A fast take a look at our latest computer Ratings informs a fascinating story: Regardless of the discharge of the new House windows 7 Operating-system, a lot of Home windows 6 computer systems are nevertheless provided by many different merchants, and lots of leading each of our Ratings. If you are shopping for a new computer at this time, there are a few why you should choose Windows Seven.
This is a look at the benefits and drawbacks of the brand new main system, plus some explanations why you might like to proceed old school.
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You aren't investing in a touch screen. Windows 7 is all about effect. When you release that, the outlet screen is a touch program. Of course, you can use it having a computer mouse button or even touchpad, yet it's designed to cause you to be instinctively want to tap into on the computer screen, and even swipe that. Without having a touchscreen display, reasons for replacing an old program or buying a personal computer using Windows 8-10 become less engaging.
You never similar to modify. Home windows 7 doesn't need the particular familiar Start key with regard to launching packages and concluding it along. Naturally, it isn't really difficult to kick off your own applications from the beginning display screen when the windows are 8 floor tile user interface. However, it is usually not the same as clicking your current Commence button and seeing a directory of programs. If you choose to outdated approach, opt for Home windows 6.Motorists still need updating. Several Windows Eight versions are still not performing and also expected, along with Home windows 6 computer systems covered many of the new versions. The need for vendors for you to up-date their particular House windows 8 individuals can clarify the less-than-optimal functionality (your Vizio CT15-A4 pictured previously mentioned was different, with outstanding efficiency).
You happen to be undecided. You might be more satisfied obtaining a Home windows 7 laptop or computer in the meantime, looking forward to the actual airborne debris to settle, as well as improving for you to Home windows 8-10 afterwards. Although we haven't but noticed rates dropping upon older Windows 7 models nevertheless, there are still some Finest Purchases within our Ratings (such as the Acer Aspire TimelineU M5-481TG-6814, shown towards the top of this post). If you want to up grade in the next several months, it will cost you only $15 for this, offered you purchase your personal computer by the end of Present cards and also sign-up to be able to up grade through February 31, The year 2013.
However , . . . There are why you should buy Glass windows 7 personal computers, but they're most likely dependent on personalized personal preference. Should you be getting a touchscreen technology and like the idea of employing your pc in some ways which are much like a capsule, House windows 8-10 could possibly be in your case. If you'd prefer the concept of "live" flooring which alter as new e-mails or perhaps social-network improvements appear in, you will comprehend the floor tile software on Home windows 7. We have got anyone protected, exceeding several advised Glass windows 7 notebooks and four desktop computers.
2013年1月8日星期二
2013年1月6日星期日
The one we've been waiting for (at least in price)
With Google Chromebooks, price really does make all the difference.
For those unfamiliar with the term, Chromebooks are laptops running on Google's browser-based, cloud-focused Chrome OS. They're essentially laptops running a Web browser. That doesn't change with the newest Samsung Chromebook (model XE303C12), either.
Google's never really been all "Drop what you're using and switch to Chrome OS" about the whole thing, but with this machine it seems to be more up-front about positioning it as a good extra inexpensive computer that lies around the house and can be used for quickly, easily, and securely handling the Web needs of different users. Especially those who've come to rely less and less on traditional installed software.
(Credit:
Sarah Tew/CNET)
I find it a reasonable device for those categories, especially for
people like myself who already have their heads in the Google cloud with
Google Docs, Google Drive, and Gmail. It's got workable if not standout
hardware, its battery life is good, it switches on quickly, and the
$249 price tag means it's not as much of a commitment as the $450 (or
$550 with 3G) Samsung Series 5 550 that arrived in May.
However, given its sluggish performance sometimes, I can't say I was blown away by the Samsung Chromebook. It's fine for many tasks, but power users accustomed to having more than a couple dozen browser tabs open should steer clear.
The big differences between Samsung's XE303C12 and earlier Chromebooks are that the XE303C12 is smaller, with a 11.6-inch screen; lighter and thinner; and very different under the hood. The Samsung Chromebook uses a low-power processor, Samsung's Exynos 5 Dual, which is built on ARM's new dual-core system-on-a-chip Cortex A15 design (prior versions used Intel Atom and Celeron processors). It also has just 2GB of system memory.
