gizmodo.com — How could a company so brazenly challenge Apple have little to no record of actually being a company? We sent the Gizmodo army down there to get pictures of both their supposed addresses, and found that they're as much vaporware as the Phantom Console of yore. Ouch. Looks like your dream of buying a cheap Mac clone will have to wait a while longer.
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billykApr 16, 2008
I think "Gizmodo Army" was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Closed AccountApr 16, 2008
I have two corrections to make to my comment. One is that I meant to type "since 1996" in the first sentence. The other is that the most powerful Mac in 1998 was not the 266MHz G3 AIO, but the 333MHz beige G3 tower that was introduced the previous year. Still, that's not enough to play HD video.
garagepunkApr 16, 2008
"Hardly worth the ridiculous premium." - you mean that OS.X is $129 and Vista $300 ?
daizaruApr 17, 2008
Great, so it's a hoax ha ha... who loses us or them? It's too bad this is a hoax, I was hoping there was a company not afraid to challenge apple.
diafApr 17, 2008
i hate the word giggle. Especially the way you used it. makes me throw up
cthellisApr 17, 2008
You're still in a feedback loop, dude. He already said that OS X existed to make Macs more appealing. If they openly licensed OS X, would that make it MORE or LESS likely that people could purchase non-Apple hardware to get OS X?
fafaforzaApr 17, 2008
You should wake up and smell all the hot air surrounding this thing called the Internet which enables every day people to compete with big conglomerates and internationals.Many many companies use their online presence to portray themselves as bigger than they really are. One place that I worked at did the same. Judging by their site, complete with international maps of fiber links, you'd think they were huge. Meanwhile it was a young company with 1000 square feet (not that much) for some colo and dedi space.What would you have like them to put on their site? "Hi, were just 2 guys trying to start a business so that we can be successful in life, and you probably don't wanna use us for hardware as we couldn't provide 24/7 phone support and warrant"?If you ever decide to start a business, you'll use every advantage you can think of.
oldhickApr 17, 2008
I don't recall saying that business don't lie or have never lied or that lying in some way prevents success. I simply said, if you are legitimate in anyway, there is never a NEED to lie.Business continue to succeed through dis-information, manipulation, deceit, etc..., plenty of businesses succeed through hard work, ethical behavior, and genuine honesty. You have a choice on which path you feel comfortable in taking.
dephextwinApr 18, 2008
@VanishingLexThere's this thing called a joke........ ah, forget it.
garagepunkApr 18, 2008
"but you're kidding yourself if you think that it is cheap to run OS X." - a mac mini is 500 bux, works with any screen, so get a screen for a 100 bux = 600 bux, that's cheap where im from, and i never kid myself, i do other things to myself, but never kid.
lazyswissApr 29, 2008
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