Oh boy, here we go again.
Give me a freaking people, 29 pages already?
Last time that I checked this is a free country and companies have a right to make commercials as long as they're not obviously lying.
*hands you a freaking people*
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Microsoft Releases Second 'Laptop Hunters' Commercial
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*hands you a freaking people*
So maybe the reason that Microsoft finally is targeting Apple is because more people are switching to Mac.
just a thought...
Oh boy, here we go again.
Give me a freaking people, 29 pages already?
Last time that I checked this is a free country and companies have a right to make commercials as long as they're not obviously lying.
You appear to be missing a "break" ...
Agreed 100%. Console games are definitely far more widespread and accessible by far more people than PC games. Think about it: In order to play Crysis, Left 4 Dead, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc., smoothly on a PC, you need at least a quad-core processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a high-end graphics card. Which can add up to more than $4,000...whereas a PlayStation 3 console has excellent graphics and is only $500. For Mac users who want to game, spending $500 for a console is much more attractive than spending $4,000 on, and having to constantly dick around with, an ugly-ass, overclocked space heater with glowing bulls*t that leaks coolant. The PS3 is nearly silent and a much better investment than a so-called "gaming rig." (Plus you can do some pretty neat-o tinkering with it, like installing Yellow Dog Linux.)
Oh boy, here we go again.
Give me a freaking people, 29 pages already?
Last time that I checked this is a free country and companies have a right to make commercials as long as they're not obviously lying.
No, because lies aren't near as appealing unless they have truth mixed in with them.
Agreed 100%. Console games are definitely far more widespread and accessible by far more people than PC games. Think about it: In order to play Crysis, Left 4 Dead, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc., smoothly on a PC, you need at least a quad-core processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a high-end graphics card. Which can add up to more than $4,000...whereas a PlayStation 3 console has excellent graphics and is only $500. For Mac users who want to game, spending $500 for a console is much more attractive than spending $4,000 on, and having to constantly dick around with, an ugly-ass, overclocked space heater with glowing bulls*t that leaks coolant. The PS3 is nearly silent and a much better investment than a so-called "gaming rig." (Plus you can do some pretty neat-o tinkering with it, like installing Yellow Dog Linux.)
But that doesn't mean that to play a game, one MUST use a console. I prefer playing games on my PC rather than consoles using the same freedom you have when preferring macs over PCs (or vice versa)
And you don't have to spend that much to play! Turn down the graphics, you don't have to see every pixel...
Anyone else catch that the processor is "Centrino" these are the bottom of the barrel mobile processors... not the high end neehlam or Penryin processors Apple has been using lately. Not to mention its DDR2 memory not DDR3 and the graphics are crap.. Ur getting less reliable (ever try getting a PC fixed, pain in the ass instead of just running to the genius bar *granted u need an appointment*) worse operating system and more headaches for a few bucks less.. How bout stop being cheap and spend some money on something that won't die in 2 yrs.
768p is a standard HDTV resolution. It's a trend that started with Sony Vaio. HP and Dell have recently caught on. They're putting 16:9 screens on more and more of the consumer notebooks, rather than 16:10. Apparently they've found that a lot of these consumers want to use their laptops to watch movies more than anything else.
While professionals want bigger screens for the higher resolution, consumers want bigger screens simply to have a bigger picture. You even hear people asking "why pay $1800 for a 30" display when you can get a 42" LCD TV for much less?" I'm on a 15.4", 1680x1050 myself, and everyone who sees it and isn't a graphic designer or a programmer invariably says "OMFG that's soooooo smaaaaaaall, how can you work with that?!?!"
It should also be noted that a lot of desktop elements are much smaller in Windows than in OS X. The icons are smaller, text in dialogs is smaller, menu text is much smaller. The font on the menu bar in OS X is jumbo-sized, give Steve Jobs better glasses or some Braille screen or whatever so the rest of us won't have to look at that XXXXX-large text.
