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Apr 24, 08 - 10:13 am Comment from: MaLvado

odd, upside down or upside down and backwards... either way Apple has had the upper hand way before Vista.

So how many ways of opening a door can this guy think of?

For some folks it did indeed take Vista to open their minds..

How do Kiwis even use a computer when they have no hands? Potatoes at least have eyes......

Some people you can't help. For some unknown reason they hate Apple, I have never been able to figure it out. Why would anybody buy an OS limited machine. I have never found anybody that doesn't give Apple the upper hand with look and feel of the hardware. Just ask him why he would buy a machine that can ONLY run windows when he can have a Better (hardware) machine that runs BOTH! What typically happens is they buy the Mac, run windows and when you aren't looking start to crawl out from under their rock and peek at OSX. After about a month they are spending MORE time in OSX than Windows....

Apr 24, 08 - 10:33 am Comment from: MrMcLargeHuge

@Fruit LOver

Good question, go to New Zealand and ask them.

Apr 24, 08 - 10:36 am Comment from: DogGone

The CNBC presenters were very pro Apple. One basically recommending the Mac, the other highlighting the near 2.3M mac sales plus the fact that Apple historically guide low.

This countered the laid back or disinterested attitude of the analyst. He tried to make the usual negative comments but had to begrudgingly accept that the Mac was on fire. Once prodded he recommended aapl for long term investment and also said probably should buy it even for short term holds.

@Fruit Lover

I will save you the trouble of flying to New Zealand. They use two Emus to do their typing.

Apr 24, 08 - 10:39 am Comment from: CheekyGit

I have been watching CNBC for years now. Of all the commentators, journalists, reporters, and contributors that have worked in business news, Mark Haines has been my favorite. He is level-headed, fair, unbiased, and hilarious.

MARK HAINES FOR PRESIDENT !!!

Becky Quick = Liquid Sex

Apr 24, 08 - 10:48 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

I'd shut the company down and give the money back to the shareholders.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Did anyone else notice the smirk on Jim Goldman's face when Mark Haines was talking? Jim is the technology specialist and was in the lower right part of the screen.

Apr 24, 08 - 10:53 am Comment from: Wingsy

I can't get any of their videos to play right now. Anyone else?

Richard Prati--the Ellen Feiss of CNBC.

Apr 24, 08 - 10:58 am Comment from: Cubert

Mark Haines = The Eternally Tan Man

In response to the post by "Splat."

"Better" hardware is debatable. Apple is more reliable because they observe ESD standards religiously, when many pc companies act like they don't understand how ESD lowers a product's lifespan. Apples pruducts suffer from poor integrated video quality (a serious design flaw to those of us who want to play games), and they only offer an upgrade slot to those who buy the absolutely top of the line system. Why should I have to buy a pro system, when the only thing I need that the mini can't give me is the video slot ($1700 for a slot is a bit much)?

Apr 24, 08 - 11:03 am Comment from: CheekyGit

"Becky Quick = Liquid Sex"

I agree with you 10,000%. She is my main reason for getting up in the morning. If she give you a smile, you would be drooling for a week.

Erin Burnett is hot too. Irritating but hot.

Apr 24, 08 - 11:10 am Comment from: Ampar

Fruit LOver asked, "How do Kiwis even use a computer when they have no hands?"

Here you go:
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/

(Becky Quick gets me up twice every morning.)

Apr 24, 08 - 11:23 am Comment from: Jubei

Awesome. Good job for CNBC to finally get the videos Safari friendly. Excellent,

Apr 24, 08 - 11:24 am Comment from: Ampar

Let's not forget the other reason to watch CNBC.

"She's a mean, mean machine. Start it up."

Apr 24, 08 - 11:33 am Comment from: ericdano

Zune Tang must be having a hard day. Your Dell Ditty having problems or something? Those workout songs you downloaded from the now dead MSN Music store not working for ya?

Apr 24, 08 - 11:33 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

Ah... Maria...

Boring. :>
PS: I have invented an electric car which
runs on solar panel, which drives a heat pump for free energy, which connects to a thermionic plate, driving a super capacitor,

And my name is Anthony Blomfield so you all can stop worrying about the oil now .

Apr 24, 08 - 11:37 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ ericdano

He's just upset because it died right in the middle of Olivia Newton John's Let's Get Physical.

Apr 24, 08 - 11:42 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ awesome KiwiHub anthony

But where do you keep your solar sex panel?

Apr 24, 08 - 11:48 am Comment from: CheekyGit

I would take Trish Regan over Maria any day. Too bad she is already married.

