Bill Gates: There are no Macs in my house

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seasurfer

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Jan 6, 2008

• #1

Extracted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7174333.stm

 

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heatmiser

macrumors 68020

• Jan 6, 2008

• #2

...and there's nothing wrong with that. Macs aren't for everyone. But since this is a bait thread, there are inevitably going to be dozens of leering fanboy responses to follow. Get to it, fellows! Jump for that meat!

 

CP1091

macrumors regular

• Jan 6, 2008

• #3

That's a lie and he knows it.

 

TheBonk

macrumors 6502

• Jan 6, 2008

• #4

If he has a $2,000 custom made doorknob, I'm sure he has a couple of Macbooks lying around somewhere being used as paperweights. 😛 At least he has good taste in paperweights.

 

sushi

Moderator emeritus

• Jan 6, 2008

• #5

CP1091 said:

That's a lie and he knows it.

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Why do you say this?

At home, he probably does not have Macs.

At the Microsoft campus, that is a whole different situation.

 

GSMiller

macrumors 68000

• Jan 6, 2008

• #6

I wonder if Jobs has any PCs?

 

twoodcc

macrumors P6

• Jan 6, 2008

• #7

he might not have one in his house.....but i bet he has one somewhere

 

Lord Blackadder

macrumors P6

• Jan 6, 2008

• #8

No Macs? A huge shock, that. If I was Bill Gates I wouldn't have any either. In fact, if I was Bill Gates, I would have pajamas covered in little Windows logos. "Heh, Apple", I would chuckle as I looked at my unprecedentedly large bank account.

 

ezekielrage_99

macrumors 68040

• Jan 6, 2008

• #9

But he has an iPod or 2 in his collection of cars... so I'm guessing he's not lying 😉

 

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andejp12

macrumors member

• Jan 6, 2008

• #10

GSMiller said:

I wonder if Jobs has any PCs?

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The real question there is does he run bootcamp. 😛


As for Billy G. I don't see why he would need to run a Mac in all honesty, I mean heck shouldn't he be forced to use nothing but vista?

 

spork183

macrumors 6502a

• Jan 6, 2008

• #11

he has however taken a macbook pro, wiped the drive, and installed windows, therefore rendering it a fast pc notebook...

 

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3nm

macrumors 6502a

• Jan 6, 2008

• #12

not too surprised, just like we wouldn't expect SJ to use a Dull. i remember reading an article like 10 yrs ago saying that everything in Gates' house's controlled by winNT... pretty cool, i thought.

 

IJ Reilly

macrumors P6

• Jan 6, 2008

• #13

twoodcc said:

he might not have one in his house.....but i bet he has one somewhere

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Maybe he has one, but doesn't know it. It's a big house.

 

MKnight

macrumors regular

• Jan 6, 2008

• #14

Why does anyone care what computers Bill Gates has in his home, none the less Macs...

Seriously...this worth starting a thread? I love my Mac but come on...it's just a tool like any other.

 

eRondeau

macrumors 65816

• Jan 6, 2008

• #15

Maybe we should all take up a collection to buy him one. 😎

 

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aspro

macrumors 6502

• Jan 6, 2008

• #16

This is almost the most obvious state of affairs. I am sure he uses them to compare every now and then, but mostly who wouldn't eat their own dog food?

 

ham_man

macrumors 68020

• Jan 6, 2008

• #17

When I saw that picture I thought that he was testifying before Congress or something.

 

0007776

Suspended

• Jan 6, 2008

• #18

GSMiller said:

I wonder if Jobs has any PCs?

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I would guess that if he uses Windows for anything it is on a Mac using Bootcamp or a virtulization software.

 

iToaster

macrumors 68000

• Jan 6, 2008

• #19

I found that was quite obvious fellows. It's bad business to advocate one's competitor. We all also know that Jobs has all the cool secret Macs... PB G5... MB nano...😀

 

ayeying

macrumors 601

• Jan 6, 2008

• #20

GSMiller said:

I wonder if Jobs has any PCs?

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No.. but he'll have a windows boot camp partition 😉 Who needs a PC when you got boot camp 😀

 

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iCube

macrumors 6502

• Jan 6, 2008

• #21

Come on, Bill Gates LOVES Macs!!!!

-Even after he said this? hmmm...

http://pulsar.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/graphics/movies/Gates-Praising-the-Macintosh.mov

 

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Mac Kiwi

macrumors 6502a

• Jan 7, 2008

• #22

Ya.But,wouldnt it be hillarious if his kids bugged him for a Mac all the time.

 

VanNess

macrumors 6502a

• Jan 7, 2008

• #23

Surprisingly, not one of Bill's "more than 10" PCs has more than 640k of ram installed...

I came to Apple almost four years ago, and one of the big reasons I came was because I didn't want to use Windows for the rest of my life.

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Steve Jobs

 

Eric Lewis

macrumors 68020

• Jan 7, 2008

• #24

he likely has macs in his other 2 houses

or in his car

or garage

 

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GNice

macrumors 6502

• Jan 7, 2008

• #25

Of course he doesn't have in macs...duh! He would be crazy to have 'em...imagine if "word" got out Bill was using macs at home. LOL!