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Windows and Steam would never have existed in the first place if DRM was illegal because neither Valve nor Microsoft have a business if they can't control the distribution of their content. Apple has already realized this, hence why they've stopped really trying. I don't believe either of those things. But the fact of the matter is that Microsoft and Valve and the rest of the media industry pretty clearly do. DRM isn't needed to sell software, it's needed to force people to pay for it when they otherwise wouldn't. It's also an entirely different question. Microsoft is a gargantuan MNC with tens of thousands of employees that they have to support and a literally enormous product that they've based their business off selling. You contradict yourself a few times: "Well they can already do that so it's not like removing DRM would make people go "oh wow I can just pirate it!" all of a sudden." If they removed the DRM it would no longer be piracy because the creator is no longer making an attempt to control the distribution. Valve's point, GabeN's point, and my point, is that you have to make paying for a product with DRM actually more enjoyable and more worth it to the consumer to get them to stop pirating their entertainment. Spotify, Netflix, and Steam haven't directly stopped piracy with DRM. I'll agree with that. What they've done is made paying for the content a more convenient experience with a more reasonable price to the consumer. For $12 a month, you can have unlimited access to almost all music in existence and a ton of TV shows and movies. Here's where your argument starts to fall apart though. DRM is not an inconvenience, nor is it even a noticeable flaw, to anyone using those services. They've transcended the inconvenience DRM presents by getting it right, and treating the consumer like a person instead of a dog. The pirated version is no longer more convenient than what you pay for beyond being free, (and I think most people will agree that 12 bucks is a measly price to pay for what used to cost hundreds) so your argument now boils down to "I don't want to pay for it! Waaaaaaaah!"

Are you fucking kidding me? So now a 4790 and a R9 M290 don't constitute "serious firepower?" Then how come you can edit 5K video with it and it runs at 60Hz? You have preconceptions of what that runs like on Windows with your drivers over an HDMI cable. The 5K Mac has a custom timing controller to allow 60Hz, and probably a bunch of other hacks internally to make it work. The benefit is in font rendering and editing enormous pictures. The font rendering is just gorgeous on it.

So they're a fashion accessory because they look nice? So I suppose all the vain, image obsessed idiots that buy iPhones are buying the Ferraris of smartphones. Meanwhile you'd rather drive a Camry because of a combination of resentment for people driving Ferraris even though you could afford one yourself and also out of a strange sort of self-induced proletarian schadenfreude for people that like Apple products. Crack the dictionary, friend.

If it disappeared you wouldn't have those 171 games, Windows, or Netflix though. You'd be forced onto Mac or Linux, which are both DRM free these days. (Of course licensing is another question. DRM wise though, (encryption) OS X no longer has any.) DRM is the raison d'être for those services. Without DRM none of them have a business model. I apologize for any perceived strawmanning but if you spend any time in a Linux channel on freenode it's literally only Stallmanites that call it GNU/Linux. Mainly because it's a Stallman construction. If his team's failure to produce a working microkernel in (what, 25 years of work now?) isn't enough for Linux to be the true name I don't know what is. GNU is GNU and Linux is Linux. QED

Well of course they don't make sense to you. If they did you'd buy one and we wouldn't be having this conversation. I will however challenge that claim because you'd be hard pressed to find a workload that the Retina 5K iMac can't crush. If you're doing video editing it's unwise to do it on an all in one anyways. That's what the Mac Pro is for.

It's not shaping up to be a good year for Android OEMs...

You only like Steam because of it's largest selling point but you'd rather spend more? Which is it? Those two statements are in contradiction. Of course you must call it GNU/Linux because whiny Stallman didn't get the credit he wanted. Too late. The world doesn't care. So yeah, Microsoft didn't license the DRM. You blame the DRM for that? That's just bullshit. It's clearly a case of Microsoft just trying to be an asshole to get more people on Windows which if I'm not mistaken you're a pretty big fan of, right? Microsoft INVENTED DRM. If you hate DRM you probably shouldn't be using Windows. Hell even Apple is better about DRM than Microsoft and you hate them even more. Such a damn fucking hypocrite.

Linus's complaints boil down to not realizing the iPhone has T9, being infuriated at Apple that Dropbox and Gmail haven't updated to support sharing extensions yet, (ahem) and not realizing that you don't need corner buttons anymore in iOS 7 because of gesture based control. The reachability feature that he actually complained about has no equal on Android because the ecosystem is too open, and if it was really bothering him that much he could easily have turned on screen zoom which makes everything as large as it used to be relative to the screen size. In short all of his complaints are either: A. Not Apple's problem B. Just plain not understanding how to use iOS 8's myriad of new features or even iOS itself in some cases C. "It's better than Android but it's not perfect so I hate it" Which explains why the iPhone 5s is still the second most powerful smartphone around (behind the 6) a year after its release and why the iPad Air 2 is almost as powerful as a last-gen MacBook Air...yeah, they're fashion items. You're right.

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Steam has DRM you know. Very strong DRM. That's kind of the whole point. DRM done well is a good thing. That's GabeN's point. If you want to make people use a product with DRM it has to be good enough for them to ignore its flaws. Netflix didn't work on Linux because of Silverlight, which you can blame Microsoft for. It was never a question of the DRM.

Laptop GPUs, perhaps, but only the lowest end one has a ULP processor. All the others use R-series and normal processors. The 5K has a 4970 for christ's sake. Even besides that, what's the problem with using laptop parts? Are you expecting them to fit a full GPU into an all in one? They aren't gaming machines. If you buy any all in one for gaming you're doing it wrong. MSI's gaming all in ones use laptop GPUs as well.

Is that a claim or are we just spewing bullshit? Perish the thought. The video you posted...ugh. You realize that Foxconn has a lower suicide rate than any of the 50 states, right? In a much smaller group?

Actually MacBooks are the best value you can get right now. Unmatched build quality, industry leading battery life...the list goes on.

Anything on Anita Sarkeesian's channel amirite?

Yeah. There are just no standards in video game journalism. How the fuck are we supposed to hear about the games with boobs in them when all of the media outlets are bribed to not discuss them?