Well, it's spelled and pronounced "aluminum" in U.S. English; the British English spelling is considered misspelled in U.S. English and violates Safari's spelling checker. No, his points are valid, especially the discount one. First, you made a generous assumption that he is a student. Even if he is the student discount is not 15%, and there is no student discount at all if you buy from a retailer besides the Apple store (i.e. the retailer that he was at).
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Microsoft Releases Second 'Laptop Hunters' Commercial
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Well, it's spelled and pronounced "aluminum" in U.S. English; the British English spelling is considered misspelled in U.S. English and violates Safari's spelling checker. No, his points are valid, especially the discount one. First, you made a generous assumption that he is a student. Even if he is the student discount is not 15%, and there is no student discount at all if you buy from a retailer besides the Apple store (i.e. the retailer that he was at).
Geez, 2 MS ads that show ppl choose PC over Macs cause of price already getting to ppl? Geez....HEY MORONS, APPLE CHARGE PREMIUM FOR THEIR PRODUCT CAUSE TO FUND THEIR OSX AND PRO APPS DEVELOPMENT. Look at Apple Aperture, its sold at almost half the price of Adobe Lightroom. And ever wonder why Apple sold the whole package of Leopard at only the price of Vista home premium? and don't need to create separate packages like MS does? Cause when you pay for a Mac, you basically pay for these "Apple taxes" which MS gloats about.
MS is a software company, period, HP is a PC company period, Apple? Its both! So being both they can be complete control over their products and of course having competition is healthy but if people cannot make a judgement on why Company A is doing this and etc then Company B and etc etc. then I must say you are a lame buyer.
And of course this ad got a few contradiction such as a 16" notebook is considered portable for him and being a PC ad, they only show he going through HP, I bet if others PC makers complain to MS that their notebooks is not getting attention, and perhaps sue them, MS will get a real headache.
Wondered why MS cannot dominate the smartphone market as how they did in the PC? Cause smartphone is more controlling then PC (well that how the market end up), Look at Blackberry, they do total control of both their hardware and software and now they managed to improve steadily over the market, look at Palm, they certainly wowed people with the Pre and that is cause total system integration, den come Apple which has all the while maintain a complete control of its business model, look at how successful the iPhone is and that is partly cause of system integration, earlier of their history, this strategy sucks but look at now, everybody is happy with how a Mac works, especially notebooks, most ppl commented that Apple trackpad is generations ahead of PC notebook trackpads although it requires some getting use to.
Well its understood why MS is doing this ads but seriously, why are they so scared? PC developers are tied at using Windows nway. But I gotta admit that this ad is better then the Lauren one.
MS is a software company, period, HP is a PC company period, Apple? Its both! So being both they can be complete control over their products and of course having competition is healthy but if people cannot make a judgement on why Company A is doing this and etc then Company B and etc etc. then I must say you are a lame buyer.
And of course this ad got a few contradiction such as a 16" notebook is considered portable for him and being a PC ad, they only show he going through HP, I bet if others PC makers complain to MS that their notebooks is not getting attention, and perhaps sue them, MS will get a real headache.
Wondered why MS cannot dominate the smartphone market as how they did in the PC? Cause smartphone is more controlling then PC (well that how the market end up), Look at Blackberry, they do total control of both their hardware and software and now they managed to improve steadily over the market, look at Palm, they certainly wowed people with the Pre and that is cause total system integration, den come Apple which has all the while maintain a complete control of its business model, look at how successful the iPhone is and that is partly cause of system integration, earlier of their history, this strategy sucks but look at now, everybody is happy with how a Mac works, especially notebooks, most ppl commented that Apple trackpad is generations ahead of PC notebook trackpads although it requires some getting use to.
Well its understood why MS is doing this ads but seriously, why are they so scared? PC developers are tied at using Windows nway. But I gotta admit that this ad is better then the Lauren one.
3DS Max, Finalrender, a good stable version of ZBrush just to name a few that are industry standard these days.
I think all of these ads come as an strategy to prepare the road to Windows 7. First they are saying that Windows based machines are cheaper. Then when Windows 7 comes, they are going to say the are cheaper and they have a great OS.
Yeah well that's we will call you if you call others fanboys, funny thing is most of your posts are bashing Apple and supporting Microsoft.
You're a lawyer? I thought lawyers were highly educated people, who could use a spelling checker and write grammatically correct sentences, and could put forward a logical argument. You fail in each category. Look, if you start your post with "I am a lawyer for a V10 firm", appealing to the authority that this is supposed to give to your opinion, then you can expect us to shred this authority apart. If you had started saying "I am twelve years old and my dad says PCs rock", your post would have been forgivable, but not for someone who claims he is a lawyer.
