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GREAT NEWS!!!

Hands down Mac's are the best hardware and software choice for safe reliable computing.

A few adjustments though...

1: More hardware choices
2: Non-glossy screen choices on all models
3: A mid-range tower
4: Better privacy and security (concerning distributing personal info around the OS and apps)
5: Outgoing Firewall that even works for processes, not just apps.
6: Less data mining by Apple apps that contact the internet every time you launch them. (At least ask us first for our permission.)
7: Open up EFI and it's GUID partition for user review and verification of what gets installed in there by applications or Apple itself.

@ Raving MacHead
Yeah, Apple is right now increasing sales and at an all-time level of success, so they should implement all of your suggestions so they can fix what is not broken.
Right.

Throw another Mac on the barbie.

That's fair dinkum.

She'll be right.

Yeah, Apple is right now increasing sales and at an all-time level of success, so they should implement all of your suggestions so they can fix what is not broken.

Yea it's comments like that why HP (a former printer maker) is now selling more PC's than Apple.

Silly Rabbit.

That is great! The Aussies are a sharp group that know when they should leave that Microsoft turd alone.

Good-day!

Aug 20, 08 - 10:49 am Comment from: DLMeyer

This would be even better news were there much more than one Aussie for every ten Americans. Apple could hit 50% of their market and still sell more Macs in the US than there.
Now if Apple could only repeat this performance in half a dozen European nations and Japan ... that would be excellent, just excellent.

<b>Hands down Mac's are . . . "

An apostrophe is not a warning that the letter s is imminent.

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Aug 20, 08 - 10:58 am Comment from: DLMeyer

Apple is constantly "fixin what aint broke" ... like the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone. Oh, and OSX. And I think iWork fits in that category as well, but maybe not iLife - not to dis that great package. When Jobs came back, he outlined a new model structure: consumer and pro models of laptops and desktops - essentially four different computers. He broke with that when he released the MBA and (maybe) the iPhone, but mostly stuck with it. I'd really like a Mac midi - a lower cost, half-hight, quad-core 'tower' - but agree that the Jobs Quad made, and continues to make, a lot of sense.

I suppose that you're going to want people to learn the difference between:

then and than
to, two, and too
their, there, and they're

Hmmm, come to think of it, that would make reading posts a log easier!

Aug 20, 08 - 11:11 am Comment from: shen

@Raving MacHead

aside from point 2, there is nothing in the list that even makes sense.

as for point 2, while i don't care, i know a lot of people do.

Soon the stock AAPL will zoom past $200+ (now about $175) and we will hear something like "gee I wish I had bought Apple stock in August".

Aug 20, 08 - 11:18 am Comment from: CYxodus

As a graphic designer, I need a non-glossy screen. The over saturation kills CMYK.

Good on ya, sport! Companies benefit by suggestions and, yes, criticism.

Aug 20, 08 - 11:36 am Comment from: MacLovin

@Monalisa: u forgot CRIKEY!!!!!!!

Aug 20, 08 - 12:24 pm Comment from: thethirdshoe

@monalisa

Good one!

Since Australia is a former Penal Colony I expect all the Macs are being stolen.

Aug 20, 08 - 12:35 pm Comment from: jtc

@@Nick Fury
I suppose that you're going to want people to learn the difference between:

then and than
to, two, and too
their, there, and they're

Hmmm, come to think of it, that would make reading posts a log easier!

If you are going to insult Nick Fury's grammar at the very least do not screw up your own spelling.... log = lot
I doubt you did that intentionally either

Aug 20, 08 - 12:39 pm Comment from: jtc

@Charlie

Most likely stock will go up.. then out of no where ballmer will hire another lame reporter with little to no merit to say something bad about apple. Then all the little lamies will get scared and start selling off their shares till AAPL drop a bunch, then ballmer can buy in at a lower price along with the other manipulating rich bastards and drive the stock price way up. That would actually seem like a decent plan for ballmer... how else are they going to get money to make up for their loss in sales or pay for their "marketing campaigns" for vista.

Aug 20, 08 - 12:56 pm Comment from: Buster

Obviously those Aussies have a different spin on things than those of us in the Northern hemisphere.

