roflmao.

or as you would say... meh..

I respectfully submit that it would be rather hard for a marketing department to target a man who openly refers to himself as "apathy man", but again, your points are well taken.

As for myself, you know my history and why I became a Mac convert in the first place. Now that I'm "in", I retrospectively feel like I'm SO relieved to not have to deal with Windows constant {bleep} that it's easy to become "enthusiastic" about anything Apple coming down the pipe.

Is that a cult thing? Maybe. Well, ok, yeah, sounds a little culty, but "in every revolution, there is one man with a vision".

Kool-aid anyone?

Wayne

Good analogies..

I totally agree with you. Sometimes people do want a bologna sandwich as opposed to a steak, but that falls under the whole "why would I buy a Mac when I can buy a $2 Dell/Gateway box" argument.

.. and there's nothing wrong with that.

The things I do with a computer tend to make using a Windows box rather infuriating, even with the same software on both. Take, for example, Adobe Fireworks. Same package, same version loaded on both my MacBook Pro and the eight-core, dual processor Xeon PC at work.

The Macintosh version is -- for some unfathomable reason -- just easier to use, not to mention twice as fast.. That's just a matter of the operating system being designed more like my mind works than the Windows platform ever has been.

Then again, with everything I went through with the PC and Microsoft in particular, I just cannot fathom giving them another single dime of my money.

Is Apple any better or more scrupulous? Probably not. They're a big company and every bit as territorial as Microsoft but to me, they make the better OS, and for me, I'd rather wait for the steak than settle for the bologna.

Hope all is well and thanks for stopping by.

Wayne

Why be sorry? I needed one. I bought one. BestBuy has a 30 day return policy, so there's always the chance that I'll be able to upgrade. If not, no biggie at all. It does exactly what I need, and the price was right, so we're good to go.

Sorry to hear about the Compaq. Aside from the initial thought, I haven\'t really even thought about selling the netbook since buying the macbook.

I suppose considering the bigger SSD and extra RAM, $250 would be a fair price. I\'ll even throw in the USB holding the install software. The one thing I don\'t have for it is a Windows install CD. It came with Ubuntu installed, and I have that CD, but it\'s at home right now.

True, but with computers, I always tend to feel that if I waited for "the next thing", I'd be waiting forever. Besides, if anything new comes out within 30 days, I can always take it back and swap it out (if whatever's there is that great)

You bring up a good point.. I wonder though whether that leaves the door open for someone to build a "webcam adapter" (like some little clip to attach one of those older Logitech round-type "eyeball" cams) which would allow the camera angle to be moved, rotated, and such to fix the problem of angle?

I have a $500 credit hopefully coming from the Best Buy trade in program, so if I can resist buying a new Macbook pro, my iPad should be "free" (as opposed to having a 3 year old iMac unused on my desk) so I think I'm still interested, just disappointed at the moment..

As for drinking to cover up your ideas, I'm of the opinion that it's the night owl life you live. I think we're all convinced you're living life as a vampire. A particularly apathetic vampire, but a vamp nonetheless.. :)

Wayne

I'm sure some other enterprising young company will come up with a stylus for exactly that reason. The one thing I could see that might be handy with the iPad would be a "paper pad" application where you could just walk into a meeting and start making hand-written notes (or in my case doodling when you're bored)...

I'd have to agree. Apple's system for the App store is very "Wal-mart" in principal, but it's more on the scale of death by a thousand paper cuts. Each iPhone user supposedly spends about $5.00 a month on applications for their phone, of which Apple keeps 30%.

The programmer of each App gets the other 70%. While 70/30 may sound insane, it's exactly what Amiga Inc was trying to do. Only difference is, Amiga Inc didn't actually want to build the infrastructure, relying on Tao (or whoever) to do it all for them.

In the defense of the App store program, Apple's happy, the programmer of the app is happy, the end user is happy, so in effect it's a victimless crime.

I even understand -- to a certain extent -- Apple's need to control certain types of applications and keep them out of the app store. Emulators such as UAE for example would introduce vulnerabilities into the system allowing virus writers to hack together an Amiga virus which could theoretically take over the phone.

Voice apps, such as Google Voice for another example would allow an iPhone user to bypass their telecom partner's system while still using up their telecom partner's 3g bandwidth, which -- while the American way -- isn't fair to AT&T. That part of the app store approval process probably IS governed by a part of the contract between Apple and AT&T, so while inconvenient to the end user who wants to run his Amiga on his phone, I have no problems with it.

All in all, I can't do much more than raise a glass and give kudos to Apple for their genius in putting it all together.