12-22-2009, 06:50 PM
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I'm nuts for the place
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: Andrew
Location: The City of BOTL-erly Love
Posts: 2,684
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Re: Buying a new laptop- Apple?
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Originally Posted by 357
I'm sure all the beta max owners felt the same way. Beta max claimed to be better, smaller, etc. At first it held its niche market. Soon less and less titles were released on beta max. It wasn't long after that it became obvious; the world had deemed it irrelevant...
...This is just one of the pains of using an OS that the world has deemed irrelevent...
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Year -- Net Sales (Mil USD)
2002 -- 5,247
2003 -- 6,207
2004 -- 8,279
2005 -- 13,931
2006 -- 19,315
2007 -- 24,006
2008 -- 32,479
Irrelevant? Niche market?
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Originally Posted by AD720
As someone who does run a quote/unquote "hackintosh" I would love to know the method to get OS X running on any off the shelf laptop, such as the $449.99 Toshiba satellite, that gets all of the components working, including the wireless card, audio I/O, etc that a regular end user can do. (besides netbooks)
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Also this was not a totally hypothetical question.
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Last edited by AD720; 12-22-2009 at 06:55 PM.
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