Macworld Expo keynote coverage recap (New PowerBooks, New Web Browser!)

MacCentral.com ^ | January 7, 2002 | Peter Cohen

[Last Visible Dog]

The only technology, other than raw computing power, that first appeared on a PC that I can think of is USB. Quite simply, Apple is the most innovative computer company in history. It is the R&D arm of the entire PC industry. It is worth billions of dollars, and the man who started the company in his garage with one other employee and is now still running it is personally a billionaire. And this is how you define failure?

You buy the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Apple stole (borrowed) most of these items from other companies. Apple OS sucked when it came to real work like memory management and multitasking. The PC left the MAC in the dust in the early 1990’s and now all that is left is a pretty good but grossly overpriced computer they sell and resell to the same 3% of people that are willing to believe a computer case can be elegant.

Whatever turns you on. If you need to get work done – If you want a career in the computer industry – If you want unlimited options – get a PC.

[Last Visible Dog]

What is the vertical resolution of your 52" television, i.e. how many scanlines?

I thought the theme was "size matters" (clearly the Mac jumbo-tron laptop has better resolution)

[Last Visible Dog]

I switched. From IBM to I Mac. It works perfectly on our Wi-Fi home network. It is slick, fast, and I did not need to call a tech in to get the thing to work.

Same is true for a PC but it would have cost you much less and given you far more opitions.

If I switched - former IBM Sales Rep, CEO of a real estate company that is 100% Windows (today, anyway), then it is time to be very worried in Microsoft Land.

Oh yeah. The are so worried about the 3% market share.

And time to buy Apple stock. Have you seen how many people are purchasing new Apples at one of their stores? Something has happened - the tolerance level of the average user who wants a reliable, networkable, non operating system crashing computer has been reached.

Something has happen. Many people have become gullible and believe what the TV commercials tell them.

OK, what is Apple's markets share now? What was it last year? The year before?

I am happy you are happy with your overpriced computer. Some people just can't deal with all the opinions available in the PC world.

[PRND21]

Exactly.

[mass55th]

"Like I said, the Mac sure looks like the Liberal Computer to me – big on slogans, hype, and zealousness..."

Are you sure you're not talking about DELL Dude?

[balls]

Good luck in dealing with these strange people who don't mind living on the trailing edge of innovation. I have to chuckle each time I see that some new product or feature on the net does not yet support the Mac. These folks must have religion, or something.

I do agree with your earlier comment that the Mac is a the Liberal computer, as is evident in the glowing reports givent by liberal press writers. However, I refuse to engage in discussion with these people because there is no hope. Good luck.

[Last Visible Dog]

"Like I said, the Mac sure looks like the Liberal Computer to me – big on slogans, hype, and zealousness..." Are you sure you're not talking about DELL Dude?

What hype, slogans and zealousnes are you claiming Dell uses? dude. (Ok the dude thing would qualify as a slogan.)

[Last Visible Dog]

However, I refuse to engage in discussion with these people because there is no hope. Good luck.

That is what I usually do also. Today I was just is a weird mood.

[mass55th]

Since hype means excessive promotional ploy, and zealousness is an enthusiastic devotion to a cause, an ideal, or a goal, I'd say that Dell is no different than Mac in its promotion of its product. You see alot more Dell commercials on TV than you do Macintosh. Dell ran more commercials on TV during the holidays than any of the other computer companies. I don't even recall seeing any for Mac or even Gateway during the Christmas shopping season.

[Mortimer Snavely]

I first started using computers in Japan, an old Powerbook 145, and it had a Japanese version of 7.5. Even though it talked in Japanese to me, I could still figure it out. I got an English OS later, and purt damned near gasped in bliss at the ease of use.

On the other hand, Windows machines seem to be designed as complicated as is humanly possible.They crash too often, and one always seems to need to buy yet another component or piece of software to do things that one can do on a Mac after taking it out of the box, plugging it in, and turning it on. Everything I need a computer to do, I use a Mac, and wouldn't dream of using anything else.

[HAL9000]

I thought the theme was "size matters"

There are other factors involved in "size" than just the dimension of the screen, including resolution, aspect ratio, field of view, etc.

It's possible that the PowerBook could give a better presentaion of a DVD than a large-screen TV set. The perceived size of the PowerBook's 17" screen could seem larger than your TV's 52' screen depending on how close the viewer is to them.

[Glenn]

You are kid pretending to know far more than you really do.

I suspect you know better. I'm done with you now.

[RWG]

Been running 10.2.3 on my iMac about 2 weeks, no crashes, no freezes, no going back to windows.

[TC Rider]

On the rare occasions I take my Titanium G4 to a meeting, everyone wants to play with it, check it out.

I rest my case. The Mac is a novelty in the business world.

[observer5]

They must hurt you to feel better about themselves.

They need to as they are stuck in never-ending Windose nightmare...

[observer5]

Unfortunately 98% of all PC users are MORONS that have no clue what it is like to use a computer that actually works!!!

[Last Visible Dog]

On the rare occasions I take my Titanium G4 to a meeting, everyone wants to play with it, check it out.

Funny, I get the same reaction if I bring my GameBoy to a meeting.

[Last Visible Dog]

Unfortunately 98% of all PC users are MORONS that have no clue what it is like to use a computer that actually works!!!

Keep repeating that and maybe someday even you will beleive it.

Like I said earlier, the Mac is the Liberal Computer. Liberals justify their actions and lack of public support by claiming 98% of voters are morons. Mac-heads justify Mac’s pathetic market share and complete lack of market acceptance by claiming all computer users that don’t use overpriced, underpowered, and option-deficient Mac’s are morons.

I find this both ironic and pathetic.

[TC Rider]

Funny, I get the same reaction if I bring my GameBoy to a meeting.

Too bad no one posted Nintendo's meeting yesterday. I heard they have a new wallet sized game boy geared to adults. Finally, some serious competition for the Apple gang.

[Timesink]

I rest my case. The Mac is a novelty in the business world.

Only if you believe that because more businessmen would clamor around a new $90K Mercedes, that's proof your 1974 Chevy Nova is the superior automobile.