Re: Apple has a lousy sense of humor...

Edwin whined:

And why would you need a usb hub and external drive? 4-usb2 ports on
the current should handle most anyones needs,

Well, lets see.... USB printer, USB camera, USB flash drive, USB
keyboard, USB mouse, USB scanner...oops, that's six... which two is it
that "most any one" leaves off, Lloyd? The mouse and the keyboard,
perhaps?


Edwin has unfortunately forgotten that the standard Mac keyboard has
two USB ports on it, which means that there's actually enough ports
available for his strawman.


Granted, if the buyer goes "high end" with a wireless keyboard & mouse,
we would technically be short one USB port until we remember that there
is a Firewire port, and that high end buyers know that Scanners get
roughly a 30% I/O performance boost by switching, so for the informed
buyer, there's still no problem (ie, "no need for an external hub").

Similarly, no high end user would be found dead not using Firewire to
hook up an external HD, and quality external HD's have two FW ports to
permit them to daisy-chain, so an external HD (or 2 or 3) could be
added to this strawman configuration without encountering any
additional port problems.



My PC came with 7 USB ports in addition to its 9-in-1 media reader that
needs one of the Mac Mini's fewer USB ports, if you pay extra to add it...

....its a whopping $29 for a D-Link USB 2.0 7-port hub.


Please explain why this such a big concern: it can't be because of
form factor because you've already accepted the standard full sized PC
case. Perhaps its because $30 is the net take-home pay for almost a
full shift down at Wendy's burger emporium? ;-)



... and the internal drive is
just fine for the market the machine is designed to fit.

That would be the market for stupid people who're happy to pay just
as much for a small, slow HD as they would for a fast, large HD.


Care to show the world any contemporary Dell, HP, Gateway, IBM/Lenovo
or Compaq laptop computers that uses a 3.5" hard drive?

Sorry, but they don't exist in the marketplace, because people aren't
willing to pay less for more I/O performance when it functionally
destroys the desigh purpose of the product...you would be equally (and
spectacularly) unsuccessful in complaining about motorcycles under the
premise that they suck at transporting sheets of 4'x8' plywood.


In YA example of Edwin whining instead of doing actual product
research, Apple did upgrade the HD; its now one of the new 5400rpm 2.5"
SATA drives, which as per techreport.com's WorldBench overall
performance summary, this class of drives overall performance is
roughly 95% the performance of a 7200rpm 3.5" Barracuda despite being
in a smaller, much lower power, form factor.


Care to try to swing for "Strike 3" by complaining about the optional
dongle modem? The fastball coming dead over the plate is in form of
the many sub-$25 DSL broadband offers that are replacing dial-up,
including Verizon's basic DSL which is now down to $15/month.

Whoooooooooooooooooooosh!


Next batter.


-hh

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