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For what it's worth, the 'premium prices' argument is starting to sound a little dated.
Macbook Air starts at $999. All I want to do is browse the Internet. I could buy 3 Chromebooks for the price of that Macbook Air. Or 1 Chromebook and save money.
There's an app for that. It's called Safari and it comes on the $299 iPad Mini. What is your argument, again?
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Macbook Air starts at $999. All I want to do is browse the Internet. I could buy 3 Chromebooks for the price of that Macbook Air. Or 1 Chromebook and save money.
I bought my current laptop in late 2011 for $750. Specs are 4 GB (which I cheaply upgraded to 8GB right away), GT 540M (1GB dedicated graphics memory), Core i7 @ 2.2 GHz, USB 3.0. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbook_air , in terms of specs it blows away even today's Macbooks -- two years later! Moral: If you're looking at the higher end of the performance/price spectrum because you do things like gaming a…
There's also a huge difference in what each update adds when compared to 8.1 . Where 8.1 tries to fix all the initial issues with W8 (missing start button anyone?), Maverick adds serious new features (1+ hour of battery, compressed RAM).
The free iWork suite is a direct attack to MSFT Office. Giving it away for free will pay long term in decreasing market share for Office. Office H&O is $220. Buy a Mac/iPhone/iPad and you get that for free.
The whole free OS which can only run upon hardware they have already sold you is reminding me of how IBM used to sell AIX and moved into giving it away free as it would only run upon hardware only they made and sold you. Question is though, what about support. You have a 3 year old Mac of some flavour and upgrade to this OS, what about issues you may have. ANother aspect would be that by in effect making this level o…
This is part of a bigger company wide strategy to offer software updates for free for their products, a strategy they pioneered with iOs. There's also a huge difference in what each update adds when compared to 8.1 . Where 8.1 tries to fix all the initial issues with W8 (missing start button anyone?), Maverick adds serious new features (1+ hour of battery, compressed RAM). The free iWork suite is a direct attack to M…
Pioneered?
Android updates have been free since day one.
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If you spend the time to research and get the parts that are supported by OS X, building a Hackintosh is breeze. I have had no problems with the one I built.
Could you give us a couple links to kick off our own research? I've been wanting to do this for some time now but have been putting it off.
Their recommended builds are excellent, even if you were only to use them for Windows.
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There's a giant difference between "not officially supported" and "a cryptography chip locks you out".
I guess you should take a look at what installing a hackintosh system entails. It starts with flashing your BIOS and it doesn't get any better afterwards.
Not true at all. Maybe if you're using old or unsupported hardware.
At most you'll need to set your BIOS to Optimized Defaults.
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I bought my current laptop in late 2011 for $750. Specs are 4 GB (which I cheaply upgraded to 8GB right away), GT 540M (1GB dedicated graphics memory), Core i7 @ 2.2 GHz, USB 3.0. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbook_air , in terms of specs it blows away even today's Macbooks -- two years later! Moral: If you're looking at the higher end of the performance/price spectrum because you do things like gaming a…
Your laptop is huge, hot, and feels cheap. The MacBook Air is svelt, runs cool, and not only feels but is solid.
> hot
Only when you're actually running a game or using all the CPU cores.
> feels cheap
I don't like spending money unnecessarily. I regard my laptop with pride. Not just because it's a practical tool for day-to-day work and play. Not just because the specs give me bragging rights. But also because it's a symbol of how good I am at bargain hunting.
Your MacBook is tiny, insubstantial, and would make me feel like a sucker if I'd shelled out an entire grand for it.
It sounds great, but an OS upgrade shouldn't had been paid in the first place. For instance I would be pretty pissed off to pay to upgrade my phone's software. This is just a reminder that computers have become general consumer items.
Would you apply that same logic to Windows? Say between 7 and 8?