"If price were the most important thing, Lenovo and Dell would be the market leaders."

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0

Yeah it looks like the PC builders must really be hurting at the moment.

Weird, all the professional video editors I know now use PCs - mostly for performance reasons. These are not people who care about the price either - they can just specify much higher spec machines than Apple have available - Mac "Pro" - what a joke! Not sure why you think you need to "maintain" a PC any more than a Mac really. I own/use both, and they're about equal. My PC never crashes, my Mac has crashed. My iPhone and iPad have also locked up (and I'm willing to bet the vast majority of iOS users have had apps quit on them more than once - even though it's a fairly soft experience, that app suddenly disappearing is a crash.

So sorry, but trying to claim a Mac is a better buy for video editing is as ridiculous as people who have been using them for Flash authoring over the years. You're kidding yourself.

What I meant, and what you've failed to understand, is that selling SEALED laptops that cannot be upgraded or easily repaired - as everything is bonded together - means more environmental waste. Apple will throw out major components and everything stuck to them instead of fixing or replacing a small component.

You're talking about "expanding the memory" in your Apple PCs with 3rd party components. Good luck doing that with the retina display MBPs.

Typical fanboi. Begone.

Well sure, but if you went out on the streets handing outf hardcore pornographic photos to everyone you met, all day long, every day, wouldn't you expect repercussions? If your PC is an infected piece of crap, spewing junk all over the internet your ISP should unplug you. In fact, I'm sure they'd be very happy with you switching to another ISP so your problem disappears off with you!

"my laptops are always near an outlet. i don't travel for work so i don't care." - so *you* use your laptop at home, so you can't imagine that anyone actually wants to use one for their primary purpose - portable working.

And no, and iPad is not a replacement for a laptop for anyone doing serious work.

Selling sealed machines, primarily to shake the most money out of your customers by charging double or tripple the price for RAM/HD/SSD upgrades, and also creating more environmental waste is inexcusable...

Unless of course you're the typical irrational fanboi...

Additionally, if they used the credits to buy other used games, then that money goes direct to Gamestop.

"This is a gaming card marketed to extreme gamers."

"And since games are probably the most resource-intensive fucking thing, you should expect your GAMING CARD to kick major ass at everything else if it has the capability."

Did you not understand what he said?! It's a GAMING CARD - it's designed to kick ass when rendering games. Everything else is secondary - it's not a general purpose card, and it's not marketed as anything other than a high end gaming card. If it happens to kick ass as a more general purpose GPU, then that's just a bonus - it has nothing to do with its gaming performance. Nvidia sell other cards that excel in general purpose GPU work. I really don't think they care less whether this card, or any of their gaming cards, perform better at cracking encyption keys than something from ATi. Nor do the vast majority of people who buy it.

Personally I'm getting a pair of 680's instead, as it seems a better buy for slightly better performance, but this card does exactly what it's designed to do: be the fastest graphics accelerator for the gaming market.

Do not question our infallible overlords. There's no way this idea could possibly fail. It's foolproof...

You're right - also, if Ferraris are so much better than Ford Mondeos, why are there so many more Ford Mondeos? It must mean they're much better cars, right? Right?

I remember using a 1200/75 accoustic coupler with a ZX Spectrum to "get online". The upload speed was so slow that it couldn't actually keep up with normal typing. Good days.

I'm also at a loss as to why it's such a difficult problem to solve. People have their registration form -> enter voting station building, show form which is stamped or somethnig so it can't be used again & get an anonymous RFID card or something. That card allows them to vote once by putting it in a machine and pressing a couple of buttons. If you screw up the voting, reset and do it again as the RFID card would be valid for an hour or so.

If you still manage to screw up after an hour then you're really too stupid to be involved in the political process - except maybe as a politician.

"I have never heard of the UI of a handheld application requiring significant processor resources"

Guessing you've never played any games that were more demanding than Angry Birds then. The fact is that WebKit is fine for rending web content, but developers need lower level access to get the performance required for non-web apps.Even if the device could just about grind along at a reasonable pace using a WebKit based version of a native app, the fact the processor is working a lot harder will lead to much shorter battery life, and in some cases the device becoming noticably warm.

Web-based interfaces on mobile devices are find for simple apps with mostly static content, but for a nice responsive and efficient UI then native (or at least a fast virtual machine) is required.

Just visited a site with 1.4MB of Javascript - used to display an image carousel and do some Google analytics. 1.4 fucking megs. Ridiculous.

As others have said, they'd have little to no chance of success in the UK.

They tried something similar back in 2000, when they claimed they owned the patent to the hyperlink. The judge wouldn't have any of it and they were told to go away.

I've heard a sense of humour is also good.