Install MAC OS X on Intel PC

This suggestion has me thinking... that this distinction is growing less and less relevant to the PC market every day. If you don't want a combination toy/science fair experiment/laboratory instrument/prototype, then you don't really want a PC at all. You want a laptop, if not a smartphone.

These points make more sense with laptops than PC (they're tough to build yourself to any quality/value, the use cases emphasize reliability and ease of common tasks - they need to function mostly as appliances, not as experimental sandboxes), and even more with a smartphone. Once smartphones are at the point where your average person is comfortable doing word processing, spreadsheets and powerpoint on them (5 years at the outside, I'd reckon), there won't be any reason for anyone to have a PC at all unless they're doing something more custom and demanding (in which case, these sorts of arguments won't apply, or will apply in the opposite direction).

And to that point, Apple has already proven that they're a capable player in that sector with solid technology and relevant outlook. If they didn't insist on charging double what everyone else does for their devices, they'd probably be taking on a dominant position in the smartphone OS sector, instead of rapidly being pushed to the margins by Android.

 

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The thing is that after having toast for years at a time it gets old. Sure if it's the only thing you think you can have for breakfast than you learn to live with it.

But maybe you want pancakes, or a biscuit. That is what the slogon "life without walls", if you want it, they've got it. Jobs can't say the same thing.

 

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Mac laptops have a little timer on them. their batteries are built so that when they go through 'x' number of recharge cycles they turn off forever.

Its from personal experience, the tech guys even admitted to it.

 

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A laptop battery that last less than 1 hour is dead, as far as I'm concerned. Batteries always seem to be the first thing to go in laptops...

But then I tend to favor high-efficiency netbooks that will last for 6+ hours on a charge and weigh less than just the battery in a clunky "desktop replacement" laptop. Actually, I shouldn't use scare quotes - a desktop replacement is exactly what any computer than weighs over 5 pounds is, since it isn't good for anything besides sitting on your desk, where your regular desktop used to be. If you need a backpack to carry it and a power outlet to use it, then it isn't really a "mobile device" in many useful senses...

 

Actually my experience came from my mom's mac laptop where after about 3-5 years the battery refused to work, with no warning whatsoever it just stopped working. When we went to the store they said that on the batteries there is a counter that counts how often you recharge it and at some number I think that was close to 10,000 ish they just shut down permanently and you have to PAY for a new one.

 

interesting that they let laptops on a plane, a little bit of overvolting with a 12 cell lithium ion will blow a hole in the plane.