How to justify the 'Apple Tax' in a recession

If you up-side-down the Stocks.app the graph doesn't change their direction (pointing down or up) for revert it you have to "reflect" the graphs ;)

Thanks Robert! Great image.

Now I love my Macs and iPods and such, and believe me, I am an addict there are 3 of each....but calling a Windows laptop "Unusable" and "Impossible to look at" is just feeding the Mac Elitist stereotype a bit isn't it? I mean 90%+ of the world's computing is done on Windows, obviously it's quite usable and beauty is subjective. I'll prefer my Mac Pro to my HP Media Center and my Macbook Pro to my work issued Toshiba Tecra any day....but I wouldn't call the latters pieces of junk or too ugly to look at. Sheesh.

FANBOYS!!!!

Truth is Apple inst that great, your whole brushed aluminum look, old. The white plastic sterile look, old. The Black plastic "I"m uber hip look at me" look, old. Truth is maybe when they came out they might have been cool for a couple of months but now your designs are just plain boring (in my opinion they always were, but hey thats just me). You have 3 looks...thats it, good for you, way to take design to a whole new level
You like to talk about how Macs are so worth it, and are completely oblivious to the fact that it's apple that is boring and un usable, the sheer volume of PC designs renders apples claims of design innovation as quite obvious jealousy. As for the operating system, yeah vista is a colossal cluster FU@K, but XP beats any OSX version any day (Windows 7 is going to slaughter snow leopard), and compare anything you've done with a truly innovative system like Linux (any major distro) and you see just how pathetic Macs really are. I suggest you guys settle in for the long hall as a niche market, because you'll never amount to anything else. And when people who switched get over justifying their intelligence for buying macs and come to terms with their buyers remorse you might not even be that

I thought this was really funny. For a person on the brink of going through this (I work in retail, enough said), I definitely find solace in the little things that get me through the day. But for the love of god, would you people stop taking this seriously? Its not poking fun at the millions of unemployed Americans out there. Its poking fun at the extent of which Apple fans are addicted to Apple products, that even in one of the most troubled financial times in our lifetime, people are still willing to pay top $ for a computer. So chill out!

Hiya, I doctored the poster image for Dan. I can't say I have a high-res version of it, but what I did I posted to Flickr.

http://flickr.com/photos/robertpalmer/3096119676/

great post aha,
1 2 and 4 were great... threes on the edge tho.

we need some more jokes like this coming out of tuaw

I showed this post to a couple friends who recently were sacked. They were not amused.

"Some ARM chips routinely use 10-20 times less power than Intel for similar operations. Battery usage with ARM chips in prospective netbooks could be measured in days, not hours – much like smartphones."

Here's to hoping that they will incorporate something like with they MBP graphics into their laptops.. Have one of these running when you only check emails and stuff and switch to a powerful Intel for games, photo and video editing etc..

why buy a new one? keep the old macbook and maybe step down one system version or two and there you are. Most modern setups, be it mac or pc, have more than adequate power to do simple office and internet use. Even desktop publishing or web design can be done with older software versions and one would only need new machines for 3D or video editing use. If there's no cash around, there's no justification for buying this year's line of Apple (or PC) machines.