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Doing the Math On the New MacBook 783

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @03:08AM from the compared-to-what dept.

Technologizer writes "Apple's new MacBook is a significantly different machine than its predecessor — a slicker laptop at a higher price point. But does it carry a large price premium over similar Windows PCs? I did a painstaking spec-by-spec comparison versus three roughly comparably-configured Windows machines, and came to the conclusion that the value it offers for price paid is not out of whack with the Windows world." The article uses the phrase "Mac tax," which one commenter points out is a recent Microsoft marketing canard.

Comment Re:I put C on web pages at my last start-up (Score 1) 375

by strcpy(NULL,... on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @08:30PM (#24108827) Attached to: The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C?

I had a similar experience, in one of the institutions I worked I was tasked with writing an internal application although I wasn't hired as a developer. What I did was to write a pre-processor that let me mingle C code and HTML data together. Then I separated them with the preprocessor and linked them with the tiny webserver and the Internet Explorer widget (the client was very picky about how the application looked).

I left the "Hey that button should be pink" bastards with the source code and docs for it all but I don't think anyone with a little sense in them would get anywhere near it. The whole thing was one big binary which ran as two threads, one for the webserver and one for the Internet Explorer window.

Still I wish there was some mature platform which lets me do that. An HTML window controlled by C source is very nice. You don't have to deal with any fancy-schmancy GUI toolkit and you have all the power you will ever need.

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