Agreed 100%. Console games are definitely far more widespread and accessible by far more people than PC games. Think about it: In order to play Crysis, Left 4 Dead, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc., smoothly on a PC, you need at least a quad-core processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a high-end graphics card. Which can add up to more than $4,000...whereas a PlayStation 3 console has excellent graphics and is only $500. For Mac users who want to game, spending $500 for a console is much more attractive than spending $4,000 on, and having to constantly dick around with, an ugly-ass, overclocked space heater with glowing bulls*t that leaks coolant. The PS3 is nearly silent and a much better investment than a so-called "gaming rig." (Plus you can do some pretty neat-o tinkering with it, like installing Yellow Dog Linux.)
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Microsoft non sense
Read this
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...d_attacks_mac_aesthetics_computing_power.html
This poor Giampaolo wanted portability, battery life and power, unfortunately for him it gets any of that with this HP laptop. He gets a gigantic peace of crap with poor battery life, bad screen resolution for a 16 inch screen, old generation memory architecture, and a slower processor that you would get with Macbook priced at 1599$.
Yes the HP has faster graphics, but that does come to the game, given that the HP does not deliver at all on portability and battery life and this what the add is referring to as the primary choice together with power. This ad is an incredible peace of crap from Microsoft, incredible.... I mean this poor guy ends up buying a computer weighting more than 7 pounds, yes 7 pounds, and the ad says that he is looking for portability? Come on!!!!
This computer is from 1.31 to 1.70 inch thick, by comparison a Macbook weights 4.5 pounds and is 0.95 inch thick!!!! A MacBook is a balance between potability and power, not this crappy HP.
Also HP sells you that with Windows and poor bundled software, nothing, absolutely nothing comparable to iLife and OS X. And that's the key, you like it or not, HP sells you hardware with third party software. Apple sells you software and hardware that it develops, this is what makes the Microsoft add completely meaningless when it comes to price comparison with pc hardware makers which do not build their own software.
Read this
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...d_attacks_mac_aesthetics_computing_power.html
This poor Giampaolo wanted portability, battery life and power, unfortunately for him it gets any of that with this HP laptop. He gets a gigantic peace of crap with poor battery life, bad screen resolution for a 16 inch screen, old generation memory architecture, and a slower processor that you would get with Macbook priced at 1599$.
Yes the HP has faster graphics, but that does come to the game, given that the HP does not deliver at all on portability and battery life and this what the add is referring to as the primary choice together with power. This ad is an incredible peace of crap from Microsoft, incredible.... I mean this poor guy ends up buying a computer weighting more than 7 pounds, yes 7 pounds, and the ad says that he is looking for portability? Come on!!!!
This computer is from 1.31 to 1.70 inch thick, by comparison a Macbook weights 4.5 pounds and is 0.95 inch thick!!!! A MacBook is a balance between potability and power, not this crappy HP.
Also HP sells you that with Windows and poor bundled software, nothing, absolutely nothing comparable to iLife and OS X. And that's the key, you like it or not, HP sells you hardware with third party software. Apple sells you software and hardware that it develops, this is what makes the Microsoft add completely meaningless when it comes to price comparison with pc hardware makers which do not build their own software.
Ummmmm, no. You're thinking of Celeron.
Centrino isn't a processor, it's a platform. A combination of Intel components (chipset, processor, wireless, etc). Centrino 2 includes a Penryn processor, same one used in Macs.
In all seriousness though, I'm 30 years old and have a hell of a lot of experience with an array of platforms over the years. My problem with this forum, especially recently, is not with Windows/PC users coming here to offer input, but the sheer ignorance of a reasonable portion of these users.
I'd be perfectly happy to sit here and discuss the merits of Mac vs PC, but the bottom line is that these Windows/PC users don't want to know. It's almost as if they want us to reply simply to waste our time with a petty one line mockery of an answer.
The way it comes across to me is that the Windows/PC users coming here, the ones posting utter dross at least, have little to no experience of the Mac long term, let alone OS X. These PC users are following the script of the new Microsoft ad's almost to the letter, banging on about price and "Apple Tax".
