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Entry: Take My Computer, Please Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/take_my_computer_please#1694 Post contents: Hello Paul: Apple is not called Apple Computer, it's just called Apple. And it's not nice to call people morons, unless I suppose you're an Apple fan; this seems to be a common characteristic/affliction of 'them'. But PC people have manners, so I'll refain from replying in kind. I'll just touch on a few of the more obvious points in question... The Beatles did not lose their lawsuit. In 1981 and in 1991, Apple Computer paid Apple Corps a total of about 27 million dollars in settlement. The original settlement was based on Apple using the name and logo, but could not get into the music business with it. The later settlement was based on Apple violating the terms of the original agreement. Oh well, at least they paid licencing fees to use 'Mighty Mouse' and didn't run into problems there. Quote from AppleInsider(dot)com, who are Apple fans: According to research firm Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 57 million units in the first quarter of 2006, representing a 13.1 percent increase over the same period last year. But in that time, Apple's share of the worldwide market slipped from 2.2 percent to a mere 2.0 percent, the firm's data shows. Similarly, Apple's share of the personal computer market in the United States also remains relatively flat at 3.6 percent. Although this figure is down from 3.8 percent in the first quarter of 2005, Gartner's data indicates that Apple gained one tenth of a percent in share over the fourth quarter of 2005. And from the same website: "It's fast," said one developer source of Mac OS X running on Intel's Pentium processors. "Faster than [Mac OS X] on my Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5." In addition to booting Windows XP at blazing speeds, the included version of Mac OS X for Intel takes "as little as 10 seconds" to boot to the Desktop from when the Apple logo first displays on screen. Also, Apple has been saying in their ads that the Intel-based system is faster, and Apple wouldn't lie in their ads would they? Would they? Cheers, Robt Sent at: 2008 09 07