No more good news about Apple! You'll blow poor little RC's head off!

itLemmings!

Great news! But this is bound to stir the wrath of Fantasy Check. Bring it on, under the bridge dweller.

jimothy, why do u care if they'r lemmings...
they can spend their $$$ however they want...

anyway, i own shares of AAPL....apparently u dont...
i'm sitting back doing nothing...and making $$$
ha ha ha ha ha ha

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Guest wrote:
jimothy, why do u care if they'r lemmings...

I don't. I'm poking fun at a certain regular around here.

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Guest wrote:
i'm sitting back doing nothing...and making $$$
ha ha ha ha ha ha

LOL

That guy is so annoying! Why would someone who doesn't like apple or Macs waste their time on a site devoted to apple & macs???

PS- this is great news

Why shop around for PCs when you can just go to Apple and pay through the nose. Even better recommend sole-source proprietary hardware that's being discontinued in less than year, that will be easy to sell.

What kind of a stupid retort is this? Your bosses at TMO must have kept you busy to come up with such a lame post. Keep trying though, eventually you might get witty. Maybe.

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RealityCheck wrote:
Why shop around for PCs when you can just go to Apple and pay through the nose.

Because the RDF compelled them to transform into itLemmings and buy them?

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RealityCheck wrote:
Even better recommend sole-source proprietary hardware that's being discontinued in less than year, that will be easy to sell.

Great point! We all know that as soon as the new Mactel machines come out, the ones with PowerPC chips will instantly cease to function. Thanks for the reminder.

"Why shop around for PCs when you can just go to Apple and pay through the nose. Even better recommend sole-source proprietary hardware that's being discontinued in less than year, that will be easy to sell."

RC, you're so much fun. Completely disregard what is actual FACT and come in here with your hands over your ears, eyes closed, and singing "I'm Henry the 8th" at the top of your lungs.

Here we have him, ladies and gentlemen, the court jester. Though the name is... a malaprop, at best. An attempt at irony, perhaps?

"Malaprop" -- look it up in the Dictionary.

when you can get XP which is only promised to be obsolete in a year. XP (and NT and 2000) looks like a good bet to remain active for years to come. Longhorn, which has been stripped to a bare SP level with a flashy (?) video is one of the best reasons to switch to Apple - at least their next generation OX has been delivered, enhanced and includes those features that are too hard for Longhorn.

"Why shop around for PCs when you can just go to Apple and pay through the nose."

And paying out of your arnse for running a PC. Adding up all those interfaces you need adds up more on Windows. Plus more money spent on AntiVirus/Spyware/Adware Software.

"Even better recommend sole-source proprietary hardware that's being discontinued in less than year, that will be easy to sell."

Nice of RC talking about XP for a change.

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macuber wrote:

"Even better recommend sole-source proprietary hardware that's being discontinued in less than year, that will be easy to sell."

Nice of RC talking about XP for a change.

Yeah, XP is hardware, you Macbutt.

- doing his Iraqi Propaganda Minister routine, this time to perfection.

"Your bosses at TMO must have kept you busy to come up with such a lame post."

I think it's a safe bet that Bryan has better sense than to hire a delusional, self-loathing mouth breather like RC.

From TFA:
Mr. Powell continues: "What we're finding is any company with a firm IT infrastructure setup really seems to be opening their doors to Apple servers, and that's been a bit of a change over the last 12 months ... It's taken Oracle to say, 'We can put in these servers and they're identical to Sun servers but they're less money.'"

It says LESS MONEY. Idiot.
Apparently, trolls are delusional AND illiterate. Just pathetic. I recommend retroactive abortion for that oxygen waster.

Are you kidding me? Are you four? Shouldn't you be surfing Nickelodeon web sites or getting ready for your nappy?

: P

"Why shop around for PCs when you can just go to Apple and pay through the nose."

Because OS X is completely immune to viruses and spyware, while Windows is miserably drowning in them. Of course, what you're asking is a trick question, because a Mac Mini doesn't cost more than other comparable budget PCs. Besides even that, once you outfit a Windows PC to do the same things a Mac can, it winds up either costing as much or usually even more than a Mac. Then there's the cost of maintaining a Mac, which is much less than the cost of maintaning a PC unless you decide to steal all the software you need to keep it alive.

So it's not about shopping around for Windows PCs or paying out the nose. It's about shopping around for one huge gaping security hole which will end up costing you a whole lot of wasted time and money and is only good for playing games, or paying for a serious computer that's free from the malware plague effecting Windows.

"Even better recommend sole-source proprietary hardware that's being discontinued in less than year, that will be easy to sell."

Proprietary hardware? Sorry, Reality Check, but it looks like you don't understand what "proprietary" means. You'd be right if PPC Macs could only run the Mac OS, but they can run other operating systems, too. So the hardware is no more proprietary than the hardware in a Windows PC.

And discontinued in less than a year? Boo hoo. Today's best, most cutting edge Windows PC will be completely obsolete in less than a year, too. And did you forget that Apple will still be supporting PPC PowerMacs into 2007? Whoops.

By the way, what happened to that catastrophic stock crash you said Apple was suffering back when shares were trading around $31? You know, the one you said that they'd never recover from? 'Cause now they're trading at $44. And I'm wondering, what happened there?

<golf clap>

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RealityCheck wrote:
Why shop around for PCs when you can just go to Apple and pay through the nose. Even better recommend sole-source proprietary hardware that's being discontinued in less than year, that will be easy to sell.

For the same reason you can buy a Chevrolet for $12k and a Lexus for $47k, its about quality (and not just from the hardware aspect, but by customer experience, and customer service as well) and prestiege. I'd much rather admit that I have a Powerbook G4 than a Dell.

To go a step further, I had a powerboo G3 700MHz that fell into an Apple recall after the warranty expired, after 4x to fix the problem, Apple decided to give me a brand new iBook G4 1.2GHz for my trouble. The hardware my not always be top notch, but the customer experience is. I'd like to see Dell or Gateway do that without purchasing an option accidental damage insurance plan of some sort. NOBODY replaces computers that are out of warranty....oh wait, Apple did.