Yes I remember. It was 1983. Must be one reeeeeealy slow death for IBM.
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Yes I remember. It was 1983. Must be one reeeeeealy slow death for IBM.
Can't believe there are still people complaining about the glossy screens of the Mac. It's a non issue for most and for me, I have no eye strain. However, give me a matte screen you insist on and my eyes WILL strain. Most are very crappy screens. I will happily take a glossy screen over a matte one any day. We have fluorescent lights at work and never had any complaints from any of the 500 employees.
The tech media has moved on to covering mindless "smart" trinkets and spamware disguised as apps.
Now MS have to sell even more private user information to third parties to make up for loosing in the corporate market.
Maybe they can get some bucks by selling credit card info on the Darknet.
Maybe they can get some bucks by selling credit card info on the Darknet.
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I agree with you but to be fair, some of the older iMacs (e.g., the "fat" ones that still had DVD drives) have more reflective screens. They're not bad (and the colors are lovely) but compared to newer iMacs, they're much more reflective (more glare). This point is moot through because newer Apple computer screens have lower "glare" and these are the computers that will be deployed in enterprise settings.
There's really no good evidence that matte screens are superior to glossy ones for reducing eye strain. There are a lot of other factors to consider - brightness (lumens output), lighting technology, size, distance, refresh rate, color accuracy/spectrum, etc. We also have to take into account how much time we spend in front of computers and other screens relative to in the past.
Your joking right. IBM has more patents for meaningful items that your computer can't do without to ever die. I'm talking real hardware patents not silly look and feel / software ones that we're so used to hearing about. They could never make a computer again and still make a very decent living doing nothing.
OK can IBM work on something where I don't have to go through Good for anything I want to do on the iPad related to my job? If I want to access email, connect to a network drive or intranet or use productivity apps. I have to use like 4 different Good apps. Incredibly annoying.
Service. It has always been about service.
True, but if Bob Cringely is right, that service is faltering badly.
As said before, Lenovo is a Chinese company and IBM’s moving from them to Apple, regardless of quantity, is a good thing for our economy especially since Apple is ever so slowly maybe moving production back here, admittedly production by a Chinese contractor. It's a shame they've never considered actually going back into production themselves but I guess they've decided it's either too much risk or, more likely, requires skills they no longer have and don't want to be distracted by.
IBM’s purchase of SPSS made that software unattainable by me, ... one more bit of software diverted to “the enterprise.”
As said before, Lenovo is a Chinese company and IBM’s moving from them to Apple, regardless of quantity, is a good thing for our economy especially since Apple is ever so slowly maybe moving production back here, admittedly production by a Chinese contractor. It's a shame they've never considered actually going back into production themselves but I guess they've decided it's either too much risk or, more likely, requires skills they no longer have and don't want to be distracted by.
IBM’s purchase of SPSS made that software unattainable by me, ... one more bit of software diverted to “the enterprise.”
IBM hasn't had any skin in the PC game for a decade now.
IBM has switched to doing what they've always done best: selling things to big companies. Only difference is, now, some of those things are Apple products.
I'm sure IBM will still (re-) sell Lenovo products as well. Heck, IBM will probably sell you a Volkswagen or a roll of paper towels if you're willing to give them a commission.
Wholeheartedly agree! A prior company I worked for (GE Capital) uses Good and productivity took a hit w/all of the hoop jumping.
Your luck that you live in a country without any workspace regulations that require computer screens to be non-reflective…
IBM hasn't been building computers in years. ThinkPad was sold to Lenovo over 5 years ago. The 5 years is significant because when IBM sold ThinkPad to Lenovo, as part of the agreement they got 1/3 off on ThinkPads for the next 5 years. So now that that deal is expiring, the price per workstation has just gone from $1000 to $1500 - the MacBook Pro is now much more competitively priced with the ThinkPad now that IBM doesn't get a steep discount on one but not the other.
The only hardware IBM still does that I know of is CPUs and GPUs.
I work for a Silicon Valley-based software company. We have a very large Mac procurement because all our developers/coders use Macs.
I'm a finance analyst and I have switched to an MBP Retina since taking on dashboard metrics development. To me, the administrative work is sufficiently served by Lenovo Thinkpads but any really intensive work tends to be done on our Macs.
This is a good move for IBM, if they want to stay relevant in enterprise systems of very high gross margin industries.
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IBM still makes mainframes and Power servers (including supercomputing clusters).
I love my iMac at home, but something about this new model at work makes my eyes strain. Ive calibrated the display to tone down the vibrancy and make it bland but it still hurts to read text. I have the brightness at about 35 percent now and i can deal with it. I still prefer the hp aio that is in my cube also, which makes me sick to say.
As long as they don't ship them with a Lotus Notes client app pre-installed, I think this is a good thing.
I put brightness at about 25%. For Samsung, 18%. Now I have Acer which I use with Eco-mode (toned down).
They still make more than that. Although they recently pushed off the remainder of their Intel-based hardware (ie: System x and Pureflex) and entry-level Storwize V3700 SAN unit to Lenovo, they still make POWER systems as well as their mid-range and enterprise storage like V5000, V7000, SVC, and XIV.