Posts by JaimieV

Just last week

And oddly enough, the comments were full of people pointing out how easy it is to get the drivers and how much of a non-story it was.

And commentards of course, but that always happens on Apple stories.

Take a wider view than "it's an intel PC"

None of these points are backed with any stats - I'm not going to that effort for a Reg comment post for an AC. So, points to consider:

* Mac owners tend to pay more for their kit than PC owners and be prouder of it (fanboi stylee), so tend to keep it longer before replacement.

* PCs often get replaced when they get slow due to Windows cruft, or infestation by malware, or they've just broken. Macs get replaced when they're broken (but often have 3 year warranty so even that can take longer) - or a new shiny! comes along.

* Macs replaced by new Shiny!s get passed down the family or sold, rather than tossed in a cupboard/bin, because they're still worth a lot of cash on eBay etc. So they tend to live on.

* Mac owners are much less likely to go digging into the innards of their kit - because there's nothing to upgrade apart from RAM, maybe HD, and they're often a bit tricky to get into. Less digging by random people = less breakage.

* Mac kit is of sturdier construction than the usual plastic shatterable £250 laptop. It has to be, to partly justify the pricing.

* Older Macs are still viable for running modern software. I know various people still using G3 and G4 iBooks and Powerbooks, kit six or more years old.

* The upgrade cycle can be much slower on kit where no games can be played! It's only very recently that games have come onboard for Mac users, so this may change in future.

Wiens beef is just nonsense. Anyone who really wants to repair a Mac - and can afford the evil prices for the screen and motherboard parts - can do so, with the help of ifixit.com and similar.

And who also loses out?

The buying public. Great.

Be fair,

He's at the tail end of the design phase right now, so there's no build to talk about. That's when the fun stuff happens - like a metre of snow getting sucked in through the failed forced-air traps after the upgrade!

Re-downloading is part of the deal

The Mac App store does indeed let you re-download the same apps.

The iOS App store does as well, by the way.

In both cases you can use the same single purchase on multiple Macs/iOS devices if you sign in the the same store account on each.

MS do make decent mice

but for touch gestures, having a flattish surface like the Apple mouse probably gives a much easier platform to make fingerswipes, even if it is less comfortable. The MS mouse being taller and having a more curved touch surface (with a split in) will interfere with finger movement more, I think.

Shall have to try one and see. £13 for an extra button seems a bit stiff though!

Copyright wouldn't be any better

At least patents expire within a reasonable amount of time.

Or, in a less revisionist manner,

from people who never used MMS, and found that even EDGE web browsing on the original iPhone was considerably faster and better than webbing on a 3G E90 or N95. It sold like hot cakes.

Yes, they do

And they give a tacky 'clack' noise when you tap them with a fingernail. As does my very expensive CFC bicycle. CFCs give no 'reassuringly expensive clunk' sort of effect at all, due to their lightness and stiffness they return a very high-pitched noise.

British flights seem to always do that stub check

while pretty much no other nation's airlines do. It's not a BA-specific thing, they certainly have no monopoly on arrogance, bad service, or losing luggage!

Just swapped my fruit phone

Replaced my 3GS with an iPhone4. The 4 gets much better reception in my low-signal local areas than the 3 does - home, pub and shops, no dropouts at all rather than one/zero bars. Nice. Seems even better than my ancient Nokia 8200, previously the top of the stack round here.