PC World: "Do you pay dearly for the Apple logo, as Microsoft's Steve Ballmer claims? Or are Apple laptops really a good value, even though they aren't the least expensive models on the market?
To find out, last week I compared the least expensive Apple MacBook, the $999 white model, to two reasonably similar Windows laptops costing about the same amount. My goal was to see what you'd get, in terms of features and specs, if you spent $1000 on a MacBook versus the same amount spent on a Windows machine."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I don't think anyone should be surprised by the results. I have nothing against Apple, however its hard to recommend a similarly priced Apple over a superior speced PC. Aesthetics and lack of monster computer viruses (like the conflicker) is a bonus. Usability is subjective.
With that said, "Apple tax" is real folks.
Edit: I should give Apple more credit than I did. It's become mainstream in the the four years since I was a freshman in college. As a senior it seems like the defacto laptop in many of classes. 5 years and 2 computers later, perhaps I should make my next computer an Apple. Maybe...
Then again I'm waiting for Nvidia's Ion laptop and/or next gen netbooks...so maybe not.
I am used to Windows and to re-learn how to hack a system and stuff would be more trouble than it's worth. I'll stick to my Dell XPS M1730.
4000$+ and I'm sure it's one of the top of the line laptops with all the bells and whistle and I can play all high end PC games.
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate Edition SP1, 64-bit & Win XP Pro SP3
19 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA HD
Crimson Red
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
Size: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (10 00RPM)
NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual GeForce® 9800M GT with 1GB GDDR3 Memory
CD / DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW Drive)
3 Year Return to Depot Service and Technical Support
Mac are the best built Laptops around and value for money you will also have less problems than the other 2 laptops and the os is miles better than anything Microsoft does
as much as i would love to suport aple i really dont have d funds after buying my ps3 at launch and an 800euro tv for it.
Monkey... I am a professional. MACS ARE TRASH. I Do this for a living.. i am a game and simulation developer... my company is partners with crytek... lol... dont tell me im ignorant... Tell me what facts you have to back up your statements about macs doing graphics better... macs are a joke. Your one of those people mac is laughing at yelling "sucker!!!" lol
Your saying your majoring in digital design.. i wanna know what school so i know never to hire someone from there. Im someone in the industry. Your some punk kid who doesnt know what they are talkn about monkey521
Oh and htere is no way illustrator and photoshop run on something better with less processing power... and much less graphics power... your living somewere about 2 decades ago.
Oh and monkey... u also said u play crysis on your mac... that u put windows on it lol... ok .. u went to a lot of extra work to do that... I ask u now what graphics card do u have? and what frame rate do u run crysis at... so i can laugh. Because no higher end graphcis cards exist for mac... not like they do on a pc... I mean with the imacs u can get an nvidia gt 130 lol..... that is the funniest thing on other... while pcs get geforce 260s gtx for $150 hahahha that runs crysis at 50 fps on ultra high at 1900 res with widescreen and aa