But Becky is my favorite.

There is none Chrissy, sorry, I miss you though.
Here is the basic math:

200 watt solar panel

*5 heat pump

- efficiency loss.

= 800 watt electric motor

Apr 24, 08 - 11:54 am Comment from: Ampar

C1: Either that or "Get'cha Head in the Game" from High School Musical.

Apr 24, 08 - 12:00 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ CheekyGit

And too bad Maria's not a lesbian... =( Bah, details!

@ awesome KiwiHub anthony

I run my diesel Jetta entirely on grease I collect from developers at the Microsoft campus.

Apr 24, 08 - 12:01 pm Comment from: Ampar

CheekyGit:
O.K. So, also throw in Melissa Francis, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Rebecca Jarvis. Add 200 gallons of Lime Jell-O and make it a wrestling match. The loser has to photograph Michael Eisner in a thong.

Pratti is the shill who ordered his lackey Shaw Wu to lower his rating on Apple before yesterday's earnings. They are both buy side economists. You can BUY what side you want them on.

When Becky Quick first went on CNBC, as one of those regular guest Wall Street Journal reporters, she had a very bad voice. Somewhere along the way, she must have gotten vocal instruction, and now she has that FINE low-pitched voice. The voice is most of her appeal, I think.

Apr 24, 08 - 12:15 pm Comment from: Ampar

"The voice is most of her appeal, I think."

She could quack like an angry duck and it wouldn't matter to me.

Apr 24, 08 - 12:32 pm Comment from: Cubert

Holy crap! I don't watch much TV but Becky Quick looks like an older version of my girlfriend - eerie!

Apr 24, 08 - 12:36 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Ampar

Ye Gods, you're right!

Guys, guys, guys...

Alexis Glick Fox Business

Apr 24, 08 - 01:02 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

"O.K. So, also throw in Melissa Francis, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Rebecca Jarvis. Add 200 gallons of Lime Jell-O and make it a wrestling match. The loser has to photograph Michael Eisner in a thong."

Ampar......should I be concerned that you have dreams like this?

Apr 24, 08 - 01:09 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

"Alexis Glick Fox Business"

OK. Those four words together are why pigs eat slop, why cousins should never marry each other, and why you should never walk on the surface of the sun in bare naked.

I have no idea where I'm going with this. I just hate anything Fox related.

Apr 24, 08 - 01:14 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

@ChrissyOne

"Ye Gods, you're right!"

I can just see it now. C1 is listening to "I Touch Myself" while enjoying Becky's picture.

LOL

Apr 24, 08 - 01:37 pm Comment from: El Guapo

Apple should do a 30 sec spot thanking MS for coming out with Vista.

Apr 24, 08 - 02:29 pm Comment from: Ampar

CheekyGit: "C1 is listening to "I Touch Myself" while enjoying Becky's picture."

And you weren't?




P.S. And yes, be very afraid!

Apr 24, 08 - 03:17 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

Hey, I've had no complaints.

Apr 24, 08 - 08:38 pm Comment from: LukeinOz

@BSOD

"@Fruit Lover

I will save you the trouble of flying to New Zealand. They use two Emus to do their typing."

How would they do that?

Emus are birds native to AUSTRALIA.

As they are flightless (like the Ostrich) they wouldn't even be able to have ended up there by accident, unless they caught a flight on a QANTAS jet?

my 2 cents

Luke

Apr 24, 08 - 09:11 pm Comment from: Sky

For five years I was content to keep one old XP machine on an otherwise Mac network, but the impending Vista release signaled it was time to let go of Windows altogether or face the inevitable upgrade issues some are seeing now.

I knew I could never accept an OS with draconian, performance-affecting DRM plumbing at its core, because I work a lot with digital media that I own legal rights to. The Vista DRM paradigm represents an unfair performance tax that while aimed at pirates, unfairly affects all law-abiding media consumers and creators as well. It's like the tax on blank digital recording media that I've had to pay for the right to record my own music.

While Windows XP was acceptable for certain tasks despite its "phone-home" authentication technology, Vista went so far beyond this that my inevitable decision to go all-Mac was easy. Sky

Apr 25, 08 - 11:09 am Comment from: ElderNorm

Is it me, or is Prati just brain dead there?? Duhhh, Apple yeah, I have heard of them..... Yea, I guess they have a better system, duhhh........

Then he follows up with about how Apple is doing better cause of the iPod.......cause yeah, there is the music thing so you need a Mac to play it. duhhhhh.. yeah.

What an ultra-maroon!!!! (from Bugs Bunny.