Calling you a Microsoft-apologist is not a "personal attack", it's a fact.

Tell me this: Why should we, the Linux-community, trust Microsoft? Seriously? Why should we do ANYTHING to promote their technology at all?

It's 100% obvious that Microsoft would LOVE to see Linux and free software to crash and burn. They are using just about every trick in the playbook to harm Linux. Their business-practices are appalling and their list of casualties is huge.

Do we have ANY reason to trust them? No. None at all. So why exactly are you such a MS-fanboy? Anything MS announces, you embrace. C#, Moonlight... Why don't you simply start officially working for Microsoft, and stop this "I want to support Linux!"-bullshit? You can't serve two masters.

Just because you own one does not mean that it's high quality. Which part of that do YOU not understand? Wbat are the odds of you admitting that you bought a piece of shit gear? Next to zero I would guess.

I have seen people tell how some piece of PC-hardware is high quality", but when I actually test it, all I find is dull, creaky plastic with mediocre design and bulging dimensions. I use Thinkpad T61 every single day, which is widely recognized as the #1 in quality when PC-laptops are concerned. And sure enough, it's a lot better than most PC-laptops. But it's still not as good as my MBP.

Every single time I see someone make those stupid comparisons about how hou can get a "better machine" while paying less if you get a PC as opposed to Mac. But when I compare those "superior" machines to Macs in real life, it becomes quite obvious that not only are they cheap, they also look and feel cheap. You obviously get what you pay for. Anyone who thinks that there are free lunches, are deluding themselves. PC-hardware might be cheaper, but there's a reason why they are cheaper.

If you look at raw specs, a Chevrolet with similar "specs" as an Audi has would cost less. But anyone with a functional brain would notice the obvious differences between the two after two minutes of hands-on testing.

So you are saying that there is no free market at all? I mean, only Lenovo can sell Thinkpads, so therefore they are not part of free market, right?

Your arguments are dumb and retarded,

Um, yes they are. Or do you think that every product that has some unique feature is not subject to free market? Xbox 360 has many unique features when compared to PS3, and vice versa. Yet the two are clearly competing with each other.

Macs are obviously competing with computers offered by companies like Dell, HP and so forth. To claim that they are not, is utterly retarded.

You are still being the retard who thinks that quality of a computer can be determined by staring at a bunch of specs. You still get bigger and heavier computer with inferior design and OS. Do you also buy your cars by staring at their specs online?

I'm typing this on a Thinkpad T61.

Not as sturdy as my MBP back home.

Nope

Some people like trackpoints, other do not. And trackpoints dont support gestures.

Show me as extensive use of gestures as Apple offers in latest MacBooks.

at least Dell.com didn't let me configure a Studio 15 with backlit keyboard. And is that the only PC-laptop with backlit keyboard?

2 cases where the laptop broke down and had to be replaced. With Magsafe, there would have been zero such cases. And replacing those computers cost quite a bit of money in lost productivity.

I take that as an admission of defeat. When you are presented with facts, you just take your ball and go home.

And no, I have no desire to have sex with a computer, Apple or otherwise. Calling your BS BS does not mean that I have sexual fetishes about computer hardware.

What makes me a "fanboy" while you are not? You seem to spend a lot of time bashing Macs while telling about the virtues of PC's. You seem as much as "fanboy" to me as some Mac-zealot is.

To some people, a 300 bucks netbook would be sufficient for the job. But that still does not mean that it's a comparable machine to MBP.

Go right ahead and make that claim.

Your source for that claim is.... what? They seem to be buying computers with 10" screen, they are buying computers with 15" screen... why not 13" screens as well?

OK, I did. My price came to $974. And for that price I got

- Intel GMA 4500HD
- No backlit keyboard (didn't even let me choose one)

Other specs were more or less similar (battery on the Dell is 85Whr vs. 73Whr on the MBP, however).

So I got a laptop that is made from plastic, no magsafe, no backlit-keyboard, crappy GPU, is heavier (the model with smaller battery is already heavier than the MBP (2.515kg vs. 2.49kg), is bigger in every way (thicker, wider, taller)... And still no OS X.

So it costs 750 bucks less. But it's quite apparent that you also get a crappier machine. It's in no shape of form comparable to the MBP. Color me unimpressed.

The fact that you bought one is no indication that the machine is of high quality.

I noticed that you didn't provide any links to the machine you specced. You also didn't even bother to mention the model... And again: are you really so retarded that you think that you can determine the quality of a computer by starting at a bunch of specs on screen?

Apple does not have monopoly in music-sales. And I fail to see the point even if they did. The music purchased from iTunes can be used in other mdeiamanagers just fine, and they could therefore be synced to third-party devices as well.

you are still being a retard. Your utter hatred for Apple is showing, and it's clouding your judgement.

You can buy your music through iTunes, and you can then use those purchased songs in some other mediamanager. You are in no shape or form forced to use iTunes.

Of course the actual purchase is done in iTunes. But by same logic I could complain that I have to go to amazon.com, if I want to buy from their online-sotre.... If you don't want to use iTunes, feel free to use some other online-store then. There's plenty to choose from.

Maybe they are modded down because they are stupid?

But the user is free to

a) buy his music from some other store

b) buy his music from ITMS, and sync that music to his third-party device, using third-party software.

You are in no shape or form required to buy music only from ITMS. But if you do, you are not forced to use iTunes to sync that music to your device.

Icebike, you are being a retard. Stop it.

How is Apple "abusing" their market-position?

You can sync your iTunes-library to other devices if you want to. You can also buy your music from some other store, and play it back on an iPod (or whatever you want to use). Again: stop being a retard. You are in no shape or form tied to iTunes.

All there is the fact that Palm is either too lazy or too incompetent (or both) to write their own sync-software that syncs the users iTunes-library to their device. That is what everyone else does, but apparently that is too much to ask from Palm.

What does purchasing music have to do with this? Why couldn't the user buy their music from some other store instead? What matters here is whether it's possible to sync the users library to third-party device. Yes, it is possible.

I honestly see no monopoly here. The barrier of entry is low, there are plenty of alternatives (both hardware and software).... Where is the monopoly? How is Apple abusing their supposed "monopoly"?

What is "iStore"? And to put things in to perspective: Microsoft has over 90% market-share. iPods have about 75% market-share. ITunes Music Store is the biggest single music retailer, but it's not dominant. If we look at downloads only, I believe that it's market-share is about 80%. But there's no real barrier of entry here. Doesn't music downloaded from Amazon automatically go to users iTunes-library? And you could take your music from iTunes and move it to some other library or device if you wanted to.

Compared to operating-systems, there is real competition in the player-market and online music-stores. Yes, Apple is the biggest in both of them, but they do not have a lock-in that stops users from using some other device or service instead.

Oh STFU already. How exactly are they "stealing" anything if the software was given to them for free? They are following the requirements of the license, and the authors of the software in question have not complained. So what exactly is the problem here?