Comments on: Have you tried exorcism?

By: Rip Ragged

Rip Ragged — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:58:22 +0000

It won’t be long before Dell is a niche market machine selling only to non-military Feds. If that. Once Vista is mainstream and the STD-ware starts making the rounds, PC will stand for Prehistoric Crap.

I use a recent Dell at work. It’s a new machine running a 5-year old OS. Compared to my 4-year old G5 running a 2-year old OS, it’s slow.

Eventually even sitting on Steve Ballmer’s lap isn’t going to save these companies that never innovate.

By: Bergamot

Bergamot — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:01:19 +0000

I’ll take him seriously if he can name a single thing that Dell has, and Apple wants.

By: Buster

Buster — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:53:14 +0000

I point out the reason why the whole Dell / Apple thing will never happen : Don’t think for a minute The Steve has ever forgotten the whole “liquidate the company and give it back to the stockholders” crack from ol’ Mikey. Of recent, it is looking more and more like Mr. Dell should be taking his own medicine.

By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:42:20 +0000

BTW, Green Day are a pack of Nirvana Wannabes who aren’t fit to shine Gordon Lightfoot’s shoes.

-jcr

By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:40:28 +0000

This reminds me of all of the “Apple should buy palm/sun/SGI” and “Apple should make the iPod work with Real/WindowsMedia/OggVorbis/etc” blather, and ESPECIALLLY the “Apple should switch to Linux” nonsense. It seems like a hell of a lot of people just don’t accept the fact that Apple isn’t a charity.

-jcr

By: Gitchigumi

Gitchigumi — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:18:50 +0000

Yarrrrr! Tis the Wreck of the Gordon Lightfoot, by Edmund Fitzgerald!

By: Jessi

Jessi — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:02:01 +0000

What does it say about me that I listen to both Gordon Lightfoot and Green Day on my Mac?

I’d claim that Gordon Lightfoot’s songs (the best ones, anyway) are like vintage Macs. They’re old but they still work!

By: WH

WH — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:05:44 +0000

There is a solution! When Apple buys up Dell - although I don’t know why they would want it, but who knows? Maybe they would launch a cheap-o DelMac? Would that be iDeal? Thought not.
But anyhow; it will happen if Apple buys Dell, not before…

Then Dell will have to eat his words and maybe that’d be the reason why…

By: blattapus

blattapus — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:05:47 +0000

It’s Dell trying to look like the cool guy in the room. It’s the same thing they’re doing with their XPS cases. Fancy looking cheap plastic cases.

Dell is my Dad trying to tell me that he listens to cool music when I see all of his Gordon Lightfoot CDs behind his one Green Day CD still in the wrapping. Nice try Dad! I know you listen to Lite-FM.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:27:23 +0000

And that remark about the “tablet Mac” being a movement towards other vendors delivering systems running on OS X is nonsense. The tablet Mac is a modified MacBook which is bought from Apple so it comes with OS X like all Macs. It’s not LIKE a machine from Apple, it IS a machine from Apple.