Posts Tagged ‘Mac’
Apple, Hardware, Mac, Retail, Software
In General on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 at 11:59
Jason Kelly at Seeking Alpha writes a great article about the Apple retail experience that accompanied his switch to the Mac after 20+ years as a PC user.
Just a couple of highlights from the article:
Such a store shows a great deal of confidence in the products, which gives me confidence as a buyer. I’m not being rushed out the door with a flimsy piece of paper saying I have tech support for a year if I need it — just call this number in India, but don’t under any circumstances bother us here — but am instead given all the time and freedom to arrive at about the only conclusion anybody can: I want one.
When my tally was finished, he added up the retail prices and then reduced each of them in front of me to get me a greater than 10% discount. Mind you, this was after I’d agreed to buy, so it was just a smart form of customer service. What a way to leave me even happier. They didn’t entice me with lowball prices. They sold me on quality products, and then offered me savings as a form of thanks for the business. Very classy.
You really should read the whole thing. It’s an excellent example of Apple excelling in something that can’t be just chalked up to great marketing or alleged “fanbois” buying anything with the Apple logo. If nothing else, perhaps it shows how these so-called fanbois are created in the first place.
Apple, Mac
In General on Monday, 14 April 2008 at 22:05
There’s lots of talk about Psystar and their selling a cheap PC as a Mac, complete with Leopard.
That last part is important, because without Leopard it’s not a Mac anyway, and yet some articles quote the base price of $399 even though it doesn’t include the OS!
Fortune even goes so far as to ask the question:
Basically, it’s a Mac Mini with twice the memory at half the price. So what’s not to love?
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Apple, Hardware, laptop, Mac, Macbook, MacBook Air, Microsoft, notebook, Sony Vaio, sub notebook, Vista
In General on Wednesday, 23 January 2008 at 23:16
There’s been so much written about the MacBook Air since it was introduced that you can’t swing a dead cat on the Internet without running into some commentary on it.
A lot of what’s written is pretty silly. Seems like only now are some people getting a handle on its dimensions, etc. that should have been obvious from day 1.
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Apple, iWeb, Mac, Software
In Uncategorized on Monday, 19 November 2007 at 22:22
[UPDATE:] For all the reasons articulated below, I ultimately left iWeb/.Mac hosting and moved my blog to its new home here at WordPress.
Nearly three months ago I switched from using Blogger to iWeb and .Mac for my blog. Overall I’m happy with my experiences, but there are some gripes I’d like to point out here.
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Apple, Hardware, iMac, Mac
In General on Tuesday, 28 August 2007 at 14:11
As I mentioned in a previous post, the overall performance of the latest iMac is amazing given what was considered top of the line just two years ago. A MacNN article points out how the iMac 2.8 GHz Extreme falls just shy of a current Xserve Quad-Core Xeon 2.0GHz. Pretty impressive stuff. Further, the article states:
“the top-end Mid-2007 iMac is faster than the Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) with two dual-core G5 processors at 2.5 GHz”
As in my previous article, this thing is easily besting a Quad-Core 2.5GHz PowerMac from less than two years ago! Wow.
Hardware, iPhoto, Mac, Software
In General on Tuesday, 21 August 2007 at 23:18
Unlike my media files, for photos imported from the PC the only metadata I was interested in were keywords. Since they’re in the file I didn’t have to worry about missing any data when imported.
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Hardware, iTunes, Mac, Music, PC
In General on Monday, 20 August 2007 at 23:03
Tackling the transfer of iTunes media from the PC to the Mac is complicated by the fact that not all data in iTunes is stored within the file itself. Date last played, ratings, number of plays, and potentially even album art are stored via an XML file. Simply transferring the data files (i.e., the MP3s and AACs) will not retain this data.
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Apple, Hardware, Mac
In General on Sunday, 19 August 2007 at 23:25
This is the first of what will be several posts about my experiences with moving from my Windows XP PC to my new iMac.
This first part discusses general setup for the “basics,” such as initial setup, registration, internet connection, and other items that get me ready to do more lengthy data import. Future posts will detail my experiences with iMusic media import, iPhoto import and usage, transferring other document types, and iMovie usage. There may be other posts as well, but the preceding are what I know I’ll be covering.
