgrown the Windows PC market for 20 consecutive quarters.
And what about that whole WebOS project? Somehow THAT doesn't sound too convincing . . .
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110517-707460.html
HP cuts outlook again citing Windows PC slump, services weakness
Bloomberg last night published portions of a May 4th memo from HP CEO Leo Apotheker to top execs in which he warned that the company was facing “another tough quarter” and urged all groups to “watch every penny and minimize all hiring.”
As a result, HP reported second quarter 2011 results a day early.
“Hewlett-Packard Co. warned of lower-than-expected results in its current quarter and again reduced its 2011 outlook as the tech company struggles with soft computer sales and faces further investment in its services business,” Ian Sherr reports for Dow Jones Newswires. “Tuesday, H-P blamed its lowered outlook on falling consumer PC sales, ‘near-term impact’ from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, and lower operating profits in its services unit… It called its consumer performance ‘uneven,’ with continued softness in consumer PCs.”
Sherr reports, “Shares slipped 4.8% to $37.90 premarket as HP now sees full-year earnings before items of at least $5 a share on revenue between $129 billion and $130 billion, compared with February estimates for earnings of $5.20 to $5.28 a share and $130 billion to $131.5 billion in revenue.”
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The Mac has outgrown the Windows PC market for 20 consecutive quarters.
Last I checked there are no USB 3.0 ports on any Macs. Nothing to see here folks, move along
You quoted my entire post...I don't get your comment/reply. The entire world knows that not a single Mac has USB 3.0 ports. Macs, however, have had USB 2.0 ports for like 5+ years now.
Maybe you were talking about point #2 in my post...which I said USB...I didn't say a specific version of USB...and I was stating how USB is already in every computer.
Seriously dude, you misuse exclamation points in a way that makes you look 7-years-old. You can make your sarcasm much more believable if you do it quietly. When you shout like this, you lose much of the clever factor.
Not to pick on you...but why do people feel a need to substantiate their opinion (which by itself is always going to be subjective and bias) with a reference to professional life?
Perhaps Im conveying my own ignorance of what Biotech Engineers do everyday...but I dont think you fine folks at Umbrella represent the majority of electronic consumers
Is this the stat where they sell the most computers? From the experience of my friends Apple products seem to break the most. I remember they always used to complain about the ipods being terrible.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SENTIMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I COMPLETELY AGREE THAT TOO MANY APPLE FANS PLACE HIGHER PRIORITY ON DESIGN RATHER THAN FUNCTION!!!!!!!!!!!! I DONT KNOW WHY IM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My bad I used your post as a starter and not to bash your comment. I was just stating the fact about "no USB 3 in Macs, so why the uproar on this topic"
I have USB 3 at home. It's a little more exciting than USB 2.
The upside is that the USB ports on my machine let me charge my iPod touch even when the computer is off.
The upside is that the USB ports on my machine let me charge my iPod touch even when the computer is off.
My bad I used your post as a starter and not to bash your comment. I was just stating the fact about "no USB 3 in Macs, so why the uproar on this topic"
hey no prob!
Just didn't know what you were trying to say.I have a feeling it's gonna be 2013 at the earliest before USB 3.0 shows up in Macs priced under $1999.
The PC vendors world still hasn't adopted USB 3.0 in huge quantity yet...I think you still need to buy a $800 desktop to get USB 3.0 but maybe I'm wrong (last time I checked was March). I would hope that all PCs will be USB 3.0 by Jan 2012 which is likely when I'll get a new box.