Comments on: Apple to unveil new laptops Tuesday

By: JH, Dallas, TX

JH, Dallas, TX — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:03:35 +0000

One quick review of the comments in this thread has just reminded me why no intelligent person with a busy schedule in 2008 should spend time reading article comments. I mean, really, when you can't figure out 4th quarter means fiscal year 4th quarter and you call people a noob, what level of smart can be populating this comment thread? What is the point of this thing?

By: ScottM, New York, NY

ScottM, New York, NY — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:31:39 +0000

It is so obvious isnt it? The new laptop will be a large version of the iTouch. All touch screen/no physical keyboard. Full application support. USB if you just have to have the physical keyboard and mouse. For a couple of extra bucks you will get the Phone.

Game changer! The must have 'Next big thing'.

By: Elwood, Fairmont, WV

Elwood, Fairmont, WV — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:13:00 +0000

Get this straight, Mac's are PC's. They have the same Intel processors, mainstream hard drives, RAM, and video cards as their Wintel brethren.

MAC OS X performance is certainly not significant enough to make up for 5 years of processing gains. In my experience, it isn't really any faster at all.

Dollar for dollar, I'd put a similarly priced PC against a Mac any day, and I have used both extensively.

By: mike, new york, new york

mike, new york, new york — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:01:24 +0000

REPEAT AFTER ME

MACS ARE OVER PRICED

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:WpSMMyXzmvgJ:store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook+apple+store+mac+book&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

apple ^^^^

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=DNCWWA1&s=dhs

dell ^^^

REPEAT AFTER ME

MACS ARE NOT SAFE

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/pwn-2-own-over-macbook-air-gets-seized-in-2-minutes-flat/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/pwn-2-own-contest-lets-hackers-choose-vista-os-x-or-linux/

I could go on for hours about how you get ripped off when you buy a mac. Or i could tear you mac users to shredds about how PC users have state of the art hardware and mac users have to wait a whole year just to get a new machine. I could also get into the fact that mac users dont have a clue as to how to use a computer.

Or the fact that macs now use intel hardware (x86) instead of IBM Power PC

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html

or how steve jobs had his programmers tae freebsd and create mac osx

http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/programming.html

like i said i could go on for hours

I could also bash microsoft to but their would be no point in that as atleast with Windows you have a choice!!! OR you can use a Redhat or Suse, Gentoo, or build your own linux distro.

like learning to ride a bike or drive a car, or walk you have to learn how to use a computer!!!!

I will let every one on this thread make their own logical conclusion who has the better deal now. mac or pc

buy a mac or buy a pc

By: Dan, Miami, FL

Dan, Miami, FL — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:20:41 +0000

Can the technology freaks out there use a word other than noob? It's very pretentious and immature. This mine is bigger than yours attitude is so preschool. Anyways, maybe Mac cannot measure up to your supercomputer, but how much did you pay for the parts? How much work did you put in to get it up and running? There are other uses for your computer other than the CPU intensive tasks you guys are running. Most users do not need and cannot afford all that power. I work in IT for the school system. I'll tell you right now these PC parts SUCK. They blow hardcore, and Mac isn't much better, but to defend PC as if their so great… I just repeat my original point. For what most people need to do on a computer(and not get bombarded with viruses because there are a million security holes) is not what the more advanced users are always complaining about. Thats why Mac gains market share. Also, this guy is talking pretty colors on a Mac? Aren't there a million lightup, multicolor fruity looking cases for PCs? Ive seen many techies with these embarrasing covers. Why don't you just admit that you learned Windows, and are too lazy to deal with another OS?

By: SDUBB,Jacksonville, FL

SDUBB,Jacksonville, FL — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:16:50 +0000

you're all crazyyy

By: Paco, San Antonio TX

Paco, San Antonio TX — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:24:37 +0000

Factory PC's do suck compared to Factory Mac's. Factory Pc's are so loaded down with solicitation software that it tanks the numbers(performance). Then Microsoft does something idiotic and releases vista (a OS that requires a gig of memory to run, when the Pc's out at the time and the target upgrade audience had computers that only had a gig of mem. This caused the sluggishness and errors). Macs come virtually free of solicit software so they do run faster out of the box and since that stuff is so hard to junk off a PC, unless you really know computers it keeps it slow. That's how Matt is right, as for maddawg. No bull, if you build your own PC of course it's gonna run faster, that's a no brainer! Also dude quit using noob, try thesaurus.com or something to expand you knowledge. You seemed smart untill half your sentences had noob in it. Unless you had a bet with someone about how many time you could squeeze that into a blog post. if so I hope you won.

By: Sevlove chicago IL

Sevlove chicago IL — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:33:59 +0000

haha maddawg may be the lamest person i have ever seen on any post on the internet

"of course i build my own with only the top technology available..and guess what…apple…gee"

lmao. I bet you live in your mom's basement and play WoW

By: DubyaNot, Seattle, WA

DubyaNot, Seattle, WA — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:41:48 +0000

4th quarter dummy! Earnings are reported in fiscal year format and they run from October to October.

By: Matt, Santa Fe, NM

Matt, Santa Fe, NM — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:05:09 +0000

& nice name maddawg, way to be a man and use a fake name