Nobody has ever admitted that Apple cannot compete with the prices of other PC manufacturers. Fact is that Apple deliberately chooses not to compete on price. When a top manager at Apple says "we don't know how to build a laptop for under $500 that isn't crap" then we all add what he hasn't said: "... and neither does anyone else, but that doesn't stop them from selling laptops for under $500, and believe me, they are crap". Do you really think Apple builds the cases for its laptops from a single block of aluminium because they haven't figured out Dell's secret manufacturing process for cheap plastic cases?
And what is that nonsense "the only reason you buy a Macintosh is for looks/OS"? People make educated buying decisions. When they buy a computer, they weigh up multiple factors: Product quality, reliability, quality of service, reputation of the manufacturer, upgradability, green qualities, design, usability of the software, all added together and measured against price. Macs beat PCs selling at the same price in most of these measures, even though Apple sells Macs at a healthy profit, which most PC manufacturers don't. The whole package is better.
Then you make the claim "you can buy a cheaper PC [sic] than has better hardware than a [sic] MAC". You can buy a cheaper PC. You can buy a cheaper PC with a processor running at a higher clock speed. But that is not enough to make it "better hardware". "Better hardware" has to take most of the criteria into account that I mentioned, in fact all except "quality of service", "reputation of the manufacturer", and "usability of software". Product quality, reliability, upgradability, green qualities, and design are all things that count when you compare hardware. Once you stop pretending to be blind to the realities of life, you find that finding better PC hardware for less money than a Mac is really, really difficult. And it would have to be a lot cheaper, because if you don't take service quality and software quality in account, you are a fool.
That's what she said.
lol, the laptop was a MBP
Where is that from?
What kind of Christmas Parties to people go and google things at? I never heard of one.
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Best. Post. Ever.
Never had that issue with my Unibody MB. My friend has never had that issue with his 15" MBP
Absolutely nothing till it becomes your driving force and blinds you on many beneficial aspects or positive sides of what's hidden 'under the hood'.
It's not always gold what it shines (I think that's how you translate it
Very close. I believe the correct translation is, All that glitters is not gold.
Total side note, your english is outstanding for a non native speaker. What country are you from?
7.1lbs and 1.7" thick? LOL.
Fair enough, but remember - you can take a Mercedes to any mechanic for repairs, and have any body shop add/replace components. You are not forced to buy the parts from a merc shop.
Apple, OTOH, requires that you buy everything from them. So this comparision is not exactly accurate, IMO.
Cue another 3,200 post thread...
Hmm. It requires Silverlight to view. Not going to happen. Do you have another link?
How bout industry standard flash for my iPhone?
Oh wait....
Hope newer phones offer it. Oh wait, they will. One rumored to run full flash 10 yay, I can watch hulu. No more lame azz apple tv hd. Hdmy azz
I don't think it's too bad. The ads are focusing on cost. No one can deny that Windows-based laptops are cheaper initially. I'd say right now, people want cheap which of course is a double edged sword. Price is usually the first thing most people notice.
I had my macbook (alum) on my desk at work and some guy walks up and looks at it. He was telling me that he thought the macbook looked nice but he just bought his daughter a Dell 1330 for like $800 or so. He said he looked at Apples briefly but he said the cost was too much. This guy makes WAY more money (a lot more) than I do and he didn't get the mac because of the cost. I didn't argue or proclaim that macs are better since I'm not loyal to any company (or a "fanboy") but I can't say I wasn't surprised by his decision at all.
Depends on your definition of "better". It comes down entirely to what you want from a computer and if you can personally justify whatever the price is. Apple just isn't for everyone, like everything in life.
the laptops they pick are hideous...funny thing is I bet if I email the guy "I'll trade you my Macbook Air for your HP" he'll be like "hell yeah"...these commercials suck!
You mean like $900 for a motherboard, $500 fir a $99 graphc card or $10,000 for 32 GB if ram. LOL.
Shir esse puuurtee though. Lol
Ok.. i'll put it out there that I tend to be more of a fan boy, but.
These ads remind me of hate ads in elections .. I mean, the Apple get a mac ads were happy and or funny, and they didn't put a direct hate stamp on the PCs. There were a few ads, if I recall, that were more mean spirited, and people didn't like them as much, so Apple went back. These new Microsoft ads just feel angry or spiteful, and I don't think its cool that there are people that actually like the idea of Ads with mean attitudes towards either company.
These ads remind me of hate ads in elections .. I mean, the Apple get a mac ads were happy and or funny, and they didn't put a direct hate stamp on the PCs. There were a few ads, if I recall, that were more mean spirited, and people didn't like them as much, so Apple went back. These new Microsoft ads just feel angry or spiteful, and I don't think its cool that there are people that actually like the idea of Ads with mean attitudes towards either company.
Better is a very relative term, which is the crux of the argument thats going on here.
I switched over to Macs about 4 years ago because I found them to be a better computer for my needs. I have not regretted the decision once in that entire four years, despite a few limitations of the OSX platform.
You're better and my better are clearly not the same.
They have 89% marketshare, Apple has 10%. If they're that scared, they're disgustingly pathetic.