There’s the old story about the two management trainees in the woods, surprised by a bear. The two of them take off, but one stops to change into running shoes. The other says, “you’ll never outrun a bear.” The other replies, “I don’t have to outrun the bear: I only have to outrun you.”
New Mac:
I suppose Apple doesn’t have too much to worry about, most people who’ve gotten used to an OS X laptop aren’t going to be driven back to Windows because it runs a little faster. But I’m not most people; I use this sucker for heavy lifting, and as soon as there’s some x64-based meat-grinder running Solaris that turns on instantly after sleep and and anti-aliases well and Just Works with whatever wifi, and doesn’t make me download drivers to do basic stuff, I may be outta here. Unless of course, Apple manages to get their act together and start shipping laptops that are delightful, not merely adequate.
So will Apple keep making hardware that sucks less than the other guys? That’s the real question. There may be some platonic ideal — What Tim Wants — that’s worth striving for, but in the here and now, computer makers just need to make their stuff better than the other guy, which in a world with MSFT and DELL, ain’t exactly impossible.
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