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Apple, Hardware, iMac, Mac, Software
In General on Friday, 17 August 2007 at 0:41
To be honest, I’ve been so busy with the new iMac (it arrived a day early) that I have nothing to post.
I’m primarily posting to ensure I will have no problems using Firefox Mac with Blogger (Safari doesn’t work with Blogger at all, on the Mac or PC).
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Apple, Hardware, Mac
In General on Wednesday, 15 August 2007 at 23:10
PC Magazine published a detailed and enthusiastic review of the new 20″ 2.4GHz iMac.
You can read the review for the superlatives, of which there are many, but the upshot is that it scored a 4.5 (out of 5) and received the magazine’s Editor’s Choice.
In fact, it came close to a perfect rating:
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Mac, Mac OS X, Microsoft, Vista
In General on Tuesday, 14 August 2007 at 13:43
Apple, Mac, Microsoft
In General on Sunday, 12 August 2007 at 23:28
(ACCURACY ALERT: No quotes from John Dvorak or Rob Enderle were used in the making of this post.)
There’s an article in PC World about corporations slowly considering Macs.
The article starts pretty typically, outlining the new iMac configurations and mentioning how they’re price competitive with PCs. Then we get this quote from IDC’s Richard Shim:
“”Apple isn’t necessarily selling on just hardware either,” Shim said. “They’re innovating on the experience that the customer has, and a lot of other vendors are disadvantaged because they haven’t done that.”"
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Apple, iLife, iWork, Mac, Microsoft, Software
In General on Friday, 10 August 2007 at 23:15
Apple, Hardware, Mac, Vista
In General on Tuesday, 7 August 2007 at 23:46
In a previous post I discussed the lower price of a high-end iMac (the 24″ model), and that I actually bought one.
For those of you who may want to regale me with tales of much cheaper comparable PCs, I priced a similar system at Dell for comparison.
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Apple, Hardware, iMac, Mac
In General on Tuesday, 7 August 2007 at 12:33
The new iMac has arrived, as expected. It’s thinner and, in my opinion, much better looking.
I always felt the white frame around the screen was a bit of a distraction, but now the chassis is aluminum, and there’s a beautiful black border around the screen. This not only looks great but also hides the built-in camera and microphone for an even smoother, cleaner finish.
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Apple, iMac, Mac, Microsoft, Music, Security, Software
In General on Saturday, 4 August 2007 at 8:27
Well, I’m back from the “out of town” portion of my vacation. I still have a few days off and some projects planned at home, but I’ll get to blogging as well. For my first post since coming back I’ll highlight some of the stuff that went on while I was gone. This is stuff I may have written complete posts about had I been here.
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Apple, Mac
In General on Thursday, 26 July 2007 at 7:00
Apple, earnings, iPhone, iPod, Mac, revenue
In General on Wednesday, 25 July 2007 at 13:22
Well, Apple’s press release for 3Q results is out, and it mentions no specific iPhone sales numbers:
““We’re thrilled to report the highest June quarter revenue and profit in Apple’s history, along with the highest quarterly Mac sales ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone is off to a great start—we hope to sell our one-millionth iPhone by the end of its first full quarter of sales—and our new product pipeline is very strong.””
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Apple, FUD, Hardware, Mac, Thud
In General on Friday, 20 July 2007 at 11:57
Part of Paul’s job is apparently to give Apple little to no credit for anything, especially sales. Lately, he’s almost had to work when the quarterly IDC and Gartner data comes out because it shows Apple is rising rapidly in the US.
This time around, Paul decided to ignore the US altogether. Brilliant!
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Apple, Hardware, Mac, Macbook Pro
In General on Tuesday, 5 June 2007 at 18:35
Apple, Hardware, Mac, Rumor
In General on Thursday, 24 May 2007 at 9:51
According to this piece by Kasper Jade at AppleInsider, the Mac Mini may be on its way out. The article outlines what most Mini-followers already know: The Mini has been pretty low key in Apple’s lineup, with very few updates or price breaks.
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Apple, Hardware, Mac, Macbook
In General on Monday, 21 May 2007 at 20:35
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