Warranty : 3 years parts and labor, 1 year battery Operating System : Windows XP Professional Tablet EditionĪdditional Software : Symbol Commander and Zinio Reader Optional : Optional External USB DVD-ROM or DVD/CD-RW Wireless : Integrated Wi-Fi™ (IEEE 802.11b) Multimedia : Optional External USB DVD-ROM Graphics : Trident CyberALADDiN-T with 16MB external UMA video memory Processor : Mobile Intel® Pentium® III processor – M4 featuring Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep® technologyĭisplay Type : Polysilicon TFT active matrix (XGA) Office Suite : Microsoft® Office XP Professional with Publisher™ but i know that many of you are driving honda’s and other ‘sensible’ cars and along those lines macs are very sensible purchases.ītw - i have two fast cars and two fast macs so that will run with anything out there, so who knows what that makes me 😉 for this they are more expensive to purchase (though not as much as most would believe) and lately have been coming with slower ‘motors’ than comparable PC’s.īut for your reasoning of processor speed = performance = sensible male purchase to hold up, each of these sensible men would also have to be driving a firebird gt or better yet 1988 monte carlo with a supercharged 350 and a high-ratio rearend. but macs are definitely of higher quality when looking at the hardware/software integration and the resale value, they usually come with more built-in ports, and hold their resale value longer. people buy the cars they do for a number reasons: price/value, quality, cost of repairs, previous ownership experience, features, and yes, speed of the motor. most cars are one of three speeds to the general public: slow, fast, and somewhere in the middle. processor speed is like horsepower in a car, no it’s actually like how fast can it go from 0-60mph. Performance is measured several ways, not just by processor speed. 3 percent market-share taking one-third of initial OS sales, versus 95 percent market-share taking two-thirds initial OS sales is called a consumer trend. Now if you do the math, you see a gaping hole in enthusiasm for Windows when compared to current market-share numbers.

300,000 copies of Windows XP sold in the first three days. market-share: 100,000 copies of Mac OS X “Jaguar” (the OS that even Mac users were skeptical of getting because of its price) sold in the first three days vs. Current market numbers don’t reflect what consumers have in mind to purchase once they feel the need to purchase again. Consumer confidence tells a lot about where people are willing to put their money over time because of the tendency to hold back rather than spend on a particular system.

If it comes down to enthusiasm for a platform (and I’m not talking about zealot activity) then I would say there’s still much more momentum in UNIX based systems, such as Mac OS X for example, than in Windows. Who cares that you can run a crappy DVD authoring software at 3Ghz, if it means you have to struggle it for multiple hours? Add a reliable OS, which you don’t have to administrate every minute, and you can save even more time. A good UI will save you multiple hours of time, a faster processor maybe 15 minutes. Using a nice interface will save you more time, than a fast processor. But the king of slowness is the keyboard, the mouse and the user. All I/O is relatively slow, harddisks, ram, usb. That a userfriendly environment where everything works, is more important than raw computing power makes perfect sense to anyone with a basic knowledge of computers and operating systems. I think what he means by “pretty” is more userfriendly, a lot nicer environment to work in. This helps keep the company alive and kicking. In this case, this guy felt that the loss of performance was worth it for the gain he found in the new environment.Īpple is therefore striving to make the machines more attractive to lower end users where performance is less of a concern until they can solve their top end issues. Many folks by slower machines for assorted reasons. However, not every machine sold on the planet is the fastest machine available. While Apple would no doubt love to be running super fast machines, it clearly can not for all sorts of reasons. What this is really saying is that for most computer users and the tasks that they use them for today, computers are “fast enough”. The writer states that this dual processor G4 is slower than his windows machine, but it’s ok because it’s pretty! I mean, that just makes little sense to me. Really? REALLY? Can you tell me how? Please please please please please? Pretty please even? You can set the mouse pointer to dissapear while typing on a Windows box too, IIRC. I remember sending hate mail to the makers of a NeXT application that didn’t follow this simple guideline. Hallelujah and pass the gravy, of all the nit picky whiny petty things, I just LOVE this feature. The mouse cursor disappears when you start typing on the keyboard.

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