The design is very compact -- a bit narrower than Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air, but deeper and thicker. It's got a chiclet keyboard, a generously large touch pad, and a scalloped groove where you can use your thumb to flip up the screen. Samsung's battery life claims hold up, too (assuming you're not doing anything too terribly taxing).
Medium tweedium
The screen is OK, with pretty good resolution, adequate brightness, and a matte coating to cut down on glare. It's not terribly vivid, though, and doesn't have a very wide viewing angle. As Google claims, this Chromebook can play 1080p video, but the screen resolution is only 1,366x768 pixels, so it's not displaying full HD.
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Sarah Tew/CNET)
In the same vein, the bottom-mounted speakers are workable but produce a
muddy sound, especially when muted by fabric on your lap. In general,
they're fine for casual use, but you're better off with headphones or
external speakers.
Although the touch pad doesn't match Apple's (I haven't found one that does yet), it beats out many I've used recently, including some on laptops that are much more expensive. Google wisely adopted some Apple conventions with the touch pad, such as a two-finger tap to right-click and a two-finger swipe to scroll or pan. I find clicking requires too much pressure, but fortunately tapping will do the trick, too.
Those who want something as slim as the ultrabook era promises will be disappointed, in particular by the hinge that protrudes upward along the top when the system's lid is closed down. It's hardly chunky or heavy, though, measuring 0.7 inch thick and weighing in at 2.4 pounds. Frankly, I'm more concerned about light weight and fast wake-up times, and the Samsung Chromebook does well in those areas.
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Sarah Tew/CNET)
The keyboard is adequate if you've gotten used to the chiclet era (I
have). It's not a keyboard for pounders, though: the laptop's body
flexes, and it makes a popping noise when I rest my rwrist on the face.
And the keyboard isn't backlit.
Along the left edge of the laptop are an SD card slot and combination microphone-headphone jack. On the back are a USB 2.0 port, a USB 3.0 port (a first for a Chromebook), and an HDMI 1.4 port. A USB dongle for Ethernet is included if you can't or don't want to use the 802.11n Wi-Fi. A serviceable Webcam perches above the screen. Inside is 16GB of flash memory, but people with ordinary amounts of videos, music, photos, and letters will have to rely on Google Drive for some storage. Happily, Google gives Samsung Chromebook customers 100GB of space for two years.
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Sarah Tew/CNET)
Chrome OS, of course
Hardware is only half the story here, though. The Chromebook is great for a $249 device, and it shows what an ARM-based system can do, but if you're not OK with Chrome OS, you should steer clear. Those who don't spend the bulk of their computing life in reach of Internet access -- wireless or wired -- should think twice, too.
Chrome OS, for the uninitiated, puts a version of Google's Chrome browser on top of a Linux foundation. Where Linux PCs run Linux apps, though, Chrome OS devices run browser apps. That's huge, since you can do more and more on the Web. But you can't run several popular programs -- iTunes, Skype, Portal 2, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Spotify, or the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search program, to name a few.
Aiming the Chromebook at people who want another device around the house, though, makes those shortcomings not necessarily be major drawbacks. There are plenty of times when all you need to do is check e-mail, read some news, load a recipe, make a bank payment, click around YouTube, or spend time on Facebook. For that, it's a very economical device. Its fast startup speed is conducive to flipping it open for a few moments and then plopping it down on the counter or coffee table again when you're done. (Its Wi-Fi is very fast to reconnect, too.)
For those unfamiliar with the term, Chromebooks are laptops running on Google's browser-based, cloud-focused Chrome OS. They're essentially laptops running a Web browser. That doesn't change with the newest Samsung Chromebook (model XE303C12), either.
Google's never really been all "Drop what you're using and switch to Chrome OS" about the whole thing, but with this machine it seems to be more up-front about positioning it as a good extra inexpensive computer that lies around the house and can be used for quickly, easily, and securely handling the Web needs of different users. Especially those who've come to rely less and less on traditional installed software.
