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cee
Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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 Posted Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:25 pm |
| jpembroke wrote: | | lost-time wrote: | | If apple did MTBs then they'd be way overpriced, not compatible with any other makes and you'd have to send them away just to replace even the simplest of things.... |
Not compatible? What? Do you mean like SRAM 1:1? Or do you mean that you wouldn't be able to ride them on the same trails as other bikes. The Mac/PC compatibility argument is a myth: they network together just fine and Macs run MS Office. That's about 99% of computer users catered for.
Oh, and I fitted a new hard drive to a Macbook this week. You just unclip the battery from the base and pop the hard drive out. It took me about 5 minutes. If Apple made MTBs they'd weigh f**k all, would have automatic transmission, and voice activated lock-out.
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Hey... I think the compatibility thing is about kit for your apple.
So if apple made bikes, they would have apple brakes, apple cranks, apple bar and stem, apple hubs, wheels. Parts from other manufacturers would not fit.
Now the various apple bits would probably work somewhere between quite and extremely well, but the choice of different parts would be very limited to say the least.
However...this could easily change with Macs now running on intel chipsets.
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jpembroke
Joined: 10 Nov 2005
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Location: Cheltenham
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Posted Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:36 pm |
Oh, OK. That's actually a fair point well made. Umm, damn.
I still like the idea of voice-activated lockout.
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prophet_1000
Joined: 21 Sep 2007
Posts: 301
Location: Staffordshire
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fumps
Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 215
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:03 am |
I know deep down that if i was to buy one of them i would be dissapointed but ......i still want one. cant work out why.
Just ....really pretty ....really really pretty !!!
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ride_whenever
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 8174
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:43 pm |
Have people seen this?
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prophet_1000
Joined: 21 Sep 2007
Posts: 301
Location: Staffordshire
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allyharp
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 51
Location: Glasgow
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Posted Wed Apr 9, 2008 10:50 am |
If Apple did mtbs = Cannondale ??
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Mac-Guru
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
Posts: 19
Location: Essex
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Posted Wed Apr 9, 2008 10:11 pm |
I worked for IBM traveling the globe fixing PCs and getting the damn things to talk to each other.
Then I spent 1 week in a Mac department at Barclays Bank.
Two weeks later I quit and got a job at a Media agency....
Seven years in I still haven't touched a PC.
The mac just works.....
http://www.thetrashsociety.com/bits/the_bike.html
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Megatron-UK
Joined: 09 May 2008
Posts: 76
Location: Durham
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Posted Sat May 24, 2008 5:41 pm |
Apples are no longer Macs. They're Apple branded PC's.
The insides of Apple hardware are no longer the expensive, custom kit (ECC ram, NuBus, PPC processors, SCSI disk subsystems etc.) that they used to be. They're no more special than your average Dell or HP. It's just that Apple wrap the whole lot up in a shiny, white or aluminium case.
Take a typical Apple laptop and you have:
Realtek network chip (cheap)
Intel chipset and CPU
Integrated Intel graphics and sound
bog standard IBM/Hitachi 2.5" sata drives
The only custom Apple kit in there is the motherboard, which is designed to fit whatever case they use. Exactly the same as any other PC manufacturer does.
The one difference between them and any other PC is the firmware they use instead of a BIOS.
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saxabar
Joined: 08 Jun 2007
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Posted Tue May 27, 2008 7:14 pm |
I guess it'd also be interesting to ponder what a laptop would look like if made by Yorkshire's Orange!
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mort
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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Posted Thu Jun 5, 2008 12:17 pm |
This is worth a watch,
Macbook air
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Lemon Eddy
Joined: 08 Feb 2008
Posts: 36
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Posted Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:38 pm |
| saxabar wrote: | | I guess it'd also be interesting to ponder what a laptop would look like if made by Yorkshire's Orange! |
It would be running a 486 processor, have a floppy disk rather than a CD, and have an operating system inherited from the BBC model B. It's possible that the casing would be made from brass, and the keyboard whittled from teak. It would cost considerably more than offerings from Dell or Sony. In short, on paper it would look like an absolute pig.
And yet it would still give the finest user experience of any computer ever, despite all rational expectation. Owners would rave over how much time they'd spent with a mad grin on their face. Their reliability would be beyond reproach, but anyone who'd ever had an incident would then bore you with the tale of how they'd called for tech support 'so the guy asked what serial number it was, then shouted across the workshop "Oi Dave, one of your one's here" and he fixed it in 2 minutes flat!'
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DoctorBobrick
Joined: 01 Aug 2008
Posts: 111
Location: Sheffield, UK
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Posted Sun Aug 3, 2008 10:59 am |
I hate Apple's logo, I hate Apple.
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saxabar
Joined: 08 Jun 2007
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Posted Sun Aug 3, 2008 12:54 pm |
Lemon Eddy; Classic, love it! 
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