iPhone, iPod, iBook, . . .

Sniper_Zegai

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I just saw an advert for the iBook or whatever the hell the name is for the new laptop they released, which as we can all see, is very, very thin.

Do you know anyone who actually cares about this stuff?



I have to ask myself, "Is this thread title worth a one-week ban?" And the answer is, "Yes. Yes it is."

Show better judgment in the future. Thread titles show up on our front page, and I would prefer to not see profanity on our front page. /mod.
 

Gigantor

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Vain (me) superficial (me) wannabe fashionista (me) who care more people thinking they're cool than wasting their money (...me, me)

Looks like they've got one potential customer, anyway.
 

runtheplacered

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Khell_Sennet said:
iDon'tBuyApple

The only thing in my life that is an Apple product is Quicktime, I didn't pay anything for it, and I still run everything possible in Media Player. Stephen Jobs can suck my nutsack, I'm no trendwhore or iTard.
Isn't it just as trendy to hate apple stuff? Just seems like you're the opposite trend.. but a trend nonetheless. Why have allegiance or particular distaste for any company? Just judge each product on its own merit.. there's apple stuff i think is a ripoff, and there's some apple stuff that I think is kinda neat. But I can take them or leave them.
 

sammyfreak

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Between the expensive advertising and stylish but still practical design its rather obvius to se why the iBrand is so popular. I also like my iPod quite a bit.
 

Easykill

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If you were offered a free Ipod and turned it down, you're just stupid. It's free money, sell it.
 

Pauper

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The laptop is actually called the MacBook Air, and it's getting quite a number of good reviews. I don't see where Apple is going to go broke giving people the kind of technology they want.

I have to agree with runtheplacered, though -- I am myself an Apple geek with a number of Apple geek friends, and none of us are really all that demonstrative about our Apple-geekiness (it's easier to just let the Apple logo, or the look of the second-generation iPod Shuffle, or what-have-you grab someone's attention and then answer their inevitable questions). It's the people who identify themselves as Apple-haters who seem to be demonstratively looking for a justification for their opinions.

As for the thread not being locked yet -- it did just go up about two-and-a-half hours ago on a Sunday night. Don't the admins deserve some time off?

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ohnoitschris

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I've never owned a durable piece of Apple hardware. They'd have my dollar if any of their iPods didn't have a chrome, extra smudgable and scratchable backing. Or if their laptops didn't cost around $2000 and have less functionality than a $500 bargain Dell laptop.

Honestly, if you think your music player or laptop says more about you than your outfit, you've got a lot of life evaluation to do. You wouldn't go into a job interview wearing white earbuds blasting the latest from Fall Out Boy, would you?
 

John Galt

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ohnoitschris said:
Honestly, if you think your music player or laptop says more about you than your outfit, you've got a lot of life evaluation to do. You wouldn't go into a job interview wearing white earbuds blasting the latest from Fall Out Boy, would you?
Well, if you were interviewing at Apple you might.
 

GenHellspawn

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The Macbook air: It can't read Cd's or DVD's without an external device, but hey, it fits in an envelope!!! FUCKING BUY IT!!
 

mshcherbatskaya

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My experience with Apples is that they have heat problems, which would explain why so many of my Apple-owning friends have spent lots of quality time with AppleCare getting their motherboards and hard drives replaced.

If you want a skinny, sexy (whatever) laptop to go with your skinny, sexy cell phone, all in the hope of convincing complete strangers that you have a skinny, sexy girlfriend at home, well then, by all means, knock yourself out. Or you could by a Sony - they've been copying Apple's design for years, and they've got some of the best looking displays I've seen as a bonus.

Or if you must make some sort of gesture of defiance against Microsoft, just suck it up and go Linux.

For the record, those Windows Guy vs. Apple Dude commercials? I really want to punch that little hipster shit in the head. That's the kind of guy who should have been beat up more when he was in school.

EDIT: And? iTunes blows toads. It's bad enough that I am forced to use QuickTime (which I've seen hijack all sorts of functions as it goes in) to view porn clips, er, I mean, movie trailers, but in order to use their shitty little media plugin, I have to install the entire iTunes program, which then tries to hijack my music library? Let's see, proprietary bloatware that hijacks your system and installs stuff you never asked for and don't want - isn't that what the Apple-heads used to say about Microsoft? I have had to manually pick kecked-up QuickTime and iTunes installs out of more people's systems that I can count. iTunes is, quite literally, the reason I will never use an iPod. The Creative Zen player I got several years ago is still working perfectly, thanks.
 

Anton P. Nym

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The Air is more pretty than practical. The battery life is far less than that quoted, and since it's internal you can't swap out a charged spare when the first one runs down... so kiss it goodbye for long trips. Sure, it weighs only two and a bit pounds, but for all it's thinness and lightness you still can't open the sucker in an economy-class seat.

And it costs twice what I paid for my Origami computer, which weighs less, is the size of a trade paperback so I can use it on commuter rail or the bus, and gets the same effective battery life as the Air but the battery's external and I can swap 'em out.

Apple has a bad habit with emphasizing form to the detriment of function and cost, in my opinion. Then again, I've been accused of being a cold-hearted technobastard... though, from my perspective, it's just immunity to the Jobsian Reality Distortion Field.

-- Steve
 

xMacx

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Pauper said:
I am myself an Apple geek with a number of Apple geek friends, and none of us are really all that demonstrative about our Apple-geekiness (it's easier to just let the Apple logo, or the look of the second-generation iPod Shuffle, or what-have-you grab someone's attention and then answer their inevitable questions).
That's kind of what people hate about it - it's the owners who say "I'm not really demonstrative, I just wear my technology for others to see and answer their *pretentious sigh* inevitable questions". You're talking about how you're inevitably going to be noticed in the same sentence justifying that you're not demonstrative. Put the kool-aid down, man!

Pauper said:
It's the people who identify themselves as Apple-haters who seem to be demonstratively looking for a justification for their opinions.
See my earlier point. I don't hate Apple. I just have a healthy distaste for a good portion of their user-base, and for exact statements like the one above.


I do agree that mods should get a night off, though.
 

Katana314

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I hate the company too. While I don't exactly directly SUPPORT windows, the level that the PC vs Mac ads attempt to mislead people is simply disgraceful. If any other company were to broadcast such slander, their stocks would drop quite noticably.
Someone should seriously put up a site called youboughtthewrongthing.com. You click a link that says "I bought an iPhone!" and you fill out a list of all the features that you were looking for when you got it. Then, it pops out a $100 cell phone that has even MORE features than that.