We know Mac's cost more, we accept that, and we pay that "premium". Trying to mock us or shame us for doing so won't stop us dead in our tracks and make us think, "Maybe that HP for less than $1500 IS a good deal".
If you used an Apple computer for longer than 5 minutes, if at all, then perhaps you'd appreciate where we're coming from. Now, of course, there will be people here who have tried a Mac and gone back to PC or who use both platforms and prefer Windows, those things happen. It's the people with zero experience of the Mac or OS X who are on here spouting nonsense that really make me think, "Why"?
Those kind of people have NO place commenting on the Mac or OS X, period. Mac users enjoy the forging of hardware and software and, while the Mac now uses off the shelf PC components, somehow the software written for both Mac and PC (Safari, iTunes) runs better on the Mac alongside OS X. As a Mac gets older it doesn't slow down, despite being on it's original installation of the operating system. In my experience a Windows system gets slower as it gets older and more bogged down, resulting in the neccessary System Restore or other action.
I used Windows for over a decade, blissfully unaware of anything different and simply accepting the substandard level of computing I was being offered. I was using a system which I felt was working against me, hindering me from getting the job done. With a Mac, I feel like the system is geared towards getting the job done, giving me the tools to be more productive, and the reliability to put my faith in the system.
The Windows/PC users on here are coming off as more and more childish with some of the sneering comments, although I will admit some of the Mac users here, especially the "Macrumors Newbies" can post some cringeworthy stuff at times. On the whole though, it seems when the Mac users put something across that is constructive you seem interested only in ripping it apart and dissecting it, not actually responding in kind.
That's how it appears to me anyway, it's like fighting a never ending argument.
I'd be perfectly happy to sit here and discuss the merits of Mac vs PC, but the bottom line is that these Windows/PC users don't want to know. It's almost as if they want us to reply simply to waste our time with a petty one line mockery of an answer.
The way it comes across to me is that the Windows/PC users coming here, the ones posting utter dross at least, have little to no experience of the Mac long term, let alone OS X. These PC users are following the script of the new Microsoft ad's almost to the letter, banging on about price and "Apple Tax".
We know Mac's cost more, we accept that, and we pay that "premium". Trying to mock us or shame us for doing so won't stop us dead in our tracks and make us think, "Maybe that HP for less than $1500 IS a good deal".
If you used an Apple computer for longer than 5 minutes, if at all, then perhaps you'd appreciate where we're coming from. Now, of course, there will be people here who have tried a Mac and gone back to PC or who use both platforms and prefer Windows, those things happen. It's the people with zero experience of the Mac or OS X who are on here spouting nonsense that really make me think, "Why"?
Those kind of people have NO place commenting on the Mac or OS X, period. Mac users enjoy the forging of hardware and software and, while the Mac now uses off the shelf PC components, somehow the software written for both Mac and PC (Safari, iTunes) runs better on the Mac alongside OS X. As a Mac gets older it doesn't slow down, despite being on it's original installation of the operating system. In my experience a Windows system gets slower as it gets older and more bogged down, resulting in the neccessary System Restore or other action.
I used Windows for over a decade, blissfully unaware of anything different and simply accepting the substandard level of computing I was being offered. I was using a system which I felt was working against me, hindering me from getting the job done. With a Mac, I feel like the system is geared towards getting the job done, giving me the tools to be more productive, and the reliability to put my faith in the system.
The Windows/PC users on here are coming off as more and more childish with some of the sneering comments, although I will admit some of the Mac users here, especially the "Macrumors Newbies" can post some cringeworthy stuff at times. On the whole though, it seems when the Mac users put something across that is constructive you seem interested only in ripping it apart and dissecting it, not actually responding in kind.
That's how it appears to me anyway, it's like fighting a never ending argument.
As I mentioned over on UbuntuForums, Microsoft has an identity crisis. They want so desperately to be a part of the "coolness" aura surrounding Apple, but all they do is come off like some screaming little kid who wants and wants and wants.
It's pathetic, and is endemic of their whole corporation. Why people don't just see through this, I have no idea.