(Credit:
Sarah Tew/CNET)
However, given its sluggish performance sometimes, I can't say I was blown away by the Samsung Chromebook. It's fine for many tasks, but power users accustomed to having more than a couple dozen browser tabs open should steer clear.
The big differences between Samsung's XE303C12 and earlier Chromebooks are that the XE303C12 is smaller, with a 11.6-inch screen; lighter and thinner; and very different under the hood. The Samsung Chromebook uses a low-power processor, Samsung's Exynos 5 Dual, which is built on ARM's new dual-core system-on-a-chip Cortex A15 design (prior versions used Intel Atom and Celeron processors). It also has just 2GB of system memory.
The design is very compact -- a bit narrower than Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air, but deeper and thicker. It's got a chiclet keyboard, a generously large touch pad, and a scalloped groove where you can use your thumb to flip up the screen. Samsung's battery life claims hold up, too (assuming you're not doing anything too terribly taxing).
Medium tweedium
The screen is OK, with pretty good resolution, adequate brightness, and a matte coating to cut down on glare. It's not terribly vivid, though, and doesn't have a very wide viewing angle. As Google claims, this Chromebook can play 1080p video, but the screen resolution is only 1,366x768 pixels, so it's not displaying full HD.
(Credit:
Sarah Tew/CNET)
Although the touch pad doesn't match Apple's (I haven't found one that does yet), it beats out many I've used recently, including some on laptops that are much more expensive. Google wisely adopted some Apple conventions with the touch pad, such as a two-finger tap to right-click and a two-finger swipe to scroll or pan. I find clicking requires too much pressure, but fortunately tapping will do the trick, too.
Those who want something as slim as the ultrabook era promises will be disappointed, in particular by the hinge that protrudes upward along the top when the system's lid is closed down. It's hardly chunky or heavy, though, measuring 0.7 inch thick and weighing in at 2.4 pounds. Frankly, I'm more concerned about light weight and fast wake-up times, and the Samsung Chromebook does well in those areas.
(Credit:
Sarah Tew/CNET)
Along the left edge of the laptop are an SD card slot and combination microphone-headphone jack. On the back are a USB 2.0 port, a USB 3.0 port (a first for a Chromebook), and an HDMI 1.4 port. A USB dongle for Ethernet is included if you can't or don't want to use the 802.11n Wi-Fi. A serviceable Webcam perches above the screen. Inside is 16GB of flash memory, but people with ordinary amounts of videos, music, photos, and letters will have to rely on Google Drive for some storage. Happily, Google gives Samsung Chromebook customers 100GB of space for two years.
(Credit:
Sarah Tew/CNET)
Hardware is only half the story here, though. The Chromebook is great for a $249 device, and it shows what an ARM-based system can do, but if you're not OK with Chrome OS, you should steer clear. Those who don't spend the bulk of their computing life in reach of Internet access -- wireless or wired -- should think twice, too.
Chrome OS, for the uninitiated, puts a version of Google's Chrome browser on top of a Linux foundation. Where Linux PCs run Linux apps, though, Chrome OS devices run browser apps. That's huge, since you can do more and more on the Web. But you can't run several popular programs -- iTunes, Skype, Portal 2, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Spotify, or the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search program, to name a few.
Aiming the Chromebook at people who want another device around the house, though, makes those shortcomings not necessarily be major drawbacks. There are plenty of times when all you need to do is check e-mail, read some news, load a recipe, make a bank payment, click around YouTube, or spend time on Facebook. For that, it's a very economical device. Its fast startup speed is conducive to flipping it open for a few moments and then plopping it down on the counter or coffee table again when you're done. (Its Wi-Fi is very fast to reconnect, too.)
2013年1月4日星期五
Mailbag: Replacing Windows 8 with Windows 7
Q: I just purchased a new computer with the Windows 8 operating system. All my friends tell me I will not like the Windows 8 system because like I am not a techie — no smartphone, no iPad, no touch-screen monitor, etc. My friend has a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate that he never installed and said I could have. Can I uninstall Windows 8 and install Windows 7 on my new computer without any negative side effects?
