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Apple certainly made mistakes, but one of them wasn't deciding that PCs were a business they didn't want to be in.
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HAHA....DOS. When I got my first computer, it was DOS 3.0 or something around there. It was some Heath System Kit my uncle built. Ah, those were the days. Of course I was like 13 then, and screwed a lot of stuff up, but that's how I learned. My next machine was a 386 and it could handle Win 3.1. You don't understand how excited I was. Not but a few week later I traded up to a 486.......I thought that was the **** then though. LOL.
After 10th grade, of course my home computer had Win95 (I hate the 9X series now), I no longer had any DOS computers to mess around with. 11 grade CS 1 was pascal on some OLD macs. Then CS 2 was finally Windows, C++. I knew so much about DOS back then, it's funny how fast it all fades away. I just wish it excited me now like it did back then....
Really, Apple tried pretty hard to own the industry. They just didn't kow what they were doing. Why else do you think they gave away macs like crazy to schools? So kids would get confortable with them...... guess that didn't work.
Eric
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I don't think they give anything to anyone now. But I'm pretty sure they did give them to schools. That's what a teacher told me once.
Eric
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Don't say you had Win95 in high school... makes me feel old.
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Graduated '99! I had Win 95 in 9th grade! LOL.
Eric
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So they give them away?
Several computer companies are happy to donate equipment. Usually, you get the absolute top-of-the-line stuff. For example, Intel recently outfitted a lab at UM with machines that had huge flat-panel screens.
The reason for the high-end equipment? The margins on the high-end stuff are much larger (both in real dollars and in percentage terms). The company claims a charitable donation on their tax return for the full retail value of the equipment. Often, the tax break is larger than (or very close to) what is called the "transfer cost"---the cost to the company to give themselves one of the machines. If the tax break is bigger than the transfer cost, they company still makes money on the deal, plus all the goodwill and PR you get buy donating X millions of dollars worth of equipment to schools.
As hardware becomes more commoditized, it becomes cheaper, in part due to shrinking margins. Despite the fact that the machines are "cheaper", it becomes harder to get donations, because the relative benefit of the tax break is reduced.
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1. Why is the military donating so many PC's to non profit organizations. Could it be that many divisions of the military are starting to swith over to primary use of Macintosh? Yes it is!
2. Chip speed is based on the manufacturers specs. Do to different designs involving multiple "pipes" or pipelines in a chip a 1.2 gigahertz Motorala Chip can run almost as fast as a 2.1 gigahertz. And I don;t know where the 1.25 gighertz motorala maximum thing came from. Pure BS.
Has anyone used on of the dual 1.25 gigahertz Mac. talk about a fast machine.
Eric, want to talk about stable. Compare my OSX machine to any XP machine. I have had my Powerbook G4 on consistently since I bought it in december 2001. I have only restarted it for some software installs, and have shut it down for about 4 times for a maximum of 10 hours. This thing has Never, not once, crashed. I have even dropped, stepped on, and sat on my powerbook. Still works great.
Currently I am running Apache on my machine so i can do some web programming without having to access my servers. Besides that I can run any OSX application, OS9 application, Almost any Windows XP, 2000, me, 1998, 1998se, NT, or 1995 application, almost any Unix application, and several Linux Applications. ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Show me a windows machine that can so that!
I am not bashing windows. I used to use that OS. I was dedicated to it. I programmed for it. Once I started using the Mac, It took some time, but I decided to make the "switch." It was long before the campaign, but I do no regret my decision in the least.
Funny thing is, it seems that most Tech/web companies I am affliated with (in Detroit) are starting to either completely switch over to a mac environment, or at least starting to run both Pc's and mac.
Many of the organizations locally who buy custom desk PC's for their new hires are also starting to offer mac as an option if not the primary option. That should say something.
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rollergator said:...Pong, that was still in the future...
Heh, I built a robot that plays pong. Look here:
http://mars.uah.edu/ieee/UAH%20Competition%20-%20April%202,%202002/SSniceshot.AVI
Ours is the one on the near side.
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