Does it really matter what OS you use? I like windows as much as macosx. I boot both OS'es daily for different purposes. Windows for development, macosx for leisure and entertainment. I really don't know what the fuzz is all about. Thanks to these innovative companies, we have all this beautiful technology in our hands and these companies also benefit from each others innovation.
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New Microsoft Ad Campaign Targets Mac Prices
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I literally LOL'd at this, because I had two machines BSOD just yesterday, one a Vista, one XP. One a Thinkpad, the other an HP. And you're just as misguided as the Apple fanboys in here if you think it's "extremely difficult to get a virus". Dude, I clean them on a weekly basis. Either you're wrong, or the people at my company are a bunch of virus-catching prodigies.
I use it all the time, it's actually quite a nice app, albeit a bit stripped down compared to Logic, but then again it was a part of a $80 bundle.
That's absolutely dangerous advice.
I paid $80 for a Logitech cam with the same res as the built-in iSight. I got it at Best Buy.
While it is more secure and just as stable, Vista is horrendously slow compared to OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows 7 Beta. Thank God they're dumping it soon.
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I dunno. Maybe I'm missing the point to act rabid towards microsoft, but I'm happy they are doing this.
It's great for competitors to jab at weak points of other competitors because they'll (hopefully) fix those flaws. And all of us can say, "I wish I would have paid less." I have two mac pro's, and although they can do things a PC will never even come close to doing, I wish I would have paid less for them.
Microsoft came out with a horrible operating system, it was pointed out by competitors (and everyone else) and they quickly worked on revising it.
Maybe and thats a very loose "maybe" Apple would counteract this by lowering the prices a bit? Wishful thinking.
I dunno. Maybe I'm missing the point to act rabid towards microsoft, but I'm happy they are doing this.
It's great for competitors to jab at weak points of other competitors because they'll (hopefully) fix those flaws. And all of us can say, "I wish I would have paid less." I have two mac pro's, and although they can do things a PC will never even come close to doing, I wish I would have paid less for them.
Microsoft came out with a horrible operating system, it was pointed out by competitors (and everyone else) and they quickly worked on revising it.
Maybe and thats a very loose "maybe" Apple would counteract this by lowering the prices a bit? Wishful thinking.
Like, NASA, DOD, Pixar....
Who the hell cares!? Its a computer! How can you even be bothered to be so loyal to one camp or another!? Only good things can come out of this campaign which is apple reduce their prices. Who the hell can complain about that!?
Even Vista isn't that bad anymore. Although i did get a pop up asking if i wanted to disable aero on my workstation because my computer couldn't handle it (it's an 8x2.5ghz xeon dell precision workstation...)
As has been pointed out several times in this thread, Microsoft makes money when they HP sells a machine with Windows on it.
this is a good ad, and to the people who state PC ownsership is SOOOO high.
I purchased as my main computer a HP PIII 1.0ghz in 2003 (i believe) for 1k, with a BB warranty plan for another $200=$1200.. within the warranty i once got my HDD replaced, and out of the warrenty i replaced the fan on my own.
I am still using this computer to date as my main desktop @ home.
I'd say 6 years is well over these expected 2 yr ranges...
I purchased as my main computer a HP PIII 1.0ghz in 2003 (i believe) for 1k, with a BB warranty plan for another $200=$1200.. within the warranty i once got my HDD replaced, and out of the warrenty i replaced the fan on my own.
I am still using this computer to date as my main desktop @ home.
I'd say 6 years is well over these expected 2 yr ranges...
Please tell me you are joking with this line!!!
"Same for me here. I am much more efficient working on a quiet computer. =)"
I love this site but it might be time to give up on it. This is absolutely crazy talk.
Yes, I voted negative too.
It's absolutely disgusting to see macrumors shilling for Microsoft like this by running their ads. Disgusting.
It's absolutely disgusting to see macrumors shilling for Microsoft like this by running their ads. Disgusting.
