No we're just Mac users who are more than happy to point out the reality of things and have the ability to criticize Apple nonetheless.
I hope you never take a look into ~/Library or /Library ever then.
Not really. More intelligent usage of free space to avoid fragmenting files sure but there's no magic on the fly defragmenting.
And a lot more gets left behind than just that. I remember one time in the past when I used a Parallels trial, even though I ran their uninstaller and manually searched for all the files it left behind, I still had menu entries created by it that wouldn't go away no matter what I did. if you hate it then through it away and go hug your beloved perfect HP
Oh and blu-ray movies don't cost $30 any more
Blu-ray's quality is evident on any HD display. From the 13.3" MacBook screen (yes I've used my external drive in Windows on it) to the largest HDTV displays. Theres no reason for Apple to not support it other than to push their own lower quality "HD" movies from iTunes.
No we're just Mac users who are more than happy to point out the reality of things and have the ability to criticize Apple nonetheless.
I hope you never take a look into ~/Library or /Library ever then.
Not really. More intelligent usage of free space to avoid fragmenting files sure but there's no magic on the fly defragmenting.
I disagree. They stop short of using the word "sucks", but that's it. Some of Apple's pot shots at Vista and Microsoft are well deserved, certainly, but they do stretch the truth until it snaps in quite a few of their ads and they're not shy about it. There cannot possibly be any other purpose of such ads than to spread Fear, Uncertaindy and Doubt about the competitor's product.
Well, the bleeding edge of industrial design comes with a price. Apple tries all sorts of things that nobody has done before, which is guaranteed to generate problems. In this respect they're very reminiscent of French automaker Citroën, who started doing the "think different" thing long before Steve Jobs was born. Incidentally they made the first mass produced unibody car, at a time when people thought such cars would fall apart while driving. They always did everything different, used smart, unique and quirky solutions for every single part of the car. This attracted a Mac-like cult following. The only problem was that their cars always broke down. The constructions that other manufacturers use may be boring and mundane, but there's a reason why they use them: They're known to work.
They're advertising the world of Windows, and as Steve Jobs himself pointed out, one of Microsoft's biggest achievements (aside from starting "the first software company") was the way they reached out to other companies, both software and hardware makers, formed alliances and had everyone work in some sort of symbiosis for mutual benefit. Since what was true then remains true today (MS relies on others for the hardware), it makes sense that if they advertise the world of Windows, other companies are part of it. These ads aren't product ads, they're part of the whole "Life without walls" campaign that's supposed to illustrate all the things made possible by the glue that holds them together, Windows. In this particular ad, the example given is that you can step into a store and buy a cheap computer in a tough economy. The next time it can illustrate something entirely different that has nothing to do with buying anything.
The more you know!
Not that I needed any further proof that the line between company and religion is very blurry in your mind, but do you honestly believe that any company speaks the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in their advertising? Do you also believe that there are shampoos with magic little balls that penetrate your hair and make it come alive?
It was all fun and games to hate on Vista back in the Beta stage. I have to admit that even I did as a staunch XP fan and Mac user. It's time to move on and welcome the year of 2009.
Well, I use Macs and you appear to be talking about Mac circa 1996. Trashing the app doesn't even begin to constitute an uninstall these days, just look at the tons of garbage that Adobe's Creative Suite spreads all over the system. One uninstall I performed didn't so much slow down the computer as it brought it to a full stop (this was the software and drivers for a Yamaha audio device) because the uninstall script glossed over some MIDI thingy that had been installed in the Library, so upon reboot after uninstall, Leopard said hmmm... what's this? It's a part of a whole, but the whole appears to be missing, what do I do? Oh, I know! Let's show a blank blue screen for 12 minutes! A less seasoned user could've looked for the culprit file for 2 months without finding it.
Correct. Or, rather, it never allows fragmentation to become an issue because it saves the files in continuous blocks. The Windows defragger is there to fix problems created by... drumroll... Windows. Couldn't they have thought of that when they went from FAT32 to NTFS? Sigh.
