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“The company, which is struggling with waning consumer sentiment, also projected sales below Wall Street’s estimates during the normally strong holiday quarter,” Dobuzinskis reports. “Chief Executive John Coyne said tablets such as Apple’s iPad — which use flash memory rather than hard-drive storage — will reduce growth in shipments of low-end laptops and netbooks by 10 to 20 percent over the next few quarters.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Very reassuring, John. Bet he just loves the new MacBook Airs.
What about the makers of floppy discs?
What about the makers of floppy discs?
I can’t wait to go all solid state. I’m setting up a 16TB RAID and with the weight of it next to my MacPro, I think the floor is sagging.
Cheers!
I can’t wait to go all solid state. I’m setting up a 16TB RAID and with the weight of it next to my MacPro, I think the floor is sagging.
Cheers!
what about the makers of zip disks and cds and dvds?
what about the makers of zip disks and cds and dvds?
What about the children!!
What about the children!!
You have to love this stuff.
“Apple’s iPad … will reduce growth in shipments of low-end laptops and netbooks by 10 to 20 percent over the next few quarters”.
HOW CAN THIS BE?
• the iPad is not a computer RIGHT?
• the iPad is a niche device RIGHT?
• the iPad is not meeting the talking heads expectations RIGHT?
You have to love this stuff.
“Apple’s iPad … will reduce growth in shipments of low-end laptops and netbooks by 10 to 20 percent over the next few quarters”.
HOW CAN THIS BE?
• the iPad is not a computer RIGHT?
• the iPad is a niche device RIGHT?
• the iPad is not meeting the talking heads expectations RIGHT?
Save the whales.
Save the whales.
Absolutely an incorrect question to ask, ab initio. The iPad is all of these and more, for now, and will become one indelibly ingrained in everyone’s head in three years. The iPads will be the eponymous equal to the “PC” has been for the past 25 years or so. It will be like Hoover is today, or worse yet, Xerox!!!
Absolutely an incorrect question to ask, ab initio. The iPad is all of these and more, for now, and will become one indelibly ingrained in everyone’s head in three years. The iPads will be the eponymous equal to the “PC” has been for the past 25 years or so. It will be like Hoover is today, or worse yet, Xerox!!!
@RLB – Like the iPod is for clueless MP3 player buyers.
@RLB – Like the iPod is for clueless MP3 player buyers.
I like Western Digital hard drives, they’ve been good to Mac users.
As a photographer, hard drive space (lots and lots of it) is very important to me. Flash memory still has a long way to go in terms of price and storage space.
“Apple’s iPad — will reduce growth in shipments of low-end laptops”
At least it’s still growth.
I like Western Digital hard drives, they’ve been good to Mac users.
As a photographer, hard drive space (lots and lots of it) is very important to me. Flash memory still has a long way to go in terms of price and storage space.
“Apple’s iPad — will reduce growth in shipments of low-end laptops”
At least it’s still growth.
Photographers, and others, will still need cheap digital storage, but I suppose we have to concede that our requirements are not mass-market. At least we don’t have to suffer Zips discs, Syquests and MO-optical discs, which promised everything and gave you nothing but grief, with that SCSI interface!! If I could get back the months of my life wasted on trying to solve SCSI conflicts… I’d only be 29 now. Let’s not even mention Jaz drives right now…. I still shudder when it recall the magazine layout that just disappeared in a scratchy sound…
Photographers, and others, will still need cheap digital storage, but I suppose we have to concede that our requirements are not mass-market. At least we don’t have to suffer Zips discs, Syquests and MO-optical discs, which promised everything and gave you nothing but grief, with that SCSI interface!! If I could get back the months of my life wasted on trying to solve SCSI conflicts… I’d only be 29 now. Let’s not even mention Jaz drives right now…. I still shudder when it recall the magazine layout that just disappeared in a scratchy sound…
I had about every Bernoulli box made including the last debacle, the Bernoulli Houdini. Shit disappeared constantly.
I like the sound of solid state. Might just have pick up one of those new Airs.
I had about every Bernoulli box made including the last debacle, the Bernoulli Houdini. Shit disappeared constantly.
I like the sound of solid state. Might just have pick up one of those new Airs.
I hope Western Digital is able to break into the SSD market more than they have, as I’ve always found them to be a great company with consistently high-quality products.
I hope Western Digital is able to break into the SSD market more than they have, as I’ve always found them to be a great company with consistently high-quality products.
Anyone need a buggy whip? Great deals are right around the corner.