— Ron Latreille
A: While it's true that Windows 8 is designed for computers with touchscreens, the operating system's features still work well on standard machines with a keyboard and mouse. I would strongly recommend keeping Windows 8 on the new computer — the OS might grow on you — and perhaps installing Windows 7 on a separate partition on the hard drive. If you decide to format the hard drive and wipe out Windows 8, your new machine will be able to handle the older operating system just fine.
Windows 8: Down but not out
Windows 8's been in the news again and not in a good way -- again.
Net Applications, the company that measures worldwide operating system penetration by watching 40,000 websites, distilling the results from 160,000 monthly unique visitors, and adjusting the numbers based on estimates of the number of computer users in each country, now estimates that 1.7 percent of the desktop/notebook/netbook computers accessing the Internet worldwide in December were using Windows 8. Of the Win8 users, per Net Applications, about 3 percent are using the touch interface -- or about 0.05 percent of all observed computers.
Windows 7's uptake -- using the same Net Applications measuring stick -- was around 21 percent at the same point in its lifetime, during December 2009. (Windows 8 hit general availability on Oct. 26, 2012; Windows 7 on Oct. 22, 2009.)
Of course, the world was different three years ago. Windows buyers were eager to try anything not named "Vista," Windows XP owned about 56 percent of the OS pie, the iPad wasn't even a gleam in Best Buy's eye, and the various Mac OS versions just barely topped 5 percent. Three years later, Mac OS versions run over 7 percent and XP still runs on 40 percent of all observed computers.
StatCounter, the other major horse in the OS counting race, tells a less "optimistic" tale, although its calculation methods are quite different: StatCounter counts hits on the pages it follows -- 15 billion hits per month -- and doesn't reduce them to unique PCs or adjust the numbers for geographical sampling anomalies. (It's worth noting that both Net Applications and StatCounter wildly underreport Asian markets, which have seen unprecedented growth.) While Windows 8 hasn't yet made enough of an impact to emerge from the "other" category, StatCounter puts Internet Explorer 10 use in the United States at just under 1 percent in December. Of course, IE10 is now available in beta for Windows 7, bugs and all, but it ships with Windows 8.
Over on the retail side, Bloomberg's Naoko Fujimura quotes Fujitsu president Masami Yamamoto as saying that demand for Windows 8 is "weak," with demand in Europe particularly poor. Fujitsu has concommitantly lowered Windows computer sales projections for the first quarter of 2013.
Just before Christmas, Emmanuel Fromont, president of Acer Americas, told the New York Times, "It's a slow start, there's no question."
I've been watching online sales of Surface RT tablets at Microsoft Stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, and at Staples and Best Buy in the states, as well as Suning in China and Harvey Norman Australia. Not one of the online sites has ever shown an "out of stock" or "on order" notification.
A quick check of the major online ordering sites shows vast numbers of Windows 8-equipped notebooks for $500 or less, and many under $350. I don't see any listed as out of stock. Even the newer, touch-enabled designs are widely and immediately available, with a few sporadic exceptions.
So much for the doom and gloom -- here are the silver linings.
Michael Dell's keynote at the Dell World conference on Dec. 12 contained many glowing comments about Windows 8:
On a less cynical note, I have two reasons to think that Windows 8 may not turn out to be a complete crash-and-burn.
First, the fat lady hasn't yet sung. Surface with Windows 8 is due out in January. Although it may not take the world by storm, Surface Win8 has an easy act to follow. All signs I've seen point to Surface RT going the way of the dodo in short order. A full-on Windows 8 machine with the svelte Surface form factor may have a chance, particularly because netbooks are about to disappear. (According to Business Insider, both Asus and Acer have discontinued manufacturing netbooks, effective Dec. 31.)