To jtc:

I took it as a comment on general grammatical sloppiness. I don't think it was directed at my writing.


(Add your and you're to the overall list.)

Aug 20, 08 - 01:20 pm Comment from: Micro Me

Good to see progress in Oz.

I get the feeling Macs are on a roll in New Zealand too, but I've never seen any figures to back it up.

If they are, it's without the input of advertising. Apple ads are rare on TV here.

While HP sells more computers than Apple, they are losing money doing so.

If they didn't sell printers and, more importantly, ink cartridges, they would not be turning a profit.

Tell me again why you want Apple to sell cheap, money losing computer configurations.

I always new there were a bunch of gays there.

Aug 20, 08 - 02:15 pm Comment from: gadfly

Wow, you goofball:

I always KNEW there WAS a bunch of gays there

Jees.

Aug 20, 08 - 03:12 pm Comment from: Sixvodkas

@CYxodus;

A graphics designer (At least one who presumably earns a living from their computer, that is) should likely be using Pro equipment, and not the bottom basement, entry level consumer models.

Last time I checked, all Apple Cinema Displays met your demands, and all MacBook Pro's are available with the murky, matte option.

the NZ and AU Mac-hating press (they're famous for it) are going to HATE where this is going!

Their masters in Redmond won't like it either.

Now if only Apple can keep their MYTHICAL QUALITY CONTROL!

@ Jersey_Trader

Good-day? Good-day?
It's gidday.

Aug 20, 08 - 07:02 pm Comment from: Micro Me

@Hercule Eelbait.

Nah, it's, "Ah, yeah, g'day. Airzit gun? Orright? S'story."

Y' gotta learn to talk 'Strine or Newzild.

Us Aussie Mac users are in a good position. All you windows losers who bought iphones, give us a call when you get stuck.

Aug 20, 08 - 09:23 pm Comment from: Alexo

Jeez, I knew I'd been responsible for at least 10 people changing to Macs over the past couple of years, but I didn't know I had so much influence nation-wide! Seriously, it's so hard to get people to even consider a Mac for their next PC upgrade, most just don't want to go outside their comfort zone. Oh well, at least all of those I've influenced are very happy with their decision go Mac.

Aug 20, 08 - 09:58 pm Comment from: DLMeyer

You think I'm going to be playing WoW on an iPhone (or Civ V, or Diablo IV, or ...) ... well, forget it. No way, no how. I use my wife's 20" screen when it's available, my own 17" when hers is not, else I don't play. And, just in case you think that's ALL I do on our Macs, I'm not going to edit a podcast in GarageBand on an iPhone either. While it might be reasonable to assist other casters or web designers on forums like this one - except more civil - nah ... not that, either.

I never thought I would end up buying a Mac, and here I am with on at home. So why I did it? Simple reason -- Vista. I needed a new operating system -- and Microsoft refused to support XP -- and forcing OEM companies not sell it, safe for Dell & HP. And when I buy XP base machine I'd also be paying for Vista license. Thanks for no thanks.

My solution: Got myself Mac-Mini.

@ Micro Me

Yeah, nah, nah, yeah, nah....

Real reason I can tell you...

owe. Cause the ADMIN in AUSSI has been SO CRAP in last few years Apple is now sorting it out. I have worked there in Applecare under the dusty, grey heavy management in Sydney office of ideakill HQ.
But now Apple seem to be more proactive in Australia with marketing, shops etc, I was fired from Sydney I think cause I was OK at my job.

Macs had a pretty low market share a few years back in the "Dark Days", and very limited retail exposure.

Sensibly, they've loosened up on who can sell the things and you can now find them in assorted electronics stores. So more people can touch them and play with them. And the iMacs just feel and look nice to casual passers by.

'Bout bloody time.

See ya.

@raving,

"Yea it's comments like that why HP (a former printer maker) is now selling more PC's than Apple."

HP has been making computers a lot longer than they've been making printers. They also had a head start on Apple of several decades.

But, being charitable here, ravingmaniac apparently has some little problems with doing homework.