Many Lenovo models run Ubuntu very well, so you can get all the benefits of a user-friendly POSIX system on the cheap.If I switched to using Windows all the time, I would buy a Lenovo.
Many Lenovo models run Ubuntu very well, so you can get all the benefits of a user-friendly POSIX system on the cheap.If I switched to using Windows all the time, I would buy a Lenovo.
Ok maybe not "again" since I've never read any of your posts. However perception is reality and first impressions are everything![]()
Hardly a shocker...
Most people use the internet for facebook or reading, videos (RE: consuming content)... why would they buy a $1,000 MacBook Air when they can get an iPad Mini for $300?
And it's not like an update to their Mac line will see a huge surge in sales.
This is why Apple needs to stop screwing with their Prosumers.
Well thanks very much for going through all the trouble writing all of that...![]()
It would do you some good to learn more about the people you're interacting with before deciding who they are based on just one post. So much for "first impressions", you were wrong. Ciao.![]()
Getting to know people on forums is unnecessary, because nothing I say is personal. This is where debates take place, you can take it personal if you'd like![]()
Congratulations. Half the price, and double the weight & thickness.
Apple have never been about just the best specs.
I'd say Apple is very much about specs, but you need to be a bit more open-minded what "specs" mean. For example: rMBP, and especially MBA are very, very light. To me, that's part of the specs. Both look absolutely beautiful, and I very much prefer a beautiful computer on my livingroom table than some old ugly junk peace of plastic. To me, that's part of the specs. The mousepad. Part of the specs to me. Magsafe connector. Part of the specs. MBA battery life (and rMBP isn't bad either). Part of the specs. A store with employees that are paid to help customers with problems, and not to get rid of them as quickly as possible. Part of specs.
If you add these things up, then the Mac specs are actually quite excellent compared to any competition.
The experience of an Apple computer is so far above and beyond anything else, the price is well justified.
Really? Runs the same browsers and PCs. Runs the same professional programs (no one uses Final Cut X semi-pro anymore). For most people, what is the difference, really?
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Really? Runs the same browsers and PCs. Runs the same professional programs (no one uses Final Cut X semi-pro anymore). For most people, what is the difference, really?
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PCs will finish one day, its inevitable, tablets and laptops will take over.
My experience with my first computer in 1999 was a Hewlett Packard desktop running Windows 98. (I didn't think computers were really ready for prime time before then). I had a very negative experience with that. The computer crashed, and blue screened several times a day. It would freeze several times a day to the point the only way to unfreeze it was a reboot.. Which took forever on that computer. I had to load antivirus ware that behaved as a virus. McAfee, Norton, etc. The graphics were horrible as well. Within less than a year, I nearly gave up on computers.
But Steve Jobs had returned to Apple, and the iMac had been released. "It just worked" according to the advertising. I talked to Apple computers owners and they all gave it glowing reviews. They weren't spending time maintaining the computer, they were using it as designed.
So I switched to the iMac, and it was a revelation! Everything DID work, and there weren't any of the problems associated with the H-P and Win98.
I never looked back.. I've owned several Macs over the last decade plus, and then I expanded to the iPod, iTunes, Airport, MacBook, iPad, Apple TV and iPhones. I had a Mobile Me account and a Dot Mac account.
I'm very happy with Apple and their walled garden of products that sync so seamlessly with each other.
It would never occur to me to leave the Apple ecosystem.![]()
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Apple's computers, especially the retina macbook pros are build with such good quality that consumers dont need to upgrade every other year, but rather every 3-5 years. Makes sense
PCs will finish one day, its inevitable, tablets and laptops will take over.
Apple needs to add back the option to Upgrade/Replace components . Like Ram and the HDD/SDD back to its lines , thats the reason ill be going back to a PC for my new desktop at the end of the year,
And the iPad has removed the need for me to use a laptop at all
PCs will finish one day, its inevitable, tablets and laptops will take over.
Do you realize your anecdote is from 14 years ago?
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PCs will finish one day, its inevitable, tablets and laptops will take over.
agreed, consoles, tablets, smartphones and laptops will kill them.
PCs will finish one day, its inevitable, tablets and laptops will take over.
agreed, consoles, tablets, smartphones and laptops will kill them.
Desktops won't disappear completely. But they will become extremely niche. To a lesser degree so will notebook computers.
Of course as emerging technologies become practical in the coming decades... folding displays, wearable computers, etc etc... tablets and smartphones as we know them could eventually face a similar decline.
Yet it still run on crappy ware called windows, which make it a waste of hardware power.
Desktops are always cheaper than laptops.
840Pro 512GB alone is around $500.
The SSD in the next-generation retina MBP will be almost the fastest PCI-e based one, much faster than 840Pro
And the 802.11ac would be the fastest as well
Except Lenovos are complete garbage.
Even my company bought iMacs to run Windows 7. That should tell you something.
I suspect Lenovo has done well because I always see super cheap deals for their stuff. I've even been tempted a couple times. I just don't use Windows enough to justify it.
Congratulations. Half the price, and double the weight & thickness.
seems like everybody is a Steve Jobs nowadays
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