Fri
Aug 11 2006
10:09 am
Desire
By: Andy Axel

Oooh. Want.

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SayUncle's picture

What is that?

Submitted by SayUncle on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 10:22am.

What is that? Luggage?

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?

Andy Axel's picture

Adobe

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 10:37am.

Only one thing holding me back: my premier app is not a universal binary.

Now, once Adobe comes out with Photoshop CS3, I'm so there.

Dayum.

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"winkin' at my peers," quotin' Thurston.

Les Jones's picture

Don't do it, Andy!

Submitted by Les Jones on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 11:42am.

Macs carry a virus which causes their owners to buy Volkswagens.

Hey, Les, why don't we just call each other assholes and get it over with. - Somebody on the old Southknoxbubba.net (if that was you, claim your quote and win net.fame!)

Andy Axel's picture

VW

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 11:51am.

Grew up in a VW. But that shouldn't surprise you.

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"winkin' at my peers," quotin' Thurston.

smalc's picture

In a vanagon, down by the

Submitted by smalc on Mon, 2006/08/14 - 11:08am.

In a vanagon, down by the river?

bizgrrl's picture

I may not hand it back, but

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 12:07pm.

I may not hand it back, but I would sell it. Been using computers for many years and have only touched an Apple/MAC once. Never had a need. Make good money off of Windows machines and get everything I want done and more. I like Jobs. I like Gates more.

Andy Axel's picture

Windoze in the Office

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 1:34pm.

I am still forced to use Windoze in the office, and it's some kludged up corporate version which, on a good day, runs like a swayback mule and takes forever to update.

We finally had an "approved" version of XP/SP2 which we needed to apply this week. Took 2 1/2 hours to update my machine.

I bought my first Mac (a Cube G4/500) at the bridge between OS9 and OSX. Never looked back. I love having a machine which I spend more time using and far less time administering.

And it's never taken me the better part of a work day to apply an OS patch.

(If we want to get into hardware cred, if you know what an MSL is without Googling it, then you'll know how deep I've been into hardware configuration and for about how long.)

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"winkin' at my peers," quotin' Thurston.

Andy Axel's picture

One more thing...

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 1:42pm.

Jobs is crazy like a fox here.

The Quad Xeon MacPro can also run XP so long as you install the free BootCamp technology.

Out of the box, you will not find another Quad Xeon (2 x DualCore) at the $2499 price point.

People seeking a performance box to run XP may just switch to Mac on price, and find that they really really really like Mac OSX as well. Merits at least some consideration versus a Dell.

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"winkin' at my peers," quotin' Thurston.

R. Neal's picture

it's some kludged up

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 1:46pm.

it's some kludged up corporate version which, on a good day, runs like a swayback mule and takes forever to update.

That may be the #1 problem with Windows - corporate IT people who try to keep up a one-size-fits-all distribution they can Ghost out to every user with next year's not-ready-for-prime-time release candidates running on last year's hardware.

The #2 problem is the scarcity of Microsoft tools (and the complexity of the few tools they do have) for corporate IT guys to centrally manage hundreds of desktops and notebooks.

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bizgrrl's picture

Could support issues be

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 4:08pm.

Could support issues be because there are 97 Windows users to every 3 MAC OS users? I would suggest that in the corporate world there are even more Windows users than MAC OS users.

Great looking machine though?? I hope you get what you want.

R. Neal's picture

The Mrs. and I were just

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 4:21pm.

The Mrs. and I were just remembering back in 94 or 95 when she was in school and one of her class workgroup assignments was to put together a business plan to turn around a struggling company.

I suggested that they should do a plan for Apple to port the Mac OS over to Intel and get out of the hardware business. My idea was based on the notion that Apple's value proposition was their OS, not their PCs, so they should focus on that and get IBM (Now Lenovo), Dell, Gateway, HP, etc. to offer either Mac OS or Windows (or both with dual boot). Her group didn't buy it, so they picked something else. I think they got an 'A' for their project and best overall or something.

Anyway, looks like Apple has sort of gone in that direction, at least the porting to Intel part. Is there anything special about their PCs that differentiates them from a Wintel box, other than the OS, that would keep them from going all the way to being just a software company (except maybe keeping the the iPod, of course)?

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F-Stop's picture

That Mac Pro is very, very

Submitted by F-Stop on Fri, 2006/08/11 - 9:51pm.

That Mac Pro is very, very sexy.

I wonder when Adobe is going to develop a 64 Bit Universal Binary? I think standard UB should be out in the spring (I think this is what i've heard.)

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