Citation, on Apple's extreme nervousness about the number 3, Scott?
There's the Powerbook 3*00 series -- which was Apple's high end laptop in like 1996/1997 or so.
I really think part of the reason there's no 3 series once Apple started numbering things is because they already had too many tiers. The 6000 and 5000 series were basically at the same tier, but different form factors, same with the 7000 and 8000 series, the 4000 series should probably just not have existed (in favor of selling a 6000 or a 7000).
I really suspect it had more to do with the '020's relatively short life in the desktop Mac, and Apple not wanting to create confusion by renaming the product every year, than with superstition about the number 3.
As far as Dell moving to a services model and abandoning the recycling service -- If you were to look at dell's home page, you'd see that they're committed to the PC industry. (Even though they are known for exiting unprofitable segments which arguably should never have existed to begin with, such as netbooks for consumers.)
Dell is trying to move into services, but a lot of that is services based around hardware they sold, such as the V-Start virtualization appliances (which is a pre-configured rack with vmware ESXi or Hyper-V, shared storage, and a management console, that organizations can use to jump-start a virtualization deployment.)
There's the Powerbook 3*00 series -- which was Apple's high end laptop in like 1996/1997 or so.
I really think part of the reason there's no 3 series once Apple started numbering things is because they already had too many tiers. The 6000 and 5000 series were basically at the same tier, but different form factors, same with the 7000 and 8000 series, the 4000 series should probably just not have existed (in favor of selling a 6000 or a 7000).
I really suspect it had more to do with the '020's relatively short life in the desktop Mac, and Apple not wanting to create confusion by renaming the product every year, than with superstition about the number 3.
As far as Dell moving to a services model and abandoning the recycling service -- If you were to look at dell's home page, you'd see that they're committed to the PC industry. (Even though they are known for exiting unprofitable segments which arguably should never have existed to begin with, such as netbooks for consumers.)
Dell is trying to move into services, but a lot of that is services based around hardware they sold, such as the V-Start virtualization appliances (which is a pre-configured rack with vmware ESXi or Hyper-V, shared storage, and a management console, that organizations can use to jump-start a virtualization deployment.)