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Originally posted by plainsong
It all sounds good except for that marketing spin of "bluetooth ready"
Isn't any computer with a usb port "bluetooth ready"? |
Bluetooth support is built into the OS, and the current Macs and PowerBooks also have Bluetooth antennas built into the casing, providing much better range than most of the USB adapters.
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And while on the subject, Mac's bluetooth support is sadly lacking. Lack of the usual bluetooth profiles used by PDAs and such. They basically only support certain bluetooth phones. |
That's not really Apple's fault; Bluetooth isn't really mature yet. But Bluetooth is SO MUCH BETTER on the Mac than on Windows. If you've ever actually tried to use Bluetooth under Windows, you know exactly what I mean. (Just check out all the rants by Windows columnists about how "bad" Bluetooth is.) We have a T68i, and a friend has a Tungsten; both work flawlessly with OS X. Give Bluetooth some time, and it will get better on both platforms.
(BTW, Bluetooth is awesome. I love the fact that walking in range of my computer with my cel starts up iTunes, starts playing music, and syncs my contacts between my phone and my address book
When I walk away, the music stops automatically.)
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And would someone point out to Maverick how popular the Cube still is, and point out that was one failure in many successes? |
The Cube was an awesome computer. It's problem was that it cost as much as a G4 tower, but didn't have any expandability. It should have been priced like an iMac without a monitor -- it would have sold like crazy. It was the perfect high-end consumer machine, not a "power user style" machine.