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Lion Promo Materials Begin Appearing in Third-Party Stores as Apple Plans Overnights

Winni said:
If you need to connect to a domain infrastructure, you won't be buying a home edition of Windows - or any version of Mac OS X - in the first place, so the whole basis of your statement is null and void. You will directly buy a professional or enterprise edition, and companies usually buy those through a volume license contract at 'slightly' different prices than you will find on Amazon.
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I think that is a very broad statement. I've worked in quite a few companies where the executives and developers would be on Windows, and the web design and marketing departments worked exclusively on Mac. It is very simple to inter-operate if set up correctly. And this was even before OSX. Back then NT server had a service that could mount shared HFS volumes, or you could go the 3rd party route and use a program like Dave (http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html) which is still around today.

In the above cases, all filesharing, printsharing, and authentication was done through a flat NT Domain, and later through Active Directory.
 
what are the chances they stock the ultimate airs wednesday morning? (assuming the airs become available tomorrow morning as planned)
 
myrtlebee said:
I was talking about for the average user, chill. Perhaps Apple has a solution. Try calling tomorrow.

It's only a 3-cent difference anyway. If you have 100 machines, you'll pay $3.00 more. Big whoop. If your company could afford 100 Macs, you can afford $3.00.
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I'm "chill" thanks. My post wasn't meant to be "agressive".

Like I said I don't care about the few cents. The fact of the matter is that they are in violation of the law (and have been for a very long time now). They anounced a volume purchase plan for the US.. No such thing for Europe. It's a matter of principle.
 
Do you all think Best Buy will have the new Airs in tomorrow or will they be a little late compared to the Apple stores?
 
Anyone confirm the new MBA has a backlit keyboard?

If not, I'll have to drop my the store tomorrow and see if they have any.
 
Dilum2444 said:
Not everyone is a student.
Windows offers a 170 euro discount on it's software, full price hardware, while Mac offers a 200€ discount on hardware, low price software. And it isn't Apple's fault that Microsoft dominates the market. I rather pay a little more for better quality.
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Only on higher end models. (at least in the US, at which point employee discount saves much more).
 
stevenpa said:
Yes I know, but plenty of people are students / can get access to a student discount. And when you add in the higher cost of macs then it evens out. OS is a better system, but it's not that cheap. You can't just buy Lion if you have an older mac without Snow Leopard.
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It depends. I see it as a misconception to think all PCs are cheap, where as all Macs are expensive. There are plenty of PC brands that cost upwards of $1,000. Some up to even $2,000.

And while you can't upgrade to Lion without Snow Leopard, you can purchase both (hypothetically. I'm not saying someones going to go out and purchase both.), and it would still be cheaper than one upgrade of Windows :rolleyes:

I'm not saying you're wrong. I mean, buy whichever OS you want. But in reality, Apple could price its OS upgrades the same/close to Microsoft, and people would still buy it. But they dont. Its very affordable. I can tell you right now, I can't drop $200 dollars on a Win upgrade. I wouldn't be able to for a few months at best. But I can drop $30 on a Mac OS upgrade.
 
Comparing prices of Windows and OS X is dumb. Apple makes their money on selling hardware mostly.
 
DreamscapeRuins said:
It depends. I see it as a misconception to think all PCs are cheap, where as all Macs are expensive. There are plenty of PC brands that cost upwards of $1,000 bucks. Some up to even $2,000 bucks.

And while you can't upgrade to Lion without Snow Leopard, you can purchase both (hypothetically. I'm not saying someones going to go out and purchase both.), and it would still be cheaper than one upgrade of Windows :rolleyes:
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I know, I've been waiting for the air refresh since it's by far the cheapest in its segment but just trying to show another option on this forum, which many people fail to see. The mac is reasonably priced and has a great warranty, but it's not the only thing in the market.
 
the-oz-man said:
I wonder how hammered the servers will be as upwards of a million people will try to download this simultaneously?!? I'll just be happy to be one of them watching as it will take 3 hours+ to download.
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Me too, If I was going to download it. Darn 3Mb connection:(

Oh well, I'm going to spring for an iMac anyway;) (21.5 i7, 2TB with 8GB (stock+4GB):)
 
KillerTree said:
Do you all think Best Buy will have the new Airs in tomorrow or will they be a little late compared to the Apple stores?
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I've seen Best Buy and other big box stores have the old Mac models at full price for as much as a couple of weeks after a release. They typically don't lower prices on the previous version until the new models are in stock. And even then, the discounts for the older models aren't anything to write home about...
 
Goldfinger said:
I'm "chill" thanks. My post wasn't meant to be "agressive".

Like I said I don't care about the few cents. The fact of the matter is that they are in violation of the law (and have been for a very long time now). They anounced a volume purchase plan for the US.. No such thing for Europe. It's a matter of principle.
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If your "matter of principle" is worth a hill of beans, I'm sure there are lawyers lining up to make Apple pay. Oh wait, they must taking care of all those other matters of principle:

http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/priorities/economic-governance/index_en.htm
 
housecat said:
what are the chances they stock the ultimate airs wednesday morning? (assuming the airs become available tomorrow morning as planned)
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Assuming the airs are available tomorrow, the chances they are stocked tomorrow are 100%.


:confused:

"as planned"? by who? The rumormill?

:confused::confused:
 
stevenpa said:
Yes I know, but plenty of people are students / can get access to a student discount. And when you add in the higher cost of macs then it evens out. OS is a better system, but it's not that cheap. You can't just buy Lion if you have an older mac without Snow Leopard.
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Actually you can. But that's the grey area.
 
Winni said:
If you need to connect to a domain infrastructure, you won't be buying a home edition of Windows - or any version of Mac OS X - in the first place, so the whole basis of your statement is null and void. You will directly buy a professional or enterprise edition, and companies usually buy those through a volume license contract at 'slightly' different prices than you will find on Amazon.
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Mac OS's have been able to be part of Windows domains for years.

Winni said:
Anyway, while Lion is not an overly exciting upgrade, it's certainly not a bad update and it also is among the better of Apple's dot zero releases. But it is all that even without the annoying childish mocking of Microsoft Windows.
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I wasn't mocking Windows (I run it on my Mac). I was mocking the stupidity of the post that I quoted.

What the hell was so spactacular about Vista anyway ?
 
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