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| 582203 | 2007-08-23 06:23:00 | All the views are just from members with their popcorn ready, getting settled in to watch a potential bun fight brew. :rolleyes: :lol: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 582204 | 2007-08-23 06:54:00 | Why do the MacBooks not have graphics cards, or at least the option of having one? It just seems so narrow minded and reflects Apple's arrogance in that, in the end, it is they who decide what you have your Mac! | JSF_enthusiast (8536) | ||
| 582205 | 2007-08-23 07:06:00 | Why do the MacBooks not have graphics cards, or at least the option of having one? It just seems so narrow minded and reflects Apple's arrogance in that, in the end, it is they who decide what you have your Mac! I'm not sure although I know that there are an increasing amount of users who would like the option of having one in their MacBook. At this stage the lack of a graphics card doesn't seem to be hurting MacBook sales in the US where Apple has become the 3rd largest computer laptop seller on the market just behind HP and Dell. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 582206 | 2007-08-23 12:14:00 | Why do the MacBooks not have graphics cards, or at least the option of having one? It just seems so narrow minded and reflects Apple's arrogance in that, in the end, it is they who decide what you have your Mac! And that is why they only control 5% market share. A expensive as Laptop with no GFX, hmm, can I have 2??? NOT! Its just the sheer lack of customization that is the worst problem with Macs and Apple. They've done it with the iPhone and will keep doing it. Guess they really like not having a lot of market share:rolleyes: |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 582207 | 2007-08-24 01:57:00 | And that is why they only control 5% market share. Simple, when Bill Gates wanted Steve to license the Mac OS out to interested hardware suppliers back in the early 80s Steve wasn't interested so eventually Bill did a deal with IBM to license DOS (I think) and eventually Win 95 to every hardware manufacturer on the planet. Steve still refuses to license OS X out to 3rd party manufactures. Back in the late 80's and early 90's Apple did lisence out the rights to the hardware which created the Mac clone market which only served to under cut Apple. Steve killed this when he returned in 1997. Apple is currently growing its market share at the rate of about 1-2% a year (which =about $1 billion in revenue) . The company itself is growing at the rate of about 30% a year. If Apple lisenced out the OS X it would loose control over the quality of the hardware it runs on. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 582208 | 2007-08-24 05:29:00 | Simple, when Bill Gates wanted Steve to license the Mac OS out to interested hardware suppliers back in the early 80s Steve wasn't interested so eventually Bill did a deal with IBM to license DOS (I think) and eventually Win 95 to every hardware manufacturer on the planet. Steve still refuses to license OS X out to 3rd party manufactures. Back in the late 80's and early 90's Apple did lisence out the rights to the hardware which created the Mac clone market which only served to under cut Apple. Steve killed this when he returned in 1997. Apple is currently growing its market share at the rate of about 1-2% a year (which =about $1 billion in revenue) . The company itself is growing at the rate of about 30% a year. If Apple lisenced out the OS X it would loose control over the quality of the hardware it runs on. And that would mean what? Windows doesnt have control over hardware and neither does Linux so loosing control over hardware is a negative? Btw, Apple might be gaining at 1-2% market share a year, but Windows already HAS 92-95%. Guess which one is more impressive. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 582209 | 2007-08-24 05:42:00 | And that would mean what? Windows doesnt have control over hardware and neither does Linux so loosing control over hardware is a negative? Btw, Apple might be gaining at 1-2% market share a year, but Windows already HAS 92-95%. Guess which one is more impressive. The fact that apple has control over the hardware would be one of the reasons they are reliable with less crashes. Some may see this as a down point, I only see this as a bonus. I never brought a mac for the hardware, it was for the software. While I might of paid a hefty premium for my first mac, it did do me good service for 4-5 years(mostly trouble free) the only upgrade I made to it was ram and a wireless card. And yes that was about the only upgrades I could have made to it apart from hard drive or a new dvd writer if needed. The one OS upgrade I made seemed to actually improve the performance of the computer. It did everything I asked of it. And yes your right I never asked it to play games. Now on to my second mac(almost a week now) original has been given to the children. I am hoping this will give me just as much service as my last one. |
plod (107) | ||
| 582210 | 2007-08-24 06:01:00 | And that would mean what? Windows doesnt have control over hardware and neither does Linux so loosing control over hardware is a negative? Btw, Apple might be gaining at 1-2% market share a year, but Windows already HAS 92-95%. Guess which one is more impressive. Windows has 92% market share to loose right now judging by the figures on Net Applications Market share web site. Check out the trends over the last 6 months or so.marketshare.hitslink.com Windows OS can only get bigger and more bloated due to its requirement to maintain support for legacy systems which Microsoft can't afford to drop due to the size of the platform where as OS X doesn't suffer from this problem. Personally I would be more interested in an OS that has a better future ahead rather than one that just has a big market share - because it is "good enough" |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 582211 | 2007-08-28 09:42:00 | Had my first problem with the new 20" iMacs today . Powered one of the iMacs up sometime around 1:30 pm and the screen just went white-ish and the machine made a few screaming noises every few moments (I didn't count) . A restart just created the same unpleasant experience . Restarted around about 30 minutes later and everything was back to normal . What can it mean? I'm off to search some Apple forums . |
myke (7862) | ||
| 582212 | 2007-08-28 09:44:00 | Either Apple forums, Macfixit.com or http://forums.macrumors.com/ | winmacguy (3367) | ||
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