Second, if the Net Applications figures represent anything close to reality, people accessing the Internet with Windows 8 machines are only using the touch interface 3 percent of the time. Clearly, Windows 8 customers aren't yet using the Mr. Hyde Metro side of the product. If Microsoft can come up with a compelling reason for everyday consumers to actually use Metro -- yes, that's a big "if" -- there's certainly a lot of room for increased sales. Coming up with an app that everybody wants is one whole heckuvalot easier than coming up with a new Windows, and it looks like very few people have even dipped their toes in the Metro gene pool.
Net Applications, the company that measures worldwide operating system penetration by watching 40,000 websites, distilling the results from 160,000 monthly unique visitors, and adjusting the numbers based on estimates of the number of computer users in each country, now estimates that 1.7 percent of the desktop/notebook/netbook computers accessing the Internet worldwide in December were using Windows 8. Of the Win8 users, per Net Applications, about 3 percent are using the touch interface -- or about 0.05 percent of all observed computers.
Windows 7's uptake -- using the same Net Applications measuring stick -- was around 21 percent at the same point in its lifetime, during December 2009. (Windows 8 hit general availability on Oct. 26, 2012; Windows 7 on Oct. 22, 2009.)
Of course, the world was different three years ago. Windows buyers were eager to try anything not named "Vista," Windows XP owned about 56 percent of the OS pie, the iPad wasn't even a gleam in Best Buy's eye, and the various Mac OS versions just barely topped 5 percent. Three years later, Mac OS versions run over 7 percent and XP still runs on 40 percent of all observed computers.
StatCounter, the other major horse in the OS counting race, tells a less "optimistic" tale, although its calculation methods are quite different: StatCounter counts hits on the pages it follows -- 15 billion hits per month -- and doesn't reduce them to unique PCs or adjust the numbers for geographical sampling anomalies. (It's worth noting that both Net Applications and StatCounter wildly underreport Asian markets, which have seen unprecedented growth.) While Windows 8 hasn't yet made enough of an impact to emerge from the "other" category, StatCounter puts Internet Explorer 10 use in the United States at just under 1 percent in December. Of course, IE10 is now available in beta for Windows 7, bugs and all, but it ships with Windows 8.
Over on the retail side, Bloomberg's Naoko Fujimura quotes Fujitsu president Masami Yamamoto as saying that demand for Windows 8 is "weak," with demand in Europe particularly poor. Fujitsu has concommitantly lowered Windows computer sales projections for the first quarter of 2013.
Just before Christmas, Emmanuel Fromont, president of Acer Americas, told the New York Times, "It's a slow start, there's no question."
I've been watching online sales of Surface RT tablets at Microsoft Stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, and at Staples and Best Buy in the states, as well as Suning in China and Harvey Norman Australia. Not one of the online sites has ever shown an "out of stock" or "on order" notification.
A quick check of the major online ordering sites shows vast numbers of Windows 8-equipped notebooks for $500 or less, and many under $350. I don't see any listed as out of stock. Even the newer, touch-enabled designs are widely and immediately available, with a few sporadic exceptions.
So much for the doom and gloom -- here are the silver linings.
Michael Dell's keynote at the Dell World conference on Dec. 12 contained many glowing comments about Windows 8:
With Windows 8 we're on the cusp of the next revolution in hardware and software... [I]n the customer conversations that we've been having, the interest in Windows 8 is quite high, even with commercial customers, who would normally wait a few releases to adopt the new versions. What we're seeing here is really an immediate need, because CIOs are worried about the ramifications of a BYOD world.Of course, Dell is sitting on a whole lot of Windows 8 computers.
On a less cynical note, I have two reasons to think that Windows 8 may not turn out to be a complete crash-and-burn.
First, the fat lady hasn't yet sung. Surface with Windows 8 is due out in January. Although it may not take the world by storm, Surface Win8 has an easy act to follow. All signs I've seen point to Surface RT going the way of the dodo in short order. A full-on Windows 8 machine with the svelte Surface form factor may have a chance, particularly because netbooks are about to disappear. (According to Business Insider, both Asus and Acer have discontinued manufacturing netbooks, effective Dec. 31.)
