At LAST! Dell gets its own rumours site
Poor Dell - there they are, dominating the world of computing (well, PCs) and yet nobody has taken the trouble to set up a rumour site devoted to what they might offer next.
Until now.
It had to happen. Roll over Nic Ciarelli, Dellrumors is in town. (As you’ll guess from the spelling, it’s American. But then, so is Dell.)
And for a remarkable review of the Mac mini, see this online review. Mmm mm mm mm, as the Crash Test Dummies used to say.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- "Dell vs the Chinese", and Neil Mc on the iPod (5 December 2004; score: 66.9%)
- Dell shuts customer support forums.. because they're full of criticism (13 July 2005; score: 64.63%)
- Dell explains why it killed customer forums (sort of); and that Shuttle delay in full (14 July 2005; score: 56.74%)
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February 4th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
The Mac mini review is such a load of garbage! I mean, I thought one of the reasons people bought Macs is because it doesn’t run Windoze XP with all its security holes? I tried installing something on my mum’s laptop last night, and you actually have to download a separate package to decompress .zip files … not so with the Mac. And I had quite a bit of difficulty actually finding the file I’d downloaded, so I had to download it again …
And how exactly is OS X “stripped down”? It comes with everything Windoze comes with, and more … like a decent operating system and file-system underneath.
February 4th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
“For example, there is no Outlook Express for email, but Apple includes a program called Mail, which is like a stripped-down email client that can’t execute scripts or open attachments without user intervention. Personally I find it annoying, but if someone doesn’t depend on emailing their coworkers vbscripts like I do, they might be able to get by with it.”
Superb!
February 4th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Yusuf, you didn’t look at the Dell rumour site, did you..?
February 4th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
Irony … it’s great isn’t it
February 4th, 2005 at 4:44 pm
Apple Keynote speech = Dell rumours then Dell products
February 4th, 2005 at 5:32 pm
As Timbo wrote above,that Mac mini article is pure tongue-in-cheek irony. It is a pro (not anti) Mac mini review! Get it?
February 4th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
Hey, you Brits do not know how to spell :-) It’s “rumors”.
February 4th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Uh… did you read the Mac mini “review?” Its satire. The whole site is satire. Go to the parent website and take a look!
February 4th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
People, poster #8 is right. The whole site is humor–made up to be funny. Please don’t get all tied up over satire!! OK, you are free to not find something as “funny”, that is always your opinion and option, but don’t flame a humor piece as if it were real.
I personally found their entire site to be a funny read and I enjoyed reading many of the article submissions. To each, his own.
February 4th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
Damn, they got me. I wrote a very nice but condescending message to the “author” warning him of the hate mail he was about to receive. They got me good.
Hell, its not as funny an article now as when I thought the guy was serious.
February 4th, 2005 at 10:31 pm
Dont you guys know already the 2 golden rules of the computer world:
- if its windoze, its shit
- if its a windoze user, he’s an idiot
Winshit users deserve what they get. I mean they’re paying for their stupidity right? Let em enjoy it
Case closed.
February 5th, 2005 at 6:18 am
Hey guys! I’m glad some of you appreciated the humor behind DellRumors.com. It’s all tongue-in-cheek fun. :)
February 6th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Go look again, Satire. Not very good satire - IMHO, but satire it is. The review on the Mini is so abviously full of errors and then there is the article by the little girl with a new mooslim friend and so on.
February 6th, 2005 at 11:03 pm
Why not hand it to Apple Computer? They design (elegantly) all of their products. They design (elegantly and state of the art) their own operating system. They design and ride (with grace and elegance) their own road to success, and they also plot the most difficult path of innovation and vision for those who care to follow.
Yep, they aren’t the cheapest. But the Mac Mini offers the rest of the world the chance to involve and revel in its smooth and elegant experience.
Price & marketing, Dell (Capitalism at its best)
Innovation , style, simplicity, Apple (In Constant Pursuit of Perfection)
Both American ideas work and make money. What the F- - -? They are both winners. Why wouldn’t you work both games? Heck, you live in America ! ! ! If you can’t afford it, that’s a personal problem.
February 6th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
I don’t live in America. And I spell it “rumours”.
February 7th, 2005 at 1:13 am
Jerry — Ask anyone outside of America what football. Oh and I picked up a book on American history and I finished reading it before my mate could finish reading his comic. [Tch - enough rabid side-ism already, people - CA]
February 7th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Keep in mind, this is written by someone who knows nothing about the Mac platform, and as such, it is full of errors and misinformation. For starters, his statement that Apple’s marketing claims it is smaller than a pack of gum and weighs less than four quarters is wrong - that is Apple’s marketing for the iPod Shuffle, not the mini.
Second, I think it’s misleading to criticise the lack of PCI slots, parallel ports, PS/2 ports, serial ports, drive bays and floppy drives. It comes with USB2, Firewire, and ethernet ports, plus it can drive digital or analog displays right out of the box. Jim, how often do you use floppy drives or serial ports? Need a second drive - get a firewire or USB hard drive. I don’t think there are too many people nowadays buying new PC’s and hooking up old PS/2 or serial components, or buying parallel printers. And the eMachines computer is “equally stylish?” In whose universe?
Third, since when is a unit’s quietness a liability? They obviously didn’t see the little green light on the front that indicates the machine is running - but hey, they’re the PC techs. I’d be scared if I was a PC user that relied on them for support. Wow.
Fourth, there is no “stripped-down” version of OSX. There is a server version, but OSX is a full-fledged operating system, and you get Unix running under it and the Classic OS available within OSX as added bonuses, so you’re getting three complete OS’s with a Mac. OSX is not comparable to WinCE, it compares to WinXP. And the “autistic children” remark? Just uncalled for.
Regarding software:
1) I don’t use Mail much myself, and my understanding is that, especially in the Windows world, having your e-mail client automatically execute scripts can be veerrry bad. And OSX comes with a scripting utility called Applescript.
2) I believe that every new Mac comes with one year .Mac subscription, which includes free MacAffee anti-virus program and free updates for that year.
3) OS maintenance under OSX is simple, consisting mostly of repairing disk permissions using the included Disk Utility. And the reviewer simply has no comprehension how the Mac OS works when he complains of a lack of “registry cleaner.” There IS NO REGISTRY in OSX, so why would you need a registry cleaner?
4) “I would expect a Windows PC to get slow and unstable if you can’t perform routine maintenance on it.”
5) There are first-person shooters (Medal of Honor, First to Fight, Unreal Tournament, Doom, …..), weather utilities (I am using one called Meteo right now), there are plenty of web and e-mail enhancers (Apple.com/OSX/Applications), two password utilities (Keychain Access and Keychain First Aid), and office applications (the semi-MS-compatible AppleWorks). I have installed various versions of MS Office on all our Macs, including OSX-native MS Office, so I wonder if he just did something wrong or bought the Windows version of Office and then wondered why it wouldn’t install.
6) The IE icon is in the dock, OSX’s version of the Taskbar. Just look. And there is no c:\applications folder, just an Applications folder (though I knew what he was talking about.
All in all, it seems that he and his crew did no research before buying a new, never-before used platform. Someone who only used Macs that then switched to a Windows system would have a similarly difficult time at first.
Finally, my jaw just dropped when I read the last paragraph, which made me think the whole article was a joke. Suggesting using child labor to lower the cost of a computer? What a selfish, elitist, cruel person this Jorge is!
February 7th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
Uhhh, s#@t. I should have read the posts before I posted mine. Well, maybe someone can point out any errors I made anyway.
Chris