So don't.

It's simple. Spend the $120 for the home and student perpetual and stop whining.

It amazes me that people are such boneheads. Have people actually used Office 2010 or are they still armchair quarterbacks spouting BS because they used Word 95 back in the day? Libre is awesome, no doubt, but let's not pretend it's even in the same league as office. Libre is comparable to Office 97, maybe.

Are you people seriously bitching about spending $120 on one of the most featureful, useful, advanced, and complex pieces of software today? And MS isn't Apple, they support their stuff. So you can spend $120 and skip each one, so in effect you are spending $120 every SIX years! People have no problem spending ridiculous amounts of money on other shit, but "OH NO! I don't want to spend $20 per year on the world's most useful software GRRR!"

Idiots.

How is it for data analysis and modeling? Specifically how does Libre compare to Excel with Pivot Tables, charts, etc.? The Libre documentation PDF is awesome and extensive (like 400 pages!) but mentions no word of Pivot Tables.

As a side note, I disagree with you on cut-and-paste. I bought a spectacular book, can't remmeber the name, it's like Office Inside and Out, by Ed Bott who has been around since forever. Read up on Excel. Excel 2010 is pretty amazing and you'll see how awesome it's clipboard system rocks.

And obligatory Yea yea "use SPSS like u should" for data modeling. But businesses don't give a crap. In the real world, we use Excel.

Oh my god. If I have to read one more BS Apple story like this on the internet, I'm going to go nuts.

Apple lovers must be stopped. They're driving ad revenue and hits to all these *retarded* articles. They keep writing them because people keep clicking on them. STOP IT people!

Maybe I should just follow "if u can't beat em, join em." I should just post "Using an iPhone gives you crabs" or "iPhone as valuable as cream of wheat" and watch the money roll in.

I just laugh. Remember that new screw hoax? They said "they just make it too easy."

They provide bug fixes. Not updates. 3GS and 4 won't get all the goodness of iOS 6. Let's not pretend they are still getting an update.

Also don't forget Google didn't need to provide a lot of updates (notice i didn't say bugfixes) because it had features that iOS lacked for ages, like the newly touted turn-by-turns directions, Google-earth ripoff, poor man's version of cloud functionality as opposed to badass Google's implementation, etc.

You are correct in theory. And I agree with you.

But in reality: people buy from whomever has the most/best marketing.

They buy Apple because they saw some hipster douche on TV ripping on a silly nerd, or because they have a hipster douche friend who shouts to get an iPhone every day at their friend, or because a girl thinks "it looks cute" and then proceeds to put a Burberry case and bedazzles on it.

OSX may have BSD tools and shell access. But let's not kid ourselves here. If you want anything more than a terminal and some utils, OSX ain't it. Full Linux distro or don't bother. Don't fool our fellow devs into spending $1200 to buy a MBA when they can slap Ubuntu onto a machine they already own or run it in a VM to get what they need and use Windows otherwise for games/multimedia/etc.

I don't disagree with you about Android on updates. Pisses me off to no end. But let's not act like Apple is a saint either. 3GS and 4 owners won't get the full upgrade of iOS6. Just bugfixes. And let's not forget that they're only supporting the 3GS because everyone still has one. There would be customer rage if they didn't. Otherwise, look at the iPad. No upgrade AT ALL, yet it was only released like 2 or less than 2 years ago, and is MORE powerful than the 3GS.

After you bought your magical iPad, they said F YOU, buy the iPad 3 or screw off.

Do we know Apple's method of reporting sales? The actual method? Do you have a link? I'm not flamebaiting here. I'm too lazy to check out their annual report. Apple is already guilty of spouting BS non-verifiable sales metrics right now with their pre-orders, but what is the deal in how they report actual sales? And do people actually want them? Meaning, if I have an IPad 2, I'm not going to buy a 3. Or do they still feel content with the original iPad.

Fanboys don't give these things, that's why we just hear the usual memes repeated. I wonder what the real numbers are.

Verbatim. Apple will lose again. Already is. Hence the ravenous patent troll lawsuits.

Not that I feel bad though for a company which is more evil than MS was back in the day.

Probably *exceeds* Apple's profit. Google/Android make money on ads. With 500,000 activations of Android phones per DAY, that's an awful lot of ad and market data potential.

"Company says that it's products are the best selling ever, according to non-validated internal company figures!"

Funny how stupid it sounds when you put it that way.

Oh god I know what you mean. WTF is Slashdot lately. Though these BS news stories with Apple have been going on since the beginning. It's scary though because these fanboy articles are starting to be written in respected places like Reuters and Forbes. I saw it recently and couldn't believe the the bias in the article. It was like "Apple made boring new iPhone with no new features but that's ok because it sells a lot." Like I just sold a steaming pile of turds and put it in a box, but because people ordered a lot it was a quality product. It was like Apple just wrote their articles for them.

Fanboys we expect this from, but now it's creeping into real journals. Scary. Though it's funny that sensationalist places for news like Yahoo News and CNet already say it like it is--it was boring, now new features, and Apple is running out of steam. Irony.

This is a genuine question, not flamebait. You've seen the difference first-hand. The question is, how much difference.

I know it's trendy to throw around boot times and loading applications. But these are PCs. The proper current day usage is to NOT boot, but sleep (suspend to RAM) and NOT keep loading applications from memory, but rather not even make it a consideration--run as many programs in RAM as possible. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. RAM is so cheap and so fast--MaximumPC made a Ramdisk and compared it to a SSD. SSD is ~500MB/sec, for example. RAM is 8000MB/sec. But anyway, so if you never close MS Word and you rarely reboot but instantly awake from sleep (not hibernate--useless IMHO anyway because it takes as long as booting*--might as well do a full reboot and get rid of mem leaks).

So the question is, by *properly* using our PCs, do you notice a real difference? And as for IOPS, which web browsing from history is IOPS heavy, I remember that the new MBA and the new Asus ZenBook were just as fast as ones with HDDs (my personal experience by using friends' machines). And applications simply do not take long to load--the only terrible offender is just shitty-coding--LibreOffice. Short of transferring a large media file, I don't see the difference at all. And I notice these little things.

And let me just say though that I don't disagree. Ever since the dawn of PCs, HD's were the slowest link (except floppies and CDROMS). A SSD is still the most significant upgrade that can be made.

* As a side note, booting doesn't take long on a modern day FRESH install of Win7 on a HDD. This is slashdot, we should all be using freshly-wiped and installed OS's and not vendor laden cruft-balls.

Really? This article is just dumb. And ridiculous. And link-bait.

Stop with the BS "like Apple" stories and OMG Apple-is-amazing stories!

You seriously got modded a 4 for that?

Ugh, slashdot. Where is that picard ASCII art with him putting his head in his hand.

I write an insightful and informative post. You reply with a douche comment and you're praised for it.

Pathetic.

Why are you defending a company which wants to rip off its customers? It's the same logic as fanboys who brag that "but Apple doesn't care about charging low prices and is making a ton of money!" Yea, brag that you not only you're dumb enough to get paid more and got ripped off, but also saying "Thank you sir, may i have another?

Believe it or not, there are some businesses who make money but who also deliver what the customer wants.

Shocking!