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Apr 07, 08 - 04:22 pm Comment from: DogGone

I would say yes to that. And one of those 2 million macs is my first one for 4 years.

Let's face it ... Apple rules. It will soon be Master of the Universe.

I don't like the "Intel Renaissance" part.

I'm not saying that the Intel chips aren't a good thing. I'm not saying that the ability to throw Windows on a machine has hurt sales, either.

But it's OS X and the overall design superiority that has led to this — not just what's under the hood. People won't buy the first Ferrari that runs on hydrogen fuel cells because of the new fuel. They'll buy it because it's a frickin' Ferrari.

Intel was a good choice. It's just not the driving force.

"While part of the success of this quarter may be a result of the popularity of the MacBook Air"

Oh, no! The troll should be arriving any minute now to denounce the intelligence and wisdom of the many who've bought such an overpriced and deficient computer.

Apr 07, 08 - 04:49 pm Comment from: twodales

Two of those 2 million are mine. They are replacing my beloved Cube which cannot run Leopard, so sad.

@ mark

yeah, maybe -- He should be here any minute now !

Apple sales are going ☝ -- and so follows AAPL !

Apr 07, 08 - 05:03 pm Comment from: DogGone

@Twodales

Really? I was able to put Leopard onto a G4 Sawtooth. Granted the CPU and hard drives are upgraded.

You can sometimes beat the installer by booting the old machine via target mode with Firewire with a newer machine and installing the OS that way.

I'm using the G4 as a media server now. Works great.

Still get the new machine. I've been blown away by the performance of these new macs.

Apr 07, 08 - 05:46 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

@MidWest Mac
"Intel was a good choice. It's just not the driving force."

I not so sure. Perception is sometimes more important then reality, and they don't always equate to each other.

The fact that someone that has been using Windows for decades can still run all his legacy software on a Mac is one of the things that have accelerated it's market penetration. The funny part is that at least in the cases that I have been involved in helping a switcher, they have always ended up deleting their Windows partition after 6 months of using their Mac.

@DogGone
Thanks for the input, my Cube is just too slow and I finally needed to upgrade. It is a profound testament however, that I was still able to use a 7 year old computer (and still could), try that with a 7 year old windoze POS! By the way I love the new keyboard on the iMac. The best that I have ever used.

The best Mac I ever had was a Powerbook G4. The Intel Macs may be faster, have more features and do more things, but they are not the polished systems that the PPC's were.

Apr 07, 08 - 06:25 pm Comment from: Rainer

@twodales

7 year old PC would be something like early P4 or late P3.
Incidentially, the current Merom/Penryn Core2Duo design is based largely on Intels P3 Tualatin design.
Only the coming Nehalem architecture will bring something "really new".
Todays C2Ds are just Tualatin + more cores + multimedia-extensions (and bigger caches, of course - cache is king in Intel-land)

So, a (good) seven year old PC would be almost as fast as an early Intel MacMini, IMO.
Not necessarily in benchmarks, but in everyday use, it would not be easily detectable. It would be slower, yes, but not as much as one might expect.

The intel laptops are light years ahead of the G4's. I'm still using the last version of the 12" G4 but my wife and kids have moved to the Macbook Pros. It is hard to use theirs and then come back and use mine. It's like going from a Mercedes to a Ford truck. ( Not knocking Ford)
And as soon as I can I will be upgrading.

@ MidWest Mac:

I agree with you 110% and I think you nailed it. Well done.

Apr 07, 08 - 08:17 pm Comment from: Ray

Is Apple about to break Mickey D's record for selling Macs?

Just my $0.02

Apr 07, 08 - 09:03 pm Comment from: Spark

"success this quarter may be a result of the popularity of the MacBook Air,"

I thought the MB Air is a sales failure. At least that's the way it is reported. "No one will buy it. Too expensive. Too slow. Not enough ports. No DVD drive. No replaceable battery." It's too bad that Apple doesn't break down the Mac sales by models. It will be interesting if they make any specific comments about MB Air sales.

Apr 07, 08 - 09:23 pm Comment from: alansky

From what I've heard, the MacBook Air is the latest "must-have" darling of the well-heeled Mac set—the iPhone of the Macintosh line, as it were. There are people out there (I can't bring myself to call them "writers") who have made a career out of predicting the failure of each new Apple innovation. It doesn't say much about the rest of us that people like this still have jobs.

I don't like the Intel processors!!!

The reasons is not the processors themselves, but the BAGGAGE Intel, Microsoft (yes Microsoft) and others in the industry have heaped on them.

First off, integrated graphics. It totally sucks for performance and is just designed to push video card companies out of buisness.

Second, EFI and Trusted Computing.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

What is EFI? It's a firmware level so powerful that it even has it's own partition on the hard drive. It can intercept software and OS calls to the hardware, read and write to the hard drive and contact the internet without the OS even knowing about it. Without you even knowing about it. Bypass firewalls and all.

Look at Leopard, it has a firewall that is not completely blocking when you tell it too. What's up with that?

Why is the iPhone still insecure and easily hacked by anyone over the phone lines? Is this and the OS X security issues just a excuse to implement trusted computing even more?

There used to be a time that Apple could be trusted, you knew how your Mac worked and could tighten it down so that it didn't make a peep on the internet. It was rock solid secure.

But now that's not the case, Apple is purposely imposing measures that allow Mac's to be seen and work on the internet without you knowing about it or even being able to do anything about it except pulling the plug.

MDN word: "control" We have lost control over our own computers.

Apr 07, 08 - 11:16 pm Comment from: Cubert

".....clearly the Mac has become the alternative platform of choice for consumers worldwide,"

Leth do it boyth!!!

Apr 07, 08 - 11:17 pm Comment from: Cubert

@twodales,
Dude! Just ask. I've got Leopard on my Cube and it runs sweet.

Apr 07, 08 - 11:21 pm Comment from: Cubert

@twodales,
I hope you either turn your Cube into an iTunes server (I can tell you how to put Leopard on your Cube) or donate it to a school - hopefully one or the other.

Or send it to me!

Apr 08, 08 - 02:37 am Comment from: MacSheikh

Off topic but would really appreciate any help.

What the heck is the difference between (1) creating a folder in my NAS drive, putting all my music in it and then making it my iTunes folder, and (2) using the "iTunes Server" feature of the NAS drive?

I just bought the 320GB NAS drive (it's a "PC" brand that claims it's "Mac Compatible") but the tiny manual sucks.

Thanks in advance!

Apr 08, 08 - 05:51 am Comment from: Hm...

TO: Conspiracy Theorists the World Over

Unite! You have found a leader! And his moniker (so prescient!) is "Mad Mac Maniac."

Apr 08, 08 - 07:25 am Comment from: LinuxGuyAndMacProdigalSon

Apple probably planned to switch to Intel for many years. Motorola and IBM never took the support of Apple seriously and Apple were always screwed by them on support and parts delivery. So quit bitching about Intel. There was no other choice.

And boy, can those Intel guys deliver! Their support for Apple is fabulous. It's a great partnership -- a win/win game.

"Will Apple report another 2-million Mac quarter on April 23rd?"... afraid not

Apr 08, 08 - 02:46 pm Comment from: Ampar

"... afraid not"

Why are you afraid? Does it scare you?