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[Abcdefg]

"brash and mercurial"
Doesn't that translate to "a-hole"?

[Swordmaker]

More motive speculation on Apple/Intel or might it become ApTel?

PING!!!Freepmail me.

[Nick Danger]

Apple's decision in the 1980's to use a different chip from the one put in most personal computers "fit in with the idea of Think Different," Stephen G. Wozniak, who founded Apple with Mr. Jobs in 1976, said in an e-mail exchange.

The Woz lies. If there even was such a thing as a "chip used in most personal computers" at that time, it was the 6502 used in the Apple ][, the Atari, and the Commodore 64.

It could not have been obvious to anyone, when the processor for the Mac was selected, that the IBM PC platform would evolve into an almost universal standard. The Compaq portable, which was the first "clone," was announced in '82 and didn't ship until 1983. By that time, work on the Mac must have begun.

[N3WBI3]

THis is driven by the heat problems with the G5, and production problems at IBM..

[Hank Rearden]

Indeed, Mr. Jobs has always set himself apart from other corporate executives. After all, which other American business executive would have thought to name the holding company for his executive jet airplane "Marmalade Skies"?

That, in a nutshell, summarizes why the whole B.S. "Saint Steve" idiotic, scraggly-goatee Apple subculture just sucks.

Bunch of 2% marketshare dopes with pretty-colored toy computers.

[SunkenCiv]

"Mr. Jobs is racing quietly toward a direct challenge to Microsoft and Sony in the market for digital entertainment gear for the living room."

Hmm. Thought that was what the Mac Mini was about.