Word: macs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dick?…Dicky? You awake?” “Ah, here.” “Alright, that’d seem to be everyone—down to business. The wheels are coming off the wagon, boys. Our man Mac looks more and more like a hack: He’s changing his mind every three days, his running matethough a looker—comes across as a little…light in the skills department, and the pair of them have looked spent for coupla weeks...
...Make A Laptop Stronger, Lighter and Cheaper By Carving It Out of A Block of Aluminum. This technological feat was pioneered on the earlier superlight MacBook Air and from this day forward (until we reach the Glass Singularity, I guess) will be standard fare on all Mac laptops. Jony Ive, design boss and Apple's second-most important man, explained: "Rather than start with a thin piece of aluminum and add multiple parts for structure, we start with a thick piece of aluminum." The frame, or "unibody" that results after much drilling, cutting and buffing is so gorgeous that Jobs...
...didn't see was the rumored $800 Apple laptop; Apple kept its price points high, with the high-end MacBook Pro starting at $1,999, and the consumer-friendly MacBook starting at $1,299. That could be a risk in these consumer-cautious times, but the rate of Mac sales has exceeded the growth rate of PC sales for the past four years, despite Apple's higher prices. And by commanding (and getting) that higher price, its revenue has soared. According to Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, "one out of every three dollars spent in retail [on computers...
Apple sold some 2.5 million Macs last quarter, the most ever. Cook argued that customers flock to Apple simply for its products. He also credited Apple's snappy advertising campaign and seductive retail stores, where more than 400,000 people enter daily. He even gave a backhanded thanks to Microsoft, saying that the company's much maligned Vista operating system drove users to Apple. "I think it's fair to say that Vista hasn't lived up to everything Microsoft has said it would," Cook claimed. "And consequently it's opened doors for a lot of people to switch...
...second question of the debate - a fellow named Oliver Clark wanted to know how the Wall Street bailout would help his friends who were in trouble. McCain's answer was all over the place and obscure in a classic Washington way; he detoured into blaming Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and pointing his finger at Obama and "his cronies" for supporting those two incomprehensible institutions. Obama, by contrast, brought the bailout home in simple language: "Well, Oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. Right now, the credit markets are frozen up, and what...