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It's more shocking see how Samsung was 7 years ago ( https://web.archive.org/web/20070222044411/http://www.samsun... ) and now ( http://www.samsung.com ). Evolving from refrigerators to smartphones!

I'm seeing LCD TVs, a smartphone, and an ultra-mobile PC...

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It's kind of interesting how that G5 ad on the front page has a testimonial about freeing you from the chains of Intel and MS. Apple was was probably right in the middle of getting 10.4 ready to run on Intel at this point

I remember scratching my head at the numbers from Apple... The PowerPC chips were four times faster than Intel (or some such number). Then they released on Intel and it became twice as fast. (Of course, this might have been somewhat accurate if PowerPC did not gain performance at the same rate over the years. Still worth a chuckle, though.)

Apple always cherry-picked those benchmarks. The Apple PowerPC machines were so much slower than Intel-based Windows machines (in actual use) yet Apple would always claiming they were 4x faster. Then Apple releases their Intel based machines and suddenly they were the fastest ever.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain this line to me? I somehow don't get it.

Microsoft Office was pretty much was computers were to most people, and they came off (Bill Gates personally, ‘computer-savvy‘ managers in general and meetings involving PowerPoint in particular) as… no really inspiring. ‘Office life’ was an oximoron -- the title of the show “The Office” didn’t make sense. It was dredge reports, inexplicably weird titles, erratic page numbers, section numbers and inserted images on c…

I was a mac specialist for a few year 07-09. People were just dumbfounded and some angry that a new Mac didn't come with MS Office. Some refused to believe me and thought I was trying to upsell them (for no commission).

Sir if this laptop is for your daughter starting college, you'll probably want to get MS Office or Pages. "What? No Office included?!" Well it comes with TextEdit. "That's fine she'll use that" I'd then tell them about OpenOffice but that would confuse most people even more

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That lampshade imac was one of the coolest bits of hardware ever. I find it more interesting than the new "trashcan" model. I had a friend with a lampshade imac and I was very envious. It still seems more useful to me than the new all in one macs where you basically can't service anything. The lampshade was a good compromise.

That's a PowerMac/Mac Pro you're thinking of, lampshade is iMac.

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Great web design basically doesn't need to change over time. Apple has kept the same ideas: big hero image, top nav bar, a few secondary things, and that's it for a decade.

Blinking "Hot News Headlines" bar. You know, great web design.

It's not blinking. It just changes headlines.

You know, like what this AJAX gizmo is often used to do today.

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Great web design basically doesn't need to change over time. Apple has kept the same ideas: big hero image, top nav bar, a few secondary things, and that's it for a decade.

All completely overpowered by the skeuomorphic image background buttons.

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Seeing the 'Education' section makes me disappointed.

Apple's recent departure from the educational market really changed how school districts (like the one where I'm currently employed) made their purchasing decisions.

They used to offer deep discounts for K-12 and higher ed, even featuring it on their main page. Now they don't offer anything of the sort.

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