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• Bad Spanish
  2005-11-10 14:54:23  Derrick Story | [Reply | View]
  
  
  Just got this note from a kind reader:
  
  "The Spanish word 'cajones' actually means drawers! The word you wanted to use is 'cojones'."
  
  That will teach me to attempt cleverness...

• Apple is a systems company
  2005-11-10 14:32:30  mattfein [Reply | View]
  
  
  No, not just hardware or software, but the combination. I know that companies that say they 'design systems' is a cliche, but Apple is the real thing. It's not just the iPod-- it's the iPod, iTunes and the music store. Hardware + software + data.

• Few will notice
  2005-11-10 12:12:07  macrat [Reply | View]
  
  
  Most of Apple's customer base now wouldn't have a clue of what you are talking about.
  
  They go to the store and buy a Mac. They don't care what's in it. They only care about surfing the web and using the iLife suite.

• How will Apple keep a hardware advantage
  2005-11-10 11:58:24  JulesLt [Reply | View]
  
  
  I think one of the most frustrating things about the PC market has been the fact that people think computers are 'just' a collection of standard components, when of course us techies know that the same graphics card and CPU can behave differently in different machines.
  
  Of course, people look at memory size, CPU and now graphics RAM and think that tells them everything. As a rough guide I guess it isn't bad. It certainly tells you how one machine from the same supplier stacks up against another.
  
  Even aside from issues like RAM speed and front-side-bus and PCI-X, your bog standard PC may contain a random mix of drivers in a combination that's not been tested by Microsoft - and if you're really unlucky, not even been tested by the company making the PC.
  
  Provided Apple can maintain that 'end-to-end' quality a lot of people will continue to pay the premium.
  
  The funniest thing though are those people who would buy an Apple machine JUST to run Windows on it - they just want the 'designer'-ness of it. The crazy thing is that it might actually turn out to be a total dog at running Windows. Compare the minimum specs for Tiger and Vista. Are Apple really going to compromise their design to stick in a beefier graphics card for Vista users?

• It's actually a *good* thing
  2005-11-10 10:28:37  ghiebert [Reply | View]
  
  
  My boss isn't the only person I've heard say he will buy a Mac the moment he can Windows (or at least the odd Windows application) on it.
  
  People have wanted to buy Apple hardware for years. The only thing holding many of them back was the perceived loss of use of their existing applications and data. If they know they can install Windows on a new Mac as a fallback, we might actually see Apple becoming one of the top Wintel sellers.