Second, if the Net Applications figures represent anything close to reality, people accessing the Internet with Windows 8 machines are only using the touch interface 3 percent of the time. Clearly, Windows 8 customers aren't yet using the Mr. Hyde Metro side of the product. If Microsoft can come up with a compelling reason for everyday consumers to actually use Metro -- yes, that's a big "if" -- there's certainly a lot of room for increased sales. Coming up with an app that everybody wants is one whole heckuvalot easier than coming up with a new Windows, and it looks like very few people have even dipped their toes in the Metro gene pool.
8 of 10 customers choose Windows 7, says PC builder
Given a choice, customers of a Pacific Northwest
PC system builder overwhelming pick Windows 7 over the newer Windows 8,
the company's president said Thursday.
"Windows 7 is known, it has years of solid reputation behind it, but Windows 8 has gotten a mixed reaction in the press and social media, and the lack of a Start menu is a hot-button issue among our customers," said Jon Bach, president of Puget Systems, an Auburn, Wash. independent PC builder.
Puget Systems is no Dell or Hewlett-Packard, but instead sells high-performance, built-to-order PCs. The average price: $2,500 to $2,600, said Bach. Most are desktops.
Since Windows 8's launch, between 80% and 90% of the systems sold by Puget were pre-installed with the three-year-old Windows 7.
Bach was surprised by the sales numbers. "I'm not down on the production line every day," he said in an interview yesterday. "Before we looked at the data, I would have guessed that Windows 8 was 30% to 40%, but it's just 10% to 20%."
Puget's customers are admittedly not representative of the mass market -- some are hard core gamers, the bulk are professionals and businesses that demand the most from their PCs -- but it does show that, given a choice, they pick Windows 7.
"Our sales are demand-driven," Bach said of Puget's custom PC business model.
That's different than larger OEMs, who in late October quickly shifted to selling Windows 8 systems almost exclusively. Finding a Windows 7 PC on some of their websites can be like looking for hen's teeth. It's even tougher at retail, where Windows 7 has essentially vanished.
Todd Bishop of GeekWire first reported on Puget Systems' lean toward Windows 7 after Brett Nordquist, a company customer service representative, blogged about sales comparisons.
And it's not like Puget hasn't given Windows 8 a shot. "We started running Windows 8 here as soon as Microsoft offered previews," said Bach. "All our sales reps are running Windows 8, and many of them have upgraded their own home PCs to Windows 8. We like to think we're being objective and fair."
But customers spoke. And while Puget Systems doesn't carry the weight of a multinational OEM, the cold shoulder its customers have given Windows 8 should still give Microsoft pause. Three years ago, Puget saw no such hesitation to adopt Windows 7, in large part because of the dissatisfaction with Vista and pent-up demand for a workable OS to replace the even-then-aging Windows XP.
Others have reported similar Windows 8 apathy among PC buyers.
"Windows 7 is known, it has years of solid reputation behind it, but Windows 8 has gotten a mixed reaction in the press and social media, and the lack of a Start menu is a hot-button issue among our customers," said Jon Bach, president of Puget Systems, an Auburn, Wash. independent PC builder.
Puget Systems is no Dell or Hewlett-Packard, but instead sells high-performance, built-to-order PCs. The average price: $2,500 to $2,600, said Bach. Most are desktops.
Since Windows 8's launch, between 80% and 90% of the systems sold by Puget were pre-installed with the three-year-old Windows 7.
Bach was surprised by the sales numbers. "I'm not down on the production line every day," he said in an interview yesterday. "Before we looked at the data, I would have guessed that Windows 8 was 30% to 40%, but it's just 10% to 20%."
Puget's customers are admittedly not representative of the mass market -- some are hard core gamers, the bulk are professionals and businesses that demand the most from their PCs -- but it does show that, given a choice, they pick Windows 7.
"Our sales are demand-driven," Bach said of Puget's custom PC business model.
That's different than larger OEMs, who in late October quickly shifted to selling Windows 8 systems almost exclusively. Finding a Windows 7 PC on some of their websites can be like looking for hen's teeth. It's even tougher at retail, where Windows 7 has essentially vanished.
