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ibook in MS ad?

nichos

nichos

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And your point is...?
The ad is for Microsoft Server 2003. A laptop is never gonna be the server, but the client. MS Server 2003 is a perfectly valid server environment for a Mac enterprise. Arguably, it kicks the snot out of OSX Server for performance.

(If I had a network of 500 Mac clients to set up, the server OS is sure as h=!! more likely to be MS Server than OSX Server.)
 
CanadaRAM said:
And your point is...?
The ad is for Microsoft Server 2003. A laptop is never gonna be the server, but the client. MS Server 2003 is a perfectly valid server environment for a Mac enterprise. Arguably, it kicks the snot out of OSX Server for performance.

(If I had a network of 500 Mac clients to set up, the server OS is sure as h=!! more likely to be MS Server than OSX Server.)
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I don't know where to start, but you're wrong wrong wrong. A server doesn't have to be google or yahoo! A server just 'serves' a 'client' (see wikipedia for the definition) My iBook acts just fine as a server. Granted, it doesn't serve much, or many, but it does fine as a server by definition. So would a 98 machine running apache.

Since you asked, my point was - why advertise a different client, when you offer a client, and a server? Even though the ad was for server, why promote a different client than the one you're selling?
 
nichos said:
Since you asked, my point was - why advertise a different client, when you offer a client, and a server? Even though the ad was for server, why promote a different client than the one you're selling?
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To show compatibility? :)

Just think of Macs and PCs working together in the same environment, harmoniously. Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbuya.
 
nichos said:
I don't know where to start, but you're wrong wrong wrong. A server doesn't have to be google or yahoo! A server just 'serves' a 'client' (see wikipedia for the definition) My iBook acts just fine as a server. Granted, it doesn't serve much, or many, but it does fine as a server by definition. So would a 98 machine running apache.

Since you asked, my point was - why advertise a different client, when you offer a client, and a server? Even though the ad was for server, why promote a different client than the one you're selling?
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Probably because the ad agency that made it put in the'book cause they look good.
 
mad jew said:
To show compatibility? :)

Just think of Macs and PCs working together in the same environment, harmoniously. Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbuya.
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Yeah, cause M$ is all about that:rolleyes:
I was just pointing out the irony, didn't mean to start a holy war
 
nichos said:
Since you asked, my point was - why advertise a different client, when you offer a client, and a server? Even though the ad was for server, why promote a different client than the one you're selling?
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nichos said:
Yeah, cause M$ is all about that:rolleyes:
I was just pointing out the irony, didn't mean to start a holy war
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So was your question rhetorical? I agree with you in part, but I can still see the reasons behind using an iBook in a Microsoft Server ad. :)
 
Lurk said:
Hmm.. Why would they go about putting an iBook in an MS Ad? Obviously it doesn't run the MS Windows Server System...
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This is not particularly rare. Microsoft's advertising people use Macs. Periodically, they show Macs in their ads, even for things that run only on Windows. Contrary to the high-blown explanations in other posts, it is not about interoperability. You can't run Windows XP natively on a Power Mac, but we have seen XP screens PSed on Apple monitors (connected to Power Mac computers), even on the MS website. When this happens, the Mac community enjoys the moment for a few days. Then we get back to our lives.
 
It's nice to get the news here, rather then digg because every time there is a mac story the fanboys from both sides duke it out (which is really getting old). Some PC users actually thought that was a powerbook... well just goes to show. ;) :p
 
If OSX is going to X86, and Macs are to use an Intel X86 Architecture, who's to say that the I-iBook's won't run Windows XP or Vista (for that matter) - well who's to say that any I-xMac won't run both OS X Leopard and Vista. There's speculation that you can run one OS on top of the other - when I find the link to that I'll post it. Something about Rosetta is supposed to help with that.

Ciao guys.
 
Hopefully the ibooks will get an updated look, out with the old in with the new as they say.
Anyway, Vista is going to try and emulate a lot of OSX's features, the eye candy, core image, quartz extreme. Microsoft has technologies that do the same.
 
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