As mentioned waaaaaaaay up-thread, Microsoft already has almost the entire pie. They have the whole d*mned thing and yet they want more. How does that not scream of immaturity and greed?
It's pathetic, and is endemic of their whole corporation. Why people don't just see through this, I have no idea.
As mentioned waaaaaaaay up-thread, Microsoft already has almost the entire pie. They have the whole d*mned thing and yet they want more. How does that not scream of immaturity and greed?
Are you implying that Asus delivers only crap to every other country, but somehow manages to send all the good stuff to the US?
You forgot to address point #2, Apple products sold worldwide are made at factories owned by Quanta, Asustek and Foxconn. So if Asus is capable of building a reliable MacBook for Apple, what makes you think the rest of their stuff is unreliable.
Links to back up your arguments please.
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Both time they settled on some crappy, super gigantic non-laptop laptops. The dude was complaining about other laptops having too small a keyboard. So I guess the point is everyone should be manufacturing huge, thick and heavy, crappy plastic-looking laptops only because that's what PC people want.
If they would have mentioned vista honestly it would have resembled something like:
"I'm proud to say that I haven't had an error in over a week. I'm proud to say that I haven't had an error in over a week. I'm proud to say that-" and then pc says, "Will somebody shut him off?"
Well, first off it's a culture. Showing up with your PS3 at a hardcore gamer gathering is kind of like trying to join Hells Angels because you have a Kawasaki 125cc scooter.Agreed 100%. Console games are definitely far more widespread and accessible by far more people than PC games. Think about it: In order to play Crysis, Left 4 Dead, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc., smoothly on a PC, you need at least a quad-core processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a high-end graphics card. Which can add up to more than $4,000...whereas a PlayStation 3 console has excellent graphics and is only $500. For Mac users who want to game, spending $500 for a console is much more attractive than spending $4,000 on, and having to constantly dick around with, an ugly-ass, overclocked space heater with glowing bulls*t that leaks coolant. The PS3 is nearly silent and a much better investment than a so-called "gaming rig." (Plus you can do some pretty neat-o tinkering with it, like installing Yellow Dog Linux.)
Secondly, there are plenty of dedicated gaming notebooks these days (AlienWare, Dell XPS etc). Last time I checked, they don't do PS3 laptops.
anything to avoid talking about a lame OS
If I were a clueless loser exec at Microsoft (what else can you call a company who has 10 times the resources of Apple yet can't even COPY, let alone INNOVATE software), of course I'd be throwing a red herring set of ads out there.
IGNORE THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
I'd write more but I have to go figure out how many Zune points I have left.
Steve Ballmer on the iPhone: "nobody will pay 500 dollars for a logo." To which I reply: developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers
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If I were a clueless loser exec at Microsoft (what else can you call a company who has 10 times the resources of Apple yet can't even COPY, let alone INNOVATE software), of course I'd be throwing a red herring set of ads out there.
IGNORE THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
I'd write more but I have to go figure out how many Zune points I have left.
Steve Ballmer on the iPhone: "nobody will pay 500 dollars for a logo." To which I reply: developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers
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Yeah, and the Apple Genius Bar is empty all day right?
Nope, they're always really busy helping customers and sometimes giving away free replacements even though they didn't have to.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/680471/
I was at the Apple store just to make a quick purchase about a month ago...I was wanting to see if they had a Belkin case for iPod touch that looked like the one my friend had for his iPhone. I just mentioned it in passing to one of the employees and next thing I know, she has four other employees helping her hunt for this particular Belkin case. They find it, and just then my teacher shows up (my class was on a field trip that day to the shopping mall where this Apple store is located.) As soon as the Apple employees figure out that he's my teacher, they ask where I go to school and then say, "Well I bet you can get a student discount on this," and go ahead and give the discount to me right then. I was pretty tickled by how much trouble they were going to for a silly little $15 iPod case...I mean, at my own job, I'll admit to having made only a half-assed attempt to find something that a customer asks for and then shrugging, "I'm sorry, I guess we don't carry it."