Todd Bishop of GeekWire first reported on Puget Systems' lean toward Windows 7 after Brett Nordquist, a company customer service representative, blogged about sales comparisons.
And it's not like Puget hasn't given Windows 8 a shot. "We started running Windows 8 here as soon as Microsoft offered previews," said Bach. "All our sales reps are running Windows 8, and many of them have upgraded their own home PCs to Windows 8. We like to think we're being objective and fair."
But customers spoke. And while Puget Systems doesn't carry the weight of a multinational OEM, the cold shoulder its customers have given Windows 8 should still give Microsoft pause. Three years ago, Puget saw no such hesitation to adopt Windows 7, in large part because of the dissatisfaction with Vista and pent-up demand for a workable OS to replace the even-then-aging Windows XP.
Others have reported similar Windows 8 apathy among PC buyers.
2013年1月2日星期三
New Apple ad a bit disturbing, as touted feature reportedly has New Year's hiccups
owever walled your garden, rodents still pad around, cockroaches still shuffle.
One can only, therefore, feel sympathy for Apple's new ad for the iPhone 5.
It features the mysterious and wonderful Williams sisters. They are in a dream. They are playing the dreamy Jeff Daniels at ping-pong.
And yet the ad also features the phone's "Do Not Disturb" feature, which users can switch on to silence in-coming calls, alerts, and notifications, or set up to perform such silencing during a preordained period of time. And who would want to be disturbed during such a high-level game of table tennis?
The slightly unfortunate aspect is that, as 9to5Mac glumly recognizes, there were reports overnight that this feature did actually disturb.
The forums at MacRumors, for example, were adorned by iPhone users mystified that they had missed vital events such as, who knows, an invitation to a spontaneous brunch or a call informing them they had removed their pants in public last night.
The problems was reported in Spain, Australia, and even the home of all things current and disturbing, Brooklyn.
I have contacted Apple to see whether this has been noticed by the company and whether this might be mere operator error or something more disturbing.
There will be some who, excited by the slight disturbance over Apple's maps -- not to mention last year's alarm-clock stumble apparently also caused by the New Year rollover -- will be snorting that this is another example of Cupertino's imperfection.
They will sniff in jest that all these people must have been holding their iPhones wrong when they set them not to disturb.
I prefer to imagine that this is all the work of Siri.
She knew what each of these iPhone owners had been through and done on New Year's Eve.
She just wanted to offer them extra rest before reality knocked upon their foreheads and muttered: "Have you any idea what you put in your ear last night?"
One can only, therefore, feel sympathy for Apple's new ad for the iPhone 5.
It features the mysterious and wonderful Williams sisters. They are in a dream. They are playing the dreamy Jeff Daniels at ping-pong.
And yet the ad also features the phone's "Do Not Disturb" feature, which users can switch on to silence in-coming calls, alerts, and notifications, or set up to perform such silencing during a preordained period of time. And who would want to be disturbed during such a high-level game of table tennis?
The slightly unfortunate aspect is that, as 9to5Mac glumly recognizes, there were reports overnight that this feature did actually disturb.
The forums at MacRumors, for example, were adorned by iPhone users mystified that they had missed vital events such as, who knows, an invitation to a spontaneous brunch or a call informing them they had removed their pants in public last night.
The problems was reported in Spain, Australia, and even the home of all things current and disturbing, Brooklyn.
I have contacted Apple to see whether this has been noticed by the company and whether this might be mere operator error or something more disturbing.
There will be some who, excited by the slight disturbance over Apple's maps -- not to mention last year's alarm-clock stumble apparently also caused by the New Year rollover -- will be snorting that this is another example of Cupertino's imperfection.
They will sniff in jest that all these people must have been holding their iPhones wrong when they set them not to disturb.
I prefer to imagine that this is all the work of Siri.
She knew what each of these iPhone owners had been through and done on New Year's Eve.
She just wanted to offer them extra rest before reality knocked upon their foreheads and muttered: "Have you any idea what you put in your ear last night?"
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