>>1
What a stupid article. The PC died because Apple annouced a giant iPod.
Seriously. It doesn't even have multitasking. How on earth does this replace a PC? And why the fuck didn't they just put a real operating system on it?
Computing back then was all about the programs. Now, computing is all about the programming—the words and sounds and pictures and conversations that pour out of the Internet’s cloud and onto our screens.
As you can see, it's related to programming!
Until recently, we mainly used our computers to run software programs (Microsoft Word, Quicken) installed on our hard drives. Now, we use them mainly to connect to the vast databases of the Internet—to “the cloud,” as the geeks say.
That article is certainly not written by some Mac fanboy.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 5:00
>>3 Seriously. It doesn't even have multitasking. How on earth does this replace a PC? And why the fuck didn't they just put a real operating system on it?
My guess is the next major iteration of iPhone OS will include multitasking. I can't believe the current version scales very gracefully to a tablet. The iPad looks kind of cool, anyway. It could certainly replace my desktop at least for everything except programming.
The article may be overstating it a bit, though.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 5:05
as if i would listen to what steve jobs has to say -- he cant even cure his own cancer.
NEWSFLASH: Apple releases another hunk of overhyped junk.
Macfags go crazy and proclaim this the year of the mac and the end of all non-mac computers.
Everybody laughs at them, and macs never grow out of their niche market of hipsters and terminally stupid people.
>>12
If you were in front of me right now I'd break your fucking nose. I suggest you fuck off and die.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 6:36
>>17
say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens
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Anonymous2010-01-28 6:51
[b][i]IM SUCH A FUCKING TOUGH I WOULD TOTALLY KILL EVERYONE IN The WORLD IF I WASNT SUCH A FAT pUSSY SITTING IN MY BASEMNET
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Anonymous2010-01-28 6:53
macfags.each do |macfag|
macfag.stab :repeatedly if macfag.drooling?
end
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Anonymous2010-01-28 8:27
PC replaced by overpriced, inefficient, crippled tablet: news at 11.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 8:51
It would only be cool if it was faster than the fastest computer out there, and you could feel the keys you pressed, and it had a mouse, and it projected laserbeam holograms, and dispensed pizza and beer.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 9:08
Until recently, we mainly used our computers to run software programs (Microsoft Word, Quicken) installed on our hard drives. Now, we use them mainly to connect to the vast databases of the Internet—to “the cloud,” as the geeks say.
Someone should let him know that geeks don't use "cloud" in that way. Asshole marketing faggots do. The kind of people that brought you C++ as an "improvement" do.
I don't understand what makes this revolutionary in any way. We already had touch screen technologies. We already had flat screen technology (that was becoming cheap). We already had wireless technology. We have "cloud" computing, but barely anyone uses it with the exception of an odd number of businesses (but that's neither here nor there). Heck, a number of other products already have all that AND a replaceable battery!
I've not played with Macs and Apple products under the hood but, from what I've heard, they're not designed to be tweaked in the same way you can customize a standard PC either. This thing must be even worse. A single anything king of card must take up all the space. I wonder if you can feel the rotations of the CD (oh my blasphemous mouth--DVD) drive.
>>33
Maybe the big fucking apple symbol? Are you blind?
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Anonymous2010-01-28 16:24
>>34
Other things that are Macs: iPods, iPhones, the Apple ][, Apple Lisa, Apple Newton, cars belonging to Apple users (stickers), teachers' desks, and fruit.
>>36
You seem to be under the impression that we can't recognise a troll thread. We can, and we did the correct thing, namely to make troll posts in it. The only idiots in this thread are you for failing to recognise this, and me for falling for this likely meta-troll.