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I'm not trying to say that Windows viruses can run on Macs, because they can't. But Macs still have the potentital to act as CARRIERS for Windows viruses. If a Windows user sends you a Word or an email infected with a virus, sure, it won't affect your Mac but if you send that file or email...

Please, just because the Mac platform doesn't have that many viruses doesn't mean it isn't potentially vulnerable to them. And if anything, virus protection is a good idea because Mac users don't live on an island - we get Word and Excel files from all those Windows users. By having virus...

Golly, what's with all the hostility? :confused: I thought I made my qualifier pretty clear - it would be a great idea IF the cost of manufacturing iPods was low enough. I stated that I didn't know what that cost actually was, but I also stated that it's probably lower than most people...

Because it's an incentive? Because sometimes a promotion can go a long way for people to open up their wallets? Please remember the reason for this thread - Mac sales are DOWN. Apple's market share is hovering around 3.5%. It's clear that while people are still buying Macs, Apple isn't...

Ford giving away Focuses with Excursions would be the equivalent of giving away iBooks with every dual processor G4 desktop. Apple giving away iPods with every Mac purchase would be more like Volkswagon giving away $500 mountain bikes with every Jetta sports package - which was a promotion...

I think everyone here has made valid points. I think what I'm assuming though (and a big assumption at that) is that iPods don't cost that much for Apple to make. Forget the retail price, Apple is almost certainly marking the iPods up big time because up until now, they've had a seemingly...

Not really! :-P But that's the point, isn't it? The promotion would be such a good deal, that you'd have a rush on Macs. It would be a totally frenzy! The iPod revenue is just a small fraction of overall sales, so Apple really isn't losing much in order to gain huge sales on everything...

So we're seeing that the slow economy has a bigger effect than all the strong product line Apple has right now. Sales are down across the board. Well, here's a plan to ignite a sales frenzy: <b>Apple, please give away a 5 GB iPod with the purchase of every Mac!</b> I mean, what does it...

So we're seeing that the slow economy has a bigger effect than all the strong product line Apple has right now. Sales are down across the board. Well, here's a plan to ignite a sales frenzy: <b>Apple, please give away a 5 GB iPod with the purchase of every Mac!</b> I mean, what does it...

One other thing - when I send an email to people within the domain, the email gets sent! So, for example, if my email address were john.doe@somecompany.com, I can send email to jane.doe@somecompany.com via the Exchange server, but it rejects emails to j.lo@popstars.com

Much to my surprised, after I updated OS X on my TiBook to 10.1.5, I found that I could connect to the Exchange server at work! So now I have no problems downlolading mail via IMAP and reading it. Unfortunately, every time I try to send email through the Exchange server, I get a "cannot connect...

Yeah, this sounds like it will be a great series of commercials and ads. Let's hope we see lots of these ads everywhere! I also hope that Apple will follow up with a series of ads with a similar theme that focus on organizations. You know, showing the head IT guy from Genentech talking...

It makes you wonder if the eMac was originally slated to be the new iMac, in case the LCD iMac somehow got delayed too much or fell through. Still, I think the demand on these things will be huge - as much as the LCD iMac if Apple releases it to the general public. But as you noted, I think a...

I hope so! And I hope Apple REALLY surprises us with regards to the Pro desktops! A quad 1.6 GHz G4 machine would be a nice surprise, for example. :P

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't OS X come with NetBoot? I can see how having server access to your files is beneficial, but I just can't see practically how a classroom full of eMacs with each one doing digital video work can share the bandwidth of a 100Base-T network. Server-based apps...

That's pretty cool. :) I think the new eMac will be a hit. I hope Apple educational sales team are on the ball this year. The eMac, feature-for-feature, is probably one of the best deals out there for schools. I doubt Dell's $699 crapola systems don't allow RAM to be expanded to 1 GB nor do...

Probably because the 40 GB mechanism is the cheapest for Apple to get, since that's probably the the one that Apple purchases in the greatest volume. The basic economics of mass manufacturing dictates that a 20 GB unit won't necessarily be cheaper than a 40 GB one, even though consumer pricing...

I think since Sony has done a lot of copying lately of Apple (check out their high-end multimedia VAIO desktop - all white instead of the usual purple), maybe Apple can take a page from Sony's design book for the next gen notebook <img...

I wanna use Apple mail but I can't - it has seemingly no support for international character sets like Korean or Japanese. Even on OS 10.1.3 with all the language sets installed. But then again, multiple language input has always been inconsistent on the Mac. Unfortunately, this is a case...

I definitely agree it's hard to think how Apple can improve the TiBook and iBook beyond the obvious performance and battery boosts. But I'm sure there is a lot of neat things Apple can do with the industrial design. I mean, take a look at the iMac - everyone *thought* they knew how to do a...