Posted 04/21/2009 at 03:07:22pm
Anyone notice the Vista in the pictures? Are they using Vista's built in but never used second display tech, or have they rolled their own solution? ...
Posted 04/21/2009 at 03:05:05pm
The all-in-one PC market I think would be LAN Party. How easy to tote something around the size of a 24" screen rather than a screen and a LAN Box? The Firebird has addressed the problem with gam ...
Posted 04/21/2009 at 02:54:17pm
Did you get it just to see what it was about, or did you get it to replace something? Do you think most netbook users realized the limitations when they got them? ...
Posted 04/21/2009 at 12:22:16pm
Is the market for netbooks saturated now? I think everyone who was updating from an old laptop to a netbook did it over the holidays. ...
Posted 04/21/2009 at 08:48:39am
HP is giving Apple a run with industrial design and innovation, but they were still keeping Voodoo's price. This is a great value but it is in a catagory all its own. Don't drop the ball, HP. Cram all ...
Posted 04/15/2009 at 08:54:53pm
So how does this compare to the Max PC Zero Point system? It looks a lot like the Gateway PC in last issue, so I guess it performs similarly. I'd like to know how much we're gaining relative to the lo ...
Posted 04/09/2009 at 02:35:28pm
ANyone buying into these ads is worse off than any Apple Elitist Hipster. MS is off making happy how the hardware is cheaper, and how there are more to choose from but still don't give a reason how th ...
Posted 04/09/2009 at 08:02:50am
Well, isn't a Lexus just a Toyota with a fancy badge? Aside from that since MacOS is Intel native you CAN build a Hackintosh with most any part you want, and you have to be a little geekier to pull it ...
Posted 04/08/2009 at 12:15:12pm
Good to see MS patting itself on the back for setting back computing 5 yrs with netbooks. They were caught flat footes with no lightweight version of Vista, which is another knock against that OS. The ...
Posted 04/03/2009 at 12:43:32pm
Does anyone really want a 16x9 ratio screen? For most computing tasks you miss the space for the task bar. In most movies you get black bars anway. I got a 16x9 Dell as an upgrade from a 15" 3:4 ...
Posted 04/03/2009 at 09:53:27am
SGI built themselves up on a closed ecosystem of MIPS based workstations, IRIX OS and proprietary software. Then they got blasted by cheaper, fully equivelent WinTel boxes and programs, then Linux. Yo ...
Posted 04/01/2009 at 08:56:16am
A powerhouse GPU for $99. No mini Display Port so it won't be offered on a Mac. I thank Ballmer, Windows and Lauren for making this possible. ...
Posted 03/31/2009 at 09:26:52am
Microsoft is using the motif that the PC in the Mac v PC ads is really a Windows based PC, and rightly so since Apple hammered Vista all last year. SO the assumption is that a PC means a PC running wi ...
Posted 03/31/2009 at 09:16:53am
The whole idea that Microsoft has anything to do with PC price advantage is the selling point of the ad, and its just plain wrong. Ever since the clone PC break, when the industry went to standardized ...
Still not swallowing it on Microsoft's New Ad Campaign: Owning a Mac in a Recession is Totally Uncool
Posted 03/30/2009 at 03:43:54pm
Bibi, MicroSoft doesn't occupy the position you are claiming. Apple indeed prices their PCs much higher and locks you into a tight eco system. Windows runs on a lot more hardware, but that is not why ...
Posted 03/30/2009 at 02:39:46pm
If they were the exact same parts I could use the MacPro tower for a build, but nothing fits it. I don't know what big_Montana is talking about, he has a G4, thats almost 7 years old. Take a 7 yr old ...
Posted 03/30/2009 at 02:25:52pm
The cheap Psystar is cheaper than many Vista PCs, I did not say it was cheaper than all Vista PCs. The fact that there is no Psystar laptop is moot, the ad is pointing out that PCs can be had for less ...
Posted 03/30/2009 at 11:36:25am
The fly in the ointment is Psystar, you can get an OS X machine for less than a lot of Vista machines out there. That refutes the MicroSoft argument totally. I guess Lauren is not cool enough for an A ...
Posted 03/30/2009 at 10:19:32am
I don't see how a software company is taking all the credit for third party hardware price advantage. Kraft Mac and Cheese is the same whether you use brand A margarine or cheaper brand B. Truthfully, ...
Posted 03/24/2009 at 11:19:57am
The PII beats the Core2 CPU, but takes a beating by the Core i7, so why consider it? I wouldn't sacrifice the performance. I would try to get a sound card in there, though, but otherwise this is a sol ...
Posted 03/23/2009 at 10:18:10am
Get back to me when you get all those programs onto the 4-8GB SSDs that netbooks come with. And when you try to run some games on them. Or even trying to run h.264 video. Other than the setup, this wa ...
Posted 03/21/2009 at 11:27:55am
Isn;t this pretty much what Psystar is selling? ...
Posted 03/20/2009 at 12:35:26pm
Somehow annualizing kilowatt-hours seems silly in this context. This is a machine built to waste time gaming, who's approval do we need to do this? Are you trying to figure out your electrical usage s ...
Posted 03/18/2009 at 03:27:37pm
Mac fans are no longer smug because... there is another option that saves them money? There is a platform they can tweak to serve them better? Or that this proves that there is more to a Mac than just ...
Posted 03/18/2009 at 03:22:57pm
The fact that they don't even know to make these adjustments points out how complicated it is to support almost infinite hardware combinations. And do they really understand the tradeoffs in these set ...
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