This is completely off-topic here, but your touting of the S9 over the iPod Touch is quite a stretch here. Besides the market speaking for itself, that thing has no search function for music, no full web browser, no games, no email, etc.. It seems to be that it's not even close to as useful as an iPod Touch is. Is the AMOLED screen that important for your music player or are you just being a nerd?
Heck, for something that basically only plays music and retails for $259 for its 32 GB version, I really can't see why anyone would bother. If I wanted a pure music player, I have to say that I'd probably save money and go with the 160 GB iPod classic if I were going to stick with Apple's offerings.
@Solidstate89 Must have been born in 1989 based on his comments! Who actually uses a laptop for performance computing on their laps? And slamming Apple for putting a dedicated copper bus with fan cooling inside of an aluminum case that acts as a secondary heat sink only makes you sound like a fool. I agree that macbook's get warm, but an eager PC tuner will find that cooling the huge flat aluminum surface of the macbook's bottom is actually rather straigh forward. Does your $900 computer express the same degree of mechanical engineering, design and hardware level software optimization as a macbook? Apple has a strategic advantage by controlling both the software and hardware; they can get the hardware to do more with the software. Likewise if you were to own a macbook pro and dual boot windows 7, you would find that they run Windows 7 better than most other notebooks in the same price range. $1200 is not expensive for a quality notebook as I noted earlier several times; that is $3 per day for a year.... As for buying a PMP and then comparing with an Ipod Touch with acts as a MID/PMP/PDA- and has access to the Itunes App library; again this just makes you sound like tool.
Oh and again, for the price premium Apple actually gives its customers something; hundreds of retail stores all over the country where they can go for help and support if something should go wrong; and or to actually shop first person Apple's devices.
And yes people will pay more for something that looks nice and performs well. Some people actually care about aesthetics. A macbook has a clean UI and uncluttered mechanical interface that really set the standard for other hardware vendors.
Your comments have been downranked into oblivion and so have some of mine. But if you are going to shit talk Apple products, at least back up what you are saying with some legitimate critiques.
Ie; things like...
Whats is with the sealed batteries on these things?
Where is the memory expansion ports apple?
Where is the camera on the Ipod Touch?
Likewise that $999 macbook works just fine for most people; especially they use it 90% of the time for writing nonsense posts on Engadget.
So there you have it; apple didn't become so profitable by producing overpriced devices; they became profitable by giving consumers what they want; and people voted with their $.
Since Vista was a total dingleberry, and migrating from XP was not an easy translation; I agree that a lot of mainstream casual computer users told MS and PC vendors to screw that noise and jumped on board with a (reasonably priced considering what you get (not just hardware specs) macbook or macbook pro.....
Likewise the success of the iPhone and iPod Touch speak for themselves; again people voted with their dollars!
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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@Solidstate89
I've seen plenty of PhD's in various fields of physics, chemistry, and other physical sciences that would beg to differ with you, troll.
@Swagger
My Thinkpad would probably start a house fire if left unattended :)
@Solidstate89
This is completely off-topic here, but your touting of the S9 over the iPod Touch is quite a stretch here. Besides the market speaking for itself, that thing has no search function for music, no full web browser, no games, no email, etc.. It seems to be that it's not even close to as useful as an iPod Touch is. Is the AMOLED screen that important for your music player or are you just being a nerd?
Heck, for something that basically only plays music and retails for $259 for its 32 GB version, I really can't see why anyone would bother. If I wanted a pure music player, I have to say that I'd probably save money and go with the 160 GB iPod classic if I were going to stick with Apple's offerings.
@Solidstate89 Must have been born in 1989 based on his comments! Who actually uses a laptop for performance computing on their laps? And slamming Apple for putting a dedicated copper bus with fan cooling inside of an aluminum case that acts as a secondary heat sink only makes you sound like a fool. I agree that macbook's get warm, but an eager PC tuner will find that cooling the huge flat aluminum surface of the macbook's bottom is actually rather straigh forward. Does your $900 computer express the same degree of mechanical engineering, design and hardware level software optimization as a macbook? Apple has a strategic advantage by controlling both the software and hardware; they can get the hardware to do more with the software. Likewise if you were to own a macbook pro and dual boot windows 7, you would find that they run Windows 7 better than most other notebooks in the same price range. $1200 is not expensive for a quality notebook as I noted earlier several times; that is $3 per day for a year.... As for buying a PMP and then comparing with an Ipod Touch with acts as a MID/PMP/PDA- and has access to the Itunes App library; again this just makes you sound like tool.
Oh and again, for the price premium Apple actually gives its customers something; hundreds of retail stores all over the country where they can go for help and support if something should go wrong; and or to actually shop first person Apple's devices.
And yes people will pay more for something that looks nice and performs well. Some people actually care about aesthetics. A macbook has a clean UI and uncluttered mechanical interface that really set the standard for other hardware vendors.
Your comments have been downranked into oblivion and so have some of mine. But if you are going to shit talk Apple products, at least back up what you are saying with some legitimate critiques.
Ie; things like...
Whats is with the sealed batteries on these things?
Where is the memory expansion ports apple?
Where is the camera on the Ipod Touch?
Likewise that $999 macbook works just fine for most people; especially they use it 90% of the time for writing nonsense posts on Engadget.
So there you have it; apple didn't become so profitable by producing overpriced devices; they became profitable by giving consumers what they want; and people voted with their $.
Since Vista was a total dingleberry, and migrating from XP was not an easy translation; I agree that a lot of mainstream casual computer users told MS and PC vendors to screw that noise and jumped on board with a (reasonably priced considering what you get (not just hardware specs) macbook or macbook pro.....
Likewise the success of the iPhone and iPod Touch speak for themselves; again people voted with their dollars!
Put that in your $900 computer....
@Solidstate89
FALSE IQ is rising not going down get your facts straight.