That was a university in Moscow, Russia (back in USSR times
) I am afraid the name would not tell you much 
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That was a university in Moscow, Russia (back in USSR times
) I am afraid the name would not tell you much 
That was a university in Moscow, Russia (back in USSR times
Yeah, I figured from your manner that it was somewhere inthe eastern bloc.
Sure, we are the products of our upbringings and this covers our attitudes towards things (like Apple
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Well said. PC companies just seem to overwhelm the consumer with different models. Some of them are very attractive to me, but it's hard to find those models amidst the mess of choices. For example, I'm very interested in the Asus UL30JT right now (i7, 310M, 13-inch). However, I had to sort through 4 or five nearly identical Asus models, with a small variation here or there (different processor, HD size, etc.) to find the exact one I wanted. And even now I'm not certain that there isn't a model with an i7 AND 330M GPU. Too many choices actually made it a lot harder.
Or if I want to buy a Dell monitor, I don't want to sort through 152 monitors, each with small variations, to find the one I want.
Another thing that needs to be gone are the media buttons or the media strip, etc. Again, these can be moved to somewhere else on the keyboard with the Fn key. I've never used those buttons in any of the PC laptops I had in the past, and again, removing them would reduce the costs. How hard is it to pause, rewind a movie that's playing on the screen with the progress bar anyways? Why do you need entirely separate buttons??
Also Apple doesn't have the monopoly on multitouch, or having a large trackpad. There is nothing preventing the PC manufacturers from implementing them.
Also Apple doesn't have the monopoly on multitouch, or having a large trackpad. There is nothing preventing the PC manufacturers from implementing them.
The only thing holding them back is the lack of an OS designed to fully implement Multi-touch.
So? I know at least 20 people in the last month who switched from Windows to Mac.
I haven't met a single person who is planning to switch from Mac to Windows!
So according to you, the only people buying Macs are iPhone developers?!? That's pretty funny.
wow - insightful research.
I'm waitiing on the follow up which will tell us how many Windows PCs are sold in Apple Stores last quarter.
I'm waitiing on the follow up which will tell us how many Windows PCs are sold in Apple Stores last quarter.
Haviing spent 24 years doing much the same as you, I can see that lilo777 is one of those folks that have had just enough education in ergonomics that he is dangerous to himself and others.
If you give workers the right amout of ambient and task lighting, taking in account glare, reflections, light color and work surface contrast...they will complain that it's too dark and demand you over light the place.
So according to you, the only people buying Macs are iPhone developers?!? That's pretty funny.
...and the people buying Macs for the 25+ years previous to the announcement of the iPhone were stockpiling Macs in the hopeful anticipation of the possibility Apple might someday go into the phone market.
...and 140,000 applications ready to use that form of input.
Steve Ballmer believes in keyboards with a blind passion. When Apple announced the iPhone one of his first comments about it was its lack of a keyboard.
When I saw him holding the HP tablet at CES it was like the devil holding a Bible and not sure how he got tricked in that fix.
I agree in the most part that PC desktops and laptops have way too much sh*t going on but the HD light is an exception in my book.
Sometimes it's a helpful diagnostic tool to see if the machine has gone into a trance or is actually doing something if it becomes unresponsive. If the flickering is a steady blink - probably a trance, if the flickering is erratic (ie lots of blinks in short succession then a pause, then more activity) chances are it's doing something.
14 pages of comments, really?
How does a story about Apple owning 90% of the >$1,000 garner 14 pages of comments, ridiculous. Are people threatened by Apple? The reality is that Apple is doing something right, while a large amount of PC enthusiasts can't justify paying for a Mac, many people can. I'm just glad I'm not anyone's kid who insult those who will pay a premium for a good looking, well designed computer that works. It'd be like "dad can we go to (fill in the blank for a good steak house), no son Golden Coral has all you can eat steak for 10 dollars, No way am I paying more than $20 for a piece of meat when I can get one for $10.
How does a story about Apple owning 90% of the >$1,000 garner 14 pages of comments, ridiculous. Are people threatened by Apple? The reality is that Apple is doing something right, while a large amount of PC enthusiasts can't justify paying for a Mac, many people can. I'm just glad I'm not anyone's kid who insult those who will pay a premium for a good looking, well designed computer that works. It'd be like "dad can we go to (fill in the blank for a good steak house), no son Golden Coral has all you can eat steak for 10 dollars, No way am I paying more than $20 for a piece of meat when I can get one for $10.
Pricing is all relative. I want the depreciation of my laptop to be less than the depreciation of my car.
I meant just a multitouch trackpad, not a whole touch screen. I'm sure windows can support that. iphone OS is a whole different animal.
until a few years ago the Mac marketshare was so small no one cared about it. it's still pretty small.
Indeed, and Windows has the hourglass, but both of these mean the computer is engaged in something. The hard drive light tells you whether that something is an infinite loop / crash or if it's genuinely trying to work through a process.
last week we had someone bring their new personal laptop to our help desk to get VPN and a few other things set up. The help desk guys asked me to help them out. it was a Toshiba someone bought at Best Buy. And it had some crap called the Best Buy Software updater or something like that. couldn't believe.
either they make laptops especially for best buy. or they open every single laptop to install this crap on them
and IBM makes all their money on services like running data centers. and they still sell servers. we looked at some of their enterprise products last year. if we weren't watching every dollar this time last year we would have bought a few servers and some storage.
HP and Dell make all their money on servers, storage, networking, and corporate services
Yeah I'm sure Apple wasn't selling more Macs before the iphone SDK came out in 2008.
You either keep spreading lies intentionally or you are terribly uninformed. Check quarterly results for HP and Apple. You'l find out that HP makes twice as much profit as Apple does. Oh... forgot to mention HP computers are better than Macs too
Since Apple made 5 billion plus profits last quarters, going by your numbers HP should have made 10 billion profits right?
hardware that blinks at me 100% of the time that might be useful to me 0.5% of the time is what we call a bad tradeoff.
Which is the point. HP doesn't make its money on it's $500 laptops with swing-out light bulbs and cupholders.