Dell: We Have Thinnest 15'' on the Planet, If You Don't Compare It Against Every

[pacapaca]

Meh just take a dremel and shave off that 0.02".

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]del35[/nom]After a certain point thinness matters not. What matters is hardware performance. Tis precisely why iCrapple puts out so much, well, CRAP.[/citation]
Actually it's iCRAP. With a pretty Apple logo on it.

 

[husker]

"Dell: We Have Thinnest 15'' on the Planet"

- That's what she said.

 

[Vladislaus]

Strange I never heard any uproar when in 2008 Apple presented the first macbook air and stated it was the thinnest laptop in the world when the 1998 Mitsubishi Pedion was 0.04 inches thinner than the macbook air.

 

[DSpider]

I must have misread "We Have Thinnest 15" on the Planet". I thought they were talking about their genitals.

 

[asdfghjkl]

[citation][nom]roymustang[/nom]The Dell quote says thinnest 15" PC and a Mac is technically not a PC (even though they have PC parts now). So I don't have a problem with them saying that.[/citation]
Wrong. Absolutely wrong. Macs are personal computers too. You can have a Linux-PC too. Like thomaseron wrote, using the term "PC" if you mean "Windows" is outdated.

 

[NuclearShadow]

Dell: We Have Thinnest 15'' on the Planet

I'm not sure if that is something to be proud of.

 

[beayn]

Mac's own advertising campaign distinguishes the two. "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC." so the people claiming that Macs are PCs are obviously making excuses here.

 

[beayn]

[citation][nom]asdfghjkl[/nom]Wrong. Absolutely wrong. Macs are personal computers too. You can have a Linux-PC too. Like thomaseron wrote, using the term "PC" if you mean "Windows" is outdated.[/citation]

Tell that to Apple's own advertising campaign when they have the guy come out and say "I'm a Mac" and the other "I'm a PC." If Apple distinguishes between the two terms, then they are different. You can't suddenly say Macs are PCs and start telling people they're "Absolutely wrong" when clearly they are not. Perhaps you should send Apple an email and argue with them about the terminology instead.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]roymustang[/nom]The Dell quote says thinnest 15" PC and a Mac is technically not a PC (even though they have PC parts now). So I don't have a problem with them saying that.[/citation]
...is this a joke or a slam [citation][nom]sully101[/nom]Mac has spent millions of dollars stating they are mac and everything else is PC, based upon thier advertising they do not want to be considered PC and that fine with me and it seems HP as well.. so whatever real world definition of a PC we all agree upon is it's apparent Apple does not want to be a part of that title.of a Mac[/citation]
It is called marketing. PC is a PC...regardless of whoever pays millions of dollars to say otherwise.

 

[bystander]

[citation][nom]mayne92[/nom]PC is a PC...regardless of whoever pays millions of dollars to say otherwise.[/citation]

This is also marketing. Everyone is well aware that there are "PC"s and Mac's. Everyone knows what is meant when they call it a PC. You know what they mean, so why on earth is it so damn important that they use the old school meaning of the acronym?

You fanboys are ridiculous.

I say it means Politically Correct from now on. It was politically correct(PC) of them to put an * to make sure we all knew what computers they were comparing.

 

[malphas]

[citation][nom]TheDragonGuy[/nom]It's pretty cut and dry, people. PC = personal computer. There are precisely zero Apple computers that do NOT fit this bill. They're all personal computers.And as was stated, this is the thinnest of all personal computers at this size. Dell stated nothing wrong and even asterisked their statement so people were aware that THEY were aware of the topic.[/citation]
No, it's not cut and dry. Like I explained in my last post, PC is an evolved term from IBM-PC Compatible, that's why the Mac vs PC ads exist. You're trying to change a term by breaking it down into the sum of its parts with no understanding of its history.

 

[Raidur]

[citation][nom]thomaseron[/nom]Technically, PC stands for Personal Computer. A Mac could be personal. This whole Mac vs PC is wrong. It should be Windows vs Mac-OS.[/citation]

They want their customers to believe they are buying an entirely different product and not just an operating system.

They don't want them to know just how ripped they are getting.

Dell is being very misleading though, and if they do mean it literally, as in not a Mac. They are giving Mac more power as an entirely different product.

It's not even a computer anymore! It's a Mac! Just like an Ipod isn't a MP3 player, and an Ipad isn't a tablet.

And for some reason people buy their crap like its gold.

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]rpgplayer[/nom]so a mac book is less than half the thickness of a dime thinner than the dell, big freakin deal.[/citation]
If you gave me the choice between a macbook pro 13 and a macbook air 13, I'd choose the mbp. Who cares about thin when it's not practical?

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]So false advertising is legal as long as u put a "*" next to it and add some fine print?[/citation]

At least they bother. Our dear Mac cultist writer seem to be xxx-ed of that another company uses false marketing, it still holds more truth than most green fruit adds!

 

[pimpsmurf]

Bah. MacOC systems are hardly a PC.

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]Except that Mac OS has nothing to do with Linux.[/citation]

I want what your smoking.. You have a lot of reading to do btw so you can understand why your horridly wrong.

[citation][nom]escogido[/nom]The comment was made about the hardware not the price. And I don't really care about the price, knowing the fact that it will last me 4-6 years, I'm more than willing to spend an extra 600$.[/citation]

4 to 6 years huh.. considering the top of the line hardware in a mac isn't top of the line. You must have really low standards for what a workable computer is in 6 years.

[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]Can anyone tell me why this got voted down?Linux and Mac OS X are both unix-like systems (Mac OS X is actually Unix certified), but they are completely separate developments.[/citation]

Well you kind of hinted at it in your repost there.. But normally when you type obvious factually incorrect information people vote it down.

 

[Guest]

Mac is not a PERSONAL computer, it's SJ's computer as he dictates what you can use.

 

[mihaimm]

[citation][nom]slide43[/nom]voodoo envy 133 with equivalent specs... for around half the price of a macbook air[/citation]
Envy 133 was priced $2099 on 1st delivery. Price got down when nobody wanted it...

[citation][nom]slide43[/nom]Today, a falcon northwest I/O sells for a few hundred dollars less than a macbook air, and has slightly to much better specs depending on how you configure it[/citation]
I/O 13" base = 1310$ (320Gb HDD, Intel GMA)
Air 13" base = 1299$ (128Gb SSD, GF 320M)

 

[DM0407]

If a Mac is a PC then so is every tablet, phone, game system, MP3 player... They are all personal and they are all computers.

 

[kkiddu]

Great, in that case, my 100m run is the faster*

*Sample space used for comparison does not include 4 billion people who're faster than me.

 

[Guest]

You cannot personalize computer hardware or software on a Mac.

 

[Vladislaus]

[nom]Siiimple[/nom]You cannot personalize computer hardware or software on a Mac.[/citation]
You can personalize the software of a mac. You can install windows, linux,...
Even the hardware is customizable, you can change the HDD and Memory.

Also the personal in PC has nothing to do with personalization.

 

[sudeshc]

Dell is great* and this is the first true competitor to apple*

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom][nom]Siiimple[/nom]You cannot personalize computer hardware or software on a Mac.[/citation]You can personalize the software of a mac. You can install windows, linux,...Even the hardware is customizable, you can change the HDD and Memory.Also the personal in PC has nothing to do with personalization.[/citation]

You sir have totally missed that dudes point. And at the same time pretty much proven him right if we are to use your post as a baseline lol. He also never said anything about what the letters meant. He might have been implying though how impersonal macs are. Which in the context he was conveying i 100% agree.