Comment Suckers. (Score 1) 230
This is clearly a joke, albeit a pretty dry one. You can't buy one, and the "stories" are actually quite hilarious.
Comment Re:Battery?! (Score 1) 1079
You are basing this on what? Idle speculation?
Having replaced batteries more than 1 or 2 times for a single, still useful laptop. Even if their claims are true the machine will outlast the battery.
Speculation?
History. https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbook/batteryexchange/
Dude, seriously, if you are on that long of a flight, you should take some time to relax, have a few drinks and take a nap. Nobody should be expected to "work" on a plane the whole time. Unless if you are a chronic workaholic with no life, you should not be working through the flight and your employer should understand that.
That, my friend, would be why you are using an Apple, whereas serious business users use PCs. Because you think that it is up to you to tell consumers what they need and how they will use it, instead of the other way around.
Comment Re:Battery?! (Score 1) 1079
Seriously? Here are a few:
1) Buy a new battery. Even their claimed 2-3x industry standard isn't more than a year or two if you use your laptop every day. I'm still using a three year old laptop which is perfectly fine even for software development.
2) Not having to send your laptop to Apple when they inevitably recall the battery
3) A long flight is much more than 8 hours. Try going to Australia or Hong Kong.
If Apple really can't make a removable battery without a 40% overhead in space, then they aren't really the geniuses that you all think they are, are they? Really, connectors and a metal or plastic shell increase the size by almost half again? They should probably take a cue from some of the technological design marvels you can find in, say, a typical AA battery. What BS.
In the end, it's fairly irrelevant, because any serious business user won't be considering Apple products.
1) Buy a new battery. Even their claimed 2-3x industry standard isn't more than a year or two if you use your laptop every day. I'm still using a three year old laptop which is perfectly fine even for software development.
2) Not having to send your laptop to Apple when they inevitably recall the battery
3) A long flight is much more than 8 hours. Try going to Australia or Hong Kong.
If Apple really can't make a removable battery without a 40% overhead in space, then they aren't really the geniuses that you all think they are, are they? Really, connectors and a metal or plastic shell increase the size by almost half again? They should probably take a cue from some of the technological design marvels you can find in, say, a typical AA battery. What BS.
In the end, it's fairly irrelevant, because any serious business user won't be considering Apple products.
Comment NH vs. Iowa - there is no scandal (Score 1) 861
Following up on my previous post that this has only to do with the demographics of voters, since the hand-counted votes in NH were predominantly from small towns:
I couldn't find data for Iowa broken down by large vs. small town, but here
you can see by county. So I picked Des Moines (obviously, containing a big city) and Taylor (in the middle of nowhere).
Des Moines County: 40% Barak Obama, 29% Hillary
Taylor County: 35% Hillary Clinton, 20% Obama
Sorry, folks. There is no scandal. People in smaller, more rural areas prefer Hillary (surprised? she's white). People in larger, more urban areas prefer Obama.
I couldn't find data for Iowa broken down by large vs. small town, but here
you can see by county. So I picked Des Moines (obviously, containing a big city) and Taylor (in the middle of nowhere).
Des Moines County: 40% Barak Obama, 29% Hillary
Taylor County: 35% Hillary Clinton, 20% Obama
Sorry, folks. There is no scandal. People in smaller, more rural areas prefer Hillary (surprised? she's white). People in larger, more urban areas prefer Obama.
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