Yeah so what? Why don't just come out and say, hey we got a great OS, we got the better OS?
I say they don't do this cause they are going to be the laughing stock of the compute world.
Do you have an alternative explanation.
Why oh why is ms so timid in saying we got a good product but insist on we got a cheap product instead?
They are digging their hole deeper...bring back jerry seinfield and bill gate in the shoe store...good god that was atrocious...
It sure does, which is why so many people love macs. I for one cannot wait to ditch the windows world for my personal computing for good.
Take Apple and MS out of the equation
Take the players out of the equation and look at it from a market share perspective...
A company with almost 90% market share is spending millions to go after a company with less than 10% market share. That seems dumb to me.
Reminds me of the Apple add where PC is splitting the money. "Advertising, advertising, advertising...fix Vista."
Take the players out of the equation and look at it from a market share perspective...
A company with almost 90% market share is spending millions to go after a company with less than 10% market share. That seems dumb to me.
Reminds me of the Apple add where PC is splitting the money. "Advertising, advertising, advertising...fix Vista."
I've been developing web apps for the better part of the past ten years, moved to a Mac three years ago, and can say, unequivocally, that it is a superior test and development platform.
I do run Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux, each with variations on IE and/or Firefox, so that I can test across all platforms. And yeah, I do all that on a Mac.
My experience is that if you put a Windows server admin on a Mac or Linux server, and they're screwed. Put a Mac or Linux server admin on a Windows server, and they're unhappy but generally competent. This is due to the close proximity to the OS underpinnings that Linux and Mac OS provide.
So, in a nutshell, I think you're wrong, both generally and specifically.
This site has become laughable with the amount of insanely rude people here, the complete lack of moderation, and the incredible amount of bias on both sides of the OS fence.
Thankfully much of it is contained within the News Discussion area, so perhaps I'll stick to the other parts of the forum.
Well, lets see how Windows 7 is before we give up on it. Some people have tried it and liked it. Leo Laporte has used it and thinks it is the first Windows a Mac user might like. However, he points out this is a beta version which may end up being quite unlike the final version. Right now it may not have all the "security" features that slow Vista down (apparently.)
from my personal experience a PC notebook is only slightly cheaper if you get ALL feature of a mac. Especially size and weight add to the price of a PC. Screen and sound quality in MBP's is also quite good and that adds to the prize if you want a PC with the same specs.
However if you don't want all features you can have a PC much cheaper. On top of that if you want a feature that is not available or a strong point of macs (like blue ray, card reader, fingerprint reader, second HD, USB and firewire ports, VGA ports, DVI ports) then PC notebooks deliver much better price/hardware value.
E.g. you want a 17" screen but you don't care about weight or a 2.66+ GHz CPU then there is nothing on a mac below 2500 bucks. But you get those features that are important to you for 1500 bucks easily.
So in that sense the ad is perfectly reasonable and correct.
However if you don't want all features you can have a PC much cheaper. On top of that if you want a feature that is not available or a strong point of macs (like blue ray, card reader, fingerprint reader, second HD, USB and firewire ports, VGA ports, DVI ports) then PC notebooks deliver much better price/hardware value.
E.g. you want a 17" screen but you don't care about weight or a 2.66+ GHz CPU then there is nothing on a mac below 2500 bucks. But you get those features that are important to you for 1500 bucks easily.
So in that sense the ad is perfectly reasonable and correct.
No - I mean a 17". Does the WhiteBook have a 250GB STOCK HD and 4GB STOCK RAM and a 17" display? Apples to Oranges I say.
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How many millions more people are there out there who love Windows silently though?
Does that 17" monster have discrete graphics which is the sole most important thing she will need if she is into graphic design and hence bought that screen size? She can get any hd as soon as she wants to or can afford too, same for ram. Can she get discrete graphics? No.
You might need the 600 diapers for those times when Windows makes you so frustrated you ****.
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