Gutsy/foolhardy Mac clone maker Psystar responded in August to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit with an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple. Earlier this week, Apple's lawyers filed a motion to have the suit dismissed, calling it "deeply flawed." In its statement, Apple contends: "One of the bedrock principles of antitrust law is that a manufacturer's unilateral decision concerning how to distribute its product and with whom it will deal cannot violate the Sherman Act."
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Member since:2005-12-02
"I own a macbook pro. I will be the first to admit that the macbook pro is NOT cheap. It is also not cheaply made like some of the foolhardy try to imply. I use this machine for work and in my travels I had come to the realization that the rest of the laptop market is full of Toys which run the TOY OS otherwise known as windows."
Funny, I own a Macbook Pro as well. How do you stop the spinning beach ball without turning off the machine? Why does OS X look like something from Fisher Price? Why is it damn near unusable with a single bar across the top for all apps? Why do the apps not close when I tell them to? Please, I use OS X, Linux and Windows. They all have issues.
Member since:2008-10-07
You stop the beach ball by updating your system. If you are getting it that much, add some ram. You can also force quit the application that is causing the beach ball. Slow downs with any OS are usually only the OS's fault a percentage of the time. It's usually the hardware that is slowing everything down. Your brain needs time to compute, comprehend, and think a question through, why not a computer? Can you fully comprehend a Calculus question in a thousandth of a second. Most likely not. Sometimes your computer needs some time to think. This happens with any OS.
I'm not sure how Fisher Price toys look, but maybe you should buy a Fisher Price "My First Computer" so you can learn how to use a computer. This helps for when you want to step up and be like Daddy.
The single bar across the top is just like the bar across the bottom in Windows. Except a thousand times more useful. The fact that you haven't found the application menu, "dock", across the bottom tells me you probably don't own an apple product.
When you click the "x" on an application, it doesn't close the entire application. This helps for when you want to reopen and application. It launches faster. If you want to completely close an application, you select the window, i.e. Firefox, go to the top menu, click on "Firefox", and select "Quit Firefox". Or, while you have the window selected, you hit command+q. Or, you go to the bottom "dock" right click the application and select "quit Firefox". Many easy ways to do it, none of which, apparently, you have found.
Yes, all OS's have their problems and quirks, but don't dog on an OS because you don't know how to use it.
Member since:2006-12-16
I suggest you learn a bit about history - Apple *did* screw it's loyal resellers, it did *deliberately* undercut them with its own Apple store, effectively running many 3rd party apple store owners out of business. Apple also killed its 3rd party manufacturers many years ago (aka clones), for the same reason:
GREED
Apple products ARE overpriced. They are MOSTLY overrated. Note I say mostly - some Apple stuff is very good.
Apple is all about brainwashing. Nothing more and nothing less. The iPods are vastly overrated. The iPhone is just an expensive piece of phone - I personally don't need a all singing, all dancin' phone - I use a phone to actually make and receive calls, not all of this other crap like phones, calendars, friggen games, you name it. It's overkill. Functional and feature overkill.
All operating systems have their issues, there is some things that Windows does better than OS X, and the same with Linux. For the VAST majority of people, Windows does the job, and does it well. That's why business uses it. The same with Linux in the server environment. You see **** sweet all OS X server installs in the real world, don't you?
You need to take a deep breath and get out some more in the real world. That Apple world you're living in has some pretty dangerous fumes.
I stand by my comments that Apple is a litigous, bastard company. Two phrases reach my mind when thinking of Apple:
1. rotten to the core
2. Bad apple
As an ex employee, who was royally ****ed over by Apple, as someone who konws several others who had the same *hit done to them, and knowing Apple's dirty history, they're a company that I immensely dislike, and for good reason. People think Microsoft is a bad monopolist, boy, they need to pay more attention to Apple, it's TEN times worse.
Dave
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2008-10-05
It is funny how you show just how ignorant you are.
I am curious what price do you think Apple should put on its products? Why do you think you should have the ability to dictate to apple what it should charge for its product? If you don't like apple don't buy apple. It is as plain as that.
I have recently completely switched to apple. I had a Power Mac G4 for 4 years before I realized that it did everything I was trying to get Linux and windows to do. That same G4 is now close to 6 years old and is still going strong. How many people can say that about their 6 year old PCs? Most 6 year old PCs can't keep up and are considered JUNK. This same machine is running Leopard. I would love to see how well a 6 year old PC would run Vista.
I own a macbook pro. I will be the first to admit that the macbook pro is NOT cheap. It is also not cheaply made like some of the foolhardy try to imply. I use this machine for work and in my travels I had come to the realization that the rest of the laptop market is full of Toys which run the TOY OS otherwise known as windows.
It is funny how people like you fail to realize how ignorant you are about OS X. My 5 year old is smart enough to realize how much better the apple OS is compared to windows. She has a 1 year old laptop which she uses to play games. She does not like it. She wants an apple. She prefers the 6 year old Power mac to the windows laptop. I know you might think that I somehow brainwashed her into thinking that. Well you would be wrong in your assumption.
The bottom line really is for you to get over yourself. If you prefer to play with your TOY OS and think that a $500 laptop with its unstable OS is somehow better than a Mac then use that. The truth is that we mac users don't really care if you get it or not.
It goes the same for the BEST PHONE I have ever had. I have had somewhere around 10 different smart phones which include 3 different TREO models and NONE of them were as stable or versatile as my iphone. I would love to see you try to convince my wife to give up her iphone.
You should also go stand in the corner for your juvenile attempt to blame all of the financial problems on banks. The people buying the homes that they could not afford and paying stupid prices for them are just as much to blame.
Basically do the world a favor. Go stand in the corner and STFU.