For FPS' - let's face it, the vast majority of console games - the mouse+keyboard is the superior control mechanism. This has been proven countless times, notably when Microsoft stages an event pitting Xbox "pro" players against PC players. The PC players decimated the Xbox players. It was a major embarrassment for MS (and the players I guess) and nstrumental is MS' decision to keep the XBox and PC player base segregated.

Consoles are a bad deal all around: Outdated hardware - years behind PCs, low resolution, excessively slow loading times, expensive games, lack of customisation and custom mods. Consoles need software updates at least as often as PCs, so that's a wash. Arguing that PC games give players too many configuration options (even if they choose to use them) is ridiculous. Since when it choice a bad thing? Unless you're Apple, I guess.

This is a technology for sharing that's patented so it can't be... shared... er...

I wouldn't call a map app with less features, less accuracy and more outright errors "innovation" either.

As always with Apple, their customers are just regarded as collateral damage as they attempt to grab more market share and harm competitors. No different to most corporations, but people seem to think they're a "cool company" or something to be desired. They're not - they just push products, like any other company. Their products are not really innovative or even original. Aside from the shiny cases, there's really nothing special about Apple. They have plenty of "special" customers though - e.g. the imbeciles who queued overnight to get into a shop...

How exactly does this reinforce his case?

"Worldwide Mobile Device Sales to End Users by Vendor in 2Q12 (Thousands of Units)

Samsung 90,432.1
Apple 28,935.0"

Let me just Google that for you... http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/14/mobile-phone-q2-2012-market-share-sales/

Yeah, 1GB should be enough for anyone right?

I don't think Samsung are "deathly afraid of Apple". Not then they're currently the leaders in market share, and actually supply the hardware to Apple, to make their phones/tablets/laptops. It's kind of a win-win...

"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?