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Re: mac sales down

Alan Baker
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SubjectRe: mac sales down
FromAlan Baker
Date05/16/2008 06:24 (05/16/2008 06:24)
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In article <wumdnbEJz47-lrDVnZ2dnUVZ_tPinZ2d@giganews.com>, Steve de Mena <steve@stevedemena.com>wrote:

Steve de Mena
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Freshly minted sockpuppet "Glorb" <Gl...@orb.com>wrote:

Glorb
Alan Baker wrote:

Alan Baker
Glorb <Gl...@orb.com>wrote:

Glorb
George Graves wrote:

George Graves
People who "don't do much with a computer" happens to define the huge majority of non-corporate computer use and not a small percentage of corporate use. Fact is, most people do E-mail, web browsing, music, You-Tube, manage their digital pictures and little else with their computers. A Mac Mini is more than adequate for all of those.

Glorb
Says the man who doesn't use a Mac Mini. A 120 GB HD is adequate for music, pictures and movies? Pul-lease! That's a bad joke. The RAM and VRAM are even worse jokes.

Alan Baker
120 GB is plenty for lots of of folks, Edwin. I admit, I don't have the largest iPhoto library at only 1400 photos, but if I had 5 times as many, it would still only occupy about one sixth of a 120GB drive.

-hh
A typical ~8MP JPG is 2.5MB, so a photo directory of 10,000 images is only 25GB on average.

For music, 5 *days* worth of iTunes will suck down a whopping 10GB.

System folder...another 2GB.

Gosh, we're still under 40GB used.

Need I continue?

Steve de Mena
My Pictures folder is 40.5 GB System folder is 4GB Library folder is 104 GB Music volume is 1.9 TB

Steve

And you are obviously not a typical home user.

-- "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)

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