Steve Jobs Ranked 43rd on Forbes 400 List of Richest Americans

[AidenShaw]

My Macbook has fine battery life if I'm just surfing the web but when I'm working on music in Logic it chews up battery like you wouldn't believe.

That's pretty much the same for every system - if you get all four cores (two if it's a MacBook) running full speed, it takes a lot of power.

One Latitude that I have runs from 6 hours (surfing/mail with LCD at 50%) to just over an hour (installing operating systems in VMs while compiling Visual C++ code).

Would you rather that it be dog-slow in Logic for 5 hours?

 

[oban14]

That's pretty much the same for every system - if you get all four cores (two if it's a MacBook) running full speed, it takes a lot of power.

One Latitude that I have runs from 6 hours (surfing/mail with LCD at 50%) to just over an hour (installing operating systems in VMs while compiling Visual C++ code).

Would you rather that it be dog-slow in Logic for 5 hours?

It's more a lament on battery life in general. The advances we've seen in batteries seem abysmal when contrasted against the advances in CPU/graphics/hard drive space/whatever.

 

[RebootD]

Only because he has a nagging wife who thought it would improve his public image. Left to his own decisions he almost certainly wouldn't have bothered.

Ladies and Gents, with this I concede to blind ignorance. You win.

Bill Gates is nothing but a money grubbing, idea stealing, brainless mongoloid who built his empire upon shady practices, lack of innovation, and dumb luck who happened to marry, by pure coincidence, a woman who was overbearing and nagged him into starting a multi-billion dollar foundation for which he cares nothing about while he swims in sea of 50 Billion greenbacks (which he doesn't deserve and should be immediately sent to Steve Jobs, the true innovator) while laughing at the underprivileged.

I stand corrected. My apologies for trying to be logical before, it is much easier to join the mob.

 

[SAIRUS]

Just like any typical thread here: a fanboy will defend his love at any cost. Guess I should put the obligatory "grow up" comment or should I put some sort of "well it's their product and they can adjust it anyway they want" comment? It's pretty sad and predictable.

Wahwahwhwh that time could of been being better productive.

 

[skunk]

And yes, I do run my own business, and no I don't charge over-inflated prices.

I don't charge "over-inflated prices" either, but I certainly charge as much as I can get.

 

[Droid13]

Oh no!

Ladies and Gents, with this I concede to blind ignorance. You win.

I stand corrected. My apologies for trying to be logical before, it is much easier to join the mob.

And another rational poster bites the dust.

Seriously, this thread has got way too heated over essentially nothing - the people on that list have more money than the average person by a huge margin. Numbers like $3 billion are beyond real comprehension. They're rich. Whoopee. And it is nice that some of them use their billions to help those less fortunate than themselves. Nothing wrong with that. Others have climbed the list - good for them!

The rest of the stuff about who created/copied/stole/programmed/designed/cheated or what have you, at the end of the day, doesn't really affect any of us as consumers. We have a want/need for an item, we look at the market and we buy what we like and can afford. End of. There's no point in the modern marketplace in being loyal to a brand or company or defending them unless you are employed or contracted by them. Buying Product X does not mean you have to be attack those who buy Product Y. And as for spreading misinformation...

There is certainly no need to belittle the charitable activities of anyone just because they make a rival product.

Or maybe I am missing something?

 

[sorchard]

To Apple's credit, their hardware isn't as prone to failure and their notebooks have excellent battery life given the machine's power.

My Thinkpad (which cost half the price btw) is a whole lot more rugged than my white plastic MacBook is. It didn't come with a wonky hinge out of the box (and got wonkier over the months), and its palmrest didn't chip, and its DVD drive didn't break.

The only good thing I can say about my MB is that while it's 18 or so months old, the battery life is still excellent. That was one of the reasons I tried it and it's very nice. I'm still going to go back to Lenovo (because of the above, they offer more features and their ON-SITE support and accidental damage insurance is cheaper than "go to the Apple Store 60 miles away to drop it off and pick it up" AppleCare).

 

[cloudblood84]

And another rational poster bites the dust.

Seriously, this thread has got way too heated over essentially nothing - the people on that list have more money than the average person by a huge margin. Numbers like $3 billion are beyond real comprehension. They're rich. Whoopee. And it is nice that some of them use their billions to help those less fortunate than themselves. Nothing wrong with that. Others have climbed the list - good for them!

The rest of the stuff about who created/copied/stole/programmed/designed/cheated or what have you, at the end of the day, doesn't really affect any of us as consumers. We have a want/need for an item, we look at the market and we buy what we like and can afford. End of. There's no point in the modern marketplace in being loyal to a brand or company or defending them unless you are employed or contracted by them. Buying Product X does not mean you have to be attack those who buy Product Y. And as for spreading misinformation...

There is certainly no need to belittle the charitable activities of anyone just because they make a rival product.

Or maybe I am missing something?

Well said, sir.

Microsoft pays my bills, I use iPod/MBP AND I have a Palm Pre.

We all play along quite well

 

[zrankin]

nice

Gate's foundation is pretty amazing... not only does 35 billion of Gate's money fund it but 85% of Warren Buffett's fortune goes to it...

 

[silentnite]

My hat goes off to both of these gentlemen. They have been very successful at what they do. I'd love to have my name any where on that list some day.

 

[Sherwinator]

I wish I had $50,000, let alone billions lol.

 

[Eric S.]

I wish I had $50,000, let alone billions lol.

If you had $50 thousand you'd wish you had $50 million. That's the way it works.