Just got back to my inbox today to find this flaming war on the definition of a monopoly... so here you have it: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly
I enjoyed reading all the pros and mostly the cons. Are you guys writing in from other than America? maybe that's why you feel so against apple, because I hear it often, why spend more when you can spend less (the race to the bottom). Maybe it's because I still buy music from other sources rather than iTunes, or because I still purchase DVDs and Blu Ray discs, but our community is a hardware group, and thus we will always go beyond what the hardware allows us to do.... right guys? I mean... OverClocking, underclocking.. it's sorta in our blood. going back to the OP's question about what laptop should he get, I'm wondering if he wanted a long wish list from us all? things like, get 8GB+ of ram, or i7 (something like the 2860?) and what about ssd or standard hdd? My next machine (pc or mac) will have an ssd (what ever is fastest) as my current windows laptop does (the nforce3) enough ram to video process, photoshop and watch youtube on flash (yes flash I said it) and something many-core (+4cores or more) Gary don't feel bad you posted, it's just that the religious wars never make sense... but are you any closer to making your decision? -Francisco http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 14:52, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > But that's the only point I was making...as I said the post to Chris, I'm > not even a major apple user, I only own the iPad 2. Apple is not angel > company and they are obviously acting in their own interests on many > fronts, but then so does MS, Google, etc. The business world is > dog-eat-dog and we might as well acknowledge that. > > > On 12/10/2011 4:53 PM, Greg Sevart wrote: > >> I'm not going to get into this discussion even though I have pretty strong >> feelings about it...but I think you may do well to stop focusing on the >> term >> "monopoly" and instead consider each side with respect to policies and >> behaviors potentially being anti-competitive and/or anti-consumer (in a >> collective sense, not anecdotal accounts of "vendor XYZ replaced my >> 1200-year-old abacus with a new tablet for free). Further, I don't believe >> that all monopolies are necessarily bad. >> >> That is all. :) >> Greg >> >
