Comment Re:Maniacs, all maniacs (Score 1) 265
I don't know, sounded plenty bizarre to me.
I don't know, sounded plenty bizarre to me.
Really? I have 5 year old Macbook Pro 13" and the only thing I have replaced is the harddrive. Not because I had to, but because I wanted to have some SSD fun. That means I payed about $500 less upfront, it has lasted just as long and I have payed less in replacement parts.
Sounds like you might have qualified for number 2 as well...
I know there are cheaper ones, but he claimed you could buy two for the same price. I haven't been able to find any with SSD that cost less than $500. Most of the name brand ones I have seen so far are between 6-1200. Most with a similar quality have a similar price.
In your earlier post you said virtualization wasn't the right choice for non-techies. Now you are saying dual boot is worse than that.
You were responding to someone who was responding to someone who claimed that Macs were limited in their choice of software. That's just not true.
Wow, the elitebooks are in the same price range as the mid-range macs. I thought decent PC's were supposed to be cheaper.
Really? Buy a cheap one and replace it every year? If that's what PC people are doing, I'm really ahead of the game. My entry level Macbook Pro is 3 years old and still running strong. I'm actually wishing it would crap out soon so I could have an excuse to get an Air, but the way it looks I'm going to have to wait another two years. Hell, my 12" powerbook is still working, but I was able to pawn that off on my daughter after 5 years of use. 8 years old and I have only had to replace a battery.
My magnesium cased, business class Compaq was probably the most expensive laptop I have ever owned and had nowhere near the reliability of any of my Macs.
So which two extremely thin ultra notebooks with ssd's can you buy fo $999? Apple actually started a price war in what used to be a seriously over priced laptop segment. Ultra portables, ultrabooks, subcompacts, whatever you want to call them, small size used to be attached to a hefty price tag. Now they are much cheaper, but the only ones that might be available for such a low price are missing out on the most important features, like an SSD or long battery life.
In other words, not comparable hardware.
And it's not about emulating. There is this little thing called bootcamp that makes it pretty easy to install Windows on a Mac.
You seem to have forgotten the first rule...
Not to mention the fact that streaming hasn't killed regionalism. I have no idea if region codes are still used on DVD's, since I don't buy any, but I do know that streaming services and downloads are severely geo-protected. It's even worse than the DVD regions, because now I can't just order things from Germany or Switzerland or England if they aren't distributed here. And most things aren't distributed here (Austria). For many digital goods there are NO legal means of purchase available.
Um, Blindness? At least that's what the anti-masturbators used to say.
Of course, that has the added benefit of making it impossible for one to view porn, so I guess it all sorts itself out in the end.
Still sighted, but I'm working on it...
Mass produce? Don't you mean mass assemble? It looks like a collection of off the shelf hardware and software that has been branded and badged with Amiga. Upgrading the internal HD from 1 to 3TB adds nearly 500 to the price. That's almost a current Mac Mini. Sorry, but these prices are just absolutely stupid.
And I'm saying that as a mac user.
And the hardware actually looks like the last generation Mac Mini. With badges.
for people outside of the U.S. (I guess the U.K. works now too). Although I live in a country that is well behind on licensing agreements, I can at least use the AppleTV to view legally purchased or rented movies from the iTunes stores (one of the only functioning alternatives in Austria), stream from my media server, and mirror my iDevices displays.
With the Roku I can use plex.
I'm even less impressed by the Roku than the new AppleTV.
sounds like he went to school in Arizona.
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