Posts Tagged ‘Fanboys’

Apple Fanboys Are Getting Defensive | Ken's Tech Blog

Source: netbook comparison - Google Blog Search - Tuesday, 13th October 2009, 19:50 GMT
By comparison, piracy rate in North Americs is 21 percent and 35 percent in the European Union. So in Latin America, more than 8 out of 10 copies of software in use are stolen. Here's a loaded question: How many people among the Betanews community use software for which they ... Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell acknowledged that the increase in lower-margin consumer Windows licenses — fed in part by increasing netbook demand — contributed to declines. ...

Netbooks and Fanboys

Source: Un Puits - Saturday, 5th September 2009, 23:21 GMT
I've had one problem since my first laptop died on me a number of months ago - my mom would have to use my newer laptop when she would want to access the internet. To help remedy this issue, I bought a new computer! I use the term "computer" lightly - I bought a netbook. It's small, it's loaded with ...

Bad News, Windows Fanboys: Dell Exec States Return Rates Similar …

Source: Revelations From An Unwashed Brain - Monday, 17th August 2009, 0:04 GMT
While Microsoft officials and spokespeople for some other vendors have asserted that a significantly greater proportion of Linux netbooks are returned than of those shipped with Windows, a senior product marketing manager at Dell says ...

Bad News, Windows Fanboys: Dell Exec States Return Rates Similar

Source: Revelations From An Unwashed Brain - Sunday, 16th August 2009, 23:07 GMT
Lately, the general furor and anticipation over the release to the masses of Windows 7 has had the Windows fanboys salivating, and delivering up stories of how OEMs who deliver Linux are going to stop because of high return rates. These high return rates are ostensibly because the users can’t get Linux to work as they wish, or possibly that the free operating system is simply too hard to work with. An article from down under, on ITWire , quotes a Dell executive as stating flatly that the retu

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