I couldnt wait any longer.. went with Vista

[stimpycat]

eh, AAPL is trading at over $100/share... I guess whatever marketshare they have is working out ok for them.

You know that really means nothing don't you?

You can have company A total worth £100,000 who distributes 100 shares equalling £1000 a share

You can have a B company total worth £1,000,000 who distribute half a million shares which makes the share price £2 each.

So you can't say company a is doing better than company b on teh value of the share price.

 

[Father Jack]

I tried the whole "video editing on a PC" thing a while back. $2000 later and around last Christmas I swapped it out for a $599 Mac Mini.

The Mini works better....

Mac's are awesome for video editing ...

 

[Eraserhead]

So you can't say company a is doing better than company b on teh value of the share price.

Yes but a company (Apple) whose share price has risen from $80 in January to $140 now isn't doing badly .

 

[Killyp]

Exactly, and I expect M$ are about to hit a major setback in terms of their workforce and their size if this XBox 360 issue turns into what I think it will (the biggest recall ever, meaning massive losses for M$).

 

[Frazzle]

Oh well...

If the OP chose his hardware wisely, he could always turn his PC into a Hackintosh. Or are we not allowed to say that?

Why everyone feels the need to defend their hardware choices is beyond me. The user experience is determined by the software.

And what about this 'old hardware'? If the machine does what you need it to do, why even complain about 'old' hardware? Why is a Mac Mini 'not good enough'? Exactly how much more productivity will you get from an upgrade from CD to C2D? What will a new chipset bring to the Mac Pro? Can anyone tell me exactly why they want those new chipsets and what kind of *proven* productivity gains they will get from it? It's all so silly.

My car still uses a combustion engine. Tweaked and refined, but the core technology is still there. And it does what I want it to do.

 

[seahawk09]

I have a feeling you'll be back I own vista and I cant use it and the store where I bought it said my machine was Vista ready so back to Mac I go I cant wait for my PC to die so that I can have a fullsize mac one day. For now i will be buying a MBP when they get another shipment in.

 

[contoursvt]

What does you not doing some research before buying vista have to do with the original poster being back? You know you can run the vista upgrade avisor and it will tell you if your system is capable or not...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr...advisor.mspx?wt_svl=10008VHa1&mg_id=10008VHb1

I have a feeling you'll be back I own vista and I cant use it and the store where I bought it said my machine was Vista ready so back to Mac I go I cant wait for my PC to die so that I can have a fullsize mac one day. For now i will be buying a MBP when they get another shipment in.

 

[seahawk09]

Your computer experience will never be the same we wish you well in finding peace with Vista I know I didnt'

 

[netdog]

Me thinks Steve Jobs just shed one more single tear.

One more who goes unsaved...for now.

 

[CalBoy]

Yes but a company (Apple) whose share price has risen from $80 in January to $140 now isn't doing badly .

Not at all, but remember that everyone thought that Enron was doing well
Not to say that Apple is similar to Enron, but the share price is a bit high.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Heard of Google? $511.89 right now. Apple's a bit low by that standard.

 

[CalBoy]

Heard of Google? $511.89 right now. Apple's a bit low by that standard.

Share price doesn't mean as much as movement, market cap, growth, and revenue. As someone posted earlier, a company worth $100 billion might have 1 trillion shares at $10 a piece, while another might be worth $100,000 and have 10 shares worth $10,000 each.

 

[c.joe.go]

Not at all, but remember that everyone thought that Enron was doing well
Not to say that Apple is similar to Enron, but the share price is a bit high.

do us all a favor. do research before comparing enron with apple.
apple is a products/retail company.
enron dealt with predicting futures on goods they did not even control, including the weather.

 

[CalBoy]

do us all a favor. do research before comparing enron with apple.
apple is a products/retail company.
enron dealt with predicting futures on goods they did not even control, including the weather.

I wasn't implying that Apple is suddenly going to go under. My point was that the good times can end at any time, and that sometimes accountants are too good at their jobs