Nice. I've got a Core i5-2500k and it scoots along. No SSD as yet though so that's holding it back massively.Quote:
Originally Posted by rah
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Nice. I've got a Core i5-2500k and it scoots along. No SSD as yet though so that's holding it back massively.Quote:
Originally Posted by rah
Lucky indeed! If they'd noticed the mistake before they'd shipped the phone they wouldn't have been under any obligation to fulfil it.Quote:
Originally Posted by GridGirl
http://www.neowin.net/news/apple-sup...-in-2011-imacs
Apple are not putting hard drives with custom firmware which are HARDWIRED to the motherboard into their iMac's. I think this move is going to cost them a lot of enthusiast sales.
Stolen from elsewhere
Apple's upgrade policyQuote:
No, you don't throw it away. There are supposedly millions of people on places like ebay that are eager to buy used Macs, and they have a great resale value. At least that is we we are told. When you buy a Mac, apparently you buy it to turn around and sell it in a few months.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...42925_6098.jpg
:D
If they're not holding on for dear life, how do you explain the precipitous drop in RIM's marketshare (including the corporate enterprise market) and stock price over the past 18 months? I'm not slagging on RIM, but the company has some very serious issues facing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I have. But then again, I go to a lot more car boards than I do computer oriented boards. One of the more famous Lexus devotees is one of Charlie Sheen's "goddesses": Rachel Oberlin/Bree Olson. Until she wrecked it, she was making appearances on a Lexus board, going on & on about how great her 250 was. Most car brands have the same: Jags, Ferraris, Mercedes and don't even get me started on Porsche and BMW boards. And here in the States, Honda owners are some of the most obnoxious when it comes to tuner boards. I used to post a lot on a WRX/STI board and we were always at war with the Evo people.Quote:
Of course, but you generally don't see Lexus owners blogging about how freaking great their Lexus is, or telling people "oh my you've got to get a lexus! They're perfect!" when someone mentions that their Honda has broken down. You have to admit that there is a vocal population of Mac users who are almost religious about it all ;)
As we've established, Apple is one of the most prominent brands (the most valuable, by a recent study) on the planet. So of course it has followers. Sony used to... Dell used to. Building a popular brand is why companies sponsor motorsports, TV shows and any number of other things: to build a loyal following.
In bouncing around the net, one can easily see that the Mac vs. PC thing is no different than the Chevy vs. Ford or whatever brand vs. some other brand in the car market: one set of fanboys talking smack to another set of fanboys. I just tell people to buy what they need/want and try to be happy with their purchase.
I appreciate that, Daniel. But as I've mentioned before, I'll customize cars to my liking. But my interest in computers does not extend to me getting (another) custom built machine that I have to take in for repairs and tweak every few months. Been there, done that. If they don't work then they're either costing me money or preventing me from making money. I'm moving away from desktops (when the ones I have die, they won't be replaced with other desktops), so no hybrid Hackintoshes here. I'm getting the MacBook Pro, and other than maybe dropping some extra RAM in it, it'll be a BTO that'll have all that I want/need. :)Quote:
I'll tell you what, next time you're in the market for a new desktop Mac, give me a yell via PM and I wil spec you up something ridiculously good for quite a significant amount less than a Mac. I won't spec you a Rolls Royce, I'll spec you a freaking Bugatti Veyron and your buddy can build it and do the whole hackintosh thing. It will make a Mac look pedestrian and it'll run OSX like nobody's business :)
My main problem with Mac's has always been the bang for your buck ratio. If I accept that they're better than PC's (I don't! but for the sake of the argument I will) then you could just build a PC with quicker bits and it'll be quicker :) Or if you really want OSX you could do a hackintosh build and have the best of both worlds.
It is starting to look like Blackberry is the one being left behind in the smartphone wars. With iOS, Android and Windows being app development priorities in that order.
Blackberry had the advantage due to their handling of email but other phones do that too now, so they've lost their USP.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/06/i...ar-samsung-sh/
RIM's sales are up 30% from Q1 2010 to q1 2011. Sure their marketshare is dowm, but it's not such a bad thing when you're selling 30% more product than you were a year ago.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUK22816311 Marketshare and sales in europe are up for RIM.
RIM has a fairly captive audience with BBM, teens love BBM as they can message each other to their hearts content for free.
http://us.blackberry.com/apps-softwa...errymessenger/
The integration of other phones with exchange still isn't as good as blackberry so they still have that same advantage, the only difference is that more people are buying smartphones for personal use and exchange integration usually isn't a buying consideration.
By that link, I'd say that RIM's problem (one of them) is that the smartphone market is growing at around 80% year over year, but RIM's sales were only up 30%. On April 28, after an earnings guidance call, the stock fell 11% to around $50/share - a six month low. On May 13, the stock was trading down another 13%, at $43.14 (just above its 52 week low). The issue there is that the management came out and lowered earnings expectations just a month after providing higher guidance. It looks like more of the phones that were sold were at lower average selling prices than had been the case previously... so analysts are getting the feeling that the management of RIM either isn't being honest about their situation or they don't truly know what their situation is. Because management is doing such a bad job of guiding earnings expectations and giving press releases, it's contributing to the stock being discounted vs. earnings. So it's been marked down to a 6.8 P/E ratio, which is EXTREMELY low for a tech company.
There's also some kind of story on Google News about a recall that's been issued by RIM for the new Playbook. I haven't had time to read that yet, so I don't know what it's about. But I do know that analysts are anxious to know what the true sales numbers are for the new tablet. The Playbook, and its associated OS, is a very important product in RIM's future. If the sales don't meet expectations, or they try to use fuzzy math to express sales (as Samsung did with its tablet and Microsoft appears to be doing with the Windows Phone 7), then I expect RIM to take another hit after the May 28 earnings announcement - probably down to the mid $30's. If they exceed expectations, then the stock should recover. But we'll have to wait and see.
But share prices are in some ways a bad judgement of how well a company is doing :) It may just be that RIM aren't as overvalued as their competition :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Yeah, I agree that you can't JUST look at the stock price in judging how a company is doing. But when a company's fundamentals are in question (losing marketshare, shrinking profit margins, new products not being as well received as they should be, etc.), and that's what is affecting the stock price, that suggests that there are some deeper issues at play.
That's one thing that I find fascinating about the tech sector: the landscape is littered with companies that at one time were the cat's meow. But then they took their eye off the ball (just for a bit) and they soon found themselves on a slippery slope. In tech, it seems like that can happen faster than in most other industries. Look how fast Nokia has fallen on hard times. I'm not saying that RIM can't/won't recover. But for the past 2-3 years, they've been a day late and a dollar short more than a few times. If the Playbook proves to be a flop or can't break out of its lukewarm reception, and their new OS doesn't catch on, I think RIM is going to have some major problems going forward. The pressure from Android, iOS and even WP7 is going to put more pressure on the company.