Steven Sinofsky, who oversees Windows 7 development, has really committed to keeping us in the loop on the new Engineering Windows 7 blog. In today's post, "Measuring the Scale of a Release," he discusses whether or not Windows 7 will be a "major" or "minor" release. It's a pretty good piece that really makes some good points. Read on for our perspective.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I'm sorry, it's still too much. For $1099 I can get the "I'm sorry I can't afford the COOL Mac, please don't look down on me" basic Mac laptop. For $500-$600 I can get a similarly spec'd PC. As PsyStar has shown us, it is a very closed game Apple is running, where people pay twice the money for the "coolness" factor. That is why it is imperative to Apple that the OS never be available on other hardware. They are nice products, but I can't do my computer shopping at Tiffany's. Some people can. But as Jerry would say, "Not That There's Anything Wrong with That".
Member since:2006-02-05
1100$ is going to buy you a toy.
MBPs aren't that bad price wise when you compare them against similar higher end low-weight/low-noise laptops, like vaios or lenovos. The problem is you have far more choice in the pc world, so unless you buy right after an apple refresh, chances are you can get better components for a few hundred dollars less at any given time.
My problem is I dont care about uber portable, I buy machines that I can move around the house, or take to the coffee shop (basically just not be tied to a desk), and I dont care so much about weight when I can buy something at least twice as good for the same price, albeit closer to 8 lbs. I love osx, and I have an iMac, but until apple offers at least moderately powered mobile machines, my primary computer is always going to be a pc.
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2005-07-06
$2000?
Try $1099 for a MacBook. And RAM? Throw any PC2-5300 SODIMMs you can find into it. I believe the going price is about $35 for a 2 GB stick.
The Apple bashing is leaving something to be desired this morning.