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Re: The New Apple Advantage

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Post by philwelch » Sun, Sep 11, 2011, 10:12 PM UTC

statictype wrote: post #332

philwelch wrote: post #249

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But you can just look at the pictures to tell them apart. Oh, that one's tiny and made of aluminum, that one's bigger and made of plastic, and that one's bigger and made of aluminum. I didn't have to click through meaningless pages of non-differentiating differentiations to see those options, they were right there on the page.

I could certainly tell them apart by looking at them. Question was why they had these 2 different models in the first place

For Apple it was due to a transition period. As far as the customer is concerned, the customer notices that there's a plastic MacBook, and it's cheaper than the aluminum one.

Re: The New Apple Advantage

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Post by kristianp » Mon, Sep 12, 2011, 3:25 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #349

kristianp wrote: post #326

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One thing not mentioned is how hard it is to buy a non-mac laptop with higher than 1366x768 resolution. That's just not enough vertical lines for modern UIs. When is the standard resolution going to get higher again?

80x25 ought to be enough for anyone. Anyway, this is not true. 12" laptops are all 1366x768, but 15" laptops can have up to 1920x1200. I know for a fact that the T-series Thinkpads have better than 1366x768 resolution, for example.

The T-series starts at 1366x768, with an option to increase.

I was thinking of more consumer brands such as Dell or Asus, dell only gives an option for higher resolutions in the expensive Latitude range, I believe. Many laptop ranges don't give the option of higher resolutions. You have to change to a premium range.

Re: The New Apple Advantage

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Post by dlss » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 8:14 PM UTC

achompas wrote: post #340

dlss wrote: post #325

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> implying that power users are the only ones who should think about performance. 1.0 second is about the limit for the user's flow of thought to stay uninterrupted. This turns out to make a big difference in productivity. See http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html I'm talking about anyone who values their time. You're talking about secretaries looking at cat pictures. You're also doing that on a thread starte…

I'm talking about anyone who values their time. You're talking about secretaries looking at cat pictures. Calm down there, Sparky. Are you really suggesting someone doesn't value their time because they bought an Air over an X220 with a SSD? You understand that such an assertion is ridiculous, right? Here's a "point" for you: given the economic concept of utility, are you shocked that someone would pass on an X220 +…

1. I accept your point that those with limited capital sometimes need to sacrifice their potential -- if you can't afford college then your annual income will be lower (though perhaps not lifetime income).

2. Diminishing marginal utility is not usually considered to apply to time -- are you saying that your girlfriend would rather use a mac than add an additional ~year of work/play time to her lifespan?

3. Note that the concept of diminishing marginal utility is different than the concept of utility.

4. I'm like this in person.

Re: The New Apple Advantage

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Post by dlss » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 8:19 PM UTC

biot wrote: post #339

dlss wrote: post #323

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Windows also has backup solutions. If you use one of those setup time is similarly decreased. Please google first next time.

I've used Windows for decades and have yet to find a solution that is satisfactory for reinstalling apps. Documents and other data, sure that's easy on Windows and I fully agree with you there. Rather than suggesting I google something (what, "windows backup software"? and spend several days becoming familiar with the myriad solutions?) since you seem to be so informed on similarly performing backup software as Time…

1. Not all mac apps can be copied by dragging folders out of the applications folder.

2. There are many many different backup solutions for windows -- many of which are far better than Time Machine for certain use cases (say, managing backups for several thousand machines). You probably want to look at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/whats-your-backup-s... for a simple solution.