[Chris Grande]

Just read it, its just sad.

http://www.internet-nexus.com/2004_1...26762439600128

Heres a quick quote to give you the idea, he's commenting on a Dvorak article.

"What's really happening here, and this is the point that Dvorak is alluding to, is that Apple (Jobs, really) is choosing form over function. No bit of functionality will marr the PowerBook's smooth case, no matter how useful it would be. Hard drive light? Never! SD slot? Heresy! Switches to turn off the trackpad and wireless? No way!"

A hard drive light?!?! You have to be kidding, right? That one line made me burst out laughing. (I have no problem with someone liking Win machines over Macs but stuff like this!) I mean every windows pc using person I know needs that damn light just to know that their crap machines are still working, we have high end Dells at work and people still lean over to make sure that damn little light is blinking or not. I have never met a Mac user so dependent on such a stupid thing, I guess Apple knows we shouldn't have to wonder if our HD is working. Hey Paul how about a Memory light? or a Wireless light? You need to know those are working too!

Oh and I bet that laptop has a nice big old printer port, and some nice legacy serial ports. (i'm just saying, it might not have them)

[macaddict0001]

well if you are willing to buy a laptop that is freaking huge go ahead. But the reason the powerbook costs more is simply portability. The powerbook is a third of the size of the hp. The reason laptops are more expensive is size and power constraints. so if the point of getting a laptop is size and portability then the powerbook does it a lot better. Not to mention the things that have to be done manually on the hp can be done via software or even automatically.

[ASIMO]

Is "Turn AirPort Off" not the same as a "switch to turn off the...wireless?" I have that tiny switch on my Toshiba that I never use. Anyone want it?

[euchomai]

Originally posted by ASIMO:
Is "Turn AirPort Off" not the same as a "switch to turn off the...wireless?" I have that tiny switch on my Toshiba that I never use. Anyone want it?

Yeah, I'll take it.. It'll get good use here.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by euchomai:
Yeah, I'll take it.. It'll get good use here.

Are you making a doll house out of wireless switches, too?

[Superchicken]

Oh I always wanted more things on my PowerBook to accidentally push...

The only thing I'd like on my PowerBook is perhaps another USB and or Firewire port... Firewire 800 (12 inch)... perhaps dual audio out... maybe an iPod dock connector built in... but that's about it... however do I expect or do I even think it's a good idea to include any of those? no. I'd just like em. The advantage to being a reasonable person is to think, hmm I'd like this solely for me, but it's not going to happen because it is impractical. And then you accept it, move on, and play with your Wacom tablet.

That said, an integrated graphics tablet would be cool in a laptop... but again, not something practical .

[Mediaman_12]

What frikin reason would you have to switch the trackpad off? Why not just close the lid and put it to sleep, you cant be using it since the trackpad is off. do PC uses just like blinkin lights and useless switches.

I am no reading the article since that would give this self obsessed idiot what he craves, which is more hits for his advertisers.

[effgee]

Originally posted by Chris Grande:
... Hard drive light? ...

hard drive light? a hard drive light? bwahaahaaa ...

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</wipestearsoffface>

priceless.

[Millennium]

I'm still waiting for evidence that "Paul Thurrott" is an actual person, and not just a pseudonym for some astroturfing division of Microsoft's marketing department. I don't want to know where he lives or anything like that; I just want proof that there is an actual human being under that name who is writing all of these articles himself. Because frankly, I don't think he exists.

[brapper]

Originally posted by Superchicken:
maybe an iPod dock connector built in...

...I don't get it...

[euchomai]

Originally posted by brapper:
...I don't get it...

You know, an iPod. It has a dock and it would be cool to just plug it in, sans dock. I read that the new headless iMac might have one in later revisions. Apple Insider talks about it in todays write up.

[TheJoshu]

Originally posted by euchomai:
You know, an iPod. It has a dock and it would be cool to just plug it in, sans dock. I read that the new headless iMac might have one in later revisions. Apple Insider talks about it in todays write up.

meh, there's nothing wrong with the ipod firewire cable. i can't see any reasonable way to graft an ipod dock to a mac. i barely see the point of the dock in the first place.

[Link]

I will eat my hat the day Apple makes a computer with a built in dock. The idea is stupid because the ipod changes a lot, the dock port would look dumb, and well.. nobody's stopping you from JUST PLUGGING IT IN WITH A CABLE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES.

We should sneak out Thurrott's powerbook and rewire his monitor's backlight to the HD controller. Maybe that'll get him to shut up.

I did like the "remote control in PCMCIA slot" on the HP... damn I didn't know they did that, it sounds really cool.. except if you had to use the slot (but even then)...

[Nebagakid]

i never even knew that there was such a thing as a hard drive light..... so, that is what PC users have to figure out if their computer is still ticking along?

[macaddict0001]

Originally posted by Superchicken:
Oh I always wanted more things on my PowerBook to accidentally push...

during 2 gig downloads

[Amorya]

Originally posted by Chris Grande:
Hey Paul how about a ... Wireless light?

They have those.

Sadly.


Amorya