- Amazon to buy Zappos for $800 million.
- iPOD classic to be killed?
- Win 7 ready to manufacture. New family Pack idea allows multiple installation.
- Pew research says everyone is going wirelessly.
- GTA IV pre-publicity beginning.
- Apple shareholders meeting hints at app store redesign.
- IBM in bed with Juniper Networks.
- Robo-ethicists want to revamp fake laws? Cripes.
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If I had a pair of shoes I liked and needed to replace them I might purchase a replacement pair on line.
Asimov kept his laws very simple because doing it some other way seemed to offer the opportunity for…mistakes.
My shoes last forever. I haven’t bought shoes in years.
Repeat after me: The three laws are a PLOT DEVICE. Because Asimov was an AUTHOR. Jeez.
Apple had a great quarter. I guess those Microsoft “Laptop Hunter” ads take effect next quarter.
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Well, after selling all those iPhones and iPod Touch’s (that iPod Touch is impossible to pluralise properly in English) you guarantee a great quarter. Remember when Apple was a computer company? Waaaaaay back during the Apple //e days? Me too…
#5 Mac computer sales were up 4%, margins were down. However Apple did the computer part from “Apple Computer” a few years ago.
Actually Apple having a good quarter bodes well for the Windows rollout, especially other manufacturers (HP, Acer, Dell, etc).
BTW, Apple has had the family pack for a while now which is good for 5 computers. e.g. Single Snow Leopard $29, Family Pack $49.
No ‘3 Laws of Robots’? Theres just no robots to apply the laws too!
#6,
It is hard to over state that. I mean when you go to the Amazon best seller list and you see the top two most popular software products for the max are… Microsoft Office at #1 and VMWare Fusion in #2…
Wait, what was the point of getting a mac again???
#8
I use a Mac so I can run VMWare Fusion on a stable OS. Only a sucker runs Windows directly on hardware. I currently have 6 different flavours of Windows on VM’s for different projects. When my working version of Windows goes to crap I just blow it off and spin up a new clean version.
Pedro, please don’t ever use a Mac. If you did you it would raise the whining quotient of Mac users even higher.
#9
VMWare Fusion hozing guest os file systems is a known problem with the OSX version of VMWare Fusion.
But none the less, I just use Hyper-V and I never have any of the stability problems you are encountering.
Maybe your os is not as stable as you think it is?
#5 “BTW, Apple has had the family pack for a while now which is good for 5 computers. e.g. Single Snow Leopard $29, Family Pack $49.”
It all evens out. Most Windows users never “buy” Windows, it comes with their computer. The “hidden” cost to a consumer for getting Vista Home Premium on an OEM computer is something like $50-$100.
The “hidden” cost for Apple products beyond the actual hardware value is generally several hundred dollars.
It’s funny you mention that. I just watched a discussion thread among a bunch of Microsoft MVP’s I know struggle to get HyperV working for a customer SharePoint installation. After two weeks they just gave up and went back to VMWare.
I personally have never had a problem with VMWare and corporations I know have had great luck with it. One installation I know has thousands of VMWare servers running and they love it. However, I’m sure there are problems with this product like there is with any product – I just have never seen it.
somebody_said said “The “hidden” cost for Apple products beyond the actual hardware value is generally several hundred dollars.”
What is the hidden cost you’re talking about? You lost me there. I didn’t see extra charges on credit card last I bought a Mac.
Yes, you did…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4VIZA0ZwY5k
#13 Postman
You lost me again. What are you talking about….?
#13 Now I get it. You’re referring to all the NPD Group news reports about June computer sales and Apple’s market share over $1000. Yup that $1500 Laptop Hunter really kicked it. 😉
#15,
That is an interesting spin on Apples overall computer sales decline…
#16 You’re killing me. In other news, scientists say the Earth is round but skeptics disagree. 😀