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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    03/20/09

    In reply to Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning
    and it looks ike my wireless keyboard batteries are dying too
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning
    I bought my ma for it's boot chime (BIOS beep is so lame)
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning
    I suppose ol' Ballmy has no opinion on premium hardware that actually pays for a license for their product.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/20/09

    In reply to Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning
    This from the company that's about to unleash a wallet raping multi-tiered pricing scheme for Windows 7...
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    03/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Don't get me wrong. I really like Windows 7 but let's be reasonable about it Uncle Fester..
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    Image of Auzburner Auzburner
    03/20/09

    In reply to Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning
    He has got come things right, but when you buy an Apple product, you don't have to buy directly from an Apple store and you also get top rated support included in that price tag. I wouldn't call Apple a rip off, but I fully agree a Mac is on the pricey side. You buy what you pay for, no deception, it's just what it is.
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    Image of UnexpectedEOF UnexpectedEOF
    03/20/09

    @Auzburner: You get top rated support for a year.


    Unless you buy applecare for another $200 - $400.

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    Image of Evan, How Dare you Sir! Evan, How Dare you Sir!
    03/20/09

    Secondly, I paid $500 more not for the logo, but for kick ass product design featuring an operating system that isn't preloaded with bloatware from HP or Gateway.
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    Image of imTheKing imTheKing
    03/20/09

    @UnexpectedEOF: the $200 to $400 is totally worth the fee.
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    Image of Mint137 Mint137
    03/20/09

    @imTheKing: Building your own computer each thing has it's own warranty length. Just a few things for example. My monitor's was 3 years. RAM was lifetime. Hard drives were 5 years. All for no extra fee. BEAT THAT.
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    Image of madog madog
    03/21/09

    @Mint137: Ok, I'll accept that challenge.


    Personally, I (and many others) think it's better being able to actually walk into the manufacturers store for warranty issues whereas you'll wait 4-6 weeks for shipping beyond the retailers return policy.

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    03/21/09

    @evangelistc01: I built my computer for under $2k and it is kick-ass powerful and can run rings around virtually anything. I didn't get bloatware or useless frills, and since I know what I'm doing, I don't need a "care" program. If your hardware doesn't shit the bed within a week of startup and you don't treat it like shit, it's going to last a long, long time. In 25 years I've never had a hard drive, video card or motherboard just "die" on me unless something very harmful was actively done to it.


    Assembling a system is both ridiculously easy and also very inexpensive. Once you do it you realize just what a ripoff buying a prebuilt system is, and how much of a useless waste "tech support" is...


    @UnexpectedEOF: ...yes, Apple Care is a waste too.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/20/09

    In reply to Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning
    "it is kinda funny for a software guy to suggest that it's the hardware that makes the computer."


    Actually, Ballmer is a marketing guy, so he would say anything that he thinks that people want to hear.

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    Image of pettiblay pettiblay
    03/20/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: And Microsoft is a software company. So he's a marketing guy for a software company = software guy. They just don't do hardware.
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    03/20/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Correction, he's a marketing tool..
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    03/20/09

    @pettiblay: "They just don't do hardware."


    At Ballmer's age it's pretty much all software..

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    Image of theotherstevejobs theotherstevejobs
    03/20/09

    In reply to Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning
    seriously - did we just hear him say that the economy going into the shitter is good for Microsoft?


    wow. Hope and change from Microsoft!

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    03/20/09

    @theotherstevejobs: Yeah, I think there's about 5,000 people who'd disagree..
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    Image of HonusWScruggs HonusWScruggs
    03/20/09

    @theotherstevejobs: @evangelistc01: @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: In referring to "points", he's clearly talking about Microsoft's market position. What, exactly, is evil about being in a position where an economic downturn is to your relative advantage over your competitor?


    Why so desperate to be angry?

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    03/21/09

    @HonusWScruggs: "Why so desperate to be angry?"


    I am neither. I simply made a statement. Any inference of malice you may apply to it is from your own viewpoint, not mine.

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