Apple is now bigger than Microsoft

Gerard said:
Whats so good about a computer that cripples upgrade potential by bunging everything behind the screen? The only thing on an imac that can be upgraded is ram, anything else is a factory only "at time of order" option. If you want more drive space that means external drives which just means more plugged into the machine, more wires dangling about (which seems to be pet peeve for jobs) and usually slower transfer rates. I also wouldn't mind seeing how hot the cpu and gpu's get in such a small enclosure on cpu\gpu heavy tasks.


I really don't see any redeeming factors in the imac at all. The only obvious one is fewer wires but that's hardly a "be all end all" issue like that tool Jobs makes it out to be.
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I don't need to upgrade anything (other than adding another 4GB of RAM because Apple's RAM prices are silly) as it does what I need it to do and will continue doing that until I purchase a new one when this has reached its current lifespan. It's a tool for me. I don't want the hassle of taking it apart every five minutes to put a new GPU or whatever in it. I work in IT for my day job I don't want any of that after hours!

As for heat well I can render HD footage in Final Cut Studio (mostly using Motion / Final Cut Pro using either Apple 4444 or 4422 codecs - codecs that aren't know for being nice to the CPU/GPU) and play Portal or convert videos and as of yet I haven't heard the fan and the back of the computer gets warm. Just warm not hot.
 
Quote from the BBC News site after asking someone what they thought after getting their iPad -

Barry Church, one of the first out of the store with his iPad, said: "I've never used one but I had to have one."
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No **** Sherlock, they launched in the UK today so the chances of you using one are pretty slim...

Are all Apple fanboi's this dim ?? :confused:
































*For the Apple Fans - If you read this far before your head imploded with that comment I made ?? I WAS KIDDING ;)
 
Cuchulain said:
And that's about all you can play ;)
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For now. This time next year I bet it will be a different story. History has taught us where Gabe Newell goes, others follow. Shame MS couldn't have kept hold of him - he's exactly the sort of innovator they need right now.
 
scorza said:
For now. This time next year I bet it will be a different story.
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it's taken what 6 years for source to finally be converted at nearly the end of it's life?


unless valve convert their next big engine it won't be that much.

I don't think anyone outside of valve even use source though.
 
Well lets see, Apple hardware looks nice way overpriced and runs far too hot for my liking.
Mac OS X is a hateful operating system as its so rediculously [sp?] over simplified and dumbed down.
Don't get me wrong though I dislike Windows 7 for the same reasons, they have tried to dumb it down/simply things by hiding them in places that it actually takes far longer to find out the information you are after. (network connection ip details for example)
The new start menu your forced to use is hateful and is slower and nowhere near as refined as having all my program's correctly grouped in a windows 2000 style start menu.

Ranting over with, I still have and use daily my iPhone 3Gs, which meets my needs ok. It is by no means a great phone, and I think my dads HTC HD2 is a superior phone in almost everyway except the web browsing isn't as slick nor is audio playback.
I do think the HTC Hero